Is it over yet....

If you're wondering if the boy is better.....

That is your answer! Tomorrow, he gets to go to work with me! I'm not sure if it's a perk or not that I work in an infirmary with an isolation room? We'll pretend it is! So all in all a not really super fantastic, isolating, day!

Crud....

Buddy was better this morning, then he got worse again....

I forsee many more doctors visits in our very near future! So all in all a super, not fantastic, but the crying has stopped....only because he's sleeping, day!

Does misery REALLY love company?????

Buddy kept me up all night moaning in pain. I was on some serious mothering duty with my running back and forth between Buddy and my medicine cabinet (which is totally overflowing these days). I'm not sure if it's a good thing I'm a nurse or not at this point, with all of the concoctions I've been creating to help the kid out. This morning we landed in the hospital for a few  hours for some tests, a lot of pictures, an ENT consult in Oahu and the results are......

Bring him back in the morning for further evaluation!!!!!

Okay, they did give him a huge dose of steriods, and started him on 2 antibiotics, as well as more antipyuretics in the ED. But seriously, they said the word "necrotizing" and "watch him closely to see if his mouth starts turning blue"??????Seriously??????? So we're home, we're exhausted, but hey, at least he's not blue yet!!!!! I did call my boss right after that necrotizing comment, that probably wasn't the best of ideas because somehow my waterworks got released and poured onto her.....but long story short, I won't be going back to work for at least a week.....Have I ever mentioned how nice my boss is? So all in all a super, not really fantastic, day!

Hiking can be hazardous to your health.....

We hiked on Sunday, and Buddy started doing this on Monday......

After a round of antibiotics, antipyretics and pain medications round the clock, 6 days later and Buddy is still here! At least I'm getting all of my Disney movies in! So all in all a super fantastic, seriously, this is getting ridiculous, day!

What goes down must come up.....

Buddy has been really busy lately.......busy cuddling guinea pigs that is......

After the aforementioned cuddling, I got a bit stir crazy sitting around the house just cuddling!!!!! I mean, I like cuddling and all, but two weeks of just sitting around the house cuddling was ENOUGH!!!!! So I mandated a family jaunt.....

 of course you can't mandate a jaunt, without mandating cuddles....because hey, after two weeks, we're kind of pros!!!!

 We also added a ropes course to our mandated jaunt....

 It was pretty awesome, we're planning a repeat Saturday since we didn't have time to explore as much as we wanted to!

 Turns out, it's pretty awesome to mandate things! So all in all a super fantastic, mandatory, day!

Passing on the cooties....

I came back from Utah sick, then the next day I powered through my sickness to join my running club, which only powered up my sick-o-meter!!!!  Turns out that you probably shouldn't run in a group when you have strep and a double ear infection. Buddy lucked out with my horrible laziness when I sent him to a dinner with a former co-worker.....

and forced him to play our newest version of scrabble.....

Honestly, this is the best newest game ever!!!! You have to make the word look coherent, pronounceable and with a complete definition....you have 10 seconds. It was awesome, best fun we've had all week, of course I've been laying down most of the other time, but hey, still the best fun! So all in all a super fantastic, guess who is coughing now, day!

Home for the Holidays....

Apparently I haven't been blogging and keeping up with what we've been doing, so mom and dad, this one is for you....... We took a family staycation and I forced Buddy to hold my hand......

 Then we forced him to sit by a man made pond when a perfectly good pool was nearby.....

 Then I forced family bonding time by having a gingerbread house construction competition.....

 The elf apparently did not win!!!!

 The family went to a steam night hosted by Buddy's school, he won a drone.....

 We think it may be the sweater.....

 Buddy was recognized and received a Den Chief Service Award.....(I'm still not sure why, but cool, nonetheless).....

 Buddy finally got a mountain bike that doesn't hit his knees compliments of one of Shane's coworkers that is retiring and moving away....

 I made a tree out of my hair.....

 mostly because I can......

 Buddy and I went to Utah to go stand in some snow......

 We found pigs.....

 go carts.....

 a shooting range ....

 a rock climbing wall....

 an escape room.....

 a magical pillow.....

 did I mention the shooting range?....

 An indoor obstacle course....

Then we found more snow than we wanted to....

Buddy had grand ideas to go snowboarding every day....then he found out that snow is cold.......

Well, at least we marked off one thing from our winter Utah excursion....

That would be the lights at temple square, I guess we could mark off visiting with family, but I didn't write it down, but hey, the family that freezes together, stays together?....

Mostly because they froze that way, but hey, they still stick! So all in all a super fantastic, better get back to blogging more often, day!