Day 239

Today, we went to the San Diego Zoo. This is one of the pictures I snapped of the panda bears.

Day 238

Today, we drove to L.A. to see Chinatown. We had Chinese food for lunch, and did lots of shopping. Then we decided to go to Hollywood to see the walk of fame, Grauman's Chinese Theater, etc. We had dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen, right next to the Kodak Theater. There was a good view of the Hollywood sign there and Erica and Alyssa posed for this picture.

Day 237

Today, we went to visit Dan, Shannon, & Landree. We had a great time catching up and Landree and Alyssa had lots of fun playing and entertaining all of us. Here's a picture of Alyssa pushing Landree on her 4-wheeler. I'm going to try to post some of our other vacation photos, when I have time, on my other blog.

Day 236

Today, we made it to San Diego. Our luggage took a later flight and hopefully it will be here very soon. We didn't have any clothes to change into, but we went down to the ocean and played for a bit. Alyssa loved it and we thought we might not get her out of it.

Day 235

Tonight we're staying in Edmond and are flying out, in the morning, from Oklahoma City to San Diego. For today's picture, I drove to Pops to snap a picture of their giant pop bottle at night.

Day 234

This is our new red suitcase that we bought for our trip to San Diego. We needed a new one because our last one was destroyed on our way back from China. We paid extra for that bag, since it was a bit overweight, so we tell everyone that we paid extra money to have it destroyed. Thanks, Southwest Airlines! We got this bright red bag partly, because it should be easy to spot in the baggage claim area. Now, I have photographic proof of what it looked like, in case something happens to it.

Day 233

Today, I was playing with a toy dinosaur, multiple light sources, and the shadows they cast.

Day 232

Today, I snapped a spider in it's web while riding my bike.

Day 231

I think the Gerber Daisies are diggin' this cooler weather, because they seem to be looking great and putting on lots of flowers lately. Here's one with three blooms on it.

Day 230

Today, we took Alyssa to the Tulsa Zoo to see Feather Fest. We knew this would probably be our last chance to see this. Being zoo members, our only cost was $2 for me and Shawn to get into Feather Fest and we each got a stick with bird food on it. Here's a picture of Shawn and Alyssa. Shawn has a bird perched on her food stick.

Day 229

Today, we all went to Black Buggy Day in Chouteau, OK. This is an Amish celebration. There is a very large community of Amish people in this area. There was a rodeo, lots of homemade food, and rides. My picture for today is of a buggy being pulled by two horses. Alyssa is standing in the middle row next to Shawn.

Day 228

Today, I snapped a picture while I was geocaching near the power plant for Public Service Company of Oklahoma. They go by PSO for short. I can't figure out why important words like "company" and "Oklahoma" aren't included in their acronym.

Day 227

Today, I've snapped a picture of a printed circuit board. This was from an old modem I had laying around the house.

Day 226

One year ago today, Alyssa was placed in our arms by officials with the Chongqing Marriage and Adoption office. Today, I've snapped a picture of her wearing the same outfit she had on that day. She's really changed a lot in one year. To see her picture from one year ago, click here. To see all our pictures and what we wrote about that day, including a link to a video, click here.

Day 225

Today, they began errecting the steel beams to add the additional floors to our new building. The beams you see in this picture all went up today. You can follow the construction of our new building on this webcam.

Day 224

Tonight, we ate at Santa Fe Cattle Co. for dinner. Alyssa enjoyed playing on the longhorn statue in front of the restaurant.

Day 223

Today, I snapped a picture of an egg shaped clock that Shawn has had next to the bed for some time. Alyssa likes to play with it and press all of the buttons. It looks like she may have changed the date on it.

Day 222

Today, I got up early to go to the start of the Oklahoma MS 150 bike ride, so I could take some pictures. Here's a picture of one of the bike teams at the starting line of the race.

Day 221

Today, I snapped a picture of a praying mantis that I found on my front storm door when I got home from work.

Day 220

Today, we went to a special member's night at the zoo. These are always cool because you get a behind the scenes look at what's happening at the zoo. In this picture you can see Alyssa and Shawn in the bear exhibit at the zoo. Everyone was allowed to enter the bear exhibit through the back door, passing just a few feet away from the bears who were in cages, just behind the exhibit.

Day 219

Today, I stopped at the park to find a geocache. While I was there, I snapped this picture of some water bugs.

Day 218

Today, Shawn suggested that I snap a picture of the blue night stand that she stained and finished for Greg's room. We bought this as a kit, that you assemble and finish yourself. I put it together and Shawn finished it with blue stain and several coats of clear finish. We bought custom drawer pulls to match other items Greg picked out for the room.

Day 217

Today's picture is of the Admiral Twin drive-in. This drive-in theater is still in operation. There is another screen on the opposite side. You can see that all the speaker stands no longer have speakers on them. They broadcast the audio on two different FM frequencies now.

Day 216

Today, I snapped a picture of the souvenir ticket we received at the end of the Eagles concert that we went to last night at the BOK Center. The BOK Center was nice, but it wasn't as nice as the Ford Center in Oklahoma City. By the way, the concert was awesome!

Day 215

Today, I snapped a picture of a Gerber Daisy that's growing in our front flower bed.

Day 214

Today, I snapped a picture of a dragonfly, while I was riding my bike.

Day 213

Today's picture is of some of the buttons on the front of our surround sound stereo that we use with our TV.

Day 212

Today, I used the self-timer on the camera to take some pictures for our 1 year homestudy update.

Day 211

Today, I snapped some pictures of some thistle blosoms. I guess it's the right time for pollination, as all of them seemed to have lots of bugs all over them.

Day 210

Today, I got a picture of Alyssa, asleep in her high chair. She had just finished eating lunch and Shawn gave her some crayons to color with. In just a few minutes, she was asleep.