72 days

When Ryan and I sat down for breakfast this morning, I checked my little pregnancy app on my phone.  It said "72 days to go!"  It seems like it was only a little while ago that we were 200+ days to go.  And I thought it was only recently that we broke double digits.

I said to him that its crazy how "one day, there's not a person, then the next day, here's a person!  Are you ready to be responsible for the life of a whole other person?"  Am I?

So then I did the natural thing and spent the past 2 hours looking up maternity and newborn photo ideas online.  Nevermind what all the books and Parenting Magazine says... Nothing says "awesome parents" quite like a collection of beautiful maternity and newborn photos.

During my research, I viewed a number of professional websites and took a look at their galleries.  Everybody had bridal, wedding, family, babies.  There was a rare gem that stood out to me on a site or two: Trash the Dress.  I was reminded of it from when a friend at Bradley class mentioned it.  Its a relatively new phenomenon where young brides realize that they will never wear this fancy wedding dress again, so why not go a little crazy with it?    I hadn't seen what all the big deal what about, so I browsed through a few Trash the Dress galleries.  And woah, holy crap!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eddisrocknroll/7580542546/in/pool-trashthedress/

This is my new motivation to get back into wedding-day shape after pregnancy!  I want to stand in a waterfall with a silk bouquet, in my wedding dress!  I want to float the river in my wedding dress.  I want to get into a mud fight in my wedding dress.  I want to run the Warrior Dash in my wedding dress.  I want to go surfing in my wedding dress.  I want to have a watermelon eating contest in my wedding dress.  I want to play paint ball in my wedding dress.  I want to be sloppy making a cake in my wedding dress.  And I want it all on film.

What is it with our obsession with creative and aesthetically overwhelming photos?  I like art and creating art.  Ironically, I'm not very crafty, so the art I make is not so top notch.  But I feel like I make up for that by appreciating other people's artsy qualities and work more than necessary.  It is a respectable talent.  So I find myself wanting awesome photos of my family, so that friends and strangers alike might be distracted from real life and have something to look at and think awesome things about us.