August 2006

It has been a whirlwind....from saying good-bye to Jer and Steph to saying hello to Baby Toby, August has been an incredible month. Paul and I went camping in Big Bear (which was wonderful), we spent a weekend with his Mom and Tom, and I went to Hong Kong for a week-long work conference.

I got the call at while I was in the terminal at the Hong Kong Airport that Baby Toby Russell Stillwell was born on August 25th at about 8:30 a.m., weighing in at 7 lbs. 12 oz. and 20 inches long!

Jake likes his baby brother!

Here we are hiking on a beautiful trail up to an amazing lookout over Big Bear Lake.

My wonderful husband made an amazing breakfast of pancakes, sausage and eggs on the camping stove Mel gave us for our wedding. Thanks for the awesome wedding present, Mel!

When Mom and Tom came down to visit, we went to the San Clemente Arts and Crafts Festival and the Sawdust Festival, where we admired the art and jived to the reggae. She bought me this cool floppy straw hat - I love it!

Here I am in humid stormy Hong Kong after a long ferry ride!

Gotta love foreign sign translations

Right after I got back from Hong Kong, we got to celebrate my friend Emily's birthday at this yummy restaurant in Temecula called Harry's Grill. After a week of Chinese food, filet mignon tasted SO good!!! I was so out of it when this picture was taken....I had been awake for more than 24 hours.

Baby Christian Wilkinson just keeps getting cuter and cuter! It's hard to believe he's already two months old now - how time does fly!