The week was packed with movies, football, and fun games. We even got a personal tour of the new doTerra building from Andrew's dad. One highlight was getting to see/meet our newest nieces Sidney & Sarah. It was weird looking at them and realizing that we're not too far behind with our own little girl. Unfortunately, towards the end of the week I started to not feel super great but quickly got over it. Andrew on the other hand got VERY sick New Year's Day. He caught some flu bug and just could not keep anything down. We looked into changing our flight for the next day but that would have cost us an arm and a leg. So we pulled through and headed home to North Carolina the next day. It was pretty funny to watch us in the airport...a pregnant lady and her sick husband. We made it through thanks to a lot of prayers!!
Even when we got home to NC Andrew felt a little better but his throat was killing him. We put him on all these cold medicines and those didn't seem to work. Finally we went to an urgent care here and they found out he had ulcers in his mouth. One lesson that we have learned the last few weeks is how grateful we are for health and our bodies. They really are incredible things and we're blessed to have them. One lesson for me that I learned over the past two weeks is that it is not fun watching your spouse go through so much physical pain and not being able to do anything about it. I've been teasing Andrew about how he won't be able to handle me going through labor but I'm pretty sure I'm wrong about that. When you see someone you love going through so much pain you don't want to leave their side but help them in anyway possible. I now will have so much empathy for Andrew in a few weeks when I have to go through some pretty intense pain. I'm so grateful for him and the rock that he is for me!
Even though our vacation didn't turn out how we had planned it, it was a nice break from our normal schedule. You really can't beat hanging out with family and being back in Utah.
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