A new stage of life

Although I am still in the phase of life where all of my friends are getting married (on average, Kenny and I have been attending at least six weddings a year), we have now segued into that phase where it seems like everyone we know is pregnant. Seriously, seven friends are pregnant! ( want to say, "How did this happen?!" I mean, I know how it happened, but I mean, how did we get to this point in our lives so quickly?) Perhaps it was the lure of having a golden pig child, with its provision of good fortune and good luck:

Chinese Zodiac says that the Year of the Golden Fire Pig comes only once every 600 years and rumor has it, 2007 is this special year. It is Golden because the combination of elemental Fire, the sign Pig, and Yin/Yang components bring this year once every six centuries!

It is said that children born under this sign will live in comfort as wealth and luck are always near.

So, with that being said, we went to Eva's baby shower in New Jersey today. We only got lost once, which is a minor miracle for car travel in New Jersey. I only gave two seperate drivers the finger on the way, and only had like two melt downs. (One involved me calling Kenny to tell him that have to move, away from the traffic in the awful city known as New York.) However, the shower highlight was seeing Eva in all of her pregnant glory.

Eva looks so great here so I had to show this picture, despite the fact that my dress makes me look like a grape about to squashed for a shiraz.