We're Healthy!

Ya-hoo! We are FINALLY all healthy! It was a long haul dealing with all the different bugs our family had the past 3 weeks, but we survived. So our weekend plan was to head up to Colville to help my brother Joe celebrate his 30th birthday. When he called me Friday and said his daughter was throwing up guess what I said? You guessed it, we DIDN'T go to Colville. My parents and brother Alex were braved the germs and still went to Colville. Sounds like I missed an amazing meal and fun time. Since we have all been cooped up in the house forever and we were in desperate need of an outing and we had hotel reservations in Spokane we decided to still head over to Spokane for the weekend. We had a blast. Saturday we took in all the Christmasness of downtown. It was awesome. It's quite an atmosphere to see the ginormous tree, hear the carolers, see all the shoppers etc. The highlight for the boys was riding the escavators! (it doesn't matter how many times we corrected them that they were escalators they were escavators)The totally awesome Jones family joined us for swimming and dinner. That of course was a total blast. I won't lie, 6 kids in the small hotel room had moments of chaos, but in a very good way. The four adults could look at one another and just know that we all knew what each other was thinking because we really are in the same boat! Our kids play SO well together and we have such similar lives having children all the same ages that our large group well...it just works! We were thrilled to get to spend time with the Jones family again. Sunday consisted of more shopping and of course eating:) The kids always enjoy time with their Grandparents and Uncle. It was a great weekend! Hope everyone else had a great weekend too! Is everyone getting ready for Christmas...it's coming quickly!