We had a good drive there and had a great time celebrating Christmas with his family that day...his parents are so good about being willing to celebrate when the time in convenient for us, and since his dad is a pastor, and has services on the 24th and 25th, it works best for us to come after that is over so his busy work time is complete and he can relax...
We celebrated Christmas with Cam's sister and her hubs, Josh, his grandparents, and their former foreign exchange student, Tamara who was in town from college...
With the Staff's, we do a present exchange which is nice and simple... makes for no stress in the buying and transporting presents department...
D got totally spoiled and got some great, creative gifts... two of his favorites being a tent and a big cardboard house that he can play in...
Unfortunately, our second day there, Cameron's sister, Bri came down with the flu. Cameron made the call to get us out of there in hopes of not catching it...
Sadly, we had only been there a day...
We headed out pretty quick after she got sick and decided to go back to my parent's house...
Unfortune struck us, though and Dylan and I both came down with the flu the next day. It was terrible... Cameron lucked out and didn't get it before he headed out to drive back to Austin. I was throwing up non-stop for 24 hours and Dylan was so lethargic and miserable. My mom pretty much just held him in her arms around the clock while he slept. I am so grateful we were at my parent's house and my mom could take care of Dylan. There is no way I could have...
On the 30th we decided to go ahead and fly back since it would have been over $700 to change the flight... We were both pretty sick and it was two miserable flights... but we made it.
When we got home, we recovered from the flu but then got really awful colds.... it was just painful... I was so sick, so tired, pregnant, and not able to do much of anything... Cameron was wonderful (although by this time he was sick, too) in taking the lead with Dylan, getting him out each day and caring for me...
Two weeks later, I will still sick and so miserable.. I ended up going to the DR and finding out I had bronchitis and the beginning stages of pneumonia... man... it was the never ending sickness. Finally on antibiotics, I am not almost all better.
Needless to say, it was a crazy second part of our Christmas. I have never been so sick in my whole life and now am so thankful to be feeling good and be able to get up and about...
Now, I am onto nesting, because our baby girl is going to be here in 3 weeks! Let the busyness resume!
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