How quickly things change.....

Miss O spent most the trip checking her feet? Not sure why.. it did keep her occupied!

We crossed over "Galloping Gertie" aka the Tacoma Narrows bridge

Well... It has been a long and hard last 3 days! Within about an hour of my last post, I got a call from my brother-in-law, aka BIL, that there was some problems with their baby (in utero) and they were at the hospital. I had just finished packing for our little weekend get-away, and got the house picked up and all critters "ready to go"...

So - the kids and I went into town, swapped vehicles (as mine only seats 7!) and we took my four nephews back to our house. While my BIL and SIL were in wait and see mode... we kept the four nephews for the next 24 hours or so. We went from a quiet house, with 2 behaving kids to a not as quiet house with 6 kids! Though I loved spending the time with my nephews, the circumstances were not the best. Saturday, my BIL's MIL and FIL drove up to lend heart and a hand - so the kiddos were returned home. We then drove over to Bremerton to pick up Big A...

First we spent the night in Seattle at our favorite overnight spot... so Little J and Miss O could swim! We ate at the hubbys favorite restaurant in Renton and then called it a night.... We were extremely exhausted! But, of course, Miss O had already decided in her little brain that she did not want to sleep until 11pm... UGHHHHHHHH! And, after pulling my hair for about 30 minutes - she fell asleep... only to wake us ALL up at 5:30am!

We had breakfast, packed back up, loaded the car and drove to meet Grandma Judy and Big A in Silverdale for lunch and the great kid transfer!

Little J had a hard time with the whole thing, as first "his" schedule was all messed up, and then the fact that his brother (who he apparently did not miss) was coming back with us....

When we picked up Big A, he did not really appear to be too happy about coming home with us...as he had about a week-long vacation from .... us! That was a little hard at first, for me at least, as it was almost a slap in the face. We loaded everyone up in the car and headed home after a quick lunch... and within about 5 minutes, the boys started bickering! UGH!

We made it home pretty quick (as no one wanted to be in the car any longer than necessary!) and tried hard to resume "normal" activities for the day! HAHA!

The rest of Sunday was sort of a stressed out blur... everyone was tired, no one wanted to get along and tempers for short! Hubby and I both went to bed hoping that the rest of the week goes better... unfortunately...

Our little nephew #5 was met by God and taken from his family to Heaven last night. My BIL/SIL went home from the hospital today and now my other little nephew, Georgie is in the ER with appendix issues..... Our hearts are with all of them during this really rough time for them.

We hope things get better.

Amy