Livin' the good life...for 11 years!

I can hardly believe that it has been 11 years since I married my best friend. Life couldn't be any better and I have felt like that for the past 11 years. Eric is appreciative, complimentary, affectionate, loyal, and a million other things that make him the perfect man for me. I love you like crazy.

Par for the course with Eric...he planned us a little romantic get-a-way. It was sooo perfect. We left on Thursday after Eric got done with work and made it to the temple for the 8:00pm session. Then we headed a little further north to our Bed and Breakfast. It was a very nice place and the owners did a fantastic job. We ate a yummy breakfast and then headed out to see the tulips.

It was just sooo much fun and so fantastic to be with Eric for the weekend!

On our way home we stopped by Pikes Place Market to pick some fresh tuna for a little a sushi rolling shin-dig we were having on Sunday...

Then it was home again. We had a 3:00 showing of "Walking with the Dinosaurs" to go to with the older kids.

What a weekend with the love of my life!

Spring Break Fun?

The week before spring break was parent teacher conferences which meant that the kids all had 1/2 days of school. So we decided to leave Thursday after the kids were done with school and Eric put in a 1/2 day of work and drive down to Utah. We managed to pull out of here at 2 pm...not a great start, but hey we were headed for Utah!! I thought it would work out so well for our little Lijah-bug to fall asleep for a nap right after we took off...yeah right! No luck in that department. So around 5 we pulled off to get some dinner for everyone. And I thought, "surely Elijah will fall asleep for the night now. I will feed him dinner and change him into his pj's and give him a nice bottle..." It worked! He fell asleep...for about 2 hours. then he stayed up the rest of the way to Utah. That's right until 2 am! He was fairly content but still 2 am, Yikes! It took us a clean 11 hours for the drive.

We spent Friday and Saturday with my family. We went out for dinner with the adults on Friday and just hung out playing games and stuff on Saturday. Sunday we were going to the Fillmore's for a big family dinner. Eric was also planning to go skiing with the kids and Grandpa on Monday. As dinner was starting Eric was feeling some gurgling in his stomach. I thought it might have been something he ate last night. By the end of dinner he was quarantined to the downstairs bedroom, puking his guts out in the toilet. He got sick right after everyone got there and missed the whole dinner and everyone cleared out pretty quickly after we realized that Eric was not just suffering from indigestion.

Eric was up all night running to the bathroom and I decided to sleep in a different room so as not to get sick. Emma and I "slept" in the room next door. At about 2 am I hear Emma throwing up right next to me (still asleep by the way). Good thing we were in a king sized bed. So I wake her up and run her to the bathroom, clean her up, get a pot for any future episodes and she goes back to sleep. I, meanwhile, am waiting to see if Eric is going to get up again, or maybe one of the boys sleeping in the room across the hall will be sick next. I couldn't sleep.

So as I am laying there next to Emma (she is sick 2 more times in a 2 hour period) trying to relax and fall asleep. I start to notice (or I am hoping imagine) that I don't feel so well. My stomach was gurgling. But that could be from lack of sleep right? By morning I am sure that I am not feeling well and that it is definitely not just in my head. And now Elijah is awake and Eric is still feeling terribly. What a day! I only threw up once, but I felt horrible all day.

Everyone was feeling at least a little better Monday night. Not great, but for sure better. I should also mention that David Earned the Grandpa of the Year award while Eric, Emma and I were sick. He took Gabe, Isaac, Parker, and Bentley sledding and then to Fat Cats for bowling, pizza and ice cream. I am glad that the boys were not sick and able to have fun with their cousins.

I was going to drive myself and the kids back on Thursday and Eric was going to fly back on Tuesday so he wouldn't miss so much work but he didn't feel good about sending me home alone since we knew there was a bug going around that could possibly make the drive home an unbearable ordeal. So we all left Tuesday. Eric cancelled his flight and afternoon patients to make the drive home with us.

Fortunately we made the drive home in about 10 hours, plus we had an earlier start. So far Gabe and Isaac have not gotten sick. I didn't think that Elijah was going to either but...that is another story.

Cruisin' in Mexico

Eric and I decided that we needed to have some fun before baby #5. So we left all the kids and went on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. It was very relaxing and fun. Eric is usally a very enthusiastic (wants to see and do everything) vacationer, but since I was 7 months pregnant we had to take it easy. It was very fun and we had a great time just being together. We went with my family, although there were a few who couldn't make it.
We love to take pictures of the towel animals!!

At Puerta Vallerta Eric did the zip line and had a great time. I guess this is where Preditor was filmed. I stayed back and hung out with Jacki, Brian and Josh. (Jacki is pregnant too).