So my mom was here this weekend. I just saw her last weekend at my Aunt’s birthday party, but this time she was up to visit Dan and me. We picked her up Friday at the airport, well rental car return area at the airport but still, since she had driven down from her meeting in Delaware. We went to the outlet mall. Grabbed lunch and then went shopping. We bought Dan some new shoes, and new outfits for his business casual work place. It was nice and we found stuff on sale. We got him some slacks and shirts, though he will probably need a few more shirts eventually. We looked for a trench coat for Dan because he is going to be taking the subway and walking to work as part of his commute so a trench coat will come in handy on nasty days. We couldn’t find one though.

We bought me a few maternity clothes, one of the reasons she was visiting, and we bought the blob a bunch of neutral clothes since we don’t know if it is a boy or girl yet, I’m betting girl, my mom is betting boy, Dan is trying not to get involved in the arguement. We then stopped at Target and picked up more maternity clothes so I now have a decent sized maternity wardrobe for when I need it, and stopped and picked up dinner. Lots of shopping, but we did get a bunch of stuff which is nice.

Saturday we stopped by Home Depot to see what they had for closet organizers because we are planning to redo the baby’s, K-line’s and our closets. We also looked at bathroom pieces since we are planning to redo the upstairs bathroom as well. We priced a few things and continued on our journey. We stopped for lunch and then headed to Baby’s R Us. We looked at all the stuff they had, decided we liked the feel of one of the Graco stroller/travel systems better then one of the other ones. Looked at cribs. Bought more baby clothes (shocking as that may be), and bought the comforter/baby set for bedding. We couldn’t find 3 packages of the border we want for the baby’s room though. We found one, but not 3. So we figured we would order it online, silly thought, you can only get the border in the store. We also went to Ikea to check out the various things they have because we are changing around our entertainment centers, planning to get rid of both of them and get a simpler style for them, plus we need display somethings for all the collectables. We saw a few decent things that we may pick up later.

We then headed to Target to check out if they had any closet organizers (they didn’t) and home for a bit. After relaxing for awhile we went out to Melting Pot, which was as good as always though our waiter was really really slow. Overall a nice night though.

We then dropped my Mom off at the airport this morning and headed over to the Mall. We found a trenchcoat at Macy’s that we liked so we put a hold on it and checked a few other stores. We didn’t see anything else we liked as much so we headed back to Macy’s, we picked up a casual sportsjacket as well for Dan to wear over his stuff in the office. We then bought both pieces and had lunch.

After lunch was more Home Depot, but we forgot to measure so we weren’t sure what sizes we needed for the dryer vent or the closet top things. So we just headed home and relaxed. Overall a nice, busy weekend with my Mom.

And to think I get to see her again in two weekends for my cousin’s Christening.

So Dan has been on and off looking for a new job for the past 2 months or so. He hasn’t been extremely active, but he has been semi-looking because he is ready for a change. His current job isn’t challenging him anymore and he isn’t really enjoying it all that much. So yesterday he had an interview. He came home and said it had gone well, he liked the guy interviewing him (who would be his boss) and the interviewer said he would have a decission by Monday. The one major downside is it is in downtown DC, which means an hour and a half commute both ways more or less, which sucks.

So today Dan gets a call seems they liked him a lot. In fact it seems they have made a verbal offer and want to have a written offer to him by Friday and him starting work there by the 2nd of October. Okay now that is a wee bit faster then we were really expecting an answer. We were figuring we would discuss it a few days and then make a decission. Especially because the commute is nasty. Instead we have about 3 hours to decide. So he has decided yes, it was what we were likely to decide anyways. The raise he is getting will be really nice, he likes his new boss and the group he will be in, and it is new and interesting work for him. So it looks like next month Dan will be going into a new office to work and enjoying his new job and commute.

Well I had my sonogram/ultrasound on Friday. It went well. The tech wasn’t able to check my whole uterus, because I apparently have a tilted uterus and it would hurt a lot if she did, so she didn’t. Which means there could be another one hiding in there somewhere. At the moment we only have one blob though. And we got pictures!

