Official response to Baby-gate

I neither confirm nor deny the allegations of the below blog. The pictures were or were not taken out of context to show that I do like to spend time (on certain occasions) with babies. No further comment.

The Truth about Dave!!!

Today's post is simply to expose the truth about Dave. When I first met Dave he was not very good with children. In fact, I'm pretty sure he claimed that he didn't really care for kids all that much. Well, I believe that I have gathered up enough evidence over the past few years to prove that wrong. I believe Dave's love for children has grown and that he just secretly enjoys being around them. So, I am here to expose the truth about my husband ...the baby lover! Here is the evidence:

Here he is holding JT his little cousin. This was taken shortly after he changed baby Danny's diaper!!!

Here he is with Selah....now I said DAVE loves kids...not that all kids love Dave, as you can see....

This is the most recent piece of evidence that I have, here he is with the youngest baby he has ever held. Baby Kate!

And the 2nd youngest baby: AJ....Look how he watches football and continues to care for that baby.

This is some of the more early evidence I have. He is just learning how to hold a baby here. You can see JT isn't in the most comfortable position.

Here Dave plays hide and seek with TWO babies.

I don't even know who this baby is but he still held her!

His love for babies is world wide....here he is with a few Sudanese babies!

Korean baby! :)

SO THERE YOU GO... the truth: DAVE is a BABY LOVER!!!!

Things I (Dave) enjoy about being married to Keren

1) Sleeping next to my wife. I miss it a lot now that I'm traveling weekly.

2) When she shrugs her shoulders and says, "hmm mmm."

3) Knowing that I can get a clear, upfront answer on any issue from my best friend, my wife, even when it hurts.

4) That she is way into politics. I don't even need to watch CNN because she can summarize it for me. Politics are a big passion for me and it gives me great pleasure to discuss it with my wife. I'm also very passionate about sports. We are still working on get her excited about those.

5) She is a fantastic cook. I have liked every dish she has cooked (in fact, I have LOVED every dish, except one...).

6) She has an incredible faith in the Lord and faithful personality.

7) She takes dance lessons with me.

8) She is tight with my family and has a great family herself. Each family is unique, but great in its own way.

There are more, but that's a quick snippet.

Savannah, GA

One of the perks of Dave traveling is that I get to go visit him for free! Last weekend we decided to take full advantage of this and we planned a fun trip to Savannah, GA. There are a few interesting things that I learned about Savannah while I was there. First, I had no idea that Savannah is very historic. It is a civil war town and the buildings are just gorgeous! Along with this though, I found out that the city is the 2nd most haunted city in the U.S. which really creeped me out...especially since we were staying in a very old hotel. Our hotel was used as an old civil war hospital. It was beautiful with all of its original flooring and doors....yet very creepy. Dave and I took a tour of the city and of course it poured rain the entire weekend we were there. Here are some of the pictures of our hotel and on the tour.

This is a picture of the outside of our hotel. There were several wedding receptions taking place in the hotel. Savannah is also known for having beautiful squares everywhere. In fact, one of these squares is featured in the movie, Forest Gump, where Tom Hanks is sitting and waiting for the bus to come.

This is not our hotel, just a restored house that is very very old!

While on the tour we also stopped by a cathedral that was built in Savannah. This cathedral was gorgeous and the stain glass windows were just unbelievable. Here are a few pictures from inside the church.





The next day Dave had planned for us to go to an island right off of Florida and only 20 mins. from Savannah. Of course, the next day it rained even harder!!! The island itself was quite unusual and we really had no interest in hanging out there for very long. Here is a video of our driving experience!!! As you can see...most people were leaving the island while only a few odd folks like ourselves were driving towards the island.

We did not end up having an ocean view lunch...nor did we see an alligators :(

On the way back from the island we decided to not waste the trip so we decided to stop by a civil war fort. Dave loves the civil war and I have always wanted to visit civil war battlefields and forts. So, we stopped by and watched a video on the history of the fort and learned about a battle that took place there. We were able to walk around and see some of the actual battle wounds that the fort still showed. It was quite amazing!!

The Lord's Prayer

This summer I had the honor of singing at my friend Courtney's wedding. It was spectacular! Here is a video of me singing "The Lord's Prayer". Please note the person behind the taping was Dave. Also note the fact that he focuses more on the photographer than me in the middle of my performance! I think he thought he had really funny hair...or maybe he was trying to see if he had a NIKON D300. hmmm. I don't know! Anyway, here is the performance...it was a special moment for me!

A Baby!!!

Yes a baby! I am talking about my friend Brianna Saxer who just delivered her brand new baby boy!!! His name is A.J. and he is just a doll! If you're allowed to call a boy a doll! Dave and I went to meet him for the first time and he just mesmerized us the entire time. He is just the sweetest little bundle of joy! Here are some pictures of our first meeting with A.J. I can't wait to see him grow up!!

We both got a turn holding the baby, but of course as soon as it was Dave's turn the baby spit up all over him. Typical!

Dave's going to be a good father some day.......just not today :)

This is one of my favorite pictures! Look at how precious his little foot is!!

Here he is with his proud mommy!!

And of course with his proud grandma too!!

The Summer in a Nut Shell

Okay, so it's been a month since I blogged but to my defense my internet connection at home has just been TERRIBLE. SO...since it has been a while I will do my most memorable moments of the summer as a married person!!

1. Dave and I decided we would eat the top of our wedding cake for our 1 month anniversary! It was all great except for the fact that when we picked it up from my parent's house we left it in the car...in the HOT HOT Summer heat! So...needless to say the next day we had a nasty melted and very smelly cake. So much for that! At least we got some pictures!!

I'm very excited about this can you tell?

2. Some of our very favorite people got married this summer as well! Here they are:

The Bernthals!

The Udens

Kati Pessin

The Hannahs

3. This summer we had the honor of having Dave's friend Bashir visit form Sudan. So of course we had to take him to the Taste. This is a picture of Dave, my brother and Bashir on our way there. I think Bashir was a little uncomfortable with the amount of people he saw but at least the heat wasn't an issue!


4. A visit to the dunes with the Bernthals! The Lord has just continued to bless our friendship with Dave and Jenny! Every time we get together we leave feeling so encourage and thankful to have them in our lives and to be walking through this exciting time of our lives together! Here is a video of the Daves at the dunes. They truly are two peas in a pod!

5. I turned 24 this summer! I feel so old yet so young at the same time! Dave's parent's held a little get together at their place and Tunde came and took some great pictures. It was great having friends to celebrate with. This is a fun picture of Dave, JP, Brittany and me outside of the Chookaszian home in Glenview.



6. Dave has been traveling to Atlanta every week. It has been challenging for us to stay connected and invest fully into each other but the Lord has been gracious and has given us many special moments to strengthen our relationship. Because of his traveling, I was able to fly down and visit Dave in Atlanta. We had a great time visiting the Martinez family as well as spending some special time alone. We had quite the interesting experience when we went to visit a winery. The tour guy had definitely had a bit too much of his own wine that day! It led to some good laughs. Here are some pictures of the Chateau Elan!

This picture would be sooo much nicer if only I had a Nikon D300!!!! wink wink!!!

7. And last but not least, Dave and I got to spend some time in Aspen for the Chookaszian family reunion! We climbed up a giant mountain...which I fell down on the way back! We had a ton of fun spending time with the family and playing "Scattergories" which JP won like every single time. Here are some fun pics.