It's a boy

Well the survey is in and the ultrasound proves it....we are having a boy. His name will be Lucas Scott Murariu. Dave is quite ecstatic. He is right on target with his October 29 due date size wise. So without further ado here's Lucas

New bedroom furniture

We got new bedroom furniture delivered this weekend. I totally love it! It is soo pretty. Now we just need some nightstands to make it complete. Our bedroom is really coming along. My goal was to get matching furniture before we had to get nursery furniture and we just made it.

headboard and rails for bed

Tall dresser for Dave

Long dresser with mirror for me

my lamp on the dresser

details on all the furniture

Birthday Week

Wow it has been a very busy birthday week for me. I celebrated my 28th birthday on May 22. The weekend before that we had a bunch of friends and family over to celebrate since most people go out of town for memorial day. We had lots of fun that included rock band, watching small children run around, food, and a cake fight with Jordie and I.
On Thursday my friend Lila sent me lovely flowers at work.On Friday (my actual birthday) I took the day off so Dave and I could go to Animal Kingdom. That was the only park we missed on our Part 2 Orlando honeymoon in 07. It was fun. I did pretty good for being pregnant. It was cute thinking this was the baby's first trip to Disney. We saw the bug's life 3d movie, Dave rode Everest while I watched, rode the jungle safari and saw giraffes, watched the lion king show, watched the nemo musical show with puppets which was fantastic, and roamed through the different areas before we got totally soaked with rain around 2 and left. It worked out pretty good because we got everything done that we had wanted to before it started pouring so we were good to go at that point.
Then yesterday Dave took me to go buy bedroom furniture! I have really been wanting to get matching bedroom furniture and was hoping that it would happen before the baby got matching furniture.
I also got to order my new speedlight online for my camera which is something I have been really needing.
I feel very blessed and spoiled this year. Thanks to everyone who made my b-day celebration so much fun.

Easter Egg Fun

Well much to Dave's dismay I convinced him into dying easter eggs. We got a new dye pack that was a dye and squirt kind. It was ok, but I like the old school way. The speckled eggs are the hardboiled ones and the others are regular eggs. We figured we didn't need a dozen hardboiled eggs, but I didn't want to waste the dye on only a few so we did the whole dozen. I love all the different colors. I would have colored on them more, but Dave put them into an ice bath so the white crayon wouldn't stick at all. Oh well, there is always next year. Plus next year we will have a little Murariu to help us out. Enjoy some fun I had with my depth of field that I like to call easter egg sound off.

Of hobbit feet, spring, and new beginnings

So this weekend we decided to do some springtime pruning of a great big oak tree that lives in the neighbors yard and comes over to visit into ours. It was blocking the sun for our dirt hill and restricting the growth of my dirt. So Jess and I decided to thin it out a little bit and here is the result. Our garbage guys want the stuff stacked and tied in bundles or they wont take it, so it means a little more work for us. Now maybe we can get some grass to overtake the dirt.

We also made a stop in at our local home center to grab a new sprinkler head and decided to pick up a plant for a big empty spot that lives in our front yard. (Used to be a bouganvilla but that had to die..anyone who has stepped on a bouganvilla branch will know why). I am not about to let any chance to have hobbitt feet slip by so here they are...The plant is a Japanese Magnolia; pretty and smells good too.





It looks like we also planted a kid. Chinese Zodiac Sex Voodoo calendar and fetal heart rate mumbo jumbo be damned!! I swear its a boy....but only time will tell. We are scheduled to have a Halloween baby. You cant see it but the word BABY is printed on the first picture. This is so that you will know that it is not a kumquat, pea, raspberry or other such small sized fruit that has taken up residence in your wife's uterus. We got to see the heart beat and that was REALLY COOL.

camping and diving trip

With the much need for a mini vacation, thurs after work we loaded up the tribute and headed over to Chad and Tara's house for a camping trip. Fri morning we packed up their min van full of camping and diving supplies, kissed Cooper and Melanie goodbye (they were staying with Tara's parents who came into town so we could get out of town with out baby and puppy) and headed down to key largo. We set up our tents, ate some yummy chili mac, rosted some somemores, had a few drinks, and snuggle down into bed since it got chilly in the middle of the night. Sat morning we got up at the crack of dawn (7:00am) to go diving. We signed up for two tank dives. They were pretty decent dives, 30 ft for about an hour each dive, which was a little long and a little shallow for my liking. We also thought we were going to have a dive guide, but we didn't so something to look better into next time. Not a big fan of being dropped off in the ocean and with a go this way and circle back around. They didn't even pick us up, we had to find them. Oh well scuba do is a scuba don't in key largo. We only had one other diver with us. Chad and I only made one tank dive. Chad had a leg cramp and I was cold and had seen everything I wanted to see (an hour underwater is alot of time especially when cold). Tara and Dave went down for the second dive and said we didn't miss much. It was very pretty, nice coral, lots of fish including baracuda (4 of them who luckily left me alone since I had my wedding rings on and they like shiny things). We go back to the dock around noon and ate subs for lunch. Then we took naps and chilled out at the camp site. Dave made steak and potatos for dinner and we made more somemores (apparently I say some mores not s'mores so I was made fun of all weekend). We slept a bit warmer in our tents. Sunday morning we ate breakfast of eggs, saussage, and bacon and then packed up camp. We got back around 2 to Chad and Tara's, picked up the puppy and then came home 2 hours later. All and all it was a good trip. I kinda felt like we were camping in a parking lot because it was also a rv/permant rv site so the tents were kinda set up along the sides which were on gravel. Key largo also, not much to see. No beaches, nothing interesting, good diving, but I woudl reccomend add the extra 2 hours and drive into key west unless you plan on doing nothing besides sitting in your tent. Anyway live and learn. At least we had a nice weekend away and got some diving in.

Hopefully my last thesis hour

I am really going to try and push it and finish my masters this year. To give you a little back story I graduated with my BS in the summer 2003 and started masters degree that fall. Well I finished all the class work pretty quickly and then I got talked into doing a thesis instead of a special project (I had no backbone then and I thought what my professors said was law). Well I have been working/not working on my thesis since 2005. My professor was never available over the summer so that made it hard especially since I was working full time teaching and trying to go to school. It was very hard for me to devote my time to my class and my thesis so needless to say it hasn't gotten done. Since then I have had a major move, my first car accident where my car was totaled and my nose broken, got married (hoped to get it done before I got married, but planning a wedding was too much), bought a house, got laid off my teaching job (so now I'm back to pre-k), and had a miscarriage (planned to get it done before the baby was due). So now this semester its do or die. Either I do it or Dave says its time to give up because we can't afford to throw money at it anymore. Hopefully I can get it done and push back all the anxiety that has built up overtime. Only time will tell.