Easter Fun...and Sickness

Two posts in one day! Wowzers! So I know technically this was Kalianna's 2nd Easter, but since she was only a couple weeks old last year, I'm counting this as her first Easter. Did conference throw anyone else off this year? It just didn't quite feel like Easter to me. Anyway, in her first Easter basket she got: a cute stuffed monkey (since she's my little monkey), a board book/ flap book about the scriptures, bubbles, and a couple suckers and m&ms.

She loves the suckers!

I didn't get a ton of pictures, but I had good intentions. She also got a beautiful Easter dress from her great-grandma Howell, which she wore to church last week. Pictures to come. While we were all enjoying conference, I checked on Kalianna to find this: Playing with her "cousin" Sadie. I'm so glad she has such sweet, gentle, patient dogs to play with!

That evening, we were invited to dinner at Bryan and Ricci's house. Right before we left, Matt said his stomach was bothering him. But we didn't want to cancel on them last minute, so we drove down to Orem. We sat down on the couch and started visiting, when Matt jumped up and ran to the bathroom. He threw up. So he laid down on the couch while Bryan and Ricci quickly dished up some food for us to take in tupperware. I fed Kalianna dinner, then we got back in the car and drove back to my parent's house to pick up our dogs and stuff from staying overnight. Well, by the time we got there, Matt was worse. Lots worse! He couldn't handle riding in the bumpy car again so we decided to stay the night. He threw up several more times before finally crashing in the guest room. After putting Kalianna to bed, I got all our stuff together so we could be ready to go home the next morning. About 2:00am it was my turn. I woke up, ran to the bathroom, and barely made it in time. It was amazing how fast it hit! I felt completely fine when I went to bed, but I woke up feeling like I'd been hit by a train. Crazy! The next morning my dad came in to check on one sick person, only to discover two. He then told us that both my mom and Theresa also had gotten hit with it during the night. The four of us were quite a sight to behold! My dad ended up taking the day off work to care for all of us, but to especially take care of Kalianna (since both her parents were basically dead to the world). I am so glad we didn't go home the night before, or I don't know what we would have done!! Thanks so much to my dad!! We seriously would have been in trouble without his help!! Kalianna loves her grandpa! And I think they both had fun. After resting all day and finally proving we could both keep food down, we left to go home. And, of course, it started snowing. So it took twice as long to get home (we got here around 9:30pm) and we all crashed! Today, I feel fine. I mean, I'm low on energy and have had to be careful what I eat, but I feel completely fine compared to yesterday. We think it was the 24 hour flu. Turns out my nephew, Joshua, and Ricci both also got sick yesterday. Not a fun way at all to end our Easter Sunday!