A week of pink eye

So I had this wonderful idea to blog about all the things I am thankful for during the Thanksgiving week - I never got around to it. We did have a pretty good Thanksgiving week though. Dave spent a lot of time at school working on his dissertation but we were able to celebrate the actual day with good friends and of course eat way too much good food. And Dave and Lauren topped off the night by going to see Madagascar 2 together. On Black Friday, I was able to get up early and do some shopping. I went to 4 different stores, got everything I wanted, and made it home by 7:30am. I probably would have made it home by 7 if I hadn't bought the wrong phone in Target and then had to return it and buy the correct phone! And my early morning shopping even landed me on the front page of the IC newspaper. A reporter was doing a story on a sales lady that helped me in Sears and he took a picture and used it in his story. I have also been able to get our Christmas Cards all finished, except for a picture to put in the card. We have not yet been able to get a photo taken because this week has been our week of pink eye!

Monday was our only "normal" day this week. On Tuesday Lauren came down with pink eye and had to stay home from preschool. Despite our best efforts, the pink eye was then passed on to Liddy on Wednesday. We thought our quarantine was almost over, and I even let Lauren go to school on Thursday. only to have pink eye strike again that night - this time in Lauren's other eye. Friday we only left the house to take Liddy to her 2 month check-up and then it was back home to wait out another 24 hours of being contagious. Then wouldn't you know it - Saturday I woke up with a pink eye! So now everyone has had pink eye in at least one eye except for Dave. He says he will get it just in time for our family pictures we are taking in a couple of weeks. Since my church calling is in primary, Dave thought I should stay home so I didn't "contaminate" anyone else. I didn't agree and thought I could just hide out behind my piano in the primary room for 2 hours and it would be fine. I finally changed my mind last night when my eye was puffy and very pink. I thought I might scare a few kids so I found a substitute and Liddy and I are enjoying a quiet Sunday morning at home. Hopefully we can get a picture of the girls in front of our Christmas tree sometime today so we can get our cards finished and in the mail!

Here are a few pict. of us from the last week!

I think we had 20 adults at our Thanksgiving dinner. So here is a pict. of the adult table.

I think we had about 15 kids at the kid table.

My first attempt at trying to get a cute pict. of the girls. Liddy was having none of it!

Since we got our first "real" snow this week Lauren has wanted to go out and build a snowman. Since we have all been fighting colds and coughs on top of the pink eye I have not wanted to go outside to build a snowman. This was our compromise the other day.

Dave stayed home with the girls one morning while I went out and got my hair cut and colored. It was time for a change and it is fun to be blonde again! (My Mom and Sisters have been asking for a pict. so here you are)

We are hoping this week is a lot more normal with a lot less pink!