Well it's been awhile... I'll just recap a few things.
Aria turned 1! For her birthday we took her to Leatherby's and got her ice cream, which she'd never had before.
She loved it :)
The next day we had her birthday party. We had so many family and friends join us to celebrate, it was great! I'm so glad everyone could make it! And thanks to my mom, it was totally a Pinterest-worthy party, if I do say so myself :)
The next day we left for our big trip of the year! To put it mildly, I've been on better trips in my life. One day I'll look back on it as a memorable time, but for now.... ugh. Ha ha. The first night we just drove to St. George. Aria was so excited.
The next day we took her to the St. George Children's Museum, which she actually liked a lot.
We went to Zion National Park after that, and just drove around to enjoy the scenery. After that, we drove to Las Vegas, during which Aria started to run a fever. She wasn't acting sick, so we decided to keep going, because we figured it was from getting her 12 month shots a couple days before.
The next day we went to the M&M Store, and then that night we had the RiSe Festival. It should have been fun, but we stood in line for a bus for 2 hours to get to the site. There was no one to take our tickets or tell us where to go, and all in all, it was one of the most unorganized things I've ever been to. Once it got started though, it was so cool! And Aria LOVED it. She couldn't stop watching all the lanterns.
The next day we drove to Anaheim, and we went to Medieval Times that night for dinner.
The next day we went to Disneyland, and that's when things started to go from bad to worse. Cord felt super sick to his stomach all day, and by that night was running a fever and felt like dying.
Then that night, when Aria had been screaming for a straight hour in the hotel room in the middle of the night, we decided it was time to take her to the ER. Thank goodness for the map app, people. How else do you find a hospital in California?? Anyways, at this point we decided if the ER couldn't tell us what was going on with Aria, we were going home that very hour. Besides getting House as a doctor, it was such a good thing we took her in, because it turned out she had a double ear infection. After that, we had to find a pharmacy in the middle of the night to go pick up some Motrin and her prescription. We made it back to the hotel room at about 4:15 am...
We decided to go ahead and stay for the rest of our trip. We went to California Adventure the next day, and that's when I got sick. I felt horrible and couldn't eat anything, and couldn't really ride anything. Those are the two worst things that can happen to you in Disneyland.
The fever hit me that night. :/. We did a half day at Disneyland the next day, and then drove to St. George. The day after that, we drove home. Here's to hoping our next trip goes a little better....
Lastly, Halloween. We dressed Aria up as a bunny and took her to a couple houses around our neighborhood, and then over to my parents' place. Oh and we carved a wicked pumpkin. Cord thought he was real funny with the Merida thing.
