We made it.

Suprisingly, the drive wasn't too bad. The boys did great. We hit very little snow and arrived in E'ville at 115 AM, 14 hours and 15 minutes after we left. Not too shabby. Although, the boys didn't settle back to sleep until about 315 AM AND Henry DID NOT go back to sleep until 915 AM. It was bad (at least for Eddie...since he stayed up w/ him :)) We had a great day today, celebrating Owen and Henry's birthday w/ our family. My aunt and uncle and cousins from Columbia, MO were here, my brother, Eric, and his family, my brother Brian, and his gal, and our good friends, Amy and Jeff, and Amy C. and Ellen who are here visiting her family from Jersey City. We ate pizza, cake, and ice cream, played outside (the weather was beautiful...50 degrees and sunny), and had a "dance party" in the living room..photos to follow. Uncle Eric even took Emmett for a hair cut and both big boys to chop fire wood and ride in a pick up truck. They had a great time.

Side note: At Owen's soccer games this weekend, something HILARIOUS happened. Owen has been playing goalie A LOT. Mainly because there is no one else who is trained as a goalie and because he likes doing it. He's also really quite good at it, although if he grew a few inches it would really help. Sometimes he can't jump high enough to stop the ball from going over his head. Anyway, I was talking to a friend not really paying a lot of attention to the game. Shocking, eh? And all the sudden I heard a lot of chatter like "Is that your goalie?" "What is he doing?". I looked up as Owen (even though he was goalie) was dribbling down the field....and scored! It was SO FUNNY. After the game I asked him what he was doing and he said he blocked a shot on goal and then saw a hole on the field and just went for it. Crazy kid. They won 4-1 and Owen scored all four goals. (the one goal the other team scored was when Owen wasn't in goal).