House Update

It's Official!

All the papers were signed and everything got funded by the mortgage companies. We are now in the process of trying to unpack and get things organized.

Aidan is taking the move pretty well; he does seem to like the new house, specifically the playscape in the backyard and his play area upstairs. However, he does get upset when we drive by our old neigborhood, which is rather heartbreaking for Renee and I (he obviously misses the old house)....

The Move In

We moved into the new house on Monday, November 10. The move itself went fairly smoothly, but we were exhausted by the end of the day. Now comes the really hard work: unpacking.

To complicate matters a little bit, Aidan is still not feeling well (he is very congested and sometimes he is running a fever), so he's very clingy and requires lots of attention. Renee took him into see the doctor yesterday, and he said that Aidan needs to probably stay home for the next two days, which includes tomorrow -- the day of our closings. Hopefully, Aidan is feeling better by tomorrow, so we won't have to drag him along to some boring document-signing sessions, but we'll see.

Man On The Run

From ESPN.com:

A United Nations officer thought running the New York City Marathon was so nice he did it twice.

Kevin Shelton-Smith ran 26.2 miles in the morning before the official race started, then covered another 26.2 miles along with the rest of the field in the actual marathon.

"I'm always looking for a new challenge to find the limits of my body -- to be all you can be," said the 43-year-old Englishman, a peacekeeping air operations officer for the UN and an accomplished marathoner.

Shelton-Smith started in Central Park at 5 a.m. ET and ran the course from the finish line to the start, stopping along the way to talk with race volunteers. He reached the race staging area at Fort Wadsworth on the Staten Island side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 3 hours, 45 minutes.

That gave Shelton-Smith about 90 minutes to rest before taking off with the rest of the 35,286 entrants at the official starting time of 10:10 a.m.

Running conservatively at the start to feel stronger in the later stages of the race, Shelton-Smith finished the official marathon in 3:35:45. Last year, he finished the marathon in 2:47.

Congratulations Brian and Katie

It has been announced that my cousin Brian is recently engaged! Here's a note from Brian:

Katie and I got engaged two Fridays ago after her professional engineering test (like a CPA for engineers) was over. I surprised her outside the test center with flowers and the ring. She thought it wasn't coming for another two weeks. We are very happy and are already making plans to have the wedding for next October (possibly the 23rd). Included in those plans are to have Aidan be the ring bearer. We know he may need help walking down the aisle, but would love to have him be part of our ceremony!

Congratulations Brian and Katie!