Spring break!!

Now that we have been home from Spring break for a week now --

We had a pretty good spring break. We didn't do much. We drove to Blanding on Friday, spent the night, and then headed up to Salt Lake for my nephew Colton's 1st birthday. The theme was Mickey Mouse club house. It was fun, and – my favorite part – there was a chocolate fountain (so good). I think I made myself sick.

We stayed in Salt Lake until Wednesday, with all these big plans to do stuff with friends, but of course you can't go on vacation and have a good time unless you get sick. Poor Michael was stuck at home with sick me. McKay even got sick.

We went back to Blanding Thursday morning. McKay got some nasty eye cold thing that wouldn't go away. The poor thing couldn't even sleep so that Friday morning we were lucky enough to get an appointment that morning. We made a doctor’s appointment with the doctor that delivered McKay. It was so good to see him. I wish there was more doctors like him, you know, that actually listens to the patient. Once we got some drops, McKay’s eyes looked so much better. Also it was nice that our doctor visit didn't even cost us our first born. Cause we had to pay out of pocket because we were out of state.

Then Saturday night we had a baby blessing, for Michael’s new nephew Hinckley, which included a nice cake and ice cream serving. On Sunday, we went to church and made the long trek home.

It was lots of fun to see everyone -- and play games, which is something we miss doing a lot. When we lived in Blanding we would play games every Sunday night.

McKay learned a lot, he got faster with his frog hop, and learned to feed himself very well just in one week. We didn't have a highchair so when we went to Grandma LarnaJeano's house and Grandma Nielson’s house, a whole new world opened up -- filled with cheerios and other great things for McKay to master putting in his mouth. So when we got home from vacation we looked and looked for a used high-chair and finally we just decided to bite-the-bullet and get a new one at Wal-Mart: the space-saver high chair. McKay loves it. OK, he loves when food is placed on his tray. And he loves to feed himself. Since we have been home he pulls himself up on almost everything and even has started crawling, but he is still much faster when he uses “the hop.”