It mainly looks like a blob, so at the moment I am calling it baby blob. Or just the Blob! The first one is the best defined and you can see arms legs and the head, the rest are more blob like. Anyways if you can’t see the whole thing try the link, but here are the pictures in all their glory (fyi, there is a bit of lint and such on them because I forgot to clean off the screen of the scanner first).

Well not really that much new babywise. I mean, I have my first ultrasound/sonogram on Friday which will be neat, will get to see the baby, though it is too early for learning the sex etc. Other then that not really much else happening babywise.

We did go see my inlaws this weekend on Sunday, which was nice, we had their traditional labor day cookout, lots of food a couple of extra people, nice time talking with them.

Other then that we have had lots of rain, but apparently it is localized heavy rain, since everyone else is having rain but the really light kind, not the nasty heavy kind, so we are apparently the only ones getting the nasty heavy rain. On the plus side we were in drought again so the rain is nice for helping push us out of drought conditions.

We have the contractor coming on either the 21st or 28th to fix the random small stuff in the house that needs doing. Once we actually sign on the home loan we’ll be calling a landscaper to fix our yard. Dan still needs to finish the baby’s bedroom, but because of the rain didn’t do it this weekend. We did however go through bunches of clothes and get rid of about half of them which is good since we weren’t wearing them anyways.

Nothing much else going on here, I’m heading to Hartford Ct on Saturday for my aunt’s birthday party, she is turning 50 (I’m sure she wants my huge readership of like 3 to know that too). It will be nice, we’re using the credits we got from not flying to Disney to fly up there so they aren’t being wasted which is always nice. We’ll fly back Sunday. Nothing new on the job front for Dan though he is planning on sending his resume into the NSA and possibly FBI cybercrime labs, since both do the type of things he is hoping to do.

So I was so proud of myself, 8 and a half weeks and no morning sickness yet, other then the all day nausea, but I can deal with that. So I was responding to an email from my mom telling her how everything was going well…

Silly me, it seems baby was not all that happy with the lunch choice of pita and hummus and decided to show their displeasure by removing the contents of my stomach, boy that was fun. Not! So I have now had my first offical morning sickness with actual throwing up, I hope I can avoid it from now on, but somehow, I am thinking it is only going to get worse…

Okay so I’ve known this for a few weeks now. Like 4, and I’ve shared the news with a lot of people, though not everyone. But I figured I would make it truely official and post it in my blog. Dan and I are expecting our first in April. Around April 8th if my dates are right. This is Easter, which is amusing when you realize I was born on Easter, though not April 8th. So my first doctor’s appointment is tomorrow, with the midwife and hopefully we’ll have a bit more information then, but at the moment I am 8 weeks pregnant and enjoying the wonderful feel of nausea all day long (it is such joy).

and did you know it is really hard to get a good picture of a positive pregnancy test, this was the best I got out of like 10 different pictures.

So at this time 5 years ago, I was in the middle of getting ready for my second wedding cerimony, the Jewish Cerimony, on the 3rd was the Hindu wedding where Dan and I got to play with fire.

Me in my Sari for the Hindu wedding, my inlaws brought it back from India

Dan all Dressed up for the Hindu wedding

Today was the offical wedding though, since it is the one the state recognized. We were married in Richmond Virginia. Nope neither of us lived in Richmond, and neither of our parents lived there either. However, 80% of my mom’s family lives in Richmond and since all of my Dad’s side of the family had to travel for the wedding anyways, we decided it was easiest to have it in Richmond. So at this time 5 years ago, I was getting ready for the wedding in the hot outside August sun. Where all the groomsmen were in gorgeous hot wool tuxes (sorry guys didn’t realize they were wool or that it would be 90+ degrees).

Anyways it has been 5 years married now, and we’re still together and happy. So Happy Aniversery to us! We’re going to the Melting Pot tonight to celebrate, and we’re going to Disney on the 14th as our 5th Aniversery trip since that is where we went on our honeymoon.

Me and my mom a couple of weeks before the wedding when my cousin did my wedding portraits.

Me in my wedding dress.

The wedding party for the Jewish Cerimony

My favorite picture of my brother from my wedding.

