4th of July fun

Dave and I had a lovely 4th of July weekend. Friday we went to a baseball game with Chad, Cooper, Tara, and Tara's family. They had fireworks at the end of the game which ended up being around midnight because of an hour rain delay. We came back home on sat afternoon. Then Dave and I went to groveland to see more fireworks so I could get a few pictures. We ended up being really close which was cool cause they went off just about right over our heads. It was a lovely evening and a good weekend. I hope everyone else had a lovely 4th of July.

Slupree Ratings

Since becoming pregnant I occasionally go on kicks. Well my recent kick has been cherry slushies. Since I have had so many slushies from different place I figured I would rate them for you.

#1 7-11 Slurpee (perfect, just the right consistency)
#2 Target (not too bad though tends to be a bit too jucy)
#3 BP (very icee, sets up kinda strange)
#4 Racetrack (pretty bad, weird consistency, funky taste)

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.