Bend, Oregon

After way too many illnesses in our home we finally left late (after trying to leave the day before and turned around when Mia threw up) on Friday afternoon and headed down to Bend, Oregon to stay at the Bybees Condo along with the Harker family. So imagine this - a 3 bedroom condo maybe 1000sf or so, 6 adults and 13 children under the age of 9. That was our trip. The guys left Sat. morning to go snowmobiling while the kids very excitedly played together for hours!! It was nice when 2 pm finally came and we met the guys at the snow park and took the kids sledding. They are spoiled. . . never having to climb the hill themselves. They were pulled up the hill on their sleds behind the snowmobiles. WE had tons of fun and did that again the next afternoon. Saturday was the only peaceful time when we put the kids in babysitting at the club there and had dinner at Scanlons. Amazingly if you have a condo there and eat at the restaurant then the athletic club provides free babysitting while you eat (you have to feed your kids first). It was a great meal and overall I think the kids had a good time too. Afterwards we all went to ice cream before heading back to the condo. Sunday we celebrated Mias 2nd birthday. She was very happy about her cake and the Dora doll she recieved. She ate way too much junk that day and decided to throw up again that night. Luckily only once and that was the end of that. Monday the guys were off snowmobiling again. Tammy and Meredith took all the kids to the childrens museum and I stayed at the condo with Mia (worried she'd throw up again). After the guys got back the girls (Moms) left for shopping. We did not have enough time to go everywhere we wanted but managed to spend enough for one day. I love shopping in Oregon - NO TAX!!

Now we're home. Our new mattress arrived this afternoon and I'm so excited to go to bed and get a good nights rest!!!