One month has gone by. A lot of pictures and a lot of blogging. Beware.

Our precious "Thing 1 and Thing 2"

Auntie V with Lil E.

This little boy is Joaquin's Cousin, Rich's little boy and he was so adorable. I would have taken him home if they'd let me.

Joaquin's Aunt Dorthy with her newest Grandbaby. So cute.

Aunt Neda and Joaquin feeding the boys at the Mule Day Parade.

Joaquin, Toni and the hat. (Just kidding Toni, we love the hat.)

The Mule Day Parade.

Brocks eczema. :(

First swim lesson with Daddy.

They boys feeding the boys at Julies wedding.

The beautiful wedding. So beautiful.

The last two pictures are of my sister in law Steph with her boy friend and I'm sorry to say I can't remember his name right now and the other is Joaquin's Dad, Rich and little Kiley standing to the right. (Our niece.) This was at Julie's 40's style wedding. So cool.

Melina and Vallerie at the aquarium. It was awesome...kind of.

The stingrays at the aquarium. That really was awesome.

Us at Lagoon. "It's What Fun Is!"

Melina and Vallerie up at Gerry's ranch. It was seriously soooo beautiful up there. I might even move there if I knew it would stay that way all year round. ;)

I feel like I don't know where to start....so much has gone by in the last month. Well let me just start off by talking about my trip to Bishop CA and Sacramento CA. Bishop was really fun. We had such a good time there. We were able to visit with Joaquin's Mom and Sister along with a lot of his Aunts, Uncles and cousins. I really love Joaquin's family so so much. Bishop is such a special place to Joaquin and has now become so for me. It such a small town but the mountains are so huge and there are so many things to do out doors there that we just love it. We were able to be there for the annual Bishop Mule Day parade. It's the largest none motorized parade in the world. WOW, pretty fun. ;) Then after that we drove another 5 hours to Sacramento to visit my family and to go to Joaquin's beautiful cousin, Julies, wedding. We had such a good time. It was a lot of fun to see all of his Dad's side of the family too. I also adore the Ficker's. They are such wonderful, family oriented people. It's hard to be away from all these great people. Everyone was really happy we were able to come to the wedding, as were we. The wedding was beautiful as was their reception. So once all the fun stuff was out of the way then the sicknesses came. It started with our little Everett. He got sick. Now the boys haven't ever gotten a cold before so I wasn't really sure how to go about this. I was in Sacramento away from our doctor so I called and asked what I should do. They said take him in because he could have RSV or Bronchitis. (Yeah right.) Well let me just tell you what a waste of $50 bucks that was, a big waste. They said he had a viral syndrome which I found out was code for we don't know what's wrong with him so just let him get over it. Lame. Anyway, he was sick for a few days and then I started feeling sick. Joaquin left to go back home about a week before I did so I was there with out him. Then I started feeling even sicker and sicker. For about 6 days I felt like crap. Didn't really even leave my Mom's house. I couldn't breath, sleep or eat.....ah just kidding about the last one, I can always eat, are you kidding me....look at me. (Just a little joke.) Then Brock started acting funny. He was a different sick than Everett though, he was so out of it. On top of him being sick he broke out with pretty bad eczema right before we left and it only got worse while we were in Sacramento. Anyway, so I remember sitting in bed not being able to sleep and thinking I'm so going to blog about this and the title is going to be My horrible, terrible very bad no good vacation. Even though we weren't sick the whole time, at that moment I felt like it. (Oh and Joaquin was also sick. He had to call off almost the whole first week he got home from CA. He could have just stayed with us.) I really felt like it was such a blessing that I was in California while I got sick because I had my Mom and Dad and sister to all help me. Thank goodness. So after all of this craziness happened, I drove home with my Mom, the boys and two nieces. My nieces stayed with us for about 10 days. They just left today. I was really really sad to see them go. I've been so busy the last month and it's been so nice because I've had a lot of things to do but now I'm back to reality. Although I think Joaquin's happy I'm back in reality. I think he likes things a little less chaotic. Pretty good month all in all.