One Year Left

Well, in just one year now I will officially be old. In the meantime, I'm going to live it up and travel as much as possible because we've decided to start trying for kids next summer and then our lives will completely change! I suppose it's all relative and that many, many people think 30 is really young, but it's one of those ages where you have to really start seriously thinking about having kids, buying a house, making sure your career is on track and that you're contributing to a 401K.

This past year living in the UK has been an adventure and I'm happy to say that we feel really settled now and are definitely enjoying living here. Chris is back to his old habits. He's just purchased an Axis & Allies board game and he's also doing his first triathlon in England in less than 3 weeks. We never thought triathlons would be a possibility for him due to not owning a bike. However, our Italian friend Dario really badly wanted to try doing a triathlon and didn't want to do it alone, so he had his Dad drive a bike over from Italy for Chris to use.

As much as we love living here, we're both looking forward to returning home...hopefully in 2009, if everything goes as planned. Chris will start job searching as early as next summer, so we could be back even sooner!

Thank you to everyone who called and sent birthday cards. I really enjoyed hearing from you.