SO MUCH TO SAY!!!

hey, well...i'm finally feeling better, whew! that was NOT good, some kind of nasty gastrointestinal nastiness which if i talk about too loudly will probably come back to bite me again...so enough said. and now i feel almost normal.

today was spent digging ourselves out of a vacation and mom being sick for many days in a row...laundry, mountains of laundry and sweeping/swiffering/mopping the floors and thinking of cleaning the bathrooms, but not doing it and doing many dishes and the like. a doctor's appointment as well, for the little avery. and when i say little, i mean LITTLE! she weighs in at a whopping 17lbs. 6oz (5%) but is, astonishingly, in the 90% for length..weird. she is 30.5 inches long. and her head is like middle of the road so she's all good:) but the doc said not to turn her forward facing in the car yet...we are having some dissention in the ranks here about whether to turn or not to turn...we'll see.

as a recap..we went Sedona and stayed for one night at a hotel and woke up to this:

wonderful views.
we explored Sedona and stayed at a cozy little cabin in Oak Creek Canyon.



the temperatures up there were very awesome, even getting chilly and almost cold at night. it was great! ethan loved playing outside the cabin in the woods and near the creek with kendall. we went on walks and went to the Red Rock National Forest park and walked around and had fun. Avery had her first birthday while we were there, on the 12th, Happy Birthday Avery, on which day she started clapping, shaking her head "no" (for yes or no) and also doing something that looks like clasping her hands in prayer, when we say we are going to have a prayer. pretty cute!


she also had some ice cream for the first time, and she loved it, as you can see:)

we ate at a little place called Red Planet Diner, where ethan threw up because he didn't like his food...all over me. gross!!!!!!!!! then i got sick on wednesday and haven't felt really better until today. awesome, but the trip was lots of fun.

we got back on thursday and friday our AC fan burnt out, and when i say burnt out i mean, it smelled like it was ON FIRE....but it wasn't it just smelled that way. so we went to kendall's parents' house until the guy could come and fix it the next morning. so it's been an eventful week and a half. and now we are back.

funny thing...

i don't know if you saw my blog had THREE trailers from You Tube for Harry Potter on it, posted friday..i asked youtube to post those to my blog like two weeks ago or something and here they are....funny...

i've been and still am sicky, i'll post about our trip when i feel better:)

harry potter 6

very cool looking trailer! i am excited! the kid who plays tom looks frankly menacing and scary...awesome!

see ya later!

avery is feeling much better, thank you to all of the well wishes. we are going out of town...little vacation for us before school starts...should be really fun. we are headed to sedona. wish us luck:)

Roseola

did your kids ever get roseola? avery got a huge fever on saturday night, 103.6 under the arm and didn't really have any other symptoms. she was HUGLEY fussy as well and i feel like she's been crying for days...just not a happy camper. on monday we took her to the doc. just to make sure it wasn't ears or throat...and it wasn't. just a virus he says...so we hydrate, give medicine for the fever and wait. then yesterday she had no fever and was still fussy fussy fussy. then today no fever, but a red, slightly raised rash all over her little self. awesome. and what is that folks? not chicken pox as far as i can tell, but roseola. click on that to find more info. if you want. so that's what we've got and tomorrow is kendall's birthday...hopefully she's good by tomorrow:) i sure hope we all get some rest. she's been not sleeping at night very well at all...yuck. although, i am thankful it's not the chicken pox:)

Breaking Dawn...

hey, i finished the book today...i was very pleased with it..it did not disappoint! very very good. i didn't even ignore my family too much to finish it:) READ IT!

goodbye????

we may be in the process of saying goodbye to a cherised friend. this friend has calmed us and protected us, helped us feel better about ourselves and frankly, fixed most of our problems.

it is our friend, the nap.

ethan is making his wishes clear lately that no napping will be in his future soon. i am, however, introducing him to a new friend, called Quiet Time. they don't get along too well yet, but hopefully with time, Quiet Time can ease the passing of our beloved friend, the nap.

while our friend the nap is not gone yet, we want to say thank you for all of the wonderful hours and refreshing dreams we've spent together. we will never forget you. another resident of our house, avery, will continue to have a close relationship with our friend the nap for a while longer, we all hope.

so this might be ethan and mommy, saying goodbye. (possibly depending on the day) thank you, precious friend nap, we love you and whenever you leave us, we will feel it acutely.

Yay!

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