First of many visits to Elon and the Beach!!!

Life is good! It's amazing how you feel as though you're seeing everything for the first time when you're looking through the eyes of a child. Never has the sky looked bluer, the grass looked greener, or the beach looked more peaceful. Now that Sophie is becoming more aware of her surroundings- we've begun planning special weekend getaways to some of our favorite places. Granted- she sleeps through a lot of the experience- but that's OK!



So- let us catch you up on our almost 3 month olds latest escapades! The weekend before last we headed to our old stomping grounds- Elon University to catch a baseball game and walk the campus. It was a beautiful day, and Sophie seemed to enjoy it. She travels really well as long as the car is MOVING. As Paul says, the apple certainly does not fall far from the tree. Sophie may look like her Daddy- but she IS her Mommy. This as I'm sure you'll soon see can be both a good and bad thing. =)

Last weekend we took our first beach trip with KK, Sean, Jenn, Rich and her best friend Caitlin! It was Sean's first triathalon, so we went to cheer him on and for some much needed R&R. We stayed at Rich's mom's house in Carolina Beach. It is such a great place! KK, Sophie and I headed down early and- after going through a drive-thru with Sean's bike on top of my car (oops! Sorry Sean!!) and going the wrong direction on 40- KK took over and we got to the beach all in one piece. Sophie traveled great and slept like an angel all weekend. We had a wonderful time. The weather wasn't great- so we did not actually go out on the beach- but we did get a chance to walk around Fort Fisher and saw a dolphin jumping in the waves very close to shore!