around the world in a week and a 1/2

we decided to use our time between daniel's spring and summer classes to travel to see abbie, tony and eldin. since it is a close to 16 hour trip we had to get creative. we drove 7.5 hours and stopped in athens. micah and his roomate collin were kind enough to let us stay at their place while we were there. we had fun laughing and hanging out with them. clover loved those boys.

while we were there we got to go to our favorite stores and eat at our favorite restaurants.
that was a great thing since we crave athens food often.
here we are having fun at junkmans brothers daughter.

our friends bethany and charles had us over for dinner. they also invited deb and dane over which was so great because we had not met josiah (he was born close to a year ago). it was so wonderful spending time with all of them. just like old times.while we were there we visited our old apartment building and did a lot of "remember when"s. we also had a picnic at out favorite picnic spot. then we were on the road to florida.we arrived in florida after a long day of driving straight and flat.
but it was very beautiful when we got there.we went straight in and met eldin for the first time.
he was a tiny little guy and oh so cute.

he quickly got to know uncle daniel and aunt holly.

aside from meeting eldin and getting to spend some really great time with him, we got to spend some really great time with tony and abbie. we hadnt seen them in years and only a couple times since we have been married. when we did get a chance to see them it wasnt for very long. so to have several days in a row to hang out was awesome. we played wii together, watched movies and chatted at the orlando house. then we went out to the titusville house.

there we got a chance to go to their church, eat seafood and go to the cape. the titusville house had a pool that everyone but me got in (hey, it was cold) and a beautiful backyard
that clover and nari chan exlpored together.

we had such a great time with the bowicks. we hope we can have an opportunity like this again sometime. we gave tony, abbie, and especially eldin one last big hug and headed back. on our trip back our break-it-up stop was north carolina where we got to see beth, chad, and noah.

we couldnt believe how much noah had grown. he is 3 mo old and in 6-9 mo clothes. kind of an indicator of the big man hes going to be- just like chad. noah is so cute, even when hes fussy.mom came to visit since all her kids were together. she was in seventh heaven with noah.
one day we took a walk through a nearby park. it was a perfect day for a walk.

mom wanted the four of us to go out on a double date while she watched noah. we went to macaroni grille and hung out at barnes and noble. beth and chad were excited to have a date night and we all had so much fun cracking up and visiting with each other.beth thought noahs hair was getting a little long so while i was there she asked me to cut it.
i started while he was asleep however he woke up hungry. so i finished while he was awake.
he did really good, staying very still for aunt holly.chad had just gotten lasik so he could see noah's new haircut real well. :-)like the other visits we eventually had to leave. it was so good to see the little man noah is becoming, and to spend time with mom, beth, and chad. but kentucky was calling.