Our Weekend

This past weekend was fun.. long but fun. Kelly's cousin got married up at the Bountiful Temple and was having a luncheon and then later a garden party in her parents yard. My in-laws decorate for weddings using wrought iron. Well, we all went up Thursday evening to set up. Kelly and I decided it would just be easier to get a hotel room and stay the night up there rather than driving all the way home that evening and getting up really early to come up again Friday morning for the wedding. I was a bit nervous about Rylee sleeping anywhere other than her crib - she has only done that once when she was only 6 months old.
The drive up to Layton was a little long. Rylee was really wanting to get out of her seat. The only thing that kept her entertained was her laptop that she kept throwing on the floor and eating vanilla wafers. I finally left her laptop on the floor because she just kept throwing it down.. she didn't like that too much. She finally stopped fussing and just enjoyed the rest of the drive up!

Surprisingly she did FABULOUSLY at the Hotel. She fell asleep on the drive to the hotel after setting up and woke up when we got there. I got her ready for bed and gave her a bottle. I thought she would fall asleep while I was holding her and she was drinking her bottle but she didn't. :) Her pack n play was in the corner.. I stacked pillows on the bed so she couldn't see us and layed her down. She cried for MAYBE a minute and a half and then sat there talking to herself.. and then was quiet. I peeked around the pillows and there she was standing up staring right at me. I quickly moved out of view and she didn't cry thankfully! She was dead silent and then all of a sudden we hear her cute little voice, "cracker." Kelly and I looked at each other like what? HAHA. I looked over on the bed and there at the foot of the bed was a box of Cheez It's. She saw it and wanted a cracker - haha! We started laughing so hard (silently of course). She is so cute.

I found her like this about 10 minutes later. Such a good girl!

When she fell asleep it was about 10:30ish.. We rented a movie to watch on the laptop but Kelly didn't last long so we turned it off. We went to bed at midnight straight up. I kind of knew Rylee would wake up at some point and be scared cause she didn't know where she was - which is exactly what she did. At 4 a.m. she woke up crying. I got her up and she would not go back to sleep. She started playing her little heart out - until 5:30 a.m. She then layed her head on the bed and went straight to sleep. She slept til 7ish until someone in the hall made a super loud noise and woke her up! I was a bit annoyed. :)

We got to the temple at 10:30 - Rylee had fallen sound asleep on the car ride over. We were in the parking garage getting stuff out of the car making tons of noise and she slept right through it! She was so tired. We got her out and she immediately wanted Grandma and layed her head on her shoulder.We took pictures after the sealing and Rylee was just so tired.

After the luncheon was over (about 3 p.m.) we hung around at Kelly's aunt and uncle's house setting up and waiting for the reception to start. By this time Rylee was SO tired and needed a nap. We brought the pack n play in and set it up downstairs. Rylee was quiet almost immediately after we layed her down.. and then decided to poop 10 minutes later and she woke up. I changed her diaper and layed her back down but of course she wouldn't go back to sleep! So.. no nap for Rylee - at all.

This is only half of the yard all decorated but trust me - it was SO cute! Probably one of the cutest I have seen.Kelly's brothers and Dad at the reception. Love this pic!

My 2 favorite people in the entire world!Finally around 9 I got her bathed and gave her a bottle. She was so tired she wouldn't eat much dinner and didn't know what she wanted. She hadn't gotten much sleep the day before because we were driving for a few hours and that day she woke up super early and didn't have a nap ALL DAY. She was more tired than I have ever seen her! After I bathed her and brought her back outside I told Kelly she felt warm to me but he didn't think so..

Dancing at the reception.

Do you see how tired she is?! She almost fell asleep bouncing on Uncle Scott's shoulders!

Finally she couldn't take it anymore and passed out in Daddy's arms. (YAY!)

Everyone cleaned up and I went downstairs and held her til it was time to go. Poor girl had only gotten maybe 8 hours of sleep in 24 hours! She just wouldn't sleep all day long!

As soon as I put her in her car seat she fell sound asleep and slept all the way home. Well, to Orem. We dropped Scott (Kelly's brother) off at his house in Orem.. when we got to a stop light near his house Kelly slammed on the brakes and it woke Rylee up and her blanket fell off her onto the floor. We turned around to check and make sure she was ok and she looked at us and said, "uh-oh" cause her blanket fell. haha. She was barely awake for the rest of the way home. And she is holding her bunny as usual!

We got home right before midnight (Friday night). I brought Rylee inside and was holding her on the couch for a second and then was gonna change her diaper and put her in bed. All the sudden she spit out her binky and was kinda gaggy (just like when she would throw up when she had the flu) I was thinking oh crap! I ran over to the sink and she threw up a little bit and felt really hot. Sure enough she had a fever. It was a little over 102. I gave her motrin and held her for a bit.. she was definitely sick. I didn't know what she had for sure. We didn't know what her fever was from but we kinda thought maybe her being so overly tired and being suddenly woken up in the car from slamming on the brakes mixed with her having a fever mixed with it being so late and the long car ride home caused her to throw up?

I put her in bed and she slept.. and slept.. I checked on her every few minutes it seemed like and she was doing ok.

Her fever stayed down - I would just have to give her motrin every 7 hours. As soon as it would wear off I'd have to give her more cause her fever came right back.

Saturday was a really weird day. We all slept most of the day. We had to catch up on sleep and Rylee DEFINITELY had to catch up on sleep! She woke up in the morning at 10 and we put her back down at 11:15. She went right back to sleep and slept till... 4:45!!! Can you believe that? A 5 1/2 hour nap!

She has been sleeping a ton the past few days and hasn't been eating as much as she usually does and her fever stayed 101/102. Her fever is finally pretty low today, but she still won't eat a lot and is still really tired/sleeping all day. I finally took her to the doctor this morning. She has a viral sore throat. Apparently it's been going around so parents keep your children away from sick people!

I hate seeing her so sick and miserable but she is just so snuggly I love it! Here she is snuggled up in her chair drinking her bottle. Notice her bunny on the floor? She can't walk around the house or go anywhere without her bunny! She loves him SO much. It's so cute how she just picked her bunny to be her comfort item. It's adorable.

Well, hopefully in the next couple days she will be back to her silly, busy, playful self!