Visit to Portland, the 4th, Chad's Birthday

Last week we celebrated Chad's birthday on the 4th up in Portland! Jan drove with us and Amy took the train down from Seattle and we all stayed at Mark and Olivia's new place in Portland.

A few days before we were supposed to go Jayna came down with a fever, she had had a runny nose for several days before that and we thought she was just teething. I wanted to be sure she didn't have an ear infection or something else so we took her into the doctor on Monday. Chad thought she had the fever for more days than I thought so the doctor said they should probably do a urine and blood test, I had stayed home to teach so didn't have to witness Jayna getting a catheter and her blood drawn (they tried one arm and it didn't work so they had to stick both arms :-( Jasper went along and after Jayna was getting her blood drawn he told Chad, "Jayna was getting the owie but why did it hurt me? it's like magic" What a SWEETHEART!!!!!

They didn't find anything so even though Jasper came down with the fever too, we decided to go ahead and do the drive to Portland. The 12 hour drive was a lot easier than I had anticipated it being, Jasper was a rock star and didn't complain at all. Jayna on the way there was still worn out from the fever and we had given her tylenol so she slept quite a bit. On the way home she only had about a 15 minute crying stint, but that was it!