Trip Home

Well we're back from our wonderful trip home. We had a great time and it was so much fun to see everyone. Justin and Amanda's wedding was beautiful and it was good to see Shane before he leaves in May for his mission to Baton Rouge. We were able to see and do so many things though, unfortunately, Jace and I were plagued by illness for much of the trip. I had the typical cold that seemed much worse than normal (must be the elevation!) and Jace couldn't decide what he wanted to be sick with. Soon after we arrived, he contracted a herpes virus somewhere along the trip. He started out not eating well and finally told us that he had "owies" in his mouth. We found this huge, what we thought was a canker sore, on his tongue and thought he had just bit it. After a couple of days, I finally took him to the doctor. She said he had this highly contagious, though very common virus plus a huge ear infection. Unfortunately the herpes virus is untreatable and just has to take its course. So after loading him up on soft foods and Tylenol plus medication for his ear infection, it cleared up after a few days and he was back to his old self. This is about where I came down with my cold with a terrible cough that sounded like I would loose a lung at any moment (I'm sure you wanted to know). I was couch ridden for a couple of days with the cough hanging around for more than a week. Soon after that, Jace came down with a fever that left him whiny and clingy for the rest of our trip. Sounds like a lot of fun huh? But it really was, between the sickness we had time to ride the horses and tractors, see and visit with family and cousins, watch my brothers play Explorer basketball, have an Easter egg hunt, play T-ball, and just have a great time. It was good to come home, we missed Blaine and our own house, but we look forward to August when we will be returning. Hope you guys won't be too sick of us by then!! Thanks to everyone for a great time and all the help you gave!