Where Zuri hangs out during class

senior show

Professor Himes has started a SVU art blog. And it's lookin pretty good. The latest post was works in progress for 5 of the 14 art majors. Mine is one of them! (let me remind you it really is a work in progress. It is my first run of the latest etching lots to go) So check it out and see what you think of some of the guys I'm working with. I think it'll be a pretty good show this year.

SVU art program.

Some odds and ends.

Lots of new floors have been put in at our house lately. Last week Chris put in the new kitchen floor. Well that's fantastic I must say. And today we had new carpet put in the living room, guest bedroom and the stairs. I seriously did not know how badly we needed it. I knew the old stuff was gross, but it was seriously some unpleasant carpet with an awful yellow tint and so many stains it was outrageous. Who knows how old it was. This new carpet Chris picked out is awesome and with a new pad under it feel plush and comfy. I spent more time on the floor today then in a chair.

Zur loved Chris' mask he had on while sanding the trim.

This is some random info about our fam. We like to snooze. We LOVE our naps. Spam and Tys used to tease us that we would get these kids who would wake up at like six in the morning so we never could sleep in again. We got lucky and I don't know how it happens, but Zuri will wake up between eight and nine. Which is kind of insane for a one year old, but I pretty much love it. I used to have her as my alarm at 8, but lately she's been even later so I had to resort back to the lame old-old fashioned way of alarm clocks. She still goes to bed at the same time too. She must be growing or something.

Anyways, back to the proof of our sleepy eyes.

Kelso Snoozin

Chris snoozin

Mama snoozin

Zuri bug snoozin

Happy Friday.

1:00 am

I'm trying a post from the phone to see how it works.


This is Zuri bored out of her mind watching out the window to see if her mama's car is home yet.

We went on a little chocolate malt date when Kenni was in class


This is the new floor in the kitchen. I was reluctant to put it in for a while but it went together pretty fast.


Zuri loves taking Kelso on walks.


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talker

Here's something funny Chris discovered Zuri does. She talks in her sleep. last night she said a perfect "cheese" while sound asleep cuddling with Chris. Well, at least her dreams are nice and happy.

She also has taken to people a bit more. She says hello to random people in the store, and at least for some of them they love it.

Uncle Chanson is a new crazy fun play time friend. She was going insane laughing because of him tonight, it was awesome.

She LOVES pillows and blankets. If I even touch one she'll try to take it away. Rude? yes. Funny? totally. So I made her a little baby pillow tonight for her to play with. I'm super excited about it and although it only took me like 10 minutes to make I feel like a real mom for sewing her something.

Wish us luck. Within the next month Chris and I:

Have both our senior papers due.

Senior show has to be done. umm.. yikes. (although it is going in a better direction then I had originally though)

Chris is working on a bunch of projects right now so lets just hope they all come together for him.

What Chris did this Spring Break:

Drove to Richmond twice (to take my bro and his friends on the first leg of their fun S-week Philly trip)

Tore out and put in a new kitchen floor. It looks so awesome, I love it much much more then the old nasty stuff.

He recruited Chans and his friends to help him paint trim in the downstairs. It's in the process still, but it looks sooo much better.

What I've done this Spring Break:

Kept Zuri out of the way of the projects. We've had lots of fun together, although I feel a bit useless when it comes to helping, but keeping little mitts off new paint apparently is helpful.

The Third

Here it is folks. Our third year together has come and gone! We now are officially rolling onto our fourth. I can't help but smirk at statistics. What is it exactly? The third year is the most common year of divorce or something like that? I know that's rude and ridiculous of me, but I'm proud of us. We made it through happily and we haven't "grown apart" so screw those stats! Of course having Zuri has made things much more challenging, but in a more rewarding way.

Chris said something sweet (and you might think it's cheesy I liked it though) the other day. I said, "wow, what were we like before Zuri came about?" I said it in a joking tone, but his response was all serious, "I honestly felt like there was something incomplete about us before. We needed our babies." cute right? then he added some comment about why else I would think he kept trying to knock me up? Cute right? (hear the sarcasm)

So here we are, he's playing Tiny Wings on the couch (very addicting fun game might I add) and I'm slouched next to him in my not attractive pj's blogging about our marriage. Oh how nice that we did fall into that other marriage stat about how you just become very much like yourself once you're hitched. Thanks for always making me feel comfortable, handsome. It's been fun for me to have these three years so far.

Our plans tonight? Well the unmentionable of course.... (really you can't expect me to leave that out. I've also become very crude at times since I married Chris) and we're planning on watching Conviction. We'll tell you how it goes. The movie, not the former thing. Geez don't be so dirty.

online shopping is my friend

I was very proud of myself the other day; I went for almost two months not buying one thing for myself (exclude food obviously). Some of you might laugh at me for how silly that sounds, but I like buying occasional inexpensive items of clothing. And what did I buy? A very cute dress and scarf from the wonderful Modcloth.com. both on a good sale might I add!

We had a nice jaunt down to Roanoke Friday night as well to buy a Snoogle (and awesome pregnancy pillow) from Target (they didn't have one at that one, next visit to Wayensborro I guess) we got Zuri some cute summer clothes ( her shirts are now all belly shirts. It's pretty funny she'll notice then lift up her shirt then point to her belly button and laugh.) I guess you could say I've had a shopping fix for a bit.

By the way all of these clothing items are in prep for graduation outfit for my senior show. They have a grand purpose. It has to be more strategic then normal cause I have to predict what size my belly will be by then. I'll be 4 1/2 months pregnant and with Zuri I didn't start showing really tell 5 months, but this kid? oh goodness my belly is already starting to puff out a good amount. I guess when they say your second pregnancy belly gets bigger faster is true.

So that's my fun life! aww clothes.

Meanwhile! Our chimney is getting rebuild. Thanks to Chris getting our insurance to cover it we will no longer have to worry about a rotting chim.

Chris has just about finished painting the kitchen walls! The green turned out very very nice, I like it.

Mid-terms are this week. Which is awesome because that means spring break is soon and the end is near! But not awesome because I have an insane amount of work to do for the Show by the beginning of April. Wish us luck! Hope youre all doing well

Zuri helping me file my plate in the studio

The ktich. (these are all from the phone sorry for the dark)

Zuri purchases in Roanoke

She never did get the bink concept.

our little cow

snuggle time with Kelso

These are photos from Zuri's birthday bash up in Washington. Yes I know it was like 2 months ago, but I am just getting to posting them. My bad! Thank you Court Court for taking and making these awesome cupcakes with Carmel. I'm still very impressed.

(I love my moms cake stands)

Up at the art studio. She learned how to knock and it makes us laugh pretty good.