So its been a few weeks and I thought I'd update. I feel bad I don't journal more especially now Livee has come to the family . . but hopefully I can catch up and remember everything. It has been a busy and rough few weeks. In July Livee turned 6 months. Time flies so fast. I know time flies with kids but man sure doesn't get any easier. Livee has really started getting her personality. She is a bit of a tease. She often has this look on her face that seems to appear as if she is scared to death and on high alert. Her eyes are so big when she is like this. Its pretty funny. She said her first word . . ."MAMA" this is the best present to me ever. All of my kids said dada first. But not Miss L. She is a mommy's girl and lets me know all the time when she is yelling " MAMA MA MA MA MA" its seriously so cute. She is just as stubborn as her older sister was and refuses to take a bottle. This has become quite the problem for me. So we are really trying to get it figured out. She also just started eating solids. I have been trying for a month and she refused it. She'd seal her lips so tight I could never get hardly anything in her mouth. But the last few days she has been more cooperative about it. She is starting to thin out a bit . . . but at her 6 month appt she was a whopping
17 lbs 7 oz. and 26 inches long. Head was 44cm
The 19th of July we joined Lacey and her kids to carpool up to Idaho. It's always an adventure doing a 8 hour drive with a bunch of high strung kids. Lots of crying, yelling, I'm hungry's, and ARE WE THERE YET's. By the time we get to Rexburg we are all ANXIOUSLY waiting to get there. lol
Well, we got there and for the rest of the night I was dealing with Canden and a diarrhea episode all night. That was not fun but he did so well going to the bathroom in the toilet. He was sick most of the next day as well so we didn't get much done or do anything fun. The the following morning at 4am it hit me. It was the WORST flu episode I have had in YEARS. I finally threw up but man it was horrible. Then that night I got hit with a fever and worked with the til the next day. The Arnold reunion was on the Friday and Saturday I was sick. I missed the first day and ended up just going to the dinner on Saturday but sweet baby L got it so I only stayed an hour. She was Throwing up and fever. It was TERRIBLE. I felt so bad for her. On Sunday she felt better so we all had a get together with the Hendricks clan. We made dinner and just let the kids play. Livee had a taste of her first Popsicle. SHE WOULDN'T let it go. She clung for dear life to it. We had a great time. Then Monday my poor parents got hit with flu. So we just laid lo and spent the day at Sharee's letting the kids play. Araleigh and Canden both ended up staying the night at Sharee's. Canden loves playing with Logan cuz he'll play trucks with him. Araleigh spent a few nights with then or they stayed at Grandma's. Then on Wed. we went down to Idaho Falls went to lunch with everyone then went to Tauphus Park Zoo. We had a pretty good time til Araleigh said she didn't feel good and got in the stroller. She ended up having a very high fever and we went home. For the next 2 days we tried to get her fever of 103.9 to break. It finally broke on Thursday . . . but it was hard getting her down. Through the whole week it seemed like there were 2 different flu's going on. She luckily only had the fever but she got it bad. On Thursday Cory drove from Oregon to Dustin's and stayed the night there. He came and picked us up on Friday morning where we went down to the Niederer's to get our brakes done. We spent a few hours there and then took off to Utah for the weekend. When we finally got to Utah we ended up at Cory's Aunt Carol's waiting. We met up with the rest of the family and visited for a while. We then all went to dinner at Chuck A Rama where Mike and Becca met us there. The girls were really excited to see each other. After dinner we ended up shopping for the Reunion and hung out at the Shirts house. The kids had a blast. We then ended up going to Todd's condo where the family slept. The reunion was on Sat. and they had a pretty good time. Livee was hot and sweaty and then Canden ended up with a high fever again. (yep round 2) It was such a frustrating trip with everyone getting sick. We left there and got a FABULOUS Sweet Tooth Fairy cupcake and went to the Shirts to hang out. We ended up with Canden upstairs in bed with a wet rag trying to break his fever the whole time as well. Such a bummer. By the end of the night he perked up and started playing with the kids. Sunday we were suppose to go meet Brock and his family but Canden ended up throwing up that morning and we didn't want Brock's little guy to get sick so we just left. We did some shopping and I spent more than I should but it was fun! At the mall I sent Cor to get treats for the kids -- when I came back he informed me that I can't be mad at him. I was confused until I saw the lady hand my 5 year old and EXTRA LARGE orange julius, followed by one for Canden, and a 
LARGE blizzard for Cory. WHAT????? There went our budget for lunch. lol Even though I was NOT happy . . . my little girl was ecstatic to get her large smoothie handed to her. Cory is now not allowed to order for our children anymore. No one needs that big of a treat. We ended up leaving for home early Monday morning and it was a relief to come home. When I got home I found out my parents were driving up the next day with Todd to help get the Wetzel Pretzel open. So they came up and spent the week with us. Which was fun and kept us occupied. Then Saturday we went boating with the Lewis's. We sure are going to miss them. We spent most of the day letting the girls ride the knee board. Araleigh got really daring and was trying to jump it --- did it with no hands, she even tried to put her foot out. It was fun watching her. I love that she has had the opportunity to learn new things and have fun. We are so sad our besties are moving away from us but hopefully we can keep in touch and go see them after they are settled.
