The Baby Boom

I have truly enjoyed growing up with family members at are my age.  And Chandler is lucky that he will grow up with similar experiences.  He has met many friends and family members thus far and cannot wait until he gets to meet cousin Ward.

BFFs Chandler and Caleb Bucher

Cousins CJ Spencer, Karly Spencer, Addi Spencer, Alexandra Hage, Aaron Hage, and Chandler - in oldest to youngest order

Future cousin John Preston Ward

Cousin Jacob Bowen

And Chandler will meet many more friends this fall during Mississippi State football games!

Have Baby - Will Travel

The biggest perk of being back in the south (yes, Miami is further south but not a part of "the south") is the proximity to family and friends.  Since our arrival in ATL we have had many visitors and even taken a few trips ourselves.

We have seen Grandma & Pop (Lauren's parents) and Mimi and Pappy (Josh's parents) numerous times...

Met great grandparents (we are blessed to have so many)...

Met aunts, uncles and future cousins...

and were introduced to some family friends...

We look forward to many more trips/visitors!

First Father's Day

Josh is truly a wonderful father to our son and I could not ask for a better partner to raise Chandler with.  He continuously goes above and beyond to help me in every way possible including night feedings, diapers, bottles, cleaning...I could go on & on...

After Josh (and team) did such a great job to make Mother's Day special for me, I had big shoes to fill for Josh's special day.  In the end I thought I would enhance his blogging skills by giving him a flip video camera.  He has done a good job so far documenting Chandler's many funny experiences and I know he will keep up the good work.  We will be sure to begin uploading videos to the blog as well (something else Josh has to show me how to do - I don't pretend to be technically savvy).


And now an ode to my two favorite men...