Tag Archives: family

What I did on vacation last week

Write more later, typing one handed.

Vacation

Made the 8+ hour treck to the Outer Banks for the second time in a few years for a vaction with some friends. A great time was had by all. Some pictures can be found in my Flickr stream.

Rockstar

I think he is trying to move in on my “rockstar” gig.

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Cuzzway

Made my first crossing by foot today. Looking down from one of the towers I noticed a bicycle down amongst the rocks of it’s base.

Maybe not evil, but definitely smelly

Google once again does the “not evil” thing and opens Google Talk to the rest of the Jabber network(S2S).
Also, Colson took his first and hopefully last “Aqua Dump” tonight.

Doctor Visit

Yesterday we took Colson for a visit with the International Adoption Clinic at MUSC. They do specialized evaluations/test for kids that have been adopted internationally. It’s a wonderful thing to have something like that so close to us. Anyhow, he is on track pretty much in every way developmentally and growth wise. [...]

Gotcha Trip

Tomorrow will be the first fathers day for me! We returned this passed Wednesday from Guatemala with our new son. Arriving late on the 9th and the next day toured Antigua.
Day 3 we did a Guatemala city tour, visiting the Civic Center
The National Palace
A park with a 100+ year old, large scale relief [...]

Highs and Lows

High:
Had the most wonderful, surprise baby shower last Friday. Lots of folks went through a lot of work to pull it off. Shannon and I were totally clueless it was going to happen. What a shock it was to drive up and see all the people there! ITLab, Springfield and church [...]

Referral Day

Almost too exited to type Today we got our referral for our baby son!

Progress

Everyone that reads this(all two of you) should already know that Shannon and I have been in the process of adopting a baby from Guatemala. Today we hand over our dossier to our agency and officially join the waiting list for a referral. In one to four months we will get to “know” [...]