Camber's

Dylan Steven Ivy

Here is the first of many pics of Dylan! Wanted to share a couple - we are downloading the rest of the files from our other camera and will have more later!!

Here are his stats:
BORN JUNE 14th at 10:30PM, 9lbs. 2 oz., 22 inches.

He is a beautiful baby, with such a wonderful temperament! We are SO blessed... he is just the perfect addition to our family. Aiden is amazing me with how much he loves his little brother and what a big helper he is!

We are looking forward to seeing most of you at Kelsey's wedding in August! Dylan will be making his first plane ride at only 6 weeks old!

Love you all - and we will post some more pics soon!

xo - The Ivy Crew

DC Trip

We had a great trip to DC with Camber and Caleb. We saw all of the sights. It was Caleb's 1st time in DC. The WWII is new since Camber was last there. We saw the FDR section for the 1st time. It was a great weekend to be there, Memorial Weekend. There was patriotism everywhere. We also saw a play a the Kennedy Center. There were hundreds of thousands of Harley Davidsons there for Memorial weekend. The name of the Veterans group that rides motorcycles is Rolling Thunder and they were everywhere. They had a PBS event for Memorial day on Sunday evening. We were leaving on Sunday morning and found out that they do a dress rehearsal on Saturday night. We go to see it and it was great. The MC's were from a couple of TV shows and Gladys Knight was one of the performers. One picture is at one of the memorials, another is a great garden in Georgetown, Jerolyn by the Harley she road and the other Harley I got a great dsicount on. (It was not bad except fo the smell of the various varmits that were attched to it). It was fun for all!!!!!

A cute pic of the fam...

Hi everyone!

As I sit here waiting for the birth of our son... I thought you all night enjoy a couple of pics that we took a few weeks ago! Our due date is less than a week away... so we are (I AM) so READY for Dylan to make his arrival! I can't wait to meet him. Next post will be with good baby news and some pics of him!

xoxo - The Ivy Crew

Hey We're Here...fianlly

Hey everybody we finally got on the blog. If you haven't already heard Mandy got her mission call to Cape Verde an island country about 300 miles off the west coast of Africa! Temperatures range anywhere from 69 degrees at night to 85 degrees. Usually its mid-70s so Mandy's excited to escape a cold winter this year (watch it will probably be the coldest year Cape Verde has ever had). She leaves August 13th and will be speaking Portuguese and possibly picking up a little of an African language spoken there. More details to come.

Michigan Trips

Thought I'd put up a few pictures since Kelsey and my parents have visited me here in Michigan recently. Kelsey posted about her trip on her blog if you haven't read it and want to check it out. It was fun having her here, especially since she was actually living out here at this time last year. And it was nice to have my parents come out here again. Here are a few pictures from the visits.

Kelsey and I at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, MI. This is the biggest Christmas store in the world - and Kelsey is all about Christmas so no trip to Michigan is complete without a trip to Bronner's :).

Miniature golfing at Putterz. This was for Kelsey to make up for bowling the day before, which I won, twice, hands-down. She beat me at miniature golf, though (just barely).

With mom and dad at Greenfield Village. Henry Ford transported and rebuilt historical sites from around the United States so that people can come and see the invention and innovation he thought had made America great, all in one place.


At Frankenmuth again (which, besides being host to Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, is a little German town settled by German immigrants in the 1800s).

The house where Kelsey lived last year. It's located in the "student ghetto" near campus, so it's probably best that mom and dad only got to see the outside :).

BIKE TO WORK WEEK

Hey everyone, it's bike to work week. What does that mean? Simple, leave your car keys at home and pull that bike out of the garage. With the ridiculous gas prices (thanks OPEC), now is an ideal time to discover the benefits of commuting by bike. No sitting in the long line of cars at every stop light, no road rage, no wasting money on gas (which is basically 4 bucks a gallon here), and a good workout to start your day.
Working in a bike shop, I have recently seen such a huge increase of people buying bikes to commute...the number of people buying commuting bikes has really been astonishing.
Sick of the high gas prices? Don't complain, stage your own personal protest, ride your bike. Trust me, it's worth it and the trend is rapidly growing. It's your choice to pay for gas, but it's not the only option. It's all about supply and demand.
So, at the end of bike to work week...join the thousands across the nation who feel the freedom of 2 wheels and infinite gas mileage.
See you on the road!