Birthday Camp-in

Dan's birthday was Saturday and we had big plans for the weekend. We were supposed to go to Voshell's campground for the weekend with family.  We love fall camping trips and were so excited to go.  I had done the shopping and bought every single type of breakfast meat I could think of, smores makings, several types of chips, and ordered a large cake for Dan's birthday (eating junk food is probably the most important part of camping).  But...

 On Thursday afternoon I got a call from Colton's daycare with the information that Colton had a 102 degree fever.  I rushed to pick Colton up and on the way home he started doing some kind of crazy wheezing thing.  At this point, it was 4:00 but I decided to just take a gamble and try to call the doctor because the last time Colton sounded like that he ended up in the ER.  Our pediatrician was not in the office but there was another pediatrician in the office that was willing to see him.  Thank goodness I took the gamble because it turned out that Colton had a major ear infection and a bronchial infection that does not play well with asthma.  The doctor was able to put him on antibiotics and a steroid but warned me that there was a very good possibility that Colton would end up in the ER for a heavy duty breathing treatment sometime over the following three days.  She also told us that had I not brought him in and gotten the steroid there was 100% likelihood that the would have ended up in the ER that night...thank goodness for Mama's intuition!  I was super bummed to have to cancel our camping trip but I knew we didn't have a choice.  Colton's asthma is usually worse at camping because of the campfire and allergens so we knew if we went anyway we were guaranteeing ourselves a visit to the hospital.

By the time I got home from the doctor with Colton, Brynn was laying on the couch looking terrible and had a fever.  Dan took her to the pediatrician on Friday morning and we learned that she had a sinus infection...ugh!

By Saturday morning (Dan's birthday) everyone seemed a little bit better.  They were all at least well enough to be sad that we were missing out on our camping trip.  So we decided to have an indoor camp out in hopes of making some kind of celebration for Dan. So the kids and I decorated the living room to look like a campground.  We then made camping food...burgers, macaroni salad and of course chips.  Since Mom & Glenn had already been exposed to our "den of germs" they were able to join us for our little celebration and some cake.  It wasn't quite the super fun weekend that we had anticipated but we did make the most out of it. 

Dan and the kids sitting around our "campfire".

Camping:-)

Happy Birthday Daniel...we love you!!!

Birthday boy

Blowing out the candles.

It turned out to be a good thing we had to cancel because just about everyone who was supposed to be there ended up getting sick. Kelly, Ava, Aiden, Emma...we hope you feel better!!