Some Good Advise

So we took my good friend Ben Howe's advise and decided to head down to Southern AZ for a get away from the cold. Tracy's parents graciously flew all of down to Phoenix and then pick us up at the airport and drove us to their retirement park in Yuma. They have a friend there (Gae) that agreed to let us live in her house for a week while she went to visit her son, which we were very grateful for as the trailers in the park are only single wides and we all wouldn't have fit in Tracy's parents place.

We had a great time, the weather was awesome in the 90's+ all week, we spend every afternoon at the pool (which the kids loved) and it cooled down just enough at night to sleep good. We went out to the desert to go 4x4 one day which was fun, and we also went down into Mexico (Los Algodones) for a day to do some shopping.

The time was of course too short especially since we came home to a snow storm Saturday night that brought 6-12 inches of snow in Calgary and surrounding area.

An exciting weekend...and not all good excitment!

We had a bit of a roller coaster weekend, first Tracy called me on Friday afternoon and said that she was taking Catilyn to the hospital. Caitlyn had been sick for a week or so with the stomach flu and also a bad cold, and she wasn't getting any better. When Tracy took her back to the Dr. he told her to get her over to the emergency room asap. At the Strathmore Hospital they gave Caitlyn an inhaler to help her breathing, and then said they were going to give her an IV and send her to the Children's hospital in Calgary via ambulance, as she has pneumonia in her right lung. Well that freaked us out a bit, so Tracy went with Caitlyn, and I took Lexi into Mom's house and then met Tracy at the Children's. I'm actually glad they sent us to the Children's because the doctors there were very good. They checked Caitlyn's x-ray and checked her breathing and said she wasn't as bad as Strathmore thought. We think a lot of it had to do with the fact that Strathmore gave her some antibiotics which had kicked in by the time we got to the Children's. Anyway they sent us home with the inhaler and some more antibiotics and said to just watch her, and if she gets worse to bring her back. Well She was a completley different little girls on Saturday, she was happy and wanted to play, and was a lot better.

Saturday night we had a Chili Cook-Off and Hoedown at the Church, and I volutnteered Dad, Rena, Jeremy and I to play during the dinner portion. It was really fun we got to jam for about and hour while everyone ate, and then we got to eat and watch the rest of the program. Mom, Rachel and Rex, and Tara and Alissa came out, Tracy and Caitlyn stayed home just to be sure Caitlyn was getting over the sickness. We had a good time and the day ended off well.