Suzy and I became friends Freshman year at CNU in the Santoro residence halls.  She lived a few halls down from me and we quickly discovered a shared affinity for coffee, silly late night laughter and a love for picking CNU’s flowers.  When I needed to escape that year I knew I could always knock […]

I teared up a little when Lauren bounced over a few chairs at church to show me her iphone picture.  “Want to see the newest member of our family?!” she said, and I’m pretty sure I squealed and teared up at the same time! We love the White’s.  They were some of our first friends […]

There is probably nothing more fun than introducing a child to the seashore.  There is so much fun to discover!  Shells, waves, sand, seagulls, etc. I loved getting to watch Suzy and Drew’s son, Chapman, fall in love with the beach!  His first few trips he wouldn’t walk on the sand because it felt yucky […]

We got the opportunity this year to go to the Outer Banks with some sweet friends of ours right after Rockbridge.  It was so wonderful to actually get to rest well after working and playing so hard at Chapter Camp. We did a lot of reading and sitting in the sun mixed with just the […]

Slowly but surely we’ve been transforming our yard.  We had to start with the front because of the random half-fence closing us in, but once that project was completed we moved to the backyard.  We ripped out over grown and half dead rose bushes as well as weeds upon weeds.  We’ll probably put a few […]