Thursday, April 22, 2010

Changes

That seems to be the theme around the Childress household these day! The biggest and most exciting is...Speck (at least that his/her name for now)! Scheduled to arrive around October 16th, Speck has brought great joy, shock and excitment to our home. As some of you know, we were actually in the process of adoption when we found out we are expecting, so it took a couple weeks for the reality to sink in. Here are a few pictures of our little one:
As you can see Speck comes by his/her name honestly!

To add to the craziness of a growing family, John and I both had changes in our careers that began with the new year. John moved on from managing a Chick-fil-A in Charleston to working as a CFA, Inc Interim Manager. In this role he runs CFA's that are corporately held rather than a franchised location. It was been incredible to watch him grow into running the business and developing his leadership. I couldn't be more proud of him. With John's new role, our family is set to move wherever CFA needs us. Our first assignment happened to be here in Charleston, so the only move we had to make was from our cute beach cottage to a coporate apartment. For those of you who were never able to visit, here's a pic of our little beach home:





Our current place isn't quite as charming and unfortunately is a 10 minute drive from the beach rather than a 2 minute walk (sad I know:)), but we are grateful for the accomodations CFA has provided for us. It looks like we will be in Charleston until the end of May. Where we are headed to next, we don't know yet.
Just before learning of our pregnancy, I also took a new job with CFA, Inc. I now work as a Grand Opening Marketing Consultant, which is a long title meaning that I travel around the country (mostly the mid-atlantic) and work with Operators who are opening new CFA locations on developing their marketing strategy. When I'm not on the road, I get to work from home so I look forward to continuing in this role even after the little one arrives.

So let's see, any other changes...baby, jobs, move...yup, I think that's enough for now!

9 comments:

CelebrateTheNest said...

Cute little photos!

And really, just out of no where- a post! Just like that- love it! Glad you are back in the bloggy blog world. :)

Hope May brings you closer this way!

Lindsay Adams said...

Hey Kelly! I didn't know you had a blog, but I'm so glad! Now I can keep up with you better! As long as you don't wait so long to update it again :) Congratulations on "Speck." We called Sage, "Peanut" from the time we saw one of the first ultrasounds and it has really stuck!

love,
Lindsay

Juli said...

So much LIFE happening with you! Excited for you and all the wonderful things that are to come!

Lindsey said...

yay for blog updates and babies and new jobs! i must see you soon and rub the belly! lots and lots of love to you three!!

Garrett and Allison Reed said...

It's a miracle....you updated your blog!!! It's a good thing b/c I have been getting super tired of reading about your staycation from a year ago. Love you so much amiga!

Sabrina said...

Oh Allison, you make me laugh. And Kel, I'm SOO glad you updated! Since I'm not using my first blog anymore I've been going back and reading entries from way back when, which has been fun. So keep updating so that when Speck is older she can see her first pictures and the journey these next months will take y'all on! And yes, I'm still saying it's a she ;-) love you!

Kristen said...

i am so excited for you guys!!! can't wait to watch this sweet baby grow over the blog world!

Shannon Hayes said...

I "like" everything in this status except moving in May - because we don't come to Folly till July!!!!! UGH! Please let us all know the next location soon - if it is cool and exotic enough, maybe that will be our anniversary vacay - some time near the end of October?? Love ya!!

Chad and Allison Nicholson said...

Hey Guys!
I was blog hopping and happened on yours and am so excited for you! Congratulations! Wow, what a blessing :)...you know, I'm only about 2 weeks behind you! he he!