August came and went in a blur. A Jacobson family reunion was planned for the weekend before school started. We had quite the time trying to plan cheap plane tickets all the while getting back in time for school. We ended up booking tickets out of Dallas because it was so much cheaper than San Antonio. When you times any number by 7 (!) all the sudden $150 makes an enormous difference. We had Jeffrey and Debbie come and stay with us for a 4 days before the Jacobson reunion in Utah. We played hard and took them to all of our favorite spots.
One day Jeffrey and David pulled out all their ninja turtle toys from childhood and played. And no, I don't mean they played with their sons. They played and divided up their toys while the little boys watched. It was hilarious. Then on Saturday night Ashton threw up twice.. and we had at Tuesday morning flight. It seemed like an isolated event and Sunday everyone else was fine. Monday afternoon we headed up to Allen to stay with David's parents and Jeffrey and Debbie were there too with a plan to fly up to SLC Weds. Well, Monday night Ashton and Mallie both threw up a couple of times. And we knew we had just infected the family right before the Jacobson family reunion.
I was about to type don't judge me for what's coming next... but I'm pretty sure my parents are the only regular readers of this blog. So it doesn't matter that this information is being read in Africa. By the next morning (Tuesday) everyone seemed fine so we left for the airport at 7:30am in traffic. David and I were working on only a few hours of sleep. Wouldn't you know, 30 minutes into our drive downtown Lucy threw up in the backseat, thankfully into a bag. It was at that point we realized we were pressing our luck. We pushed our plane flights back a day (thank you Southwest and military fares) and headed back to Allen to make sure everyone was seriously contaminated.... I don't know what we were thinking.
We had a lot of discussions about what our options were. Go home to San Antonio and fly David up. Bail all together. Wait it out another day in the sick house? We didn't know what to do we just knew we didn't want to miss the reunion. Lucy only threw up once more at 11am and by 3pm she looked fine. We started to think this was a two and done type of flu. So I hopped on the phone last minute and asked for the 5pm flight out of Dallas which was another free change and I looked at David who was starting to complain of rocky stomach and asked him if he could make it on a direct flight to SLC. He said, "yes" and 8 of us were packed up and in the car in less than 10 minutes from that decision.
And then this happened on the way to the airport. He still doesn't know I took a picture of him on the side of the road. But it's a classic. For the record he didn't actually get sick he just felt like it. So after a few minutes we pressed forward.
This is how Lucy looked at the airport. She had zero food in her tummy and was starting to get nervous about flying.
Ashton doesn't get enough press on this blog for how amazing he is. David was feeling super sick so we relied on him to help pull suitcases around and help corral Scotty. He is an awesome helper. So we mosied our way through security and to our gate thinking we had plenty of time. I don't know why I didn't even think to look at the time. So I sauntered up to our gate casually and asked for a tag for the stroller and the worker looked at me and said, "Are you the Jacobson family?" I replied in the affirmative and she let me know that, they were waiting on us and that the plane had finished boarding
We laughed it off and were grateful to see that a few people were still finding their seats. So the minute we started boarding the flight attendant up front had to call to the back so the second flight attendant could start arranging open seats for the family of 8. By the time we got back there, sure enough, we had three rows to ourselves. The kids were amazing and their $35 kindle fires were worth their weight in gold. David felt sick the entire flight and actually threw up near the end and perked right up. So yes, I am sure we spread the flu to the entire flight to SLC. We have received our fare share of plane illnesses so I only feel mildly bad.
Miranda's mom graciously let us borrow her suburban and we finally dropped her back at home and made it to Springville at 9:30ish/ Ben and Emily were brave enough to still let us come and vacation with them for a couple of days before the reunion!
Rachel even got her own photo.
I know we have a lot of kids but they are all mine and I know each of their individual personalities. So I don't see them as a big group of kids very often. But dang, I looked at this picture that day and it finally struck me. That is a LOT of kids. But they were healthy and so well behaved and we were all smiling into the sun. It was a good day!
Here we all were on the train ride.
Hannah experienced what getting a shave at the barber was like in the olden days. He sang to her the entire time and had us rolling.
Here is Mallie on the pony ride.
With the kids running on very little sleep we left This is the place and headed up to Park City to join the Jacobson family reunion.
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