Top pic: Kristin (my sister), me, Lucas (Tim's 18-month old), Michael and Melinda (Tim's wife)
Bottom pic: Su Lin (born in 2005) and momma Bai Yun at San Diego Z*o

Sorry I haven't been posting much. I've been spending most of my blogging time* reading everyone else's blogs and trying to be a nice blogger friend and actually leave comments. I have to admit that most of the time I don't have anything insightful to say, so if you find a strange comment from me on my blog just remember that I'm either (1) blogging at lunchtime from work which means I was just in 2-3 hours worth of meetings or spending 2-3 hours creating excel spreadsheets or powerpoint presentations or (2) i'm home from work and pretty much brain dead. That being said, I do have alot of say on Mommy Weight, so maybe that's a better indication of where my head is and what is going on with me.

The countdown has begun... One month until our one year wedding anniversary. Would it be too sad to have our adoption application delivered to our agency on exactly the one year mark???

On Wednesday my cousin Tim and his family arrived in San Diego. So we have been tourists this week and enjoying the outdoors... pool and patio and our new home. It's nice to be able to "use" our house now and enjoy it with our family.

Yesterday, probably one of the hottest days of the year we went to San Diego Z*o. Oh - my - god we roasted out there but made a reasonable showing and stayed 2.25 hours. We came home, played in the pool and then went up to Carlsbad for a mexican dinner, followed by a quick trip to the beach to watch the sun go down. Today we are heading out the the Midway (aircraft carrier), tour around downtown (probably by car because it's sooo hot and they have a 18-month old) followed by a fish dinner overlooking the harbor.

*Limited to one hour per day in order to maintain that "work-life-blogging" balance.