It's Been a While...

It's been a while since we last posted but we are going to try our best to post more often! It has been a very exciting time in our lives these past few months. Summer came with new friends, many fun trips, lots of pool time, many and our 1 year anniversary! We are very blessed to have found a great group of friends in Houston and Texas is feeling more and more like home.

One major development in our life - we have a new White to introduce to you all! Charlie was adopted July 16th and has been such a fun addition to the family. We had forgotten how tough it is to have a puppy but we love him dearly! Winston loves having a little brother and Charlie follows Winston everywhere.

We have been lucky to see our friends and family recently. Amber came down for a visit in September, my parents came down for a long weekend, we traveled to New Orleans for Halloween and got to see Gary, Jon and some of my old SOS friends. The Whites are coming down this week and we will be home in 7 weeks for Christmas! We will be staying in Houston for Thanksgiving this year but are planning on having a "Friendsgiving" with our friends who aren't going home. We are very excited about that and will be sure to post about it :) We will be cooking our first Turkey- should be an experience!

On a side note, we found out that our family friend Mark Barsotti was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago. It came as a shock to everyone and our thoughts and prayers are with him and the Barsotti family everyday. If you have a chance, please say a little prayer for them and if you would like to follow Mark & Mary Ellen's blog here is a link to his CaringBridge site.http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/markbarsotti

We are posting some pictures of our summer and fall adventures for you all, we can't wait to be back home for the Holidays.

All of our love,

Kelly & Nate

Halloween 2011 on Bourbon Street. We were Goose and Maverick for the night!

Our first night in New Orleans with Jon, Gary & Kristin.

When we first got Charlie, he was so little! Now he is taller than Winston!

1st Year Anniversary Dinner at our favorite restaurant III Forks!

The Whites at the lake on our summer trip home!

The Jameson family at Dawn's wedding! So glad we were able to go and spend time with our Danville friends and be there for Dawn's big day! The wedding was beautiful!

Kaitlin came to visit in July and we went on the "Texas Tour" trip. We went to Austin, tubed the river in New Braunfels and wrapped up the weekend in San Antonio. It was a great weekend with friends and we were excited to spend time with Kait!

Showing Amber the Houston skyline- What a great weekend with one of my best friends!

Charlie at Beach weekend! He loved playing in the water and being able to run around the beach!