It's always nice when the boys are out camping for the week because we know they are having a good time. Bubba is our perpetual dirt boy and probably should've been born and raised out in the jungle somewhere. Scratch that....maybe somewhere there are no wild animals or bugs, but plenty of rocks to climb on. Tubbs likes to camp too, but I think is more a fan of being clean. He does like to go on adventures with his brother though.
When the boys leave, by the second or third day, a kind of depression falls over the house. It's just not the same without them here. The boys left Sunday morning but we didn't hear from them until Wednesday afternoon. It felt like Christmas morning!
On Monday I came home from work and found Luke and Wiggy floating in the pool with their drinks. I was extremely jealous. Wiggy had filled her marble jar...something she had been working on for at least 4-5 months. That meant she got to go to Build-a-Bear.
I came home Tuesday to the same thing, except now there was a tent set up in the backyard for Wiggy's dolls.
On Wednesday I decided to take a half-day vacation so we left for LA around noon. We headed down to the Grove and had a late lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. Wiggy and I of course each got a Sprinkles cupcake as an appetizer. :)
After walking around the Grove for a few hours we went to the Beverly Center. Then we headed over to "BLD" for Donut night. I was very excited to try this place out. On Wednesday nights, the pastry chef makes a few different flavors of donuts. We each ordered one and we shared a plate of ricotta blueberry pancakes. The banana cream donut was amazing! Luke's chocolate donut had some candied grapefruit and Wiggy's was cinnamon sugar.
Before...
After......
A few other photos from our week with one child.....
That Stop Wasn't On My Itinerary....
So the Hogue's made it to Florida for our first official family vacation. It was Sawyer's first plane ride....and Simon's first plane ride that he can remember. We were excited....the boys were stoked. We had everything we needed! But it seems that Sawyer packed something with him that wasn't on our checklist: a big case of pneumonia. Yes, the little fella made it almost one whole day in Florida before he started heading downhill fast. Our 2nd day in Orlando we were in the Urgent Care south of Cocoa Beach. (By the way, to see a doctor more quickly, it helps if you vomit all over the waiting room in front of the receptionist. Little tip for ya) After chest x-rays they advised us to head to the ER in Melbourne, where they eventually admitted him to the hospital. So, we had 3 night deluxe accommadations at the Holmes Regional Medical Center. The little whipper snapper was a trooper though! The nurses loved him, thankfully, and made us all feel right at home. We were going to send postcards out with pictures of the hospital since we spent 40% of our trip there...but they didn't have any. Imagine that!Hmmm.....maybe its something they should consider.
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