The wait is over

The wait is over! Josh matched for a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship with a practice in Atlanta! Congrats to Josh!!
We got the news this morning and I for one am glad to finally know where we are headed. Now I can start planning.
More details to come when we know them, but I just wanted to let you all know the good news.

More Halloween Pictures

Thanks Melissa!

Trip to Houston and Halloween

As you can see we have been quite busy over the last month! We made another fellowship trip this past weekend to Houston TX. We were able to visit with our good friends Marc and Melissa Inglese and my friend June while we were there.
Again, we weren't so good about taking pictures, but here are some shots from the Houston Zoo that Luke and I visited while Josh was interviewing.


Look Mom!


an Okapi!


and African cattle!


and an American gator (ok maybe mom liked this one more than Luke)


and here is our favorite gator. Luke was a gator for Halloween, this is the only photo I have of him in the costume, he wasn't sad about it all night. My friend Melissa got some cute pictures of him, I'll get another one from her to post.

Trip to North Carolina

Josh had another fellowship interview, this one at Duke. Luke and I went along so we could visit with our good friends the Dungans and the Samuels. Luke got to meet Clark Dungan who is not quite 6 weeks older than him. They got along great, Clark was very kind to Luke in showing him were all of the toys were in his house. I guess we didn't take too many pictures while we were there, but here are a few of the shots we got. We had a great time and really miss our NC friends!


Luke is looking serious about riding and Clark is posing for the camera


another obligatory embarrassing tub photo

Luke's First Birthday!!!

Luke turned one year old today! He had both sets of grandparents and many of our neighbor friends over to celebrate the occasion. Luke had a little "smash" cake all to himself, although he didn't really get into the smashing of it. Luke was spoiled with all of the wonderful gifts he received, thank you to all of you friends and family that helped make his birthday so special!


Luke's cake


what should I do now?


ok, I'll give it a try


Here Nana, you try it


after the cake, Ryne shows Luke how to properly work the red spinny thing


on to the presents, Noah was getting a bit impatient and decided to help


fine, I'll just play with this paper

Trip to Atlanta

Luke, Noah, and I went with Josh on his first round of interviews for his fellowship. He had two interviews in Atlanta, one at Emory on Friday and another with a private practice on Saturday. It was quite an adventure traveling with both Noah and Luke. While Josh was at the Emory interview, I had to check us out of the hotel and then I walked around the campus for an hour and a half with Luke in the stroller and Noah on the leash until Josh was done. We were able to spend Friday night and Saturday with our friends Danny and Regina and their little boy Preston. Luke and Preston had a good time together, Preston was studying Luke's crawling moves and it wasn't long after we left that Preston had it down! Luke got his first busted lip on this trip, he was trying to use Noah to stand up and Noah scooted away too fast for Luke to recover. He was a trooper though, a little ice cream and he was all better!


Luke's busted lip


obligatory embarassing tub shot

Computer Problems

Hello for all of you who check out our blog (and thanks to you!), I just wanted to take a quick minute and post that we are having virus related problems with our home computer. We have lots of new pictures and a few videos of Luke to post, but we are reluctant to use the aforementioned computer to do anything other than what is completely necessary. Not to fear, we plan to get a new computer (or will fix the one we have) soon and will be back with some new pictures of Luke.
Until then, know that Luke has his first tooth! It came in at the beginning of the month and is the top right middle tooth (odd location I know). The one next to it is working its way in now. He is an active crawler and pulls up on everything. He is trying to cruise around the furniture and even stood on his own without holding on yesterday for about 5 seconds, and then realized what he was doing and sat down. He has started chasing Noah now and Noah thinks it is a game, it is pretty funny to watch the two of them. Noah will run off and Luke will chase him, Noah circles around behind Luke until Luke realizes he is there and switches direction only for Noah to circle around again!
Love to you all!