After much stalking of other people's blogs, here WE are in the blogging world! We are two people who are happily married, and looking forward to the adventures that life has in store for us. And of course we also have an itty-bitty furbaby named Smokie who we adopted last year.

Life in the Aoki household is about finding time to wash the dishes between everything else we have going on. We currently have a pile on our counter that is looking particularly ominous which is why I decided it was the perfect time to start a blog (instead of tackling the mountain in our kitchen).

So what are we up to these days you ask?........Laura is in her last semester of graduate school for her masters degree in clinical psychology. She has a wonderful internship at a children's hospital where she does assessments for children who have developmental disabilities. Justin is planning his graduate school career for next year as he's hearing back from schools. We have good news from a school just outside L.A. that was Justin's top masters program choice. Laura also has several potential options in the L.A. area through Americorp which makes this school even more attractive to us.