our life over the past 6 months:

we said goodbye to our life & friends in San Rafael, California and moved to Raleigh, NC where we would begin a new life & meet new friends.

we arrived in Raleigh on February 1st and Ethan started his job at Vintage 21 Church as the Director of Kids & Families. he literally hit the ground running. he had lots to do and prepare before our little miss Ryleigh arrived, including Raleigh Easter.

we spent our first two months in Raleigh looking for an apartment, unpacking & getting everything ready for Miss Ryleigh's arrival. our sweet Ry Bug was born on Saturday, April 17th at 1:08am (birth story will come soon) and we were instantly in love.

we've spent the past two months getting to know this sweet baby girl and learning how to be parents. we hope to use this blog (especially now that we have internet again) to share with our friends & family our journey as parents.

here are some pictures from Ryleigh's first 11 weeks:

my life was forever changed in this momentphoto booth fun with Daddy in the hospitalI can't stop staring at her--she's beautiful!we finally got to take her home & she wore the dress I wore home from the hospitalher first bath at homeone month oldnapping with her daddyshe's just so pretty!she loves the pool already!two months oldshe really is growing way too fast!