Well, we made it through the New Year and got Lana, Samuel, & Isabelle on their way back to Dubai. Life should've been back to normal then but we had several viruses pass through our family...Emily got hit the hardest. We had a couple weeks of no school or extra-curricular activities and we were all getting tired of it! :-) We managed to recuperate and life did go on...
One of the biggest hi-lights of the month is that we got our US citizenship on Jan. 17th, when we attended the "swear in" ceremony and became "official". We handed over the green cards which we've guarded to no end...and watched as they chucked them in a shoe box with hundreds of other resident cards! Wow, it almost hurt!! We now get to apply for our US passport and never have to worry about renewing our green cards again-yay!
On the 20th we took a trip to San Diego. We were gone a week and Ehren worked for 4 days of that. Janelle and the girls hadn't been back since the move 9 months ago so it was nice to see everyone and get in some good "playtime". We also made a trip to Disneyland in which the girls had a blast. We made it back just in time for the family to all get the stomach flu...not so nice.
That will be it for January and come the first week of February Ehren will be making another 3 day trip to San Diego for business. We're also in great anticipation of meeting our niece Faith for the first time when Blain & Grace come to visit this month! Not much else to report. The pregnancy is doing well and the belly is growing by the day at times! Can't wait to meet the little one!
