Celebrate!

We celebrated 3 years yesterday and did it the budget-best-way!  Some sushi from Sakura, cheap champagne and snuggling with our baby girl… makes us wonder what the heck life was like before her!

We are amazed it’s been 3 years already, and our love grows more and more each day- just like Addie!

We want to wish Jon Hardy and Shannon Carroll a beautiful wedding weekend!!!!  We wish we could be there, but Addie is just too young to be away from just yet.

We want to keep up with the blog more, but with Chelley hard at work with the babe and Dave hard at work with WORK(!) it’s hard. We do hope you’re following Chelley’s blog about Addie at AisforAdelaide.com.

We love you all!!! Here’s to many more years of love and happiness together ❤

A is for Adelaide…

Hello friends and family!

We’ve been a bit off the map here, but we would love if you would follow the adventures of our baby girl at AisForAdelaide.com!

…and, if we don’t update: 3 years are coming up for us August 2 and we are so excited to be celebrating as a mommy and daddy this year!!

(AND a VERY HAPPY 2nd birthday to Carter on the 22nd!)

First Mother’s Day

First Mother’s Day

(please click to see just one of the amazing photos of Addie)

We had beautiful pictures taken at just 3 days old, and as a first Mother’s Day gift, I am hoping to purchase a disk of all of the beautiful images. There are a few posted on Facebook (please inquire about seeing the full album!), and I would be so blessed to be able to have a copy of the session so I don’t lose these memories of our baby girl’s first days.

Thank you so much.

Photo credits to Dimery Photography

Maternity in photos

We took a trip to Warwick for an evening of photos and good conversation.  We had some amazing pics taken, even though a few looked like Chelley swallowed Mr. Peanut and Dave can’t keep his eyes open.

Lynette Lipke, owner of Exalt Photography, welcomed us with a warm studio and lots of creative ideas.  A pregnant body is a lot of things, and beautiful isn’t always one of them, but Lynette’s use of lighting and her fancy tricks make a mom-to-be look on the outside, how amazing she feels on the inside!

 

Showered!

Amazing moms and sisters for Chelley!

In PA, Chelley’s mom and sister threw a beautiful Beatrix Potter/tea party baby shower, and in RI, Dave’s mom and Katie threw a beautiful shower to welcome Addie, too!

From wipes to clothes, we’re pretty well set… we think. Who knows what will come, but we know how blessed we are to have such caring and generous people surrounding us!

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate Addie’s pending arrival!

Hawaii

FAIL!

We never posted how amazing Hawaii was? Chelley must have a case of pregnant brain, because we’re STILL raving about the trip!  Even in the midst of APEC and all the road closures, we found a lot of peace and fell in love with the north shore of Honolulu.  The wedding was simple beauty, and we wish Ali and Chris tons of love and happiness as they celebrate their marriage and birth of their first child, too!

Pictures can do it no justice, but here are a few to try:

Ali & Bassi’s first kiss!

At the luau

Our hike before getting on the flight home.

Pearl Harbor

At the wedding

We had such an amazing time and are so glad we got to not only spend time with friends in Hawaii, but spend some loving time together before the arrival of our little girl.  We may not always have Paris, but we’ll always have Hawaii!

Adelaide Eileen

… Merry Christmas!!!

love, Dave and Chelley

Next year, Adelaide Eileen (aka Addie) will be celebrating with us too.  We hope you love her name, but if you don’t- we DIDN’T ask, so keep your opinions to yourself 🙂

Le petit enfant

Didja hear?!  We’re having a baby!

We’re due April 25th, and cannot wait to find out if we will be having a girl or boy November 3oth!!! The room is coming along nicely- lots of plans, nothing real, yet.

Chelley’s been benched from running- and she’s not too happy about it, but other than that mom and baby are both active and healthy.  Dave is working at MediaVue as the RMA manager and in R&D, while Chelley is dispatching at moo.com and awaiting what looks to be an extended maternity leave so she can be home with the babe and Carter and Morgan, too!  Dave’s pedal line, Made-Rite!, and Worth Amps are still in production, and while B-Sharp is going through transition, Domenick is always there to make your musical dreams come true, while Dave is still doing amp, pedal and small electronic repairs and mods.

Hawaii is coming up this week and we can’t wait for our vacation to relax and rejuvenate before the next hectic 18 years.

All this and so much more…

Thank you for this blog!!!

We’re excited our love is so evident to others… and we’ll be your BFF’s 🙂

Hot Dog

So… Carter’s 1st birthday was yesterday. We were aiming for a BBQ with friends and their dogs, puppies and newest edition: Morty.  We planned to serve hot dogs, cake for the puppies and have goodie bags for puppy friends… but with 95+degree weather, paired with humidity, we called it off.  Carter was already a hot dog, and we figured the once hilarity of serving hot dogs was becoming a real danger.

Serving a bowl of ice for CJ and ice cream for us, we went with a more family style celebration, spending the evening laying in our bedroom with the air conditioning on, as it’s the only room with AC, streaming Battlestar Galactica from Netflix. It was uneventful, but perhaps after the week we had, uneventful was eventful enough.

Happy 1st birthday to our handsome little puppy, Carter Jay!