Infirmary on Wheels...

Our Christmas trip to Oregon was more like an infirmary than a vacation!  Fortunately it all seems to be behind us now....

Here's the girls all dressed up for the Christmas Eve service.  The girls were the only ones with full energy at this point, as Mike and I were up most of the previous night/morning caring for Josh and taking him to the ER. He was so dehydrated from all the puking he did (yes, he counted 21 in all, and proudly, a new family record) that he needed three liters of IV's!

I was organized enough to remember to pack the stockings for Christmas morning, but in the rush of things, Santa left the innards in bags at home. So for the time being, Josh, Kaia and Jaelyn only had toothbrushes, toothpaste, and floss in their stockings (Due to work, Kellen was back home and had a full stocking to open at midnight, when he got off work). We exchanged gifts, and as usual, the dollar store gifts the girls bought us were some of the most fun to open!

Jaelyn bought Mike nuts & bolts

WSU gnomes girls got Josh

Christmas day was spent at one of Mike's brother's houses.  We had a wonderful meal, good company, and some great group shots...

Always the silly boys...

Mame and six of her ten grandchildren.

Group shot...

You can dress them up, but sooner or later the true colors come out...

This last photo was taken about 10 short minutes before jaelyn threw up all over the floor, on this very spot!  Fortunately she didn't have it nearly as bad as Josh, but he didn't perform in front of quite the audience that she did! Thankfully she was well enough the next morning so that we could go visit Mike's grandmother. We hadn't seen her in two years, and since she is 99 now, we would have been very disappointed if we would not have been able to visit her.

We then took our infirmary north to more family. This time none of us were sick, but others were. But before that, we celebrated Kaia's 10th Gotcha Day with friends and family...

Finally, together to celebrate Christmas! Thanks Santa Kellen for finally bringing the stocking stuffers!

Papa's dollar store present!

Grandma's dollar store find, and Jaelyn's new alpaca.

Grandma and Papa and their grandkids!

Christmas was nice, but we were thankful we planned time to spend at home for selah before having to head back to work. Well maybe it wasn't all restful when we got home, but more on that later...