The Updike's

We sure enjoyed a great time with some fun friends on New Year's eve.  Yummy food, games, and laughter!  All of our children are the same age and they play so well with each other.  What a great way to enter the year 2014!       Katie and Bryson Fish, Mark and Alisa McLaws and us. While we enjoyed fun times with friends . . . we also entered a new year with sickness galore!  We just couldn't seem to catch a break.   Poor Crew Boy!  We ended up taking him to the doctors office 3 times.  On the third time they drew blood from his arm (so sad!) and took his urine to run some tests.  Diagnosis: Double ear infection and back to back viruses.     We found out the hard way that he is allergic to Amoxicillin.  He broke out into hives. Once that cleared up . . . he got the hated flu bug and threw up for 2 days.     And if that wasn't enough . . . the poo...

 We were so excited to be able to head to Oklahoma to spend Christmas with the Updike side of the family.  However, we weren't thrilled about the 11 hour drive.  It's always so tough on these kiddos to have to sit for so long.  (Although, I have to admit, I am the worst road warrior of them all). But they were troopers and did a great job.  We decided to break up the trip as well, so we stayed a night in Kansas at a hotel.  The kids were thrilled to get to go swimming at the hotel!  We finally arrived at Grandma and Grandpa's and the kids were so excited!  Crew especially has grown up so much more since we last saw everyone.  All together at last . . . Grandpa and Grandma Updike took us all to a Mexican restaurant for dinner.  The cousins were in 7th heaven eating and playing together! This is such a precious picture of the kids watching a show before bedtime. As always, grandma had lots of cra...