Poor baby!

This picture sums up our month. Poor Morgan caught a cold in early November. I can deal with colds. Snot is not as bad as poop or barf. Right?!? Well, the poor kid got an ear infection. She took antibiotics for 10 days and was sort of getting better. I say sort of because she still wasn't her happy rambunctious self. Then she caught another cold and guess what? Oh you guessed it- another ear infection. This time she was treated with numbing ear drops an a different antibiotic. Two weeks later she's on her 3rd round of antibiotics. Last night was one of those nights you hear about from other parents and secretly thank God it wasn't you. Let's see...so I'm highly allergic to penicillin. Not just highly, really, really highly. Anyway, I gave her the dose after dinner last night and all was well. Went to my wonderful bookclub and started getting itchy. So I came home in time to break out in hives all over my body. Downed a few benedryl pills and am now fine. I have no clue why I reacted so bad this time as I'm not sipping the junk for fun and I wash like a crazy person after administering the crap. Anyway, what matters is I'm fine. So we go to bed. Thank god, cause I felt like I was drunk on benedryl. Our sweet Morgan woke up at some point. I went into her room, put drops in her ears and gave some advil. This has been our new nightly ritual for weeks now. I feel like I have an infant. Anyhow, I go back to bed, turn on my fan so I can try to go back to sleep while Morgan is whining in her room:( I had one of those moments where I just felt like something was wrong. So I go back into her room. I opened the door only to realize I had just smacked her with the door as she CLIMBED out of her crib and was standing by the door screaming when I opened it. Needless to say it was a very long night!
Hopefully my book of blog post makes sense, I'm tired!
I'm so ready for summer! And I love winter!:(

Christmas Tree Day...

Meet Unky. He's tall. Real tall. Like a tower:)
These girls were'nt having any fun at all. Can you tell?!?

No fun in this bunch. Not.

2 out of 4 smiling. Not too bad.

Pretty sunset.
All in all, we had a great day. Good friends. Good food. Good weather.

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble...

Miles and Amanda's great friends the Thomas' hosted a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner. The picture below shows how much Morgan loved Auntie Manda's pumpkin cheesecake. Delish. Uncle Miles...or a daddy look-a-like with hair!

We went to a great bounce house called Monkey Bizness. It was a hoot. For all ages!

Awe.

We went downtown for a few hours one afternoon. McKinley found a giant horse and wanted her picture taken. I love this one. Amanda and I look like we could be real sisters. Not just great sister-in-laws.

We heart Boise.

October Camping Trip...

Meet my cousin Miranda. She was cold. Really cold. So she became a marshmallow for the ride home.
Meet Tooper (Cooper). He and McKinley had a blast camping!

Meet the happy campers McKinley and Morgan.

Long Time No See...

Okay, so I'm only a few months behind! I'm sorry. I've been wiping noses among other things. I'll try to do my best giving you an update on what the heck we've been up to. It's been a whirl wind since summer. No joke.
Here are some major highlights-
-Tyler got a new job! Same type of work, just a different company. He's really enjoying it so far and likes the crew real well.
-We went to Boise for Thanksgiving. Pictures to follow. I'm one of those moms that believes in Benedryl for medicinal purposes. Seriously. I am proud to report however, I didn't have to subdue the kids for the 6 hour car ride. They did amazingly well. :)
-My little brother graduated from CWU!
-My baby sister is in China!
-Can't think of any other major things...so enjoy the overload of photos that will be uploaded here shortly. Ready. Go.