The Weekend of "Back Up Plans"

A few weekends ago, we had plans to visit my sister in Northwest Arkansas.  Ooooh was I excited.  Couldn't wait to see her and spend a weekend just laughing about life and making memories.  We had found a terrific deal on a flight out of Las Vegas; and were packed and ready for a early morning drive and flight out.  Friday came, we loaded the car, and went up to get our boy.  Sadly, we found him sitting up in bed in a pool of his own sick.  Sad boy!  Mark and I looked at each other, shrugged our shoulders, cleaned him up and threw him in the car.  We did, after all, have a plane to catch.  

Before we could make it 30 miles, Cameron had puked 3 times. One of which was all over him and the car seat.  We pulled over and cleaned it all up in the Maverick parking lot (thanks guys) and made the call to turn around and cancel the trip. 

Saddest decision of my life.  I've always known that parenting called for times when you have to remove all selfishness and make a decision for the child.  I usually correlated this with leaving a restaurant, or not finishing your errands; NOT canceling your perfect trip to Arkansas. 

We headed back to Orem and took a rest stop at Mark's parents house for several hours before heading home to recoup.  We soon decided to re-route our plans to Bear Lake, UT where at least we could enjoy some nice views on our already scheduled time off.

Bear Lake was B-E-A-utiful.  Granted, the town is a summer place so literally everything was closed.  We hit up the hotel's indoor pool twice a day, and drove a bit of the lake once.  Sadly, one day at Bear Lake we were totally out of commission as I was feeling super sick and Cameron was ... needing to be near a bathroom at all times.  Bless that dear man of mine and his holding down the fort in a Quarantine situation.  

We didn't plan on Bear Lake, or the city being totally closed, or getting sick for an entire day. But we were together and we have one picture to document a weekend that didn't go as planned.  Hopefully we can get out to see Tessa before the year is out!