any resemblance?

jury's out on who little brooks is resembling more - mommy or daddy.

we'd love your opinion!

richard at about 3 months

andrea about 3 months

brooks loves the deacs!

go deacs! i know they are playing again today, but we had to take a moment to savor the sweet victory on wednesday over the blue devils. for brooks' first wake basketball game of his life, this was a good one!

reminicing back to a year ago, when little xander lewis watched the deacs beat duke in his first week too! how cool!?!

we don't have any little wake outfits yet, but i know brooks was still 100% for the deacons!

we also promise daddy that we will cheer for the rice owls with equal enthusiasm when baseball season comes around!

Baby Brooks

we couldn't be prouder to introduce you to our precious new son - Brooks McNeill Fuquay.

born on saturday, january 24th at 2:05am, Brooks weighed in at 7 pounds 4 ounces and is 20.5 inches long. the nurses called him Mr. Handsome, and we couldn't agree more! (maybe we're a little biased!)

a few minutes after delivery - mom was super happy to have this little guy in her arms.

we spent two and a half days in the hospital feeling very well taken care of, and brought little Brooks home Monday. He had all his grandparents in town for his first few days and even a few friends came to visit in the hospital.

with nana paula and grandpa phil at the hospital

our mr handsome

on night two, the nurses gave little brooks this cool hat - we called it his rasta hat and seems to fit his mellow personality

chilling out with daddy early in the morning

ready to go home - even this little hat was too big for our little man!

a four dog night

you may have heard the phrase a "three dog night?" well, here at doggie day care fuquay, we prefer a four dog night.

we call it a river of dogs, but it makes us happy to be able to have all the pups at our house for the holidays. with deac (emily & brad) and bailey (jill & robert) joining our clan, we are having a great week! some might call us crazy, but it's pretty cute when they all get in their beds like this!

no white christmas

so, for the last two years, we have had friends and family flying into denver around christmas and new years only to be met with two of the biggest snowfalls (aka blizzards) ever. this year, richard and i were on our own for christmas and of course, no snow at all! in fact - it was 60 degrees here yesterday!

here are a few pics from our quiet holiday...

richard may have had a little two much fun getting the turkey ready!

but we were so proud of our first turkey on our own. with only 10 calls to our parents for advice, it came out great!

the stovalls joined us for christmas dinner and brought yummy sides for all to enjoy. it was a great meal that we were still enjoying 5 days later thanks to the leftovers!

even without any turkey, dirk was in a tryptophan coma christmas night from all the excitement

the last few weeks

well, we got a new camera so the updates should come a little more frequently now. here are a few shots from thankgiving in dallas, the university medicine christmas party, girls night out at our church, our christmas party and our cute pups who love to pose for the camera!

30+ weeks

thought this would be a fun pic to share - i swear i look more pregnant every time i stand up! it's hard to believe we only have about 2 months to go - this has been a joy so far!