Carter's Christening

What a precious day?! This is our first experience with being Godparents and it tickles us to pieces! My face hurt on Sunday after the all day grinning performance. The actual Christening was so special, but just being able to sit in church beside my husband, our best friends and their son was such a wonderful feeling that I won't forget!

Blah Blog Update

We have had a busy week, nothing great or exciting but here's a post to keep you updated...

My poor Brodey boy had a yucky visit with the vet last Thursday. His hot spots weren’t going away, and he had green goop growing in his eyes so we decided it was time for the medical money snatcher’s advice. Turns out the poor Brod had an ear infection (they actually called it a ‘yeast infection’…but I prefer ‘ear infection’), puppy pink eye, and his blood work came back positive for heart worms =( Needless to say we were glad we decided to take him to the doc who prescribed a cortizone shot, ear prescription, eye prescription, and two intense treatments of heart worm medication. We are currently exploring a second option with the heart worm meds…keep your fingers crossed that it works otherwise the alternative requires Brodey to be ‘inactive’ for two whole months. If any of you have ever met Brodey, you understand this task is next to impossible.

One of my favorite pictures of my boys.

I am busily getting ready for school to start (tomorrow actually) and keeping up with grad classes. My new kids came to Open House today…13 girls and 4 boys…can you say fourth grade drama??? Yikes! I am a little nervous, but excited for the year to start. I’ll be doing the Inclusion classroom this year, along with a model literacy classroom for the district. It should be interesting.

Chap also started back to school this week AND he’s been tackling the gym every morning before work. I’m pretty impressed and hope to join him more once school starts and my schedule gets more normal. He’s pretty proud of his tomato plants we planted in the spring…just last week we picked off 35 tomatoes! I’m a little nervous that next year we will have the biggest redneck garden on the block!

Olympic Fever

So, I usually get fairly involved with watching the Olympics on television, but this year I have been way too caught up. I guess it began with opening ceremonies in Beijing (that I forced Chap to t-vo and watch with me...he thanked me later) which were surprisingly amazing this year! Then tonight the men’s U.S. relay team barely beating France for the gold medal was fantastic! After swimming competitively for a few years, these swim events tend to be my favorites, but this one in particular was most exciting! Especially after the French drama (their relay team was quoted saying that they came to Beijing to ‘smash the Americans’) and then Michael Phelps' opportunity to possibly beat the record of having the most gold medals. Well, I was literally jumping up and down, screaming at the television, and punching the couch while watching the last few seconds of this race. Chap wasn’t nearly as thrilled, considering he fell asleep a couple hours ago and I’m sure that getting startled by your screaming wife is never a great way to be woken up. Since I don’t anticipate him waking up again to share my excitement, I figured I’d share it with you.

So, what’s your favorite? Have you ever been to the Olympics?? My parents took us to Atlanta in 96’ to watch a basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics event; it was a great experience. Hopefully, we’ll get to go again some day. Tomorrow I guess I’ll just go swimming.

Double Daybies = Lots of Love!

We went to visit Smith and Addison on Sunday and had such a special time with them!! With two babies you can basically hold someone whenever you want...without taking turns!! Krissee and Daniel were so much fun to watch. Krissee is still so excited that her babies are here, she just holds them and gets tickled with joy, it's super cute! And Daniel, wow...what a hands on dad?! He is so involved in everything, and I know most of you are saying...'duh, he has to be...there are two of them...' but that's not the case. Even when one is asleep he is engaged with either changing the other's diapers, feeding, getting bottles ready, cleaning, making steak dinners, or having talks with Addison about dating at the ripe age of 45. They are such great parents already, I am so excited to watch them raise Smith and Addison! Thank you both for being such great examples to us, we are forever grateful for the time and memories already shared!

Hmmm...who's a proud uncle?? Me and Mr. Handsome (Smith)
Mommy and adorable Addison, I think they are pretty in love with each other =)
Yes, that's right...I did say STEAK dinner. Who makes a delicious meal the day they come home from the hospital??? Daddy Daniel!! Not sure how my day could have gotten much better...babies AND yummy food??!!This is one of my new favorite pictures, I am still trying to get the best one off my camera phone...but till that happens here is the 2nd place photo. After the yummy meal Chap went in the living room saying, "yep...time for Chappy's nappy...and I'm taking one of these babies with me!" So he took Smith (though I don't think he slept much...just stared =)

Thanks again guys for another perfect day!!

Finally!!!

I apologize in advance for the randomness and writing, but I'm going to do my best to share some of the joy since I know there are many of you that had the Day's in your thoughts and prayers all night...they are finally here!! (without giving too much away, I will be sure to save the best for dad to post =) Krissee was absolutely amazing, and as most of you know by now, was able to push those sweet angels out after a very LONG two days!

Here we are at about 1:00 pm Thursday afternoon. What a GREAT surprise it was to be able to hang out with Krissee while she was having contractions (for hours!) Even though there was some serious pain she endured, we shared lots of laughs. I will forever be grateful for the time we shared, thank you Krissee and Daniel for sharing the memories!

Uncle Chap arrived shortly after, 'dressed to impress'. He wore his suit and tie in honor of Smith and Addison. This was very touching for me because this is what my grandfather, (Sho Sho) did when his grandchildren came home from the hospital.

After about eight hours of contraction with little action, the excitement began to wear off...and exhaustion began to set in =)

While some slept, some were WAY to eager to meet Smith and Addison! After Krissee was wheeled into the OR (waving to the crowd as she left) at around 12:30 a.m. Keesha, Ame, Marilyn, and myself got busted for 'lurking' around the hospital. We tried every way possible to get a glimpse or clue of how the babies were doing!! No luck though...they had that place on lock down!

After several hours of MORE waiting, we were really strugglin'! We decided to find some wheel chairs to entertain ourselves...I didn't get a photo of our 'Days of Thunder' wheel chair race that me and Keesha re-enacted...but they were special =)

Finally, at around 2:45 a.m. Nurse Stephanie came out to inform us that the babies had arrived, and everyone was doing GREAT! Wow!! Relief, gratefulness, excitement, and exhaustion...just a few of the emotions everyone was feeling!

What an amazing moment when a VERY proud dad walked out with his beautiful children. It was straight out of the best baby movie I've EVER seen! (I'm trying not to show close up pics of Smith and Addison because I know daddy will be sharing those soon!!)

So, after an amazingly wonderful night, Chap and I hurried back to Rock Hill around 4:00 a.m. so that we could make it to work (yuck!)...with no sleep I am having to remind my self every minute to be patient with the twenty kids I have in my summer Challenger class today...I think I'm still floating on cloud nine though, so hopefully it will be smooth sailing! I already miss those babies so much though and I can't wait to watch Krissee and Daniel in action. They've already proved their love for these children, Smith and Addison are very lucky to have such amazing parents!!