Sick

I'm going to try to make this short. This last week has been crazy. Brandon finished his finals on Wednesday and he and I got to go out to dinner without the kids for the first time since we've been here. Hooray!

On Thursday he had a CT scan and they found an abscess so the VA sent him to the VA hospital in Salt Lake and there he stayed until Monday so that they could give him antibiotics and monitor his progress.

He was released on Monday so Tuesday we decided to go get some of our shopping done that we weren't able to get done while he was ill and on Wednesday we were going to finish our shopping up, but I came down with the stomach flu sometime during the night and we are not going anywhere.

We have also decided to postpone Christmas until Saturday. My dad's coming into town Thursday evening, so we decided that it would be nice for him to be able to be here to open presents and then we can get our shopping done on Friday when all the Christmas stuff is on super-sale.

So far, our plan is still to go down to Phoenix for New Years. We're crossing our fingers...

Snow!

It's finally here! It's snowed here a couple of times but it melted right away and this last Saturday it snowed and stuck! And the forecast for the next week in off and on snow storms. I'm so excited to have a white Christmas!! But now it's going to be harder to get Brandon to hang the lights on the house with snow up there....

Thanksgiving in Washington

So I'm backtracking a little bit, since I'm really no good at this whole blogging thing yet. Oh, and I will add pictures...eventually.

So we drove up to Spokane for Thanksgiving this year, it was our first Thanksgiving at home with family in 6 years so we were pretty excited. We had originally planned to leave on Tuesday after Brandon's classes, but on Monday the teacher of his first class told them not to bother showing up on Tuesday so he got the lesson plan from the teacher of his other class and we were able to leave a day early. Well, we started out around 5 pm, driving until about midnight and stopping in Deer Lodge, MT. The kids did surprisingly well, we put on a movie and they fell right asleep. We got into Spokane at about 11 am on Tuesday, which was the time we were supposed to be leaving UT, so we got to surprise my mom! (she cried)
On the drive up we had to go through a couple of mountain passes and we found out that Henry get car sick. He started throwing up so we pulled over at a rest stop and let him get some fresh air and play in the snow.

We had Thanksgiving at my mom's house, with us, my mom and Dan, and Brandi came over. Then later The rest of my mom's family came over for dessert and to visit.

The next day we had a birthday party for Henry (his actual birthday was on Thanksgiving) at my mom's house. We had an open house and he got lots of cars and books, which are his favorite. Thanks everyone!

On Saturday we went to my dad's house. We did a little shopping with him, then we met my aunt and uncle for lunch. Unfortunately, my grandmother had fallen very ill the weekend before we came to town so we were unable to see her, and my uncle had caught it as well, so he wasn't really feeling up to a party, but he was feeling well enough for lunch :) Then we went to my dad's friend Kathy's and had another party for Henry and Dad treated us to delicious steak.

So part of the reason for us going up to Washington was to go get some of our stuff that we had stored up there at my parent's houses but then we had two birthday parties and some people sent Christmas gifts home with us so we pretty much came home with a van full of toys and our pack-and-play and some suitcases. Well mom, maybe next time!

This was Brandon on the way home. Poor guy was pretty tuckered out.