October was an exciting month for us. We're back into the "swing of things" and have a routine set. We're biking less as the weather is cooling off now, but picking up in other areas. Ehren's now swimming three times a week (at 6a.m.), and Janelle is running more. We've been both playing hockey which gives us a nice balance. The kids have been busy with their swimming and you can read more about their progress on their pages.
We'd like to start with one of the exciting parts of the month...we've got another new nephew! Adam Zachary Ait was born on Oct. 21st at 4.15 a.m. He was 7lbs. 7oz. and 18" long. Both Lana & Adam are doing great and were at home with the help of Blair & Dar until just a couple days ago when they had to fly back to this side of the world. Janelle saw them no webcam a few days ago and they look great...and Adam, to everyone's surprise, is fair featured with light hair and blue eyes like his sister. What happened to those Arab genes Samuel?!?
Another exciting event for this month was the completion of our basement! It was done on schedule and wow, is it nice to have it done! We've started moving our "stuff" back into it and will fill it up in the matter of time. It turned out wonderful and we thank Jay and Jeremy for a great job!
A couple days after we completed the basement we took a trip to San Diego, perhaps the most exciting thing this month for the kids. It has been almost two years since we've been there and it was nice to see old friends...some with larger families too! We had a lot of days visiting, spent an afternoon at the beach (we hit a bit of a hot spell in the weather), went to Sea World and Disneyland! It was interesting to be at the theme parks right before Halloween as they were "done up" for the holiday. In all the years we lived in CA we never went to any of the parks so close to Halloween. At Sea World, Emily loved the Seamore & Clyde show (Sea Lions). They did a spoof from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" with the Sea Lions and Emily loved it. Jaelynn loved Elmo's roller ride. Evan, well, he liked the rides too...got a lot of smiles from him. At Disneyland, Emily surprised us by loving Space Mountain...and even went on it a second time! It was neat to see Disneyland all decked out for Halloween, and of course, the big sight was the Haunted Mansion at this time of year. It was a bit of a hot spell in the time we were there but the day we went to Disneyland there was a real nice breeze...and best of all...NO line ups!
Now that we're back we're back into the swing of things. The kids were so excited for Halloween and had a blast. The weather was great (76F) so that made it even more enjoyable. It's fun now that they're a little older and they get so excited about this kind of stuff!
