DeLange News: Wisconsin Trip

I debated whether I wanted to even do a post about our trip to Wisconsin, there were many parts of this trip I'd like to forget.....but for the sake of being able to look back I decided to write our memories down of the trip.

I will start by saying we should not have gone that weekend, we should have rescheduled......however hindsight is 20/20, we really thought we were in the clear regarding health! Brie was throwing up all Monday night; I could tell even on Wednesday she wasn't feeling 100%, but she was eating a little and seemed to be improving. We decided to continue with the trip as normally scheduled assuming Brie was going to continue to get better and we would be ok! We left Thursday afternoon and stayed in a hotel Thursday night to buy us another day of recovery.

Friday we woke up, got ready, and headed to Brad and Jessie's house. We were SOOOO excited about this trip and being able to stay with them!! They knew Brie was still recovering, but we all decided to go for it. Well like an hour after we got to their house Brie threw up again! After we got it all cleaned up we all just looked at each other like 'now what!?' We decided to stay and see how she did. Well no more puking and she actually continued to want food and did well in the stomach department. However her behavior was HORRIBLE!!!

Here is what my dear friend said about Brie in her blog post about our visit:

Unfortunately their two year old Briana, was just over being sick and she was a little crabby and tired a majority of their trip. It made us all pretty tired and so we mostly just relaxed, but you can't do much more with four kids anyway! :)

Bless her heart for being kind.....but Brie was just awful. I have never seen her behave that poorly. At one point she was screaming so much I put her in the car in her seat (with no coat and no shoes/socks!) and drove around for 20min with her screaming bloody murder until she calmed down. She didn't sleep well at all, which was a huge part of the problem. She does NOT do well with change of environment. Oh my little difficult two year old, she's lucky she is so cute and I love her to pieces! It was exhausting on everyone in the house. We definitely need to do a re-do at some point.....we will probably stay in the hotel next time the entire time!

It was so good to see Brad and Jessie and their two kids though. Eleanor and Leah are less than a month apart! Ben is 6mon younger than Brie, so also close in age!

On Saturday night a couple other couples came over for pizza dinner. So good to catch up with Preston & Jennifer and Dan & Melanie! We got to meet Preston and Jennifer's new daughter, Ivy! She just had major surgery, a double below the knee amputation. She is doing so great despite having to be in almost a full body cast! Ivy and Brie are also very close in age.

It was hard spending time with our good friends in Wisconsin, it just made me miss everyone we were so close with while living there. I miss living in WI often times; it was so hard leaving our friends, church, youth group, and jobs there. But we are loving living near our family, it is amazing to have our girls know all their Aunts and Uncles and grandparents so well :)

The ride both to and from went really well, both kids did great in the car!