March Madness

Whoa!
This is going to be a long one. So much has happened the last month this could take a while.


Ethan get his tonsils out and gets to stay the day in the hospital.









A routine tonsillectomy and ear tubes turns into an all day observation. When Ethan came out of surgery he had a condition the doctors called Stridor which means he couldn't get air in and when he breathed out it sounded "musical" in his throat. They gave him steroids and put us under observation until his breathing got better. He was released that night but unfortunately the medicine wore off the next and we ended up in the ER the next day because once again....he was having trouble breathing. He is a lot better now. The tubes in his ears has made a MAJOR improvement in his hearing which is a relief for me because I got so tired of yelling at him all day just so he could hear me. It is true that the tone and volume of your voice makes a huge difference in the mood of your home. Things are much quiter now and I am not so frazzeled from all the yelling.

East egg hunt at our friends house.









The kids in their new Easter clothes










Grandpa Turns 80

We all gathered in Albion and surprised Grandpa Toner for his 80th birthday. It was great to have everyone together and get acquainted with those we don't see very often. Grandpa is such a special person in our lives and we are glad to spend time with him and Grandma.


During Spring Break we found out we had a water leak in the front yard.

We got a note on our front door informing us that the City had read our meter and it showed we had a leak and it was leaking 1 1/2 gallons per minute. OUCH! So I called Wade...he called his Dad...and by that night, they had the leak fixed. Unfortunately the City doesn't read meters in the winter so who knows how long the leak had been going on. Lets put it this way-the City told us our average reading is 8,000 gal and we were at 159,000 gal. Fortunately we worked with the City and didn't have to pay ALL of that. Thank heavens Wade is handy and his Dad is always willing to help us or the $5 part we had to replace would have cost us a lot more.