Back to Reality

but first i will post about vacation!


WARNING: This will be a long post so pull up a chair get your coffee ready or if its the evening your beverage of choice (wine) and enjoy!

Ean and I packed up the car and headed to Colorado on Friday evening after work stopping in Omaha to sleep a few hours and drop off baby and dog with grandma.
We arrived in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Saturday around 1pm mountain time and met up with Ean's aunt and uncle, we toured the garden of the gods, pikes peak, downtown old Colorado had a beer and some chocolate and went back to their house (where we stayed)and watched the sun set over pikes peak as we ate fondue on the porch.
It was perfect!
Woke up Sunday morning had coffee and a bloody mary and headed on our way to the Mile High Music Festival in Commerce City, Colorado about 20 min north of Denver
we got there at 11am and saw, what is now one of my favorite bands
HoneyHoney
its just two people she plays the banjo, violin and has an amazing voice. And he played 3 different guitar's, base drum, and keyboard. They were very talented.
We saw gogol bordella which is a gypsy punk band/circus, it was the craziest thing I have ever seen. I wouldnt listen to their songs much, but they put on an amazing show. It was basically like a circus up there, they had every instrument you could imagine, trash can, a whistle, accordion, violin a Jewish singer.... I felt like I was at a really messed up jewish wedding. You should really google gogol bordella or myspace them, crazy people they are!
Coincidentally my aunt is at their show in omaha right now!
We also saw 3oh!3 which wasnt popular when they booked the venue and right now they have the #1 song on top 40 so they were in a smaller tent which was super crowded, but we got there just in time to only be a few rows back, yet I still couldn't see Ean kept saying "man I wish you could see this"
sometimes I was just to short to see what was going on lol.
Next time I'm wearing platform sandals and bringing a flask of vodka, Beer was $8 a glass, EVERYTHING was $8 or more, you spend allot of money when your there from 11 to 11 but we had a blast!
We saw Matt Kearney (love him), Guster, Jet,
Buddy Guy and someone from Iowa set up their iowa flag,
so we made some friends!
we got to see Pepper a sublime type band from Hawaii and while they played it rained, but it was really good and Eans favorite band
then we saw The Fray which was AMAZING and I wish I could see them in concert again.
Then Wide Spread Panic closed the show, but we only stayed for one song and went to find our car which was parked in a field with no markers so we wandered aimlessly for about an hour (i think) till we found the car got back to our hotel room but we didn't wake up till 9am.
It was nice to be Abby and Ean again for a few days, we weren't parents or worried about the pile of dishes, annoying phone calls from lowes or customers, no laundry or dog whining to go potty, no bills to worry about and the music was so loud I couldn't even be bothered by my own thoughts!! lol

So back to Reality(atleast reality is cute and sassy), which unfortunately meant a sick baby Chasey.
He had a runny nose when we left him with my mom but it was clear and I just though it was allergies, sat. he had green snot, sun night he had a fever of 102 so ean and I spent the entire 7 hours in the car from CO to NE worried, my mom called and Chasen was crying and Kevin was howling. (funny now!) my aunt works at a pediatric clinic and got Chasen and apt. at 6:30 we rolled into the parking lot at 6:10 my mom shortly after with baby.
He was diagnosed with a Left middle ear infection and possible hand foot and mouth, he has sores on the back of his throat.
He weight 23lbs...whoa!
We got and antibiotic and headed on our way to Iowa, it took for EVER and he cried almost the whole last hour and a half. SUCKY.
I stayed home with him today and he only ate 3 bottles and half a jar of food, his throat must really hurt. He also has really bad diaper rash so he hung out naked most of today!
He was in good spirits most of the day though and Im hoping he sleeps through the night because Ean is gone in Illinois, he has to take a roofing test at 8am so he went down there tonight. (sigh)
hope your drink was good! and thanks for reading.