update // up-to-dates // two more days

well, here we are. at the zion ponderosa. (well we are back now), but what a treat! daniel raves about his childhood days at their ranch all the time. catching lizards, stargazing with his siblings, dutch over dinners, the orderville hike, fourwheeling, making tree-forts, chasing horned toads etc, etc,. neither of us could believe that it took two years before i saw it all, but saturday we made our way down to experience the magic.

the bad news...

henry got sick the day before we went down. really sick. this is his fourth time getting this in the last 3 months. it has been horrible. he gets a terrible fever for about 3/4 days and won't eat a single thing. then he gets a stiff neck. this time was so bad, he couldn't move it at all. it was so sad. we took him to our doc last time and he said it was a tonsil virus.

.sigh.

but it keeps happening, and henry nor daniel nor i can handle it again, so we are taking him to another lady who deals with baby tonsil removal on friday. so we will see. wish us luck, or prayers are better, don't wish them, just say them... yep, say a little prayer for henry, ok?

anyways (!!), the morning we were leaving to come home henry started to act like henry again. and today he was happy, healthy, perfect little h boy. thank goodness! so our time at the ranch was fun, but hard. herny and i cuddled in our bed a lot of the time. he spent almost every second either in mine or daniel's arms. but we did have fun, we were together with the neeleman clan and it felt good to be with family. it was also amazing to see all the places daddy has talked about and for him to show henry.

and the sunsets! sheesh! they were kind of amazing.

 then on the way home we got stopped by the tour of utah bike race. sooo, we we climbed through the barb-wire fences and played in the creek that ran along the road. it was a blast. this is daniel waving at the bikers. they loved us. oh, and baby boy #2 is making quite the appearance lately, huh?! he is a wiggler, too. i love it.

AND biggest news of all, levi comes home from his mission on....eh-ham..... FRIDAY! im freaking out. he hasn't met herny, they are going to be besties. i can't wait.

over and out.

xxx