A dark cloud of altitude sickness hangs over us all today.  It started late last night and both of the kids were throwing up all night.  Sayer spent most of the day looking like this...or worse.

When we finally took him into the local clinic he was like a zombie, literally.  He was out of it and lethargic.  he hadn't been able to keep any food or liquids down and he was exhausted.  They gave him Oxygen for about an hour and he totally perked up.  They gave Steven and I meds too because we had such bad headaches.  Finn awoke fine and was his normal self all day- poor little guy had to hang with us all day.  The clinic sent us home with an oxygen machine and that is really helping Sayer.  We all took much needed long naps.

After naps, Sayer perked up more.  It started to snow and we got to play outside a little.  We made snow angels, played Star Wars with toys in the snow and threw some snowballs at each other.  He also ate some dinner (and has kept it down so far), which was a HUGE relief for me.  He had nothing in his stomach all day except for a handful of raisins.  Our travel mates arrived this evening as well so hopefully the trip is off to a better start tomorrow.  The kids are really excited to try sledding.

I'll leave you with a lovely sunset from yesterday.  It snowed most of tonight, which was wonderful as well.  This is the view from our living room balcony.

We are on spring break!  Today we arrived here in Crested Butte, Colorado.  It is beautiful!!  Our kids have never seen snow so it's been a fun day.  Well, let me rewind. 

The first part of the day was, um, trying.  Traveling with little kids is just so difficult.  My kids were actually pretty good but we got seated behind this witchy, horrible woman who kept shooting us dirty looks and making these exasperated sounding sighs.  She made me so uncomfortable that it made my flight miserable and made me restrict my kids more than they needed to be.  She even made that same sigh and gave us a dirty look when we were walking out into the parking lot and Finn accidentally tripped on  an un-level concrete patch.  I mean, like is he not allowed to fall either?  Sheesh!  On a nice note, On our flight I saw a friend and client of mine, Jennifer Knupp.  She had her husband and kids and they were off to Telluride.  The last time I saw her and the kids was when I photographed Avery (her daughter) as a newborn.

Is it boys in general, all kids or just mine who can't resist an opportunity to pee outside?  Well, my guys had a blast with a quick roadside pit stop to pee in the snow. 

You know what they say about yellow snow... 

Once we were at the house, the kids were so excited to get outside and play in all the snow!

Sayer had so much fun eating the snow.  He ate icicles too! 

Steven joined in on the snow eating fun too. 

Look how happy Sayer is.  That's just amazing. 

This little tree is just outside the front door. 

After the snow play, we hung out inside drinking hot cocoa and watching The Little Rascals.

 I love watching them when they aren't watching me.

I'll leave you with the icicles off the back porch.  Sayer wants me to go cuddle with him while we watch a cool Nova episode about bees.  More later!

Am I the only one who has a mini love affair with their kids feet? I know it sounds weird but I just love their little feet! What is amazing to me about the love affair is this...it isn't JUST the feet (though the feet do rank really, really high). I love the way he curls up his toes when he's watching a movie, the way his cowlick in the front of his bangs pops out, his hands, The way he sits crossed legged sometimes at dinner, his amazing face, the way he looks in his Spiderman pajamas...ah, the list goes on and on and I have a whole other list for Finnian! I just marvel at how much I can love a person. The way that I love my kids is a force that cannot be reckoned with. I even love them dirty, cranky, rude, in the middle of the night, when they fight...again, the list goes on. Granted, I may not like them a whole lot during the aforementioned moments but the love remains solid. It is the definition of unconditional. For me, this crazy love, is one of the best gifts of parenthood. That love makes me want to love myself that way too and extend it on to my husband. I mean, wouldn't that be an amazing thing? That is what I am working on. Happy Love Thursday everyone- go marvel at your amazing kids!

Here's a few more of Sayer! Man, don't you just love him too?! LOL!

Last Saturday was Finn's birthday.  Danny & Denise had a little party for him at their house (huge thanks you guys!).  We had amazing food, a good bottle of wine, pirate cake and a little post dinner guitar hero session.

Here's Finnian sneaking a little icing. 

Arrrg!!

Cake faces: Whitney, Sayer & James

 As Finn likes to say, "Ready to rock and roll?!"

Dancing to hard rockin' sounds of guitar master Danny Clark!

Before we left, Whitney and I did some self portraits.  I love these.  She's so funny and awesome to photograph.  Danny & Denise have her trained well- LOL!

Thanks D&D for celebrating such a momentous occasion with us.  I can't believe my "baby" is actually 3.  How did it happen so fast?  I keep feeling like I'm going to wake up tomorrow and he'll be 5 and then 10 and so on... His little baby fat is melting away and his words are getting clearer.  He even starting wearing underwear on Monday!  Life just moves way too fast sometimes.

Sayer got a hug kick out of these pictures.  We were just hanging out in the car waiting on Daddy.  He was all excited because he "looked like a spirit".  He then explained spirits to me.  When you die, you become a spirit.  Spirits aren't scary and "bad guys" don't become spirits.  In fact, only "good guys and Jedis become spirits".  So, there you go.