Update Time (is it May already?)...

Wow...I can't believe it's May 1st already (the year is almost half over)...April was a busy month with Chase's injury/surgery...Easter...and my trip back east. I'm happy to say that my boy is now home safe and sound...but I'm not sure for how long. His goal right now is to head to Vegas with big dreams...I don't know. We've tried and tried and tried to talk some sense into him, but he's in such a freakin' rush to "do it...and do it NOW".

I flew out to Baltimore on the 21st...spent the night there...had a great evening out with Patti and Herb. Had a nice dinner then they took me to their stomping grounds "Bateman's". The 22nd, Patti drove up and we had lunch and just spent the afternoon together til it was time for my train. I took the train down to Charlottesville, VA...and it was a beautiful 3 hr. trip thru some of the prettiest country I've ever seen. Jimmy met me there and we drove back to Blacksburg. We did stop in Roanoke for about 30 min. to tell Steph good-bye.

Friday (the 23rd) we got up and did a few errands in Blacksburg before we left for home. That first day of driving, we went thru Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and stopped in Indiana for the night. Saturday (the 24th) we went thru Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and stopped in Kansas for the night. Sunday (the 25th), we left Kansas for Colorado...we pulled into the driveway around 3:30 pm. Nolan and the kids had made a "Welcome Home" sign for us and a bucket of cold beers was awaiting us on the front porch (and let me tell ya...after driving 1600 miles, I needed it, LOL).

It was nice to have that time with Jimmy...but heartbreaking in the same sense. My heart is broken for him...I want to fix it, but I can't. I listened to this song over and over and over and cried:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3SIUoGijoM

I really need to quit listening to it...cause it makes me cry everytime I listen to it. OMG...nothing's worse than feeling your child's pain...

Here's some pics from the trip:

Below are from the Airport park (watching the planes come in), where we hung out til it was time for my train...then a quick pic before my train arrived (taken by Tyler...thank you Tyler LOL):

And these are just a few scattered pics from the drive home. As you'll see, when we got to Colorado, there was snow (no big surprise, LOL) and then we woke up to snow the next day:

This cloud shaped like a heart:

Entering Denver:

Home, the next morning: