Vacation Time

Hallee and Wyatt have been drawing a lot lately.  Wyatt has learned how to draw people and taught Hallee. 

I've been ordering a lot of things online and Wyatt always finds fun things to do with the boxes.  I'm not sure Jackson enjoyed it, but Wyatt sure had fun.

Back in April or May we booked flights to Arizona.  Mel and her girls wanted to do go down and wanted us to come too.  I was proud of myself for being decisive and just booking the tickets, but I ended up having to change them a million times. Last Friday me, Caitlyn, Wyatt and Hallee flew to Mesa from the Provo Airport.

My kids were excited to fly again.  They were really excited to have their cousins on the same flight.  Mel and her girls and Tiff and Paul and their kids were on our flight.

We all had fun in the pool on Saturday. 

One of the changes we made to the flights was to cancel the flight for Keith and Jonah once we decided to send Jonah to EFY.  Cody and Jonah finished EFY Saturday morning so Keith picked them up and they drove up to Mesa.  They got here around 5 PM on Saturday.  I was excited to see Jonah after not seeing him for a week.

Keith stayed until Sunday night and then flew home to work.  We were glad to have him with us for Father's day.

We hate it when Keith can't travel with us.  I wish we didn't have to worry about things like jobs and money!

Cody and Jonah were exhausted from EFY.  On Monday afternoon Jonah kept saying he was cold and he felt warm.  I gave him some ibuprofen and he slept a lot and slept in until Tuesday morning.  When he woke up, his fever was gone and he said he sweat a ton during the night.  A couple of times a year Jonah gets a fever for a couple of days with no other symptoms. Since he was feeling better on Tuesday I figured that is what it was.  I knew he was exhausted from EFY, over heated because it was so hot here and he hadn't been drinking enough water, so I figured all of that played into him getting a fever and not feeling well.  He was okay on Tuesday and flew home early Wednesday morning with Tiff and Mel so he could go to Young Men's camp.  Keith called me Thursday and said Jonah wasn't acting right and he said he was really tired and had a headache.  He also said he couldn't smell, so I got an appointment for him to get tested for Covid.  We were all so disappointed when it came back positive. I'm still in Arizona with the other kids and Keith and Jonah are home.  Obviously, Jonah didn't get to go to his camp and he has just been laying around and resting.  Keith is doing a great job taking care of him and things around the house.  Keith and Jonah were supposed to fly back down on Monday and we were all going to go to Mexico with Matt and Lori.  I had to cancel their flight and we really don't know what to do at this point. We are just kind of waiting to see how Jonah feels and see if anyone else gets sick.  I feel terrible that we exposed the family to Covid.  I'm praying nobody else gets it.  I hate that everyone has to stress about it now.  I was so worried last summer about Covid ruining our plans, but I really wasn't thinking that would happen this summer.  I'm guessing Jonah got it at EFY.  I'm kicking myself for not getting him vaccinated, I was going to have him get it when we got home from Mexico. Jonah isn't feeling awful, but he is really tired, has had shortness of breath and headaches.  Hopefully he will start feeling better soon.

We all had fun in the pool on Saturday and Sunday.

It think the kids could stay in the pool all day.

Keith got in the pool with Wyatt and Hallee on Sunday.  

We made eggs benedict for lunch on Father's Day.  

Lori had a fun game where the dads were behind a sheet and answered questions with a voice changer and we had to guess which dad said what.  The kids thought it was so fun.

The kids wanted a turn to do it too.  It was a lot of fun.

Even the teenagers wanted a turn.

Saturday morning we went to a swap meet and Wyatt found this hat that he wanted to buy.  We decided it would be a great gift for Keith, so we got him one too.  We were all sad to say goodbye to Keith Sunday night.