Our Happy 4th!

For our Happy 4th of July we planned a trip to Boise to visit Grandpa.  First we planned on watching our girls march in the Tooele Parade with the Tooele Junior High Band.  However, on Wednesday morning Donald was sick and I realized if we were going to attempt a trip I'd better find out what was going on.  Instead of taking everyone to the parade Dan stayed home and I took Donald to urgent care.  We were the first patients there and we found out that Donald had strep.  Yuck.  Thankfully the Walgreens was open so I headed over there right away.  

I was so sad about missing the girls in the parade.  As we pulled into Walgreens I opened my windows just to see if I could hear a band and sure enough right as I got to a spot where I could see the parade Rebecca and Shari's band marched by!  I couldn't believe it.  It was such a great blessing.  All morning I had just been praying that Donald would be ok and get the medicine he needed and on top of that Heavenly Father blessed me to see Rebecca and Shari marching by at the exact moment I pulled into Walgreens.  It was so great to be able to tell them I got to see them even though they didn't see me.  

Since Donald had good medicine and the Dr. said he seemed like he was in good enough shape to travel we headed up to Boise.  Every time Donald gets strep no one else gets it so I figured we were doing alright.  We went swimming Wednesday night after putting Donald and Jared to bed, and then we went swimming again Thursday morning.  Thursday afternoon Shari and Adrian got sick and then Friday night Jared got sick.  We were able to get medicine because our Dr's office was kind enough to call it in to a pharmacy in Boise.   I owe a big Thank You to our Dr'as office!!  Everyone was on antibiotics except for Rebecca and Charlie. It was amazing how quickly the antibiotics would help the kids feel better.  

On Saturday me and the girls went to the mall with Aunt RaeAnn.  It's fun for us Tooele girls to go to a fancy mall.  I probably over-did it because by that evening the girls were really worn out.  Saturday night we took everyone to Garbanzo's, a pizza place by Aunt RaeAnns.  It was so yummy and then it was back to RaeAnn and Paul's for fireworks and s'mores.  This was the only time during our trip that I remembered to get out the camera.  So this is where the pictures come in:)

Sunday morning we were packing up to leave and Rebecca could hardly move.  Yup, she got sick too.  Thankfully I already had the right dose of Amoxicillin for her from Shari and Adrian's medicine because they're all pretty close in size.  We started her right away so she would feel a little better for the drive.
Dan managed all the driving and when we got home we were all pretty tired.  It sounds like our whole trip was about being sick but really the kids had fun just hanging out at Grandpa's and watching Avatar: Airbender on Amazon TV.  They even got to eat their favorite food, Ramen.
We love staying at Grandpa's!