Just having fun taking pictures with the mac.... Rylee is 3 weeks old in these pictures and weighs 10lbs 12oz!!!! He has no problems eating. He is a pig :)

Birth Story

I forgot to mention that my sister-n-law posted the entire birth story on her blog... I obviously have been too busy to write it all out :) If you want to read it you can go to her blog at http://www.flammtastic.blogspot.com/ . 

First Bath

Rylee had his first bath the other night and we got a few cute pictures! He loved the bath....

Pictures

Here is just some random pictures of the past couple of weeks...

Hannah helping daddy wash mommy's car while mommy was taking care of Rylee..

Hannah thinking that this is her new toy! (it's mommy's :) )

Hannah and daddy on Easter sunday

Rylee on Easter sunday...at home with mommy. (thanks to his grammy he at least looks ready for Easter)

Grandparents meeting Rylee for the first time...

Rylee's first trip out to the doctor

Anya helping Hannah plant flowers

Our first real outing (besides the doctor's office). We walked to a festival in downtown kennesaw.... It feels SO good not to be pregnant!! 

Hannah having fun on the new mac...

Hannah and Grandaddy Clay

It's a Boy!!

We are proud to announce the birth of our baby boy, Rylee Chander White, born April 7th, weighing in at 9lbs and 3ounces. Baby and mother are doing wonderful!

Concerning Rylee's name:

Rylee is named after the great Anglican Bishop, JC Ryle. By God's providence I (Nathan) came across JC Ryle's book Holiness as a young Christian. The book had a profound impact on me, the first reading still impacting my thinking and understanding of Christianity even today, and it has become a well-worn manual that I have returned to time and time again.

Courtney also, at my urging, has become quite the Ryle fan as well. She greatly admires his practicality and easy-to-read writing style. I would strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with Ryle if you've never read him before. Start with his best work, Holiness, and move on to his commentaries on the gospels, Knotts Untied, etc., which are also excellent.

Rylee's middle name, Chandler, is after my Dad, Chandler White. Rylee and my dad share the same birthday (April 7th of course), and nobody has had a greater impact on my life than my wonderful father. From the earliest of my memory, my father was reading scripture to me, encouraging me to memorize and internalize it, praying/singing with me, and basing all of his instruction and counsel upon the principles found in the sacred text.

I am blessed and honored to have such a God-fearing father, and it is certainly our desire that Rylee follow after these two faithful men in faith and in practice.

God is so incredibly good --it absolutely baffles me because of the depths of my sin and wickedness. Join me in singing this great Psalm of praise:

Psalm 128

Tune: "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing"

Words:

Blessed the man that fears Jehovah
And that walketh in His ways;
Thou shalt eat of thy hands' labor
And be prospered all thy days.
Like a vine with fruit abounding
In thy house they wife is found,
And like olive plants they children,
Compassing they table round.

Lo, on him that fears Jehovah
Shall this blessedness attend;
For Jehovah out of Zion
Shall to thee His blessing send.
Thou shalt see Jerus'lem prosper
All thy days till life shall cease;
Thou shalt see they children's children
Unto Is-ra-el be peace.

(Words taken from the Trinity Psalter)

STILL PREGNANT!!

Well it is officially 5 days past my due date and I am still pregnant. I did expect as much but hoped it would different this time!! Oh well, I am learning about being patient :) (or trying to learn anyway) Nathan's mom and sister and all her boys are here and have already been here 2 weeks waiting for me to have a baby! Hopefully soon we will have some newborn pictures to post!! Check back....