So Dan is sort of looking to change positions. He likes where he is now, but the salary is a bit lacking, especially for the job he is doing and the area we are in. So I found him a couple of listings on Craig’s list (and he found a couple more), he worked last week some on his resume and cover letter and sent them out Sunday evening for one of the listings. So last night (Monday afternoon) he got an email responce back asking him in for an interview. So it looks like they like his resume, this means we need to get his jacket dry cleaned and find his nice slacks so he has something to wear for the interview.

He is probably going to send out a few more resume’s to a couple of the other places we found, but it was nice to see him get an interview within a day. The place that he has the interview at is about 5 minutes from the house, it is in our town and in our zip code as well (our town has 3 zip codes) so it is really close, which is nice. Hopefully it will work out and he’ll get a nice raise. He won’t mind staying where he is now, but he isn’t getting paid anywhere near enough to make that a viable option at the moment, so hopefully we’ll find something for him that he’ll enjoy doing and he’ll get a nice raise out of it too.

On my job front, my job working for his company is going fine. I am also going to be tutoring my Math Student starting at the end of August, which will be nice since that normally brings in between $20 and 40 a week, sometimes as much as 60, plus I really enjoy tutoring my tutoree she is a great person to hang out with and teach math too.

I’m still looking for a decent online University program as well, though I’m not looking to hard I should probably pick up the pace a bit, but I’m not really motivated at the moment. I would like to get my Bachlor’s so I’ll probably start looking again in a few week since when I find something I’m not starting before January anyways.

Other then that not much else is going on here, we leave in under a month now for our trip to Disney for our 5th aniversery. That will be nice, going to see my cousin and her new husband probably as well as a friend who lives in the area, should definately be entertaining.

So it snowed on Saturday for those of you who don’t have any contact with the outside world and didn’t hear about the snow storm on the East Coast of the US. We got about 18 inches of snow, weee finally snow I’ve been waiting all winter for good snow so I can get pictures of K-Line in it. Anyways I took lots of pictures and have posted some online here for the landscapes and here for the K-Line pictures.

Click on the comments button to see the full pictures since the main page cuts a lot of them off part way.

Now I’ll share a couple of my favorites though you can see all of them at either link. First up is a picture of the tree that fell over on our neightbor’s roof, it doesn’t appear to have done any major damage, but I’m glad it didn’t effect us. I have two different pictures of it, one is looking up it and one is a view of it on the neighbor’s house.

Here is one of the football field where we took K to play in the snow

Now some of K

This is my favorite of K jumping through the snow

Here are Dan and K on our way home

Snow Shark!

and last but not least, K in a hole in the snow, the snow was deeper then this but he had packed some of it down before he got in his nice hole.

So K goes to daycamp (8 hours of playing with other dogs) on Mondays and Thursdays since they are a nice break and still wear him out for most of the week (plus we can’t really afford more then two days a week). Anyways that is background. So he went to daycamp today. There is another dog there another Jack Bailey, who is there when K is there sometimes. Bailey likes to attack K and has bitten him and given him scrapes and bruises and cuts before. At the begining K won’t fight back, but after the last time when he got a semi nasty cut he has started to fight back.

So Bailey started in on K again today and K fought back. The girls working there couldn’t break them up with water in the face (K tends to ignore water). So apparently from what I can tell one of the girls grabbed the dogs to seperate them and K bite her hard enough to break skin. So she got to go to the hospital. He then bit another of the girls on her knee and left a bruise.

So he gets to take a break from daycamp for the week. While they were fighting Bailey bit K hard enough to break his skin as well. So he has a huge nasty mark on the back of his neck as well.

Okay sucks, but dealable, of course if a dog bites hard enough that it pierces skin and the person has to go to the hospital animal control gets involved, oh joy. So we may be having animal control contact us, yay.

And K can’t go back to next week, which won’t be a huge deal, except for the major hyperness this weekend. Except we are going to Les Mis on Friday and will be out of the house from like 9am till midnight, so I had planned on putting him in daycamp/overnight care Friday so we didn’t have to worry about him in the house alone all day and evening. Which just sucks overall that I can’t do that now.

I am not overly worried about it, other then we are thinking about scheduling K’s daycamp for days Bailey isn’t there (Bailey has been kicked out for the day numerous times for fighting with K this is K’s first time), just so we don’t have to worry about it.