Pictures..... FINALLY!!

Me as we dock in St Thomas


Matt and I in Antigua at a Fort


On the train ride in St Kitts


Waiting to Dock in Dominica

Antigua again - but it was a good pic =)

Towel Art - mom couldn't wait to get back to the room every night to see it!

Mom and I in St Kitts

Mom and I awaiting a fun filled day

Our Ship the Carnival Victory

Ok - so those are the pictures of us at various places...

Ohio Weather Welcomes Us Home

We're back from our trip to the sunny, beautiful, non-Ohio weather of the Caribbean. We'll try and get photos posted as soon as we can. We've got a ton to sort through.

In a nutshell, we had a great time, ate FAR TOO MUCH food (I can already hear Mom typing away about dieting ASAP), got really brown (and red), and enjoyed visiting all those beautiful islands... by the way, it was all you can eat lobster (and we took full advantage).

Yeah Mom, I did a zip line excursion through the rain forest in St. Lucia... you can start worrying about all the terrible things that could have happened to me. =)

Stay tuned...

Ahoy Matey!

We're leaving on a cruise for the (hopefully) sunny weather of the Caribbean. We most likely won't be able to call or email (so please don't worry mom).

We head out from San Juan, Puerto Rico and will then be at a different island every day for the next seven days (St. Thomas, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, Barbados, and back to Puerto Rico).

We plan on trying to double our body weight on all-you-can-eat lobster (at least Julie promised it's all you can eat).

Souvenier requests must be received by midnight Saturday in order to ensure receipt. =)

Big Bang

Ok, I am telling you that if you are not watching Big Bang Theory on TV - you are missing out on some hilarious moments. Case in point this past Monday - now I usually don't "laugh" at tv and Matt will vouch for that - but I fine myself laughing out loud quite a bit over this show. The funny thing is when it first came out - I thought it was stupid and didn't even want to watch it. Now it is one of those shows that I make sure to watch. So join in the fun - CBS on Monday nights at 8! The premise of the show is 4 nerdy guys who are super smart but have little to no social skills - and of course they have 1 cute girl who lives across the hall.

For now though you MUST see the episode from this last Monday - especially toward the end of the episode... so google it, youtube it, or whatever you gotta do to see it... the episode was called "The Working Song Nanocluster"

Woot Woot

Its time to mark another chemo session off of the calendar!! Matt is down to three sessions to go! It feels so nice to be able to say only 3 left.... but calendar wise we are looking at finishing up possibly the week after Easter. Right now they have moved his "rest" weeks out to 2 weeks instead of the 1 that he had in the beginning rounds - so that is why it is getting stretched out a bit. Matt has been having trouble getting his white counts back up to where they need to be after treatment so hence the longer rest periods. They don't want to push it and have him end up in the hospital again...and neither do we! We just need to pray that those counts recover faster and we can just push thru faster =)

Bittersweet

Yesterday we got to go along with 6 of our Junior/Senior Youths and 2 other adults on a trip to a ski resort called Bittersweet up near Kalamazoo Michigan. It was a really fun day that started of with a bang! (Alyssa face planting into the snow and ice) She was a great sport about it and just laughed it off... I think anyone else would have called it quits after that but not "Bloodbath Alyssa" - she's all about going big or going home, no guts no glory!! (be sure to click on the 2nd pic to check out the damage!) Matt was able to make a few runs down the mountain so that made him very happy... going down those few times helped to remind us both how out of shape we are (at least he had the chemo excuse to fall back on! I had nothing!) We spent most of our day sitting in the sunshine and just watching the kids come zooming down the hills - it was a beautiful day. Lots of laughs.

18 Years Old Today

My little brother is all grown up! Chris is having his 18th birthday today..... its hard to believe that time has gone by so fast!! When Chris was little - we were like peas and carrots! Best Buds. Happy Birthday Bubba - I Love You!

ps.... please don't kill me over these pics! =)