Too much to write

Too many things has happened since I posted last time right after Christmas. I don't know where to begin.
First of all, our vacation was wonderful despite the fact that we had that car adventure. We left our car in Stockbridge GA. We rented a car. There were many twists in renting the car. I thought I had the best of luck when I reserved the car online with Thrift Rental on the right when we stucked in GA. I could not believe it so I made a phone call and got someone on the phone to confirmed that I indeed had a reservation. The next day, Bert arranged to have the car towed to a tranmission place. I called one last time to make sure the car we were about to rent had a roof top rack because if not, we would have alot trouble to load everything. The lady I spoke on the phone confirmed that there was a roof top rack. I told her we were on our way. $40 cab ride later, we arrived the Thift Rental car outlet office to find out that she just rented OUR car out. She said they were over booked and they never honored reservation!!! I was about to blow up. Thanks to Bert who was much calmer than me. After many phone calls, we decided to walk over the high way to Enterprise rental office. Needless to say all their minivan was rented out as well. Luckily there was a car that was out of service becaus the back window did not close tightly. We were very thankful that office manager had remembered that car and offered it to us.
The rest of the vacation was wonderful. The house we rented was very nice. We had plenty room. The heated pool was actually hot (80-90F). We ate at least one meal at the house to save money. We were glad that the Meisers were with us for an afternoon and had a nice dinner with them at the Rain Forest Cafe in Downtown Disney. It would have been great if the Jensen-Morgan gang could make it. We had the Guarrs over for some pizza and beer one evening. It was great to see friends from Michigan! The parks open longer hours during the holiday season. We celebrated New Year eve and Bert's birthday at the Eport Center. The firework and laser show was awesome.
The trip back home was uneventful. We picked up our car on our way home. It had a rebuilt new transmission.
Back home, we dived right away into the girls swimming practices and meets. Both Anna and Jenny are doing great! Anna's best time for 25 yards free style was 19.90 seconds and is top swimmer in her age group. She qualified for A conferences on two events. Jenny is doing great as well. She did not know how to swim at all. Now less than one year later, she is on top her age group list too.
The biggest event now is Toby's jaw surgery. Othedontic work alone did not correct his overbite. Surgery was unavoidable. I had to say he was very brave. The surgery went very well. Dr. Lonergan did a great job. Thanks to his good health, his determination for a speedy recovery and his parents's care, now 5 days later, his swelling is nearly gone compeletely. His surgeon gave him a 10 on the scale of 1-10 on the recovery race. Unfortunately he will have to be on liquid diet for a while and still have to wear braces for another 9 months.
I just also realized that I had not said anything about Toby's college applications ont his blog. Toby had decided to study Biomedical Engineering. He has been accepted by three colleges, University of Michigan, Michigan Technology University and University of Minnesota. He also applied to Harvard, MIT, Rose Holman, Purdue and Johns Hopkins, but has not heard from these schools yet. I still can't believe that in a few months, he will be on his way to college already. It seems like yesterday that we were giving birth to him!