We had a wonderful visit home last week and enjoyed every minute of it!  Not only did our newest nephew Jaiden get discharged from the NICU finally, but all of our siblings were home too so it was great to see everyone!  We had a lot of fun, but sadly forgot our camera.  I know, it's quite tragic.  Luckily, I did steal a few pics from my mother-in-law and Ronny and Monika's camera so we'd have some pictures from this trip!  I've posted just a few so far but there are many more..... especially of Baby Jay! 

    Tragically, only one day into our trip home, I started to get a sore throat which progressed into a not so fun cold, followed by the pukes!  I hadn't thrown up since middle school... now the streak is broken.  8 times in a row.... it was gross.  Luckily I felt pukey when I laid down that night, so I moved the trash can by the side of the bed just in case, completely thinking I was being silly since I really don't puke.... but then I did.  It came on horribly suddenly but was sort of a creepily good feeling because my stomach felt a million times better when I was done.  Bob was a trooper and managed to keep from puking himself and offered to hold my hair.  He took the trash out right after I finished so we didn't have to spend excess time with the horrid smell, then tried to warm me up as I laid their shivering for the next few hours.  I'd never really had "the chills" before, but man, it was bad.  I was in my pj pants and 3 shirts and under all the covers, including an electric blanket, and still just shaking.  Bob heated up the rice bag in the microwave for me too, which along with keeping even my head under the covers, finally warmed me up enough to stop physically shaking.  Not fun.  Luckily the pukes were over and done with in one night so I just had a cold after that, which is starting to finally fade now...  The worst part about this timing is of course Jaiden!  I held him the first day we were there because I was still feeling fine, but then once I started feeling the cold coming on I didn't want to get near him so I missed out on holding him... at least everyone else got plenty of turns and I'm really glad I got to hold him a bit the first day!   

   In more fun news, we got to see the Jeppsens which is always a treat, and we brought Mady's birthday present which was AWESOME and she loved it!  Unfortunately it was almost too small for her.... it's a big inflatable inner tube that you run inside of like a hamster wheel kind of...  we took some pictures on Bob's mom's camera but I'm not seeing them right now... eventually we'll post those too. 

   We made bread and cinnamon rolls and threw a surprise shower for Jen for their first bay boy who's due in August too, so that was a lot of fun!

 

We spent some time with the Poteets and my family too which was great... there's never enough time when we're home but we sure love being there!  It was sad to come back and head back to work this week!

 

   I was on call last night so I got off early today, but I still have a lot of notes to do, so I'm going to go finish.  Hope you're all having a great day and I'll add more later!

~Cathy