Sick weeks

We picked up the Influenza A virus from.... everywhere.  The bishop had it, the carpooling family had it, kids at school had it, people at church have it, my ministering companion had it (and I've been spending a lot of time with her... foot surgery, trying to carry a baby down her stairs, picking up kids from school and my Laurel that is her daughter has been in and out of the mental hospital for a couple weeks), and I even saw people at the grocery store with it.  So Ada caught it, and so far we've all had it except Jer.  He's taken good care of us though, making meals and doing laundry.  He let me sleep in all week and got kids up and going for school.  We're mostly better now.  A little bit of coughing and Sam still has a little bit of a fever.  (The way he describes body aches is hilarious!  "Dad! My legs feel like they are potato wedges!" What does that mean?  And we don't eat potato wedges at home, do they eat them at school?)

In the last two weeks we've had Ada and Sam receive the Noble Knight award at school. (Student of the week). We had a low key and family time Valentines Day (lots of legos).  We finished our taxes and most of my parents taxes.  We got word that my brother McKay and his family will be moving out East.  And I've been cuddling everyone under the sun.

Ada's Noble Knight

These are Evelyn's 8 is great program.

Ada wanted to make a dragonhead Valentine's Day box... so we did.  Ada did about a third of it, I did about a third of the conceptualizing part and then Ada got really sick and Dad painted it for her.  She was still sick on Valentine's, so Sam dropped it off in class for her and picked it up after.  She got the class award for best box.  She was pretty happy about that but felt bad that she didn't do the whole thing herself.  Baby steps.

Dad bought flowers and balloons for us for Valentine's from our sweet niece Emma.  She's been a florist for years now, and has her own side business here in Utah called Hummingbird Floral.

This is when I knew Seth was sick for sure... he didn't just climb on me, he buried himself and fell asleep.

Lego space ships!  Dad rebuilt our Benny's spaceship and the kids loved it.

We had stirfry for dinner.  Seth insisted that you don't just eat the baby corn, you eat them like they were corn on the cob.  And he did... with every last bit of it.

I asked Evelyn to put down  her strawberry for the picture.... Yeah, she didn't.