Ultrasound Day

May 10 was our first ultrasound. It was an amazing experience for both of us. At this visit, Christen was 9 weeks. You could see the heartbeat beating at a rate of 189 bpm. We could see the lil nugget moving around. At one point, it looked like our baby was doing sit-ups. (Is there an athlete in our future?) Seeing an ultrasound for the first time is amazing beyond words. I was speechless when I saw the baby for the first time. Seeing the ultrasound made it REAL! We are so excited. Without further adieu, I present to you....Baby Redd!

2010 G'Vegas Invitational

Brad plans and hosts a golf tournament annually. This was the 5th year of the G'vegas. It was held May 8th at Furman Golf Club. He had 24 guys play in it this year. Friday night at our house, Brad had the Pairings Party where all the participants draw for teams and food and drink are provided. They also auction off each team. Brad loves hosting this tournament because friends that he doesn't get to see that often come into town for the tournament. They ended up having a pretty good time Friday night after the party because he only got 2 hours of sleep. Brad woke up to play 2 rounds of golf. His team ended up in 3rd place out of 8 teams. He got home around 8:30 Sat night and immediately went to bed and slept 12 hours. Much needed sleep!!!!!

First Meeting w/ the Doctor

So our first meeting with the doctor was April 20. We met with one of Brad's friends wife, Hope, who is the nurse educator for pregnant women. It was nice meeting with her and she is very good at what she does. She told us not to worry, that she wouldn't go home and tell Dustin :) We asked her if they do a pregnancy test to confirm and she told us home pregnancy tests are so accurate that they don't bother testing themselves. At the time of this meeting, Christen was 5 weeks. Christen's baby tracker app on her iPhone said the baby is the size of a blueberry at 5 weeks so....

Brad and Christen's life takes a wild turn when...

...they found out they are PREGNANT! Here's the story: Every night after her girls weekend in Charlotte, Christen complained about being extremely tired early in the night. She just thought it was from the lack of sleep the girls got in CLT. So on April 17, the following Saturday, Christen asked Brad to go get her a pregnancy test. She took it first thing that morning and it immediately showed up positive. YAAAAAY, we're having a baby! After the initial shock, both Brad and Christen are so excited about bringing a new life into this world. Please check back often as we plan to blog about the progress of Christen's pregnancy. Stay tuned...

Girls Weekend

So Brittany and David bought a house up at Lake Norman outside of Charlotte and she rounded up the girls for a much needed girl's weekend! We spent Friday night checking out her beautiful new home while enjoying a delicious cookout compliments of her hubby, then drank wine and enjoyed good conversations in the hot tub...We woke up Saturday and checked out Britt's new neighborhood and then headed to Charlotte for a day of shopping and lunch at South Park. We got a room at Aloft in the new Epicenter and spent a fun evening bar hopping. We started with dinner and drinks and headed to the Charlotte version of a great dueling piano bar..followed by an attempt to fit into the "club" of the epicenter and finished out the evening talking until 4 am and almost getting kicked out of the lobby ...great successful girls weekends and I cherish every single one with my greatest college friends!

Brittany Dixon, Alexis Fallon, Kristin Hewatt and Christen

The Masters

After spending 4 days in Breckenridge and flying into Atlanta late Sunday night on April 4, we went to The Masters at Augusta National on Monday. This was Brad's 4th time going but Christen had never been before. She was in for something special. Right when they got there, they found Tiger Woods who was playing a practice round with Freddie Couples. They followed that pairing for a few holes but there were so many people following them that it was hard to see. The best thing about The Masters are the prices at the concession stands: $1.50 for pimento cheese, ham & cheese, turkey, $2.50 for BBQ (so good, I had 3 of them) and$1.50 for drinks or $2.75 for beers. We took two buddies of mine from Greenville, Joe Mathias and Joe Mikhail. Mathias had been before but Mikhail was a Masters rookie. We had the best time! We even saw a golfer we went to high school with, Bill Haas. I spoke to his dad, Jay, who was there with his wife watching Bill. Here is just a small sample of pics we took...

Brad and Christen


Joe Mikhail, Joe Mathias, and Brad

#16 Par 3, Brad's favorite hole on the course

Christen's new golf crush, Paul Casey

Vijay Singh

Tiger Woods

Breckenridge Ski Trip

Hey everyone! We just got back from our Breckenridge trip last week and wanted to share some pics with you of our trip. We had the best trip ever! This could be one of those trips that we take every year...it was that much fun! There were 8 of us that went...Christen and Brad, two friends from Christen's pharmacy school, Nicole from Atlanta and Kevin from Missouri, and some of Kevin's friend from MO. We all had the best time. We had an awesome mountain house about 2 miles from the slopes that had a hot tub on the back porch...it was key! Sitting in the hot tub while it's snowing is AMAZING! No one got hurt skiing...we all got a little sore but not as sore as you would think. It snowed every day we were there which was awesome. Breck is a cool little town..we went out to dinner downtown two times and stayed at the house 2 nights. It was hard to leave the house with all the fireplaces, the great open floor plan and need I mention it again, the hot tub! We had a ball staying in...having "family" dinners and playing games. Alright, enough about the trip, it's time to see some pics!