1. Nick has been a practicing paparazzi this week. Jillian from the Bachelorette is in town for the Stampede, so Nick’s boss has had him stalking her all over the place. It started Sunday night with a phone call at 10p saying that the word on the street was that she was headed to Cowboys. So Nick went to Cowboys. And waited. And waited. And waited for over 2 hours. Then she showed up, and proceeded to hide from him. He managed to get about 15 seconds of video, which apparently was enough — CityTV made it their second top story! The next day, Nick was at the grounds doing a story on the rodeo. He turned around and nearly ran right over Jillian. She was there for the rodeo, too. And she recognized him from the night before! She actually apologized and said that she just didn’t feel like being on camera — she was with her friends and drinking, and didn’t want to be taped. But to make up for it, she brought Nick over to where her and her girlfriends were watching the action, and they all did a big “yeehaw, happy Stampede” thingy on camera. Needless to say, Nick’s boss was a happy man.
2. No Jillian sightings today…but…Nick did run into one of the guys from the show. And so you’d think that if Jillian is in town, and one of the bachelors from the show is in town…that perhaps he’s the guy she chose??? Yep, that’s right — we know who Jillian chooses. And it was glaringly apparent that he wasn’t supposed to be seen when he immediately ran away from the big scary Nick — aka, the one with the camera!
3. Useless information I learned on Twitter today…tomorrow at shortly after 12p, it will be 12:34:56 7/8/9. And that only happens once a century. Mark it on your calendars, kids.
4. The Blakeneys went Stampeding with the Deters on Sunday. It was super busy. But we accomplished everything we wanted…which meant we ate corn dogs and mini donuts and cotton candy. Mission: Stampede complete for another year. 
5. More Stampede pics…
6. Jak did pretty good while we were at the grounds, but he was super tired by the end…and a little hot, I think, too. He spent about half of our Stampede adventure lounging and literally hanging out of his stroller. 
7. Happy Birthday to my ‘old school’ buddy, Mark!! We went to college together, and he’s since moved to the other side of the world — Korea!! — and yet we’ve still managed to keep in touch and catch up every once in a while. Happy Birthday, Markus! Hope to hear from you soon.
8. Tomorrow will be the half-way mark in this pregnancy. Half-way!! How the heck did that happen??? That means in just 20 more weeks, the Blakeney household will be +1. Time, you can slow down anytime now. Especially since I like this part of being prego…I’m not quite the size of a whale (yet) but I can feel the baby kick…and kick…and kick! Makes it much more real when you can feel that wee one move around in there. Love it.
9. Theresa had our crew of mommies and kids over last Thursday for lunch and an afternoon of chatting and playing. It’s always nice to see the girls — and all boys, too (plus one wee lone baby girl!). I took my camera, but I didn’t take one single shot. Goes to show how good the conversation was, I guess. My favourite moment of the day was when I looked over to the table, and Jak was sitting with his mouth open like a little bird, and T’s little dude was feeding him anything and everything within reach. Jak was in food heaven!! The only mishap was when Jak’s buddy attempted to get a slice of pepper dipped in ranch dressing in Jak’s mouth. A full-on miss…and ranch dressing up the side of Jak’s face. It think it’s very cool that all these guys are going to grow up together and hopefully get to play many, many more times in the years to come!
10. Major accomplishment of the week — Bridesmaid dresses are ordered!! Wahoo! And seriously, Jen has got to be the most laid back bride ever. She gave us free reign to get whatever we wanted. Even the lady helping us at the store was amazed that there wasn’t a controlling bride hovering over us, telling us exactly how she wanted us to look. Thanks, Jen. You rock. T-minus less than 13 weeks ’til you’re hitched!! Can’t wait. Now put us to work doing something for you!! 
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