Brittney is now into her second trimester! At 14 weeks, our baby is the size of a lemon, about 1 1/2 oz. and 3 1/2 inches long. She is starting to feel better and better every morning but she still has a weak stomach. We can't wait to find out the sex :)
For Easter 2010, we drove to New Roads, Louisiana, a very small town about an hour from Baton Rouge, to visit the Ducote Grandparents (Grammy and Pops).
We got to visit with my Aunt and Uncles, Grammy and Pops, and some old friends. It was so nice to see everyone again.
Apart from visiting family and friends, we also enjoyed fishing off of my grandparents pier. Using worms and crickets (Tyler had never heard of using crickets to fish with), we caught 12 fish! After a good scaling and cleaning, these are all conveniently located in our freezer now :)
Check out Tyler and my grandma fishing...
The cleaning of the 12 fish. We caught 8 catfish and 4 perch. I caught the biggest one, haha. I kinda felt bad though, because it was pregnant. Well, it was the most pregnant - just about all of the catfish that we caught where at some stage of pregnancy.
We really loved going to New Roads. It gave us a chance to escape from work and school and just relax for a few days. Hopefully we will be going back soon!
This is a video clip from the movie "The Proposal" that absolutely makes both of us crack up laughing every single time we watch it. So we thought we would share it with you!
For some lame reason the template that we chose for our blog does not allow comments to be left on our posts...bummer! I love this template so much that instead of finding a new one, I made a Comment Box. This Comment Box is a gadget located on the bottom of our blog for all of your thoughts or...comments!
On another note, Grammy and Pops (my grandparents) made Tyler and I a plate of Thanksgiving Dinner for my mom to bring back to us. It was absolutely delicious! Ham, Smoked Turkey, Dirty Rice, and Candied Yams - YUM! Thank you! You see, Ty and I were supposed to go to Louisiana and have Thanksgiving with my family but the day before we were supposed to head out, I came down with Laryngitis. Since I was in bed sick all day Wednesday and had no voice at all, we decided it would be best for us to stay at home for me to get well. So, even though I was sick and still not feeling well, on Thursday we went to Tyler's parents house. Luckily, I was able to hold down a small amount of food :)
It tears me up inside to see people be so cruel to all of these innocent animals around the world. Something needs to be done...
Living in Cairo, Egypt with my family in 2003 opened my eyes to reality of beaten and abused animals. Walking the streets in Maadi, I would see dozens of wandering cats, kittens, puppies, and dogs doing anything and everything possible to survive. I remember there was a litter of orange kittens, whose mother was no longer with them, living in some bushes around the corner from my school, Cairo American College. For weeks my friends and I would walk over there after school and feed and play with them, until one day they were no longer there. Another incident that killed me happened while I was at my friends house after school. We were hanging out in her room when we heard this awful screeching sound. We ran to the window and there across the street was an Arab woman holding a cat by its tail, swinging and slamming its delicate head and body into the concrete wall of her home beating it to a bloody pulp. It was then that I first realized how sick and cruel some people are to these innocent, loving animals. All they want is our love and attention, just like little kids.
When we moved into a villa (house with a yard) a year later, I decided that I needed to do something to help. Yes, I realized, and still do, that I can't help every animal out there, but know that helping a few can go a long way. Imagine if everyone helped one or two abandoned animals in their community... At our villa, a cat would come and hang out in our yard all day and night and would never leave. I started to feed it and finally convinced my parents to let it live inside the house with us. This became my cat. In the process of me feeding this cat (before it became an inside cat) I think other cats smelt the food and started to make their way over. To make a long story short, Within 2 weeks I was feeding 13 cats 2 meals a day regularly. None of the cats that came into my yard were turned down, none left without a meal. Going through that routine, feeding those cats everyday, making sure they were all fed fulfilled me, it brought me pure joy and happiness.
Now, I am proud to say that Tyler and I have rescued 2 animals. We hope to continue to be blessed to care for and contribute to saving abandoned, beaten, and neglected animals and we hope that you will too.
We have made a second Blog where we will be posting all of our favorite family recipes. Look under "Our Favorites" on the right hand side of this blog to get to The Recipe Book blog, or go to flanaganrecipes.blogspot.com. Enjoy!
