My sweet boy...

So I owe these pictures to Katie... and not due to my lack of taking pictures but due to scorebook duties! Thanks for snapping these pictures of Drew for me Katie -- they turned out way better than if I would have taken them!

Spring Break

So I vowed this year I would be better about taking pictures of everything and anything! Do you think that has happened??? Ummm NO! Needless to say my camera batteries (yes I have a backup) had been dead for a month and I decided to charge them when I was packing to head back home from Spring Break. Seriously a month and not a single picture snapped! Despite my lack of pictures... I still wanted to document our Spring Break as I like the blog to look back and remember funny stories and things we did that I tend to eventually forget! So here is my photo-less Spring Break post! Spring Break this year was... eventful! We decided to drive to Wisconsin... we left Saturday evening about 45 minutes later than anticipated... not bad considering who we are talking about and I think we remembered just about everything! Yay Me! The time changed over night -- Marty was really ecstatic about losing another hour of sleep on top of the driving hours! :) The drive took 17 hours and 15 minutes which was actually one of our better times! Needless to say when we were about 10 minutes from the Wisconsin border we spotted trouble! White and fluffy trouble -- SNOW! Seriously -- it was spring break -- it was supposed to be springy. It doesn't matter when we head to Wisconsin lately... Fall, Spring or Winter -- there seems to be snow! Watch out 4th of July -- it has happened before and it is bound to happen again and we seem to bring out the best of it! :) Though the snow didn't cause any driving complication, it was still snow and it was still COLD outside! I refused to bring winter coats on a Spring Break trip so we toughed it out for the first couple of cold days and then it wasn't too bad but I have to say that snow never melted the whole week. Arrived at my parent's house around lunch time and settled in, ate and then got ready to go to my sister's new house. It was so fun seeing their new house. When it was time to head out, we loaded up the van... grandma forgot her purse... oh grandma -- so we turned around. No more than 2 blocks back away from their house and less than 12 hours in the glorious state of Wisconsin -- our windshield cracked! Agh... Now granted it had a little help -- it had been chipped for awhile but seriously! So now the van needed a new windshield... that was a work in progress over the next couple of days but we managed to get it done pretty painlessly! The last few days of our trip were spent up in the Wisconsin Dells. Water park, chlorine, hot tub, chlorine, lily pads that tore up Madi's hands, chlorine, playing cards til the wee hours of the morning, shuttles, more water parks, chlorine, waterslides and chlorine... By the way did I mention chlorine??? They go a little overboard with the chlorine there. A few days full of fun later... Madi was covered in scrapes, broken blisters and bruises, we were all exhausted and it was time to hit the road back to my parent's house. One last Friday fish fry, tearful goodbyes and we were back on the road. Exactly 17 hours and 15 minutes later... we arrived back in the sunny 80 degree Texas weather and collapsed! Then Sunday came! :)