Catch-Up - Cabin

Whoa, it has been a while.  I better try and catch up.  After Arden was sick and sick in the last post, she started feeling a tiny bit better on Thursday night.  Her fever went down, and she could sit up and watch TV and actually ate a little food and generally looked less like a zombie.  The other two kids still seemed miraculously fine.  So, on Friday we decided to salvage a little bit of spring break and head to the cabin.

It had snowed before we got there, and a little was still on the ground, but the sun was SHINING!  Oh, it felt gooood to be out of the house after our week of staring at the walls.

On Saturday morning I got to go on a long run in the beautiful sunshine.  It was so nice to run at the lake without freezing!  After that we watched conference and mostly hung out inside, but in the afternoon the kids were getting a little bit of cabin fever so we decided to go say hello to the beach after its long winter sleep.

Here is Arden, actually standing up!

 The other two kids and the dog.  Amazingly, nobody got (seriously) wet.  It was a beautiful, calm day.

 Dax drew this heart in the sand.  He told me it says "I love you mom" in the middle, so I took a picture of it!

Cora collected a bunch of the teeny tiny seashells that can be found at the lake.

We also played at the park for a while before heading back to the cabin.  We had a fun outing, and I think my mom and dad and Val (who were also enjoying conference weekend at the cabin) enjoyed the the quiet while we were gone.

On Sunday was more conference, more crafts, more games, and then cleaning up and going home.  It was a short and fairly uneventful trip, but we had fun anyway.  We made it home, and put the kids to bed on time, since spring break was officially over and they had school the next day.

Then right after I fell asleep that night, Cora woke me up and told me she didn't feel good.  I touched her head and could tell right away she had a fever.

Great.  

She was sick for the next few days and stayed home from school even longer!  It was easier and quieter though, since Arden and Dax were at least out of the house being "entertained" at school.  Daxton somehow dodged the bullet and never got sick, thank heavens.  Just the girls got it, but it knocked both of them DOWN, and Arden probably took two full weeks to get back to her regular self.  

Now spring has sprung and I hope that the season of sickness has passed (knock on wood!)