Saturday night was the annual holiday office party for Nat's company so we were down in Baltimore at the B&O Railroad Museum. The museum houses old railcars, engines, and even machines used to fix the railways themselves; it was awesome! Nat and I meandered around like the little nerds we are to read all of the information about the museum and the fun stuff inside, Nat even missed a group picture because no one could find him, oops!! I really wanted to get inside one of the engine cars but they actually had things roped off as if we were going to get crazy and wreck the place, hello these are computer people not sailors!! (Andrew)

The setting was really cool, the food was only so-so, but they did redeem themselves by having not one but two fountains of chocolate, one regular and one dark. Luckily we sat at the table nearest to the regular milk chocolate fountain, and by luck I mean we purposely sat there when we saw the caterers putting up the fountain, so we were first in the very long lines to get some chocolate covered bananas, marshmallows and pretzels. I bet you wish you were there now, huh?!

Oh, the picture above is of us with Nat's cousin Steff and her fiance Justin. As nepotism goes, Nat got Justin a job this year with a division of his company so we are starting our own mini-empire in the computer world. If you wouldn't have guessed Steff is on the Italian side of the family, her mother and Nat's mother are sisters. She obviously stole all of the Italian from everybody else!

In other news, Nat and I decided to skip the adoption meeting this past weekend. Well we didn't actually skip it, we postponed it. Nat and I both decided to take a longer break from all of this baby stuff, focus on other things for a while. We have some big events coming up, I turn 30 in March, we have our 5th wedding anniversary in May and he turns 30 in June; we want to enjoy those events, not stress about paper work and meetings. In all reality taking another few months off won't hinder the process by much anyway since China requires us both to be 30 when we submit our dossiers. So a few months off to clear our heads and hopefully squeeze in a trip to Texas and then we will be relaxed and ready for the road ahead.

Okey dokey people, that's all I have for now. I hope the new year is treating you all well so far, so far so good here. I'll be talking to you soon.......