Camping in Santa Cruz

On July 7th-9th we went camping in Santa Cruz with our dear friends the Books and the Griffiths. It was my(Emma) first time camping so I was a little nervous. But, I had a great time, Giovy had a blast playing with her 3 other girl friends. I love their little group and friends and what is awesome is that us, the moms, we are really good friends too. I think I would do it again but somewhere warmer(hahaha)

Our new house!!!

Chad and I are so happy because we have a house!!! We started our search for a house 3, 4 months ago and we finally have a home! The moving date is July 1st and we are really excited. I spend all my time looking for house stuff on Craig's list and yard sales! It's so awesome to get stuff for our own home!!! Being in my own home is really getting my transition to living in the States to an end! I didn't want to feel like a stranger here for the rest of my life. So, I am so excited about having our own house!!!

More pics of our cute house!!!

More Birthday party pictures!!!

More Easter pics!!!

Happy Easter!!!

Giovy and Raylee, her friend from church
A proud mommy!
We had a really good time on Easter! I love when I have a reason to dress up my little girl. She got the dress from Grammy, Chad's grandma, and Giovy just loves it! She thinks that she is a princess and she is indeed! Giovy is mommy's little princess. We went to church and in the afternoon we got together with the family, we had dinner, took pictures of the girls, Giovy and Adelaide, we played cards and we just hang out, which I love!!!

Surprise Party for Emma!!!! yeeey!!

So, Chad and Katie, his sister, were planning my birthday party for Saturday March 27th. What i didn't know is that they were planning a surprise party for Friday March 26. Chad said that on Friday we were going to go out to a restaurant and Katie was going to babysit Giovy. So, around 6.30 pm we went to drop Giovy off and when I got in everybody yelled "La multi ani" (Happy birthday in romanian). There were about 30 people in there and it was awesome!!! I love surprise parties and Chad and his sister did an amazing job!

Actually today March 30th is my birthday and I am turning 30!!!! I just came back from an awesome breakfast at my favorite place Ihop and in a little bit I will go shopping!!! And later tonight we will go to the movies!! So, I am really happy with my birthday week!!

Giovy and Alexia!

It was sooooo good to have Niki and Alexia here! Giovy had so much fun with Alexia(even if they kind of butted heads sometimes) and she learned to play with another kid and even to share a little bit. They loved to play "boom" blanket, where they would sit on a blanket and Chad would drag them through the living room (as you see in the top picture). They had a lot of fun doing that!

Me and my husband in Malibu!

Chad and I had a little vacation, for couple of days and we went to Santa Monica and Malibu. It was amazing to walk the Santa Monica promenade, on Valentine's Day, watch the street shows (some of them were amazing), drink Starbucks, hand in hand with my husband, making out like we were dating. It was great!!! We want to do this all over again. The next day it was Chad's birthday and he really wanted to visit the Getty Villa, in Malibu and then have lunch at Paradise Cove on the beach. We had to wait for two hours, it was packed but we waited on the beach, so we can't complain too much. We want to go back there sometime because it was a great experience. I love spending quality time with my husband. Happy birthday and I love you, babyboy!

Chad's birthday party! More pics!

Chad's birthday party!

Brian was showing off his Keneth Cole boots, made in Romania!

We had a cute little party for Chad and it was really fun! Everybody had to share a fact about Romania and we had romanian food! Everyone said that the food was really good even if they were kind of nervous about eating romanian food, and I don't think they laid. HA!HA!HA! We had "sarmale" (cabbage rolls), "salata de beof" (potato salad kind of), grilled chicken with romanian seasoning and rice. Kind of yummy, ha? Niki helped me so much and we made it happen!