Lots going on!

A lot has happened recently in our family (and Lizzy's extended family). My Brother and his family are now finally all together in North Carolina, My sister-in-law, Shallyse and my 4 year old neice Malia and my 7week old neice Kairi, were able to fly back on August 19th with my mom to be with my brother George in North Carolina. My brother got a job with IBM and had to relocate to North Carolina and he left 7 weeks ago (2 days after Kairi was born) and Shallyse and the girls couldn't go until Kairi was 6 weeks old. It has been hard on my mom and I, My mom because she is now no where close to my neices and me because my brother and I have been so close, and we have never really lived very far apart. It is a struggle because Malia and Jimmy don't really understand why they don't get to see eachother daily like they used to.

2 weeks ago we had a scare in our family - I was stuck at the Hale Centre Theatre (where I work part time at nights and saturday mornings) I am part of the Guild and was making dinner for the cast on the 16th and I got a call from my mom saying "why did your husband just call me asking me what the symptoms of West Nile Virus are?" to which my response was "WHAT?" and she repeated herself then said "WHY? and Seth said "well because I have been having head aches(which I kinda knew about), body aches (I didn't know about), and I am now having fevers and chills." My heart sank as I said to my mom "well.... what are the symptoms?" To which she listed off everything that seth had told her he was feeling. As I almost broke out into tears I said bye to her and quickly called my husband and said "Is there something you need to tell me?" and we talked briefly when I told him I would call his parents to see if they could come over to help with Jimmy..... To not gross you out with what came next I will skip a part....My father-in-law took Seth to the doctor and they ran a blood test for west nile, and a urine test. Early thoughts were that he had west nile and that the west nile led to a kidney infection....Luckily for us neither were true they think that he just had a virus. It made Seth's stomach pretty sensitive for a while, but it is getting better. We survived it. I will post more later.

Vacation Updates

So we went on a family vacation this last week, we left on Wednesday and came back on Sunday. We spent over 28 hours in the car(yeah Jimmy didn't like it at times), 11 hours to Snowflake, Arizona(where my Mother-in-laws parents and family live) on Wednesday then 3 hours to Safford, Arizona (where my Father-in-laws parents and family live) on Thursday, then 3 hours back to Snowflake, Arizona on Friday, then 11 back to our home in West Jordan, Utah on Sunday. We had a blast getting to see a lot of family that hasn't seen us for a year (we did a road trip last year too!) - I know I am crazy but it has been fun and Jimmy was a lot better this year then last year, partly because we had grandma in the car with us (thanks, Tammy!) We drove all day Wednesday getting to Arizona around 9 their time and then woke up the next morning and left for safford around 9 or 10 and got there around 1pm. We got to play with cousins, aunts, uncles and most importantly Grandma and Grandpa Nuttall. We were only in safford for a day but we loved getting to see family. We got back to snowflake in time for me to go to Alea's (Seth's Aunt) pampered chef ice cream party. Saturday we had breakfast with lots of extended family, then we went to Billy and Alea's house to decorate cakes for the 50th wedding anniversary party that night. We went to lunch at a Mexican restaurant. Then Seth and Jimmy went to help finish the cakes and I went to the social hall to blow up ballon's for the party (note to self when filling up 100 ballons with helium rotate who ties the ballons off or your fingers will hurt for days) then went back to Grandma and Grandpa Turley's to change for the party. We went to the party and had fun getting to meet lots of new people, I helped in the kitchen a lot. It was good to see lots of people come out for Grandma and Grandpa Turley's 50th wedding anniversary. On sunday Jimmy actually played with Grandma and Grandpa Turley for awhile while we packed and he even let Grandma Turley change his diaper and his clothes. It was a short trip but fun to see everyone. I will post pictures later.