From Riches to Rags...

by riches I mean the joy and fun of vacation and by rags I mean puke rags. Ugh. We got home on Wednesday, had a VERY lazy day Thursday because I was going to conquer the world on Friday (that was my excuse for being so lazy)...then came the puking 3 year old. Poor poor baby, he HATES to throw up - not that anyone really enjoys it, but he REALLY REALLY hates it! He still doesn't understand exactly what is happening or why. It was so sad. He was sick ALL day and finally crashed hard at 8pm and woke up feeling like new. Too bad I didn't. Ugh, Ugh, Ugh. I told Mark I just felt "pregnant" most of the day, it's the only way I can associate the mild nausea that accompanied everything I did on Saturday, kind of like how I feel while I'm pregnant, not really like I'm going to throw up, just not 100%. It was totally bearable until about 5pm and then I was miserable - I made it through the night without puking though so I considered myself very lucky...although sometimes you wish you could just so you could feel better. Josh wasn't feeling too great on Saturday either so we just took it easy and Mark finished the basketball hoop (more about that later). We all woke up feeling about 90% better so we made the family decision to go to church. This was really quite cute as Sam, sensing a possible "out" said he thought that maybe we shouldn't go since we had a "cough" (which we didn't) to which our little 8 year old missionary replied "I really think we should go Sam, we'll feel better if we do". I was so proud of him. Sam too, as he also made his own decision that going would be a good idea after all. We all felt better as the day went on until yesterday morning when Mark woke up sick. GRR! Poor guy came home from work (which just doesn't happen) and everything. I'm happy to report however that he woke up feeling better today and I think we are officially out of the woods. WHEW!!

Okay, enough about puke....moving on...

I saw this on Tib's blog the other day and it got me so excited so I thought I'd put it on mine also. I'm still not "feeling" Robert Pattinson for Edward. I mean SERIOUSLY?? I don't think he's that cute to be perfectly honest, and Edward is supposed to be the most beautiful thing on the planet, right?! Oh well, the part on the preview where he smiled and "took off" into the woods with her looked cute, so he might have promise afterall. I'm really REALLY hoping the movie will be at least 1/2 as good as the book. :)

Twilight

Oh, and I also wanted to share some of my highlights of Mothers day on Sunday. I made Mark promise that he wouldn't buy anything else for me since I got so spoiled on our trip. Since the boys hadn't seen anything that I had bought yet I told Mark to let them give me one of my dresses. When he told them he found me a dress in Seattle they were SOOOO excited. They said "how did you buy it without her seeing it DAD?!!!" So funny. They were glowing with anticipation as they handed me my dress on Sunday morning. They made me a steak lunch with salad and baked potatoes and brownies! YUM!!!

Sam made "me" a plate at school, that he has now officially taken back for himself. Little stinker. It is really cute, it has a rainbow and a picture of us on it. Joshua made one in Kindergarten too so now they both have one, I think Sam was just excited to finally have his own after watching Joshua use his plate for the last 3 years. :)

Joshua made me a darling card that I just loved. The front of it has a picture of him and says "I love my mom because she helps me with school and she feeds me and she buys clothes for me"

The inside says "My Mom is best at doing: Cooking, Throwing(? - not sure what I'm good at throwing - but it gave me a good laugh!), shopping and scrapbooking". Then on the other side it says: "My Mom's favorite food is Burritos, Dessert is Strawberry Shortcake, Color is Blue, T.V. show is American Idol, Clothing to wear is Nice Clothes, Hobby is Cooking, Place to go is the Mall. The picture he drew showed me with a shopping cart.

So, do you think my 8 year old thinks I like to shop?! Funny, funny. He should talk though, this is definitely something he got from me. He LOVES to shop so I guess now we know he comes by it naturally at least. :)

Anyway, then at Church I took Gabe to the bathroom and while I was straightening my dress in the mirror Gabe said "That is sure a pretty shirt we buy'd for zyou mom!" So cute! I just LOVE these boys! I'm so so lucky!!

Hope all of you had a wonderful day too!!! You all inspire me SO MUCH!! I'm so thankful for our blogging world!