march madness

it's that time again - the highlight of ed's year when 65 college basketball teams play for the NCAA championship. game after game and coverage of said games consumes our tvs & computers and we have vicious wars over our brackets. good times. :)
everyone (including rachel) has a bracket filled out and we'll see who comes out with bragging rights (and a promised reward from dad) in the abbott home. so far, rachel & noah are creaming the rest of us... it could be pretty pathetic if we all lose to a 3 month old.
among the other madness, here's a little update into our world:
yesterday drew & i drove an hour away for the first available driving test for his license. it was an unbelievable adventure. the hour-long drive wasn't enough... we got there and discovered that he couldn't pass his test because the horn in nana & ace's car that we borrowed for the test didn't work... so we (drew, rachel & i) raced to a dealership to ask for help, they sent us to a different garage (all in a little town that seemed to exist in 3-4 blocks) and a kind man there fixed the fuse and got the horn working... an answer to my fervent prayers!! so, we raced back to meet the deadline given by the administrator of the driving test in order to continue drew's test (rather than head home and try to reschedule which would take weeks), drew completed the test and passed! praise God for being always faithful to us!! and we're so thankful to have an extra driver in the house!!
after his test, drew drove us to the boathouse so that he could go to crew practice (a little late) and then i turned around and fought rush-hour traffic to race home in time to get taylor to the school for his opening night in the musical. later, while a friend took care of rachel, nana & ace & i went to see seussical (taylor was a who!) and it was really, really good! such a fun show! i can't wait to go back with ed on saturday!! taylor was great and really seemed to enjoy himself (despite hating musical practices for the past few weeks). oh, and while we were at the show, drew drove to the airport to pick up ed!
and, among other big news: evan recently completed training to serve as an acolyte at church and he'll serve his first sunday on palm sunday! we can't wait!