After 12 years, I got to meet up with my old roommate from college. Wendi Dearsman (now Davenport) and I lived together my sophomore and Junior years. Within the last year, we got in touch thanks to the powers of google. She was in town from Cali visiting her sister who lives in the Orlando area. It was like no time had passed. She looked exactly the same!
Wendi is a breast cancer survivor. Yeah, I know she is my age!!! Scary! She is 2 + in the clear, but it was incredible hearing about her experience. The most surprising thing to me was that she would go to spin class after chemo! I am talking the same day! PICC line and all! She would even change the dressing all by herself after each class. That is super human! Now, when I am struggling to get through a class, I just think of her for inspiration! WOW!
I look forward to getting to see her more often since her sister lives in central Florida.

Here is another layout of our awesome week at the beach! Unfortunately, Chase brought back a little present with him. I brought him to the doctors today and he has a terrible ear infection. It is not contagious, but he will be on Augmentin for the next 10 days and they also gave me ear numbing drops. Even though he is not feeling his best, he still doesn't complain much! This morning he was tugging on his ear and said "ouchy ear". That is really the only reason why I brought him into the doctor. I am glad I did. Now I know he has a high threshold for pain. This is the first time he has been on antibiotics in his life. That breastmilk has kept him well for the last 26 months. :)












Chase continues to surprise us everyday with the new things he learns. The other day while in the pool, Chase counted to 10! I couldn't believe it! He even, moved his fingers like he was using them to count! So cute!

My cousin Sarah sent me a link to her new blog on shutterly. It looks like a much better set up than this blog format. I love how you can have access to all your photoalbums on the blog. that way if family or friends want to order any prints, they can directly from the blog. So I am going to investigate it a little more and decide what to do. I may be making the switch. We will see.

Last week, we were lucky to spend the week with great friends at the annual Holden Beach vacation. We had so much fun watching the little ones run around on the beach and playing together. The adults were outnumbered by kids. That made it a little exhausting at times, but well worth it. Special thanks to the McLaughlin's, Karen and Jim for generously sharing their huge beach house with all of us. This is something the kids will always look back at with fond memories. More pictures to come!

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I can't believe I finally finished this album. My first digital album. I cannot wait to get it in the mail so I can thumb through it! Enjoy!