California Trip

A lot of things have been going on around here. One of the more exciting things is that Josh got a new job! He'll be working as a Marketing Manager at Backcountry.com. It's a great company, great position and great products that he gets a sweet discount on. He put in his 2 weeks notice and his last day was going to be last Friday (Mar. 18), but since it's a similar position that he is doing at Overstock, they just let him leave and paid him. So, his last day was actually Mar. 11 and he doesn't start at Backcountry until Mar. 28... which meant 2 weeks off! That is what prompted our last minute road trip to California.

We left last Tuesday and drove to Vegas, spent the night and headed on to California the next morning. Dane did really great in the car. He had a few times that he got fussy, but it was mainly because he was sick of sitting for so long. He took longer naps though, than his normal 30 minutes, so that was a plus.

While in CA we visited family (my family and Josh's bro and family), we went to the beach, went shopping, enjoyed the weather and just hung out. Oh ya, and we made a visit to the ER. Poor sweet baby had a little accident and fell out of his stroller. I'll just tell you, it's the start of a lot of injuries I'm sure, but one of the hardest things I've had to go through. I almost cried as much as he did. What happened was we stopped on the beach to get out and go on the sand and the water, so I unbuckled Dane in his stroller. Then we stopped a second, decided we wanted to go a little further and kept pushing him. He slid out the bottom and the stroller pushed him. He face planted onto the concrete. I saw it all happen from afar and wasn't fast enough to stop it. I ran over, picked him up and he had blood streaming down his face. His nose was bleeding a ton from both sides, his nose was immediately bruising and his mouth was bleeding. My heart dropped and I started crying. I felt like the worst mom in the world. He was screaming and I couldn't console him. Josh ran and got the car and we went to just a small prompt care. When we walked in, they saw him and said to take him to the ER. He actually started to slow down crying and eventually fell asleep once we got to the hospital. Thank goodness. I knew it wasn't too serious if he was able to fall asleep. They checked everything out and said there probably wasn't anything very serious wrong, but his nose could be broken. They could do a cat scan or xrays, but they said the radiation is pretty strong and not the best thing for a baby. The dr. said that even if they found a fracture, they really couldn't do a lot anyways besides just monitor it. So, we decided against the xray and we just waited at the hospital awhile to make sure everything was ok. And now, 4 days later, he's doing so great. He's such a little tough guy. Here's what he looked like after we wiped away the blood and he was at the hospital:

It's so sad for me to think about it, but I'm just so glad that nothing serious happened and he's a happy boy again. Here are the pictures of us enjoying the day, just minutes earlier, lol...

And just some more cute pictures of our trip:

Vegas

Great Uncle George

Uncle Steve and cousins Lexi and Kendyl

And now we leave for Texas in the morning to visit other cousins... fun fun fun!