Christmas Vacation



 



  On Christmas day we drove just over 2 hours to Little Rock to start our journey back to Boise.  We had kept Brooklyn awake until we started to drive, in hope that she would sleep the whole way, but that definitely back fired.  She slept for 30 minutes and when we got to the airport we realized that she had pooped.  She took a short nap on our flight to Vegas but refused to sleep on our flight to Boise.  By the time we got to Boise at 11:00 pm she was so passed tired that she was delirious.  We then stayed a few days at my parents house before heading up to McCall with Craig's dad.  In Boise we had a chance to have "Christmas Eve" dinner with Craig's family and Brooklyn was able to meet some of her Great grandparents who drove up from Utah.  We were also able to hit up Costa Vida for lunch and go to one of Tucker's basketball games. 

We headed up to McCall Saturday afternoon and just hung out at the cabin since Craig's dad had just had a knee replacement.  Craig's mom stayed in Boise because she was on call, Mark and Paige were due any day with their second baby.  It was really nice just to relax up at the cabin.  We did dress Brooklyn up in some winter clothes and played in the snow with her for a little bit.  She really loved the fire.  Whenever it was going she would crawl up and use the hearth to stand up and just watch it.

Right before we headed up to McCall Brooklyn woke up with a fever.  Friday night at my parents house she was up for like 4 hours and we couldn't figure out what was going on.  She then woke up the next morning with a decent fever.  A few days later she then got a pretty good rash all over her torso and scalp.  Diane and Stan said it was Rosiola and a lot of babies get it around her age.  All she wanted to do was sleep and have me hold her for like 4 days straight, which was really obnoxious since there were so many people that wanted to hold her.

My family then came up to McCall Monday evening.  All of my siblings and their families were able to come, it was so fun to have everyone together and I'm so grateful that my family makes such a big effort to come in to town around mine and Craig's schedule.  Monday evening we just hung and ate dinner.  Tuesday all of the adults were supposed to go up snow skiing.  Since Brooklyn was sick I stayed with her, my parents, and the other younger kids.  Craig was meeting with some optometrists in Boise that day so he didn't get to ski either. We were able to meet all of the skiers at the lodge for lunch. We had fun hanging with the kidos.  That evening we then all ate dinner and watched football.  We were hoping to hang out longer and celebrate New Years Eve but even though Brooklyn had taken 2 really good naps that day she still wanted to go to bed at 8.

 Wednesday morning we went to The Pancake House and then went over to the Madison's cabin (good family friends) where a lot of us played in the snow and others (husbands and babies) watched football.  We had fun sledding and snowmobiling.  That afternoon we then drove back to Boise with Tucker since he had bball practice the next morning.  Friday we did laundry and prepared for our flight back to Memphis.  Stan and Diane watched Brooklyn for us while we went to a early matinee of The Hobbit.  Brooklyn wasn't really sure what she thought of Diane's turtle, Big Mac.  She would crawl up to him and touch him and then cry for a second and then do it all over again. We were also able to check out Tiff and Llyr's new house.

Friday morning Craig and I were up at 4:15 and we woke Brooklyn up at 5:15 so that we could get to the airport and catch our 6:50 flight.  Brooklyn took a short nap on each leg of our flight and then slept the whole drive from Little Rock to Memphis.  We had a lot of fun in Idaho with our families but it is definitely nice to get back to our own home and beds.