4th of July

We spent the 4th of July in Scofield this year. 

Jana and Casey took us out on their boat.  Adelia was convinced she would drown while on the tube, but Tianna absolutely loved it. 

The Pleasant Valley Days theme was "Rockin' in the U.S.A" so we decided to do a ROCK CLIMBING theme. The kiddos were so cute on it! 

The Little Miss Pleasant Valley Days pageant was also a huge success this year. 

Adelia sang "Castle on a Cloud" from Les Miserables. 

She did an exceptional job and won 1st place in her age category! 

Tianna rocked the house down with her hula-hoop number to "Happy."  I don't know anyone who can hula hoop like that girl! She won 1st attendant. 

Sadly our fun weekend was cut short. Adelia was getting very sick right before the pageant, but she had worked so hard to prepare, we took her anyway. Half way through though she started getting a fever and really didn't feel well. It was an extra accomplishment to perform so well.

By the next day she started getting itchy bumps