I'm back...

Sorry to all of you that read my blog that I have been MIA for the past month. We went to Colorado for two and a half weeks at the end of may and beginning of june. My sister malorie graduated from high school and nick's sister lacey got married. I decided that it would be easier to just stay there for a long vacation instead of making two trips with the kids. Nick had to come back to ohio for work in between the two special days, but lucky me I didn't have to fly by myself with emerson and carter. They both did great on the plane...it's just managing all the "stuff" you need to take with you when traveling with a two year old and a baby that is challenging. I talk about all the events in greater detail in the blogs below...
We had a great trip and it was really nice to have so much help with the kids. It was a hard adjustment to come home to because emerson and carter were so used to having 100 percent attention on them at all times.
My parents worked during the week, but my sister was home with me almost everyday. I don't know what I would have done with out her and begged her to come live with us this summer. The first words out of emerson's mouth every morning were "where's mal-mal?" And as soon as my mom and dad came home from work it was "mimi what are you doing?" and "pa, where you at?" Carter also got lots of cuddle time with everyone, which they all loved because when emerson was his age she would only let me and nick hold her.
We also got to see Nick's mom and husband Pete and spend some good time with them. Emerson went swimming with gran and helped make dinner with her. They also got to sit and sing all their songs together. Oh and I can't forget to mention that Lacey let emerson help put chocolate icing on a cake...i think more got on her face and clothes than on the cake.
Nick's dad and girl-friend Dawn were also there and we got to spend some time with them. We went to emerson's favorite store "the sports store" a.k.a dick's and pop and emerson did some putting, played in the tents, and rode some bikes. Seriously we can and have spent hours in that store entertaining emerson.
I think this was the first time emerson and carter got to see all their grandparents at once. We didn't get to spend as much time as we would have liked with gran and pete and pop and dawn so we are hopping to make up for that with some upcoming trips.
Since we have been back, two weeks ago today, it has been crazy around here. Nick has had to work a lot and I had an allergic reaction to neosporin and broke out in a rash all over my body. I have been an itchy mess and getting no sleep at night because of it. I have been to the doctor three times and I am now starting to feel better. I am hopping that life will calm down a little around here, but you never know. Nick's schedule is much better through July so I know that will help! We are going to start to work on potty training...oh what fun...so wish us luck!