Sickness, vacation, refinancing..oh my! Oh yeah and remodeling!

It's been a while since I blogged. Well, technically, I blogged last week, but I was waiting on a picture, and I'm still waiting. So the blog is still in my account, waiting unpublished. I must get that picture.

Anyway, we've had a lot going on this past week. It all started on Sunday night when I went in to check on the kids before going to bed. I realized that Adelynn had thrown up in her bed. So Josh and I changed her sheets and put her back to bed. In the morning when I went in to give them their milk there again was throw up in her bed. And she looked really pale. However she was in good spirits..go figure. And throughout the rest of the day, she seemed to get her color back and feel better. That night at about 2am, I woke up with a stomach ache and needing to use the bathroom. So trying to deny the stomach ache, I went downstairs. When suddenly I realized that I no longer was going to be able to deny the stomach ache..I threw up. And that begun one of the worst 24 hours of my life that I can remember. It was just a torturous amount of pain in my stomach with barely any let up. I couldn't move without feeling like I need to throw up. It was awful. Thankfully, Josh was able to work from home in the morning and then went and picked up his mom and she came and took care of the house while I was in the midst of misery. Thanks, Donna! Later that day, Kynden threw up a couple times and just didn't look like she felt good. Yesterday morning Kynden woke up with a terribly poopy diaper and a bottom that looked like it had a rug burn. This morning upon walking into the girls' room I was greeted with more throw up in Kynden's bed and poop all down the inside of her legs. Oh the joy of parenthood! I'll spare you any more details. I guess some people may consider my blog a good dose of birthcontrol some days.

In other news Josh and I have scheduled a weekend away next weekend. On Friday the 8th Josh is going to be turning 30 and we're going to Seattle for the weekend. At least we have the hotel lined up..babysitting is turning out to be a little more difficult that I thought. It is really hard to coordinate getting babysitting for 5 kids for 3 days and 2 nights!

The other thing that has been taking up a lot of time this week is that we have decided to refinance our house. When we bought the house the rates weren't very good and we had the idea of refinancing right off the bat. Well, rates dropped significantly last week and so we jumped on the train and locked in and we're going to be saving a lot of money each month, which is fantastic. Unfortunately though, it takes some time and effort to save money..With all the financial info that I've had to find and send along with getting the house clean for the appraiser to come yesterday, it has been a lot of work at an unfortunate time. But it will be worth it.

Oh yeah..the other thing that has been going on this week is redecorating the boys' room. We started over the weekend on Saturday and worked all weekend. But since I chose things to do in there that were very time consuming, it is still not finished. Hopefully this weekend we will finish it up and then I'll blog about it with pictures. It is turning out really cute.

Well, the girls are eating breakfast right now and are starting to get fussy and wanting out so I'd better sign off. But there's an update of what's been going on with us!