Todd's home!

Well, OK, he's been home for a couple of weeks now, but this is when I'm writing about it. The first night home, Todd and I were able to stay at the Turning Stone Casino. It was nice to just have some alone time and to be able to have time walking around looking at things. The next day we came home. The kids were very excited to see him, as you can imagine. Originally he was going to come in on a Saturday, but he got in on a Thursday instead, which made it nicer so the following morning wasn't rush-rush to get kids ready for church. The only problem was that school was cancelled on that Thursday and Friday because of the weather, so there was still a bit of rush-rush to find babysitting, but it all worked out.
The following week, we took the kids to an indoor water park for about 4 days. It was nice to have that time as a family to just have fun and not have to worry about kids not doing chores or homework or having to do various activities. It was wonderful! We've visited family before, but we've only done a 'real' vacation maybe once before. I can now see why people try to do vacations every year. :)