Because We're Funny: Elizabeth's Never Ending Birthday!

Elizabeth's birthday lasted for I think a whole week. I guess that's how it goes when you are turning 8! February 28 was Elizabeth's birthday. She woke up at 2:30am that morning with a fever and a cough! Yes Elizabeth was sick! And not to be topped by her sister, Abby at about 5:30am that morning also woke up with a fever and cough! Elizabeth was so sad not to be going to school that day. I was going to go into her classroom and bring cupcakes and tell great things about Elizabeth to her classmates. Instead I was taking care of two sick kids also preparing a house for guests! The girls were doing pretty good throughout the day so I though great they just caught a 24 hour thing and will be good by tomorrow...nope Abby decided to lay down for a nap and woke up 30 minutes into her nap screaming and crying that her throat was going to kill her! So at that point I thought it was time to go to the doctors. Luckily I got right in at 4:30pm, I gathered up both sick girls and drove over to the doctors office. Sitting in the office the girls had to wear masks because they both had fevers and were coughing, they didn't like that. While sitting there Elizabeth gets a bloody nose EVERYWHERE, And if any of you have ever experienced one of Elizabeth's bloody noses you know they will take up a LOT of tissues. So I'm frantically trying to stop her bloody nose, Abby starts to cry and wants me to hold her. And yes not a single person in that office stops to help a mother out! We finally get called back to see the doctor and found out why Abby was crying so much she had a fever of 104! And they both had strep throat! We opted to do the one time shot in the butt to just get it over with...big mistake with 2 kids and 1 mother...yeah they were both screaming and crying and the nurses just hand them to me. So I'm trying to comfort my crying kids in an office alone and at the same time get them to put their shoes on so that we can get going! At that point I just sat in that room and started to cry with them, I figured if you can't beat them join them! We finally got home and that night when Josh got home we had a small birthday party with Elizabeth. She had a cupcake, Abby couldn't bring herself to eat one, and we opened gifts. Abby just laid on me while watching Elizabeth opened her birthday gifts.
The girls got better each day and by Thursday they were ready to go back to school, yeah! On Friday I went into Elizabeth's class and at least brought the cupcakes that she wanted me to bring. Didn't get to tell any great stories about her though, but she was OK with that. By Friday night we were waiting for family to come into town for the Baptism on Saturday! Elizabeth was so excited that ALL of her cousins were going to be there for her day.
We talked with Elizabeth, extensively about how to act on the day of her Baptism. Not to be picking her nose, or lifting up her dress to pull up her tights, but to thank everyone personally for coming to her day...Ya that didn't go over so well. Even though she did do pretty good she kept yawning during everyone talks like we were keeping her up or something! All that aside she was beautiful and the whole day was wonderful. I already knew I was a crier at Baptisms but found out that when its my own kid I just don't stop crying! It was just perfect. Josh baptized her and confirmed her. She wore the baptism jumper that my mom made for Cory and I to wear when we were baptized. And Isabelle wore it last year when she got baptized, Abby is so excited for her turn to wear it!
We had so many friends and family come that it was just wonderful. Here are just a couple of the pictures that were taken that day. I feel bad because by the time we decided to take a family picture my family side of the family wasn't there anymore except for Bryce and my mom, but here they are....