Blackhawk Down...

Hi everyone. It's been a longish few days around here and no time to post. The wee one has been down since Monday with a harsh fever. She's been hovering around the 37-39 degree range, so she goes from being cuddly and sleepy in your arms to crying a bit and sucking her thumb. So it's been tough, especially on her. Right now she's sitting on my lap with her blankee and sucking her thumb. I think it's been pretty rough on her mommy too. And so this is where the Smith adventure is presently at.

I think this all started because we wanted to go get a family picture. A day before we went to get the picture, Kaelyn bumped her head on a table and got a black eye. Then, an hour before the picture, she had a small surface burn on her forehead from a curling iron (and no curled hair). So by the time we got her in for pictures, we were hoping Wal-mart employees wouldn't call child services on us. So now, here we are with a somewhat blackened eye, dark scabbed forehead, feverish little girl. And all that for a family photo.

Yesterday I got out with some of the guys for a day of fresh powder at Marmot. It was beautiful up there with lazy-man powder everywhere (the kind where you just glide through and get lazy and then a rock or small tree pops in and gets you). It was a pretty amazing day; we spent a lot of time cruising through the tree runs where the powder was 2 and 3 feet deep. It was like surfing or floating, you just droped your back foot and coasted. Pretty nice, although when I got home Michelle and Kaelyn had visited the hospital. So I was pretty happy to be home.

So that's it. I'll add some pictures later tonight when I have time. There's only one to speak of, and it's Kaelyn sleeping on me in her first day of sickies. Hope everyone is doing well!