Vacation......I Think???

So we just got back from a family trip up to visit the family up in Washington, we have been working non-stop for the last 2 yrs. and needed to get away!! We really needed a Vacation but couldn't really afford to go to Hawaii (that is the next Vacay we are taking) so we decided anything would be nice just to get away and spend some much needed family time with the girls and Adam and I needed some time together as well!!

Well we decided that we would drive instead of fly for a few reasons....save money, since you can't get a plane tix to PDX under like $250. I can fly to NYC for $99, but not Portland..Go figure!! Anyways 3 tickets (Haylee is still free) and then to rent a car and we would have had to board our dog ( even if I had someone walking him everyday, he would have gotten bored after the 26th hour and I would have come home to a pile of my couch in shreds). So Money was the main factor!! So off we went for a 16 hr. road trip with Jax in tow! We decided to leave when the girls were going to bed and just drive straight through the night, um bad idea....it was so hard to stay awake in the dark of night for that long, I went in and out of consciousness and Adam drove the entire way...I don't know how he did it!

We decide to drop Jax off at mom's house in Battleground and head another 2 1/2 hrs. up near Seattle to see his grandparents for a couple of days! We were all so spent by the time we got there, but seeing all the family was great. By this time I thought the girls were just acting tired, but come to find out they were not feeling good. Kenzie had started to have a tiny cough a few days b4 but thought nothing of it. Yeah well the next day when we got back to mom's house that night Kenzie woke up screaming that her ears hurt...OH SHIT!! So we took the kiddos to the Urgent Care b/c Haylee had a fever also! Yep Dual ear infections and a cough that sounded like it was moving into their chests!! They both went in and out of having fevers ( I think Haylee's fever was due to teething, but she had the cough also). So here you go day 3 into our Vacay and both kids are down for the count.

Oh while we were in Seattle we did go the Pike Street Market for all of an hour, b4 the girls started not feeling well! Adam got to go golfing with his Uncle John( they live on the golf course).

So pretty much I spent the entire time taking care of sick kids, sick kids do sleep a lot, so I did catch up on some rest and I started reading the Twilight series. We made a trip to the mall and let the kids build a bear and had dinner one night with mom and Joe. Adam got to go play some softball with all the guys he use to play with and went out for some guy time! We did go out one night for a couple of beers and people watching.

Adam got to go out to Portland to see his dad one day and then he came out to see us one day, that was nice for the girls to see Papa! I think the girls Favorite part of the whole trip b/c we didn't do too much, was Grandma buns animals....The Llama Pamela, the goats pint and 1/2 pint, and of course all the birds! They got to feed the animals ad run around on all the space outside! Jax had a blast, he has never had that much room to explore b4! Now that we are home I think he's a little depressed ( he misses Shultz). We made it home in one piece, but made the drive home in the day( much better).

I have to go back to Twilight for a second, I avoided it like it was the plague....I am not a reader, I actually hate to read but figured I had a lot of time to kill. Just like everyone told me, I could not put it down, I an now about 1/2 way through the 3rd book. OMG Edward Cullen is AMAZING, Sexy Vampire!! Yeah it's all Vampires and Werewolves and I love it!! If you haven't read it you should!

So needless to say we are home and it is back to the grind, crazy work schedules and not getting enough sleep, not getting enough time with Adam and not enough Family time...but next time TROPICAL....HAWAII!!
and p.s. I can't retrieve my pics, that's why no pics, I am going to keep trying!!