March Highlights

The month of March found us on a trip to NC to visit Tom's family. We also stopped in Raleigh to visit Tom's best friend from growing up, Andy Morris. Here are the highlights of that trip:

• a 4 hour flight delay in Cleveland got our trip off to a great start
• Reili had a fever all the way there and for the first week. It turned out she had a double ear infection...we knew as soon as her ears started oozing.
• The first day, I dropped our camera and it rolled into the pond behind Andy and Suzanne's house. Luckily they lent me their spare while ours dried out.
• A fantastic day with Andy, Suzanne and Emily...playing in the pond out back, the nature museum, and at Outback Steakhouse.
• a few days at Tom's parents just relaxing and trying to take it easy with Reili sick and Tom's eyes recovering still...we thought.
• Wesley constantly heading for the stairs....constantly.
• A friday night spent at the Opthamologist's. Tom's eye pressures were so high from a steroid drop reaction that he had to get other drops to counteract. Then his epithelial layer started to slough off. OUCH! He made at least 5-6 visits to the doctor during our trip. (He is doing better now though).
• Dinner out with the Schell adults at a Japanese Steakhouse.
• A crazy trip to the NC Zoo during easter break. There were 11-12 kids and it is a big Zoo. All the kids had fun and wore the adults out. It was just good to be together.
  
• Several games of Dutch Blitz and Five Crowns with Mom, Amy, Jane, and Rachael. We even got Sam and Tom to join us a couple times (what fun).
• A family Easter dinner and easter egg hunt for the kids.
• Family night at Amy and Nate's the night before we left. We got to hear about how Gamma and PopPop joined the church. It was great.

We had a great time and we miss all the Schells! Thanks everyone. Here are a few pictures as proof we came: