Sickness

Unfortunately, the first full day in Cheyenne, sickness haunted our family. 

We were so excited to go explore Cheyenne a little bit, have some lunch downtown, and go check out the base and our new house. (we currently have an address for our house on base, but can't move into it until the 12th of January since someone else is currently living in it)

We were able to walk around downtown a little bit despite the snow and wind, and ate some great food downtown and then once we got to base it all hit. McKenna started acting strange and before we knew it, she was throwing up in the car. We automatically assumed it must have been the food we had just eaten. So, since we were on base, Courtney ran into the commissary to get some crackers and sprite to help her belly feel better. 

In the mist of all that, Logan had fallen asleep and I kept continuing to ask McKaila if she was feeling ok, which she was thankfully. And then, all of a sudden in the middle of his sleep, Logan started throwing up. All over himself and his carseat. Thankfully, as I was running out of the car to get to Logan, I spotted Courtney walking out of the store and yelled at him to hurry. 

What a scene it was watching us, undressing Logan in the back of the van and cleaning up throw up from McKenna and Logan. It literally was back and forth between the two of them from then on. 

It wasn't until later that night, that McKaila started feeling it. So, now we had all three kids throwing up, one after the other. And at this point, Logan and McKenna didn't have much in their bellies besides water, I just felt so helpless at the moment. 

So, I think all in all, it was 3 nights straight that Courtney slept on the couch with the girls and I in the bed with Logan, with very little sleep while we continued to clean up after sick kids.

We pretty much have come to the conclusion that it wasn't food poisoning. We think it may have been a mixture of all the crappy food we had been eating on the road and the high evaluation that we weren't used to. 

With all the craziness of sickness going on at the house, we did get a great surprise. Courtney's new boss and her husband, brought over a Christmas tree. The tree was standing pretty in City Hall. The city of commerce has a program that donates the trees to families and they thought of us. So very thoughtful of them, because all I wanted was to make it feel like Christmas in the house and with the sickness, I didn't even know if we were going to be able to find ourselves a Christmas tree.