Washington, D.C. trip

Branson and Holden have not been to "school" in about two weeks. We are going to have an interesting morning tomorrow when we show up! The two main reasons for that are: we have been traveling and we have been sick. Both are long and drawn out, but I'll try to summarize for you.
Sadly, my grandmother passed away recently. Her burial was last week at Arlington National Cemetary in Virginia. Ashley and I packed up the boys and decided to leave a few days early to see the sites in D.C. and then attend her funeral. My mother, lucky for us, rode with us too. As the departure date got closer and closer I started to doubt and fret over taking the boys on an 8 hour car trip (16 hours total drive time, to and from!). And of course I was thinking of how lately Branson had started bucking his car seat for the last few weeks and it was taking some real muscle or two people to strap him in it. I was thinking he was never going to want to see another car seat again after this trip! But to our amazement both Branson and Holden did wonderfully! I was truly thankful. They are such good boys and have such good dispostions I don't know why I was even surprised.
Well, we got home Monday night and on Tuesday night/Wed. morning Branson just didn't seem like he felt well so we didn't go to school. Then Thursday IT hit. The sickness. I got IT first and then Holden got IT that afternoon. Then Friday evening Ashley got IT and Branson got IT late Friday night. We are all over it now, thankfully, and I won't go into all the gory details... but Montezuma's revenge came to mind and so did food poisoning and also the Flu. If I had to call it something I think I'd call it the baby version of the Flu. Not fun!
Anyway, this week is definitely looking up!!