6 Years!

Today is our 6th anniversary. It is REALLY weird for me to think that we have been married for six years already. If I didn't have an almost 4 year old, I wouldn't believe it myself. It has been a whirlwind. We have gotten the chance to experience SO many new things in our marriage. We have lived with both sets of parents, lived in 4 states, Collin has graduated from 2 Universities, we have lived in 3 different apartments, had 2 beautiful daughters, countless jobs between the two of us, been on some amazing vacations and have SO many wonderful memories already. If this is what comes with only six years, I can't wait to see what the rest of eternity has in store. I love you babe, happy 6th!On Friday we went to the Melting Pot with my three sisters and their husbands, my mom and dad, our friends Todd & Lara, and my friends that flew in for the weekend from Utah, Tiff and Ryan. It was SOOOO fun, and delicious! We all got babysitters, so our evening was 100% child free...with this group, that NEVER happens. My evening consisted of:

*Amazing Cheese fondue with bread/fruit

*Talking
*Delicious Salad

*Laughing

*Fillet Mignon/Shrimp/Chicken

*Chatting

*Dark Chocolate and Milk Chocolate with PB Fondue on Strawberries/Cheesecake/marshmallows/brownies/rice crispies/bananas

*More talking

Oh, and an ice cold glass of milk.

It was SUCH a fun way to celebrate our anniversary!
Thanks everyone for coming and celebrating!

Back to the "Hostible"

Well, today is the end of another long day. We thought Marlee was doing better yesterday. She still didn't eat or drink much, but she wasn't throwing up either. Just serious diarrhea issues. This morning she woke up clutching her tummy and just sobbing. It broke my heart. About 30 minutes after that she started having a massive diarrhea attack, then about 5 minutes later the vomiting started. Then, repeat. She was a MESS. I have never seen her so miserable. She was white as a ghost and acting REALLY tired and lethargic. I have to be honest, I was scared. I called to nurse line and they told me to bring her back in. By the time we got back to Children's Hospital she was barely with it. The doctor came in and Marlee couldn't even keep her poor little eyes open long enough to answer the Doctors questions. She could tell right away something was wrong. She was seriously dehydrated. They started an IV and got some blood for testing. They also took some films of her little tummy to make sure everything looked normal. After the bag of fluids she looked much better. She was able to stay awake and even asked for some crackers. After 5 hours we were able to bring her back home. Thank goodness. They still think she just has a nasty bug, that for some reason hit her harder than some. It has now been a week of this, and I really hope we are almost done...and that no one else gets it. Wish us luck!

I am so thankful for nice nurses who are good with kids. It was so sad and hard to watch her today, but the guy who did her IV brought her back a teddy bear to "watch over her" while her arm was "drinking some juice". Made things a little easier...for all of us.

Catching Up....or trying...

Consider yourselves warned. This post covers a LOT, there are more pictures for the next post.

It has been a LONG few weeks. We came down to Colorado from South Dakota, to bring Collin for his BAR class. I went to Arizona for the weekend for a wedding, and Collin went to Vegas to talk to one of the High Schools there about his book. We left the kids in CO with my mom. I was lucky because one of my best friends/ first room mates lives in Arizona near where the wedding was, so I killed two birds with one stone and got to visit her! I was terrible about taking pictures, so I only have a few. All I have to say is...the wedding was AWESOME. LOVED Meg's dress, loved the colors, loved the people.

This picture of Cami and I is terrible (thanks a lot MAC! lol), but it's the only one I had!

Me and Sarah

We then made the trip back to SD with my sister, Jenn, and her three kids. Yes, all in one car. We were thinking it would be smarter that way, you know, save on gas and keep the kids occupied with buddies. We were wrong. It was a LONG drive, but once we got there, we had a good time. We went to the Duck Pond up in Yankton, the Aquarium, the fish hatchery, one day at the pool, the park, and a lot of time out in the back yard with the "chicklets". We had a little mini-photo shoot downtown, but that will have to have it's own post because there are a lot of pictures.

Thursday night both Jenn and Marlee got sick (both ends...don't hate me for saying that Jenn!). We decided to hurry and pack up Friday just in case more of the kids came down with the bug the next few days. Jenn started feeling better on Friday, but Marlee was still in rough shape. We stopped in Kearney Ne, for the night Friday (side note:if anyone ever stops in Kearney, stay at the Holiday Inn, they have an awesome children's water park instead of just a normal hotel pool). We finally made it home Saturday around dinner. Thank goodness.

This one was too hilarious NOT to post. Both Owen's face, and Jenn in the back are priceless!
Yes, that is me, climbing through the kiddie place, Lizzie wouldn't go alone...so I "snuck" inMarlee is STILL sick. We spent about 5 hours at Children's Hospital here yesterday trying to get her rehydrated. They even had to give her Zofran to help her quit yacking. It was sad, she was pretty pathetic. She seems to be doing better today, but we'll see. Our anniversary is this weekend and we have some of our very best friends (Tiff and Ryan)flying in from Utah. Should be fun. I just hope I am not sick by then...

There's No Place Like Home...

We made it back from South Dakota yesterday, after a long week with 5 kids in our little town house. Marlee has been sick for a few days, so she and Kenna didn't come to church with us. We were sitting in the last hour of church and they came in and said "there is a tornado warning, everyone needs to get in the gym" well, you know me, so the first thing I did was run out the door.... there were about five ladies that went out and this is what we saw:The picture does not even do it justice, it was taken on my phone. It would get bigger, and then shrink back up, and then come back down. It was scary and exciting at the same time. There was hail the size of golf balls or bigger (not exaggerating).

I am glad my two little munchkins were at home safe in the basement at my mom and dads with their Daddy.

We were only a mile or so from South Lands (mall) and that is where the Tornado actually touched down and caused some damage.....CRAZY! I think I am done playing Dorothy for now...

Sisters?

I have a TON of pictures to post from our crazy week out here, but those will come later. We went to the park on Tuesday and I (of coarse) took pictures of the kids. As I was snapping pictures I had a flash back to a picture I took of Marlee in the fall of 2006 when she was about the same age Kenna is now. I just had to post them side by side.... do they look like sisters?