Well I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and an uneventful New Year. Christmas was nice and quite here in the House of Hinze. Scott was post call Christmas day so as soon as he got home we opened presents and then he went to bed. The kids played with new toys and I watched Christmas movies. Thank you family for all the wonderful presents. We are so thankful for your generosity. The Monday following Christmas we packed up the car and headed west to see our Northern Iowa family. The trip out was not too bad just a little long. The kids did very well, watching movies, looking at books and playing with toys. We arrived in the big city of Dows around 11 pm. The kids transitioned will into bed and a good night of sleep was much needed. Scott's parents were so excited to see the kids. Scott's dad Jay broke his heel in April so he has not been able to travel out to Ohio to see us. It was a much needed trip. The week was full of visiting friends and family. Of course a trip downtown to my favorite store the Mercantile. I stocked up on some yummy jams. My sister Sarah and her husband Joshua came up for dinner one night. Grisham had a blast wrestling with him. And I enjoyed spending time with my sister. Friday night, New Years Eve was spent at a friends house. I went home a few hours early to put the kids into bed. There was noooo way the kids nor I would have made it to midnight. Scott had fun and won a couple games. Go honey!! Saturday we said good bye to Scott's sister Heather and her family. I can't believe how big her kids are now. Later that day my parents came up to visit. It was great seeing them and the kids were so excited to have both grandmas and papas in the same room. We started to pack the car for our trip back home on Sunday morning, when all of a sudden Carolyn started to throw up. At first it just seemed to be a passing thing but she started to throw up every 20 min. Around 10 Scott decided it was time to take her up to Belmond to the ER. The doctor on call was very nice. He ordered some lab work which meant Carolyn had to be stuck. She was pretty dehydrated so it took a couple attempts. I really really hate to see my kids in pain and if God would have let me I would have taken her place. After an hour of trying to place an IV, I asked to have her transported to Blank, if she was going to spend the night in a hospital I wanted her to be someplace that was used to dealing with babies. The doctor agreed and we were transported by ambulance. Scott followed behind in a car. As soon as we got to Blank Carolyn seemed to be doing much better. She was able to take some pedialite and kept it down. The nursing staff was amazing, and so kind. Carolyn slept a little, drank a little and by morning was almost herself. She still needed to have wet diapers and keep some formula down. We were discharged by two in the afternoon. It could have been much worse and thank God He was with us. After leaving the hospital we went to my parents house. Grisham and Genevieve were waiting for us. The next morning we packed the kids up and headed home. We did have one more little bump in the road but later proved to be no big deal. As we were loading the last bit in the car early Monday morning we discovered a nail in the front right tire. We decided to fill the tire and go as far as we could on it and fix it somewhere down the road. We stopped at a Firestone just over the Illinois border. We were in and out in 20 min. We actually made really good time on the trip back. Grisham later said that he doesn't want to go back to Grandma and Papa's house because it was too too too too very very far away. I tend to agree with the boy:) Thankfully our new house is half the distance!
