Well we are back in North Carolina.  It was a great trip to Ohio with only a few downers so overall it was a GREAT trip!  We left on the 21st for Columbus.  It only took us about 10 hours or so with a few stops. We stayed at Grandpa Jeff’s (THANK YOU GRANDPA JEFF!). On Tuesday we went to COSI for the day - courtesy of Gramps - it’s awesome having a father who works for one of the coolest science museums in Ohio - maybe the nation!  Xavier had a blast (as you can tell from the pictures on Flickr). We had dinner with an old friend (she’s also Xavier’s Godmother). Wednesday we went over to Gramps/Susan’s house to visit before heading to Cleveland to pick up Derrick.  I’m a bad daughter because I forgot to bring th camera into my mom’s work to get pictures - I’m sorry mommy.  Looking back we should have stayed with my mom for a night before heading down to Middletown.  Next time we will… We headed down to Middletown to end our 6 hour journey for the day (2.5 hours from Columbus to Cleveland and 3.5 hours from Cleveland to Middletown). We eneded it at Geno’s brother’s house.  They just bought a new house at the beginning of the year. It’s a really nice house in a nice neighborhood.  Thursday we took Xavier and Derrick over to see Matt (Uncle Matt) who is also Xavier’s Godfather, at the firehouse he works at. They had a blast!!! Friday we went out to dinner with Geno’s mom, Karina’s mom, Felicity, Frank and his family & Geno the boys and I. It was pretty good food, my salmon was great!  Saturday was the family reunion…again we had a blast!  Sunday we did laundry, went to brunch with the whole Lolli Clan, and packed up the car for our long drive home. Monday we left late in the morning and we arrived here at Fort Bragg a little after 8pm.

Geno returned to work today after having Tuesday off.  He was supposed to have today off also but due to the Army needs he had to go back.  Today Lilly gets groomed and I have to list some more items on eBay.  I listed 10 yesterday - yay me!  I have Derrick’s clothes and Xavier’s toys still.  I think I might do a garage sale the weekend after this one, unless I can somehow get the garage cleaned out by this weekend.  We will see. I migth just put all this stuff on Craig’s List and see where it goes from there…

School starts in a few weeks and I’m REALLY hoping to get everything done…

I will post pictures after they all get loaded onto Flickr….

Have a great week!