Surprise Vacation and More!

Where do I start? It's been a busy few weeks to say the least. I guess I'll try to start from the first. We got a surprise visit from my Parents about 2 weeks ago and we(the boys and I) ended up going home with them for a week. It was a well need vacation for me and the Boys and I'm very grateful for my Parents and them just knowing when we need to be rescued! I feel bad Nate had to stay home and work, he could use a vacation too. I'm sure he'll party hard soon when he takes a trip with the Guys in my Family to Vegas for the Drag races in a few weeks. While we were there we went to the Dinosaur Museum in Ogden. I highly recommend taking your kids there if you haven't already. We had a blast! My sister-in-laws Melissa and Katie, Me and Grandma and Grandpa took all the Kids as Grandpa and Grandma's treat. Corbin and Aidan had so much fun with all their Cousins. It was a really nice day and I am glad we got to all go together. All the Daddies were working...bless their hearts! Thanks Mom and Dad for such a fun week and all you did for all of us! We love you! Our cute little group! Glad we got to spend some time together. This Dinosaur was posed as if it had killed a smaller Dinosaur and was in the process of eating it. All the Kids seemed to be disturbed by that fact and were really concerned for the dead Dinosaur. Aidan was especially concerned and didn't want to leave it at first. As you can see Gavyn isn't loving the "roars of the Dinosaurs" and had his ears plugged for a while. The sound affects were a bit creepy and loud.

"The Boys". What Cuties! I'm so glad they get along so well! Corbin and Aidan love playing with Gavyn and wouldn't you know he likes Star Wars and Spider-man too!

"The Girls". All except Chloe who was riding in her stroller. Corbin and Aidan love Baylee, Jenna and Chloe too and have tons of fun playing with them all.

Aidan and Chloe getting pushed in the Swing by Grandpa. He was getting them up there pretty high and they loved every minute of it. There were several playgrounds among all the Dinosaurs and our kids found every one of them.

They had so many different Dinosaurs, it was awesome! I was amazed at how many different species of Dinosaurs they had from itty-bitties to giants and everything in between. As you can see they didn't even leave out the Sea creatures.

Poor Aidan! The day after we went to the Dinosaur Museum we discovered he had an ear infection. We took him right into my Parents family Doctor. He got him going right on an antibiotic....Amoxyccilin....as you can see we soon found out that Aidan is allergic to Amoxyccilin. About a day after my parents brought us home he broke out in this awful rash all over his body. He was about half way done with taking the medicine at this point.

More rash. I felt so bad for my little Man. He didn't even complain about it and just tried to play happily while scratching himself like crazy every few minutes. He just wasn't his energetic self but he did let me cuddle him a lot...the only thing I do like about my kids being sick is that they let me hold and cuddle them to try and make them feel better. I was lucky enough to get a hold of our family Doctor's Nurse early the next morning and she had us hooked up with a new prescription and the orders to "NOT" take any more Amoxyccilin ever and get some Benedryl in him as fast as I could. So we were right off to the store with our new orders. With in 24 hours he was a new man and much, much happier. Yeah! I hate it when my Kids are sick and miserable especially when I can't do much to comfort them until their little body starts to feel better. I just feel awful for them. Aidan is now all better about 3 days after our scare his body was all healed and no more rash.

Here are my cute little mischievous Boys and their crafty Booby-Trap they made so I couldn't get into their room. It was to their favor that I was on the phone with my Mom while they were having so much fun, who kept telling me to "just let them do it their having fun, then let them clean it up all by themselves later".

I did make them clean it up and it only took them a few hours to get their room back in to something we could call clean. Lets just say they went to bed way late and way tired by the time they were all done putting ALL their toys back in their places. At least they had fun right? And I thought they might have learned a lesson the first time they pulled this trick, but they were right back to making another Trap the next morning. I interceded about half way through this time and they still took a good part of an hour to clean it up. I haven't seen a new trap since, thank goodness.....it's a lot of work to clean those babies up!

While we were "on vacation at my Parents house" I was able to get a well needed visit in with my Best Friend Janae. I'm glad we were able to get together for lunch and catch up. I always feel better when I've had a chance to talk to her and just have some fun hanging out. Thanks Mom for watching my Boys for me and for letting me really feel like I was on Vacation!

Well this last week has just been catching up and going to meetings, preparing and doing sharing time, finding out I haven't been a good neighbor and a whole bunch has been going on with our neighbors that we should have been more aware of and spending time as a family. We've visited a few parks around town and our own park next door a few times since we've had such nice, warm weather this last week. I think that about catches us up for now. Hope all is going well in your neck of the woods!