okay, now i will ramble.
well, some time has passed since my last entry and to say a lot has happened would be an understatement. and in true procrastinator style, i put off writing this 'because there was a lot and when will i actually have a chunk of time big enough to upload pictures, write and not forget anything?' and then more stuff happens and then i have to stress about that and now it's going to be even worse...you get the picture. BUT i am breaking the cycle of my lazy-procrastinator-psycho-babble and journaling about the events over our past few weeks...because usually at this point, that would have been the end of my blogging career due to too much trouble and worry and actually not going through with something i set out to do and i'm TRyING to change my ways. one baby step at a time.
so...today i will add the pictures and a few (HA!) details from our colorado roadtrip to see grandpa ed; grandma cheryl; brother/uncle nick; brother/uncle joe; and sweet, crazy, i-bark-insanely-at-ceiling fans, bear....phew!
so back on the road we went after our fine comfort inn breakfast.
and, thankfully, we did not end up like this like so many others.
as soon as we got there, out they went into the snow and had a blast. not sure who enjoyed it more...those with two legs or those with four :)
a pretty nice christmas eve if i must say so myself :)
....begin christmas morning.....and AcTION!!!
the dreaded picture pose before spying all of santa's goodies.
and now the goodies
and betsy even sent us an e-mail picture of these goodies santa left at our house in dallas so parts wouldn't get lost in colorado. boy, that santa is sneaky and smart! and look at my sweet avery girl who was left at home. think she enjoyed the peace? :)
now here begin's the action. if you look back at the picture of the boys on the stairs you will notice a happy, smiling fischer. fast forward a few hours and here is what you will see a few hours later...
"mom, my throat hurts"
hmmm. there seems to be an egg growing on the left side of your throat, no fever. let's take some advil and see what happens...
an hour or so later...hello e.r.
pobre fischer :(
an hour or so even later...hello second e.r. and even more swelling and new puzzled doctors.
an ultrasound, antibiotics, warm compresses and EVeRY hard sour candy that dad could find at the-only-7-11-open-on-christmas-day-in-boulder later this trouper was diagnosed with a blocked blah-blah-blah gland and thankfully it was determined to be swelling outward not inward....yay!!! we can finally take him 'home' to enjoy what is left of christmas. mister and i felt so bad for him, not to mention how bad we felt for our other two we weren't able to be with and the family we had to come visit that we weren't seeing either. and 'home' we went to eat leftover dinner standing up and exhausted. as we were about to partake in yummy red roosters...
'mister, look at logan...'
sweet! 103 temp. "were's the advil?"
with one day left, we enjoyed our time together.
sadly, sunday, we were on the road again. back to new toys, more snow in dallas...what?!..., the old lady and more winter break adventures.
here is the awesome sunrise that we witnessed as we turned out of dad's neighborhood to travel home...amazing!
i'd now like to say a few thank you's...
thank you new mexico for providing a much safer and definitely more scenic route than kansas.
thank you to uncle david who knit these nice, warm, cozy hats for us this christmas...mine rocked on mosby-potty-pit-stops!
thank you to dad for teaching my dog to do this...
'huh? what? i'm not supposed to be up here? i think my ears are clogged from the altitude..."
my husband is so pleased.
thank you for anyone who has read this far :)
and finally, thank you to this guy
for several days in the car.
i heart you, man :)
xoxo
peace out!
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