Happy New Year. I guess.

Hello, everyone. I apologize for the lack of any kind of Holiday posts this season (or any posts at all!). I had planned to do a bunch of posts in the days before Christmas, and through the end of the year, but we’re all pretty much getting our butts kicked with illnesses of one variety or another. We drove to California on Friday the 21st. Emrick was totally fine the day before, but during that road trip he was coughing and vomiting, and just generally miserable. What is normally a 10 hour drive became a 12 hour drive, and we arrived at my parents’ house with a lot of cleaning and washing to do! He had ups and downs over the next few days, with the worst of it hitting on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We had thought to take him to an Instacare the day after Christmas, but by Christmas night, he was considerably better, and the next day seemed about 90% back to normal. But then Marcus got the stomach flu, and a day or two after that, I was hit with a pretty nasty cold. A bad sore throat and heavy congestion have been keeping me from getting a good rest most of the past few nights. Anyway, we stayed at my parents a day or two longer than originally planned, and we didn’t get home until late afternoon yesterday. Emrick is mostly fine now, but today he had a little fever, so I am hoping I can get him in to see his regular doctor tomorrow. I tried calling them yesterday, in fact, but they were closed for the holidays.

All of this is to say that it will be a few more days before I get a proper post up here. In the meantime, here are some teaser pics. Despite the sickness, we had a good time over all.

I hope you all had a nice Christmas and New Year, and that nothing worse than a little vomit has befallen you recently.