we've arrived....

back in cleveland. we never made it to spokane saturday because we got hit with so much snow last weekend. the drive to the airport was treacherous, with crappy roads (including the freeway) and constant snowfall. our travel day on saturday ended up being a horrendous experience. the plane (courtesy of united) was already 45 minutes delayed because of crew change, and then to top it off we sat in the plane for another 3.5 hours while they tried to fix problem, after problem. all was snow related of course, but it seemed to me that united was also unprepared for the snow. tyler left for seattle that same day, though his flight left an hour ahead of ours. he was only delayed 1.5 hours due to de-icing procedures for the plane (note that he flew nwa). an hour...not bad, but almost 4 hours, with a baby (who can't nap on my lap by the way), confined to our seat was ridiculous. by the time we made it to chicago (the actual flight itself only took 50 minutes) we had missed our connecting flight and all other flights (including other airlines) that took us to spokane were FULL, FULL, FULL. i found this out after standing another hour in the customer service line. spending the night in chicago didn't make sense to me, because i only packed enough baby food & formula for the day's trip. i only nurse her twice a day now so there was no way my boobs were going to go into extra production mode overnight. i was exhausted, emma was VERY crabby and had a huge meltdown while i was at the customer service counter...so i decided to cancel the trip and head home. we'll have to try this another time when it's not snowing...in april. to top off our wonderful adventure, our luggage made it to spokane...ha, ha, ha. i almost laughed out loud when i found out.

anyway, here are a few pictures of the snow. we got almost 2 feet. we had continous snowfall from friday night to late sunday afternoon. we were snowed in for easter so we stayed home and "attended" a church service via the internet (www.lifechurch.tv). it was pretty cool. i bought emma an easter dress which i had planned for her to wear for church on sunday. needles to say, she didn't end up wearing. oh well. we did have some delicious steak for dinner. one of the pictures is after aaron dug out the grill from under all the snow...the things you do for a good piece of steak, huh?