Summer Daze

We had a great time staying on beautiful Coronado Island thanks to the generosity of Aunt Christy. Josiah loved the beach and kept wiggling his feet off the towel into the sand!

Jungle Boys Reunion

We had such a great time this past weekend reconnecting with a group of our college friends referred to as the "Jungle Boys." Jason lived with these 4 other guys his last year at Biola and we have continued to stay in touch as we go through life stages together. What began as 5 bachelor guys has grown to families totaling 17 people. Although one family was absent we had a great time laughing, playing and sharing together. The gang all stayed in my (Christine's) parents house. With 3 newborns and 3 toddlers, some people thought we were crazy, but we loved the madness and noise level. We are so grateful for such good friends in our lives. If you are interested in seeing more photos and a video visit our Brian and Ashley's website at www.thenickfamily.com

High Sierra Trip

Who's better looking? hmm...I'll let you decide

View down from Hell For Sure Pass

If I could only bottle this goodness up and take it back to HK!

Mike before our 16 mile morning hike out back to civilization.

I'm always amazed at the size of these sequioas- they're enormous!

Nice meadow aka mosquito city

Mike next to a creek and meadow

Summer on the Central Coast

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Smile at Last!

For the past few weeks I have done everything but stand on my head to get Josiah to smile. All day long my goofy antics only got a very serious (eyebrows furrowed) expression in response. Just as I was coming to terms with his somber personality came the breakthrough. Actually Daddy got the first smile, but mine came the next day. I will never forget how the corners of his mouth turned up, just ever so slightly, and the smile spread to his upward gazing eyes. My heart melted and now I'll do anything, even stand on my head, to get another.

Around the Village of AG

Being back in our hometown is great! The weather is perfect and things around town haven't changed much. We walked down to the village, more specifically the ice cream parlor where Christine and I went on our first date and I had way too much ice cream on birthday celebrations. We've really enjoyed being able to hang out with our family who we haven't seen in a year. We just wieghed Josiah this morning and he's 9.6 lbs, were shooting for 10lbs by two months.

Back in Sunny CA

We left Hong Kong June 14th at 11:30am and were scheduled to arrive at 11:30 am on Sat in Ca. Josiah did great on his first plane ride. He enjoyed being close to mom and dad throughout the trip. The flight attendant twice gave Josiah baby food and once asked if he wanted a sandwich, which we thought was quite funny considering he was 6 weeks old. We got a taste of the good ole American airlines and the squeeze they put on passengers to make connecting flights. We missed our connecting flight at 10:30 so we were put on stand by for the 1:30 flight. Fortunately we got this flight and were excited to see the Paines and Ouimettes waiting for us at the SLO airport.