Whew!

Well, now that I have figured out how to get back on my blog, I will add the next entry!
Last week we drove to Boise for Aedan's follow-up with the pulmonologist.  We drove for 5 hours (yes 5 hours with the ridiculous construction zones that were not actively worked on.) for a whopping 15 minute appointment.  It was FANTASTIC!  His lungs are good, his CPAP is working, he is sleeping through the night and we do not have to go back for a year!  Woohoo!
The rest of the weekend was spent with my brother, sister-in-law, nieces and nephew.  We had a ball.  It was a pretty mellow weekend, playing Yahtzee with Aaron and Leah, going to a boring meeting for Kaitlin's volleyball, and checking out Audrey's awesome bedroom wall she is working on.  She has created street art on her wall.  It is currently a work in progress, but will be fantastic when it is done.  (Thanks for letting us take your room over for the weekend, Audrey.)  Kaitlin drove Aedan and I all over the place on Friday so we could buy his school clothes and it was great to have a chauffeur for the day.  (Thanks Kaitlin.)  The cool thing is that my kids look up to their cousins so much and their cousins are so great with them.  They are more than willing to jump on the trampoline, play video games, play cars, play tag, chase the baby, watch kid movies and generally help keep them occupied.  My kids in turn, follow them all over, hug them, kiss them, sit in their laps and laugh or giggle at almost everything the cousins do.  It is hilarious.
To end our fabulous weekend away, we came home and went to Nathan's cousin's twins birthday party.  They turned 2 and had a monkey birthday!  Our kids wore themselves out playing outside with the other family.  I am consistently amazed at how lucky we are and coming home from a weekend like that adjusted my attitude to where it needed to be.