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!!

The Babies Are Coming!

Krissee is at the hospital right now and they expect the twins to arrive either tonight or tomorrow! I am so excited, I can't wait to meet them. I know a lot of you are excited too so I wanted to remind you that Daniel is going to try and keep his blog updated with how things are progressing. I promise to post pictures as soon as I get the first chance. Please remember Krissee, Daniel, Smith, and Addison in your prayers! Yeaa...I LOVE baby time!!

Mama Mia! What a fun weekend...

Chap’s cousin, David was married this weekend in Rock Hill. Let me just tell you how nice it was to NOT have to travel for a wedding and to just show up without helping, buying a dress, or renting a tux (don’t’ get me wrong, love participating in weddings, but also enjoy just being a guest!!) Friday night we attended Amy and David’s rehearsal dinner at Winthrop Shack (really, not a shack but really nice house behind the Winthrop lake).

Saturday, Chap and his dad woke up (silly early) for their fishing tournament at Lake Wylie while Marilyn and I slept in, leisurely had breakfast and got ready for Foxy Roxy to arrive so we could begin our day of shopping, eating, and movies! It was really nice, and after visiting some local favorites (Monkey’s & Mermaids and Legacy’s Child) we had lunch at Olive Garden and then went to see Mama Mia! Such a cute, fun, and girlie movie (Chap and Larry both agreed they would have walked out on the first song…) anyway, it was such a great day to have both my moms in town to hang out! I truly believe they are kindred spirits, but they just call themselves ‘best friends’ till we get that spirit thing confirmed =) The boys finished 5th in the fishing tournament, I heard some grumbling about this and something about all the fish that got away, but you know how that goes.

The wedding was nice and the reception was at Kinard which is a building at Winthrop, where Chap and I graduated. It was neat to go back and visit…a little sickening though to see all the new additions they’ve made to the school. Really, they couldn’t have put that Olympic size pool and ginourmous work-out facility in while we were students?!! I seriously got a little nauseous upon seeing that basically every WU student now has their own treadmill and elliptical machine…not fair! And the pool is amazing, I remember when I used to go swimming at WU, it was in a tiny pool that was basically in a dungeon. Slightly creepy. I am sure they have Big Norm and Marilyn to thank for some of those additions =) End vent.

Anyway, the reception was nice but the highlight in entertainment for me and Chap was meeting Petrozza the runner up contestant from the show Hell’s Kitchen (for those of you who watch the show I HOPE you appreciate this b/c there were tons of folks there that thought we were slightly crazy for how star struck we were!!) Chap and I had joked all weekend about meeting Petrozza because we knew he had worked with the catering service at Winthrop before becoming a contestant on our favorite show. Well, as soon as soon as we spotted Petrozza you can imagine our excitement and while the DJ was trying to keep an orderly fashion for the guests going through the buffet line, Chap and I made a mad dash with our camera to get a picture with our pal Petrozza….dorks. Oh well, it was the highlight of our evening and here is our claim to fame.

Keesha, Mary Cline, & SethThe cousins!
Larry & Marilyn who actually won the prize for being the longest married couple at the reception! Way to go guys!
Me and some hot guy I picked up at the wedding =)

While the weekend was really great, I guess the only thing that could have made it better was if the babies decided to meet their Aunt Heather. Oh well, I know Krissee and Daniel really enjoyed their ‘baby moon’ and now I have something to look forward to for next week!