Poor Aurora has been growing four new teeth in on the top so she's been absolutely miserable for the past week; extremely stuffed up, ear infections, sick belly, the works. She has a sore throat from coughing and hasn't wanted to eat or drink anything. Plus, she threw up in the car when we got to Cedar and kept us up ALL NIGHT on Tuesday night... so we also took a trip to her old pediatrician there to make sure she was alright. Thankfully, she is just stuffy which is the cause of all our her troubles, so they did a deep suction on her nose and she was SO much better for the rest of Wednesday. She even slept all night for us on Wednesday night! Hallelujah!
Despite those few things, we had such a great time!
We got to meet our cute new nephew, Lucas, and he is so wonderful! When we took pictures of the cousins together, Aurora absolutely loved being able to snuggle with her arm around Grace and her other hand holding Lucas' hand.
This is such a fun time in life with our siblings and us having kids around the same age. It's crazy to see how much our families have grown over the years AND how the children (us) are becoming parents and the parents are becoming grandparents! Life is sure moving along and we're just doing our best to keep up!
We realized we now have a niece and a nephew on each side of the family. We are loving it!
Over the time we were there, we were able to:
•Have Dan help his dad, Steve, deliver packages for his courier job while I spent time with my sisters and my parents
•Try out a new recipe (Ranch Pork chops) with Dan's family
•Hang out with Dan's brothers and visit with his dad, Shon
•Have Dan help Jeremy give his dad, Steve, a priesthood blessing for comfort and health
•Take turns trying different methods of comforting Aurora as she screamed the entire night... finally resulting in me taking her on a drive at 6:00am so we could get some peace... bright side? I saw the beautiful sunrise
•Eat breakfast at Denny's with Dan's brothers, Caleb and Ryan (Caleb missed school because he had to catch up on sleep from the Aurora all night crying thing)
•Go to that lovely doctor's visit for Aurora
•FINALLY TAKE A NAP (only 1 hour but, hey, I'll take what I can get!)
•Eat dinner with Dan's family at The Pizza Factory and Kaela even came with the kids so Aurora got to see more cousins! We miss living by them!
•Play games and chat with my family... we played Quelf Antics and laughed our butts off at my mom's interpretive dancing skills, Becca's humming skills, Steph's song writing abilities, Erin's artistic renderings, Dan's miming expertise, and me trying to play Jingle Bells using my mouth as a kazoo! haha If you are now curious about the game, go play it!
•Get pushed around in a toy baby stroller... oh wait, that was just Aurora!
•Get a much needed early bedtime and a full night of interrupted sleep at my parents' house
We got home this morning just in time for me to shower before Abi got there for me to babysit! And let me tell you, that mini-vacay must have been just what we needed to recharge our batteries, because today went great!
Dan got a nap,
I played with the girls and picked up my friend's foster daughter from school,
I tried a new hairstyle on Aurora and she actually sat still long enough for me to do it (!),
Abi got picked up and we took the other ladies with us to Smith's to go food shopping,
We got all the food on my list plus a bit more for THE EXACT amount of money we had planned (Boom, baby!),
We had dinner from Arctic Circle since we were starving (Yes, we're those people that spend money on food shopping only to become hungry faster than we can cook it and eat out...),
We got to chat with our friend, Kara,
I cleaned out the fridge AND the pantry (Go me!),
I made dinner to send with Dan to work (Cheesy Chicken & Broccoli Casserole),
Aurora actually ate and drank stuff today (It's the little things!),
Aurora went to bed on time... peacefully,
Dan got off to work on time,
and I'm blogging!
Next goal? Get Liz to sleep before midnight!
