Jennifer + Tyler

If you haven't heard, Coleson's brother Tyler recently got engaged, so....

Congratulations Jennifer and Tyler! We are super happy for the both of you! Welcome to the family Jennifer. I am excited to have you as a new sister and I am looking forward to getting to know you even better. We love you both and can't wait for all the wonderful events and special memories to come. Enjoy this exciting time and we wish you lots of love!

Flashback: 4th of July & Vacation

So, we spent the 4th of July in Greenville with Coleson's family. Downtown Greenville is absolutely beautiful. If you've never been, I highly recommend it. There is an amazing park right in the middle of downtown with a river, a suspension bridge, waterfalls, and everything. We had a great time walking around and checking out all the food and fun. The fireworks were cool, although they didn't start until really late. Ryan did wonderful! He stayed up, wasn't too fussy, and actually watched the fireworks. We had a great time celebrating Ryan's first fourth of July with the family.

We left from there for Rocky Mount NC and on to the Outer Banks where we met up with my parents, my sister, and Brian. We spent a week in a house on the beach in Nags Head NC. It was a really nice place and we enjoyed hanging out with everyone and relaxing. The beach was great, although fairly windy (thanks hurricane Bertha). We tanned, played horseshoes, walked the beach, set up Ryan's baby pool, and did all sorts of fun beachy stuff. We also enjoyed lots of delicious meals, played fun games, saw the Wright Brothers memorial (that was the big rock in the earlier photo), climbed sand dunes, and visited a lighthouse. Thanks Mom and Dad for a super vacation!

  

If you're interested, you can see the all the vacation photos:

http://picasaweb.google.com/TheFamilyChase/Vacation

We're back!!

We have internet!!!! Somehow I survived a month without being connected! It's crazy how dependent I've become on it. I've missed blogging and sharing photos and emailing and online billpay. But alas, we have service again and life is good.

So we've settled into our new place and are enjoying being near to church and work and Walmart and whatnot. Oh and of course Chick-Fil-A as well. Let's see, I think we've been there three times already, including a fun and spontaneous trip last night with two sets of Isbells and the Webbs. We've also walked to Waffle House for breakfast and wandered the outlets. And Little Peking for lunch with Chrissy (there is no good Chinese in Canton!). Oh speaking of lunch with Chrissy - funny story about Ryan. So we went to the bank and visited for a while and Ryan even let Chrissy hold him. Then we left for Little Peking and I took Ryan inside in his car seat and slid him into the booth next to me. I promise you Ryan stared Chrissy down for a good two minutes. The look on his face was hilarious - sort of like who are you, why are you still here, why didn't we leave you at the bank, why are you talking to my mom. I've never seen him do anything quite that extreme!

Anyways, lots has been going on, so I think I'm going to try to do some flashback blogs because I want to get down all the exciting stuff Ryan's been up to. He's almost crawling - still rolling and scooting everywhere. But recently, he's picked his stomach up a few times, he just hasn't combined that with moving forward. He loves to stand and will "walk" with lots of help! He also has several new teeth. He has the original two bottom ones, two top ones, and two more top ones just broke through about a week ago (which included a fever, lots of extra sleeping, and a worried me!). And he loves Cheerios! Actually, I think he just loves that he can feed himself.

Well, I'm happy to be back and connected. Be sure to check back often since I plan to blog like crazy to make up for the last month!

7 days to go!

We are still internet-less, but there is an end in sight! The dude comes on Tuesday the 29th to hook us up. I am super excited to get re-connected!

Still Alive

Yes, we are alive and doing well. However, we are still without internet and I'm beginning to feel quite a bit disconnected! (Thanks for missing us Crystal!) Ryan and I are actually in the business center of the apartment complex using their internet. Hopefully we'll be back online soon; I think Coleson was going to work on that today for me.

So we've moved in and we've been on an awesome vacation. I've got lots of pictures that I'm super eager to share, so watch for those soon. I'm also hoping to blog a little about the highlights of our trip, but I can't conquer that right now. Ryan's sitting here in his stroller and I don't think he'll last much longer! Here's a quick preview of our trip, plenty more pictures to come, but again I'm limited right now by a really slow internet and a baby!

Vacation!

Hey to my friends and blog-readers! Just wanted to let ya'll know we are still alive and doing well, we're just haven't been blogging. We've moved and we don't have our cable / internet set up yet, so I've been disconnected from the world. And now we are on vacation, hooray! We left this morning and are currently in South Carolina visiting Coleson's siblings. We're off to see fireworks shortly. Then we head on to North Carolina for a night at my sister's, followed by a week on the beach with my parents and my sister and Brian. (speaking of beaches, Coleson and I got engaged on the beach, as did Sarah and Christian... ) So anyways, you won't hear from us again for a while. We'll be tan and relaxed the next time we blog! Love ya'll and we'll be back in touch in a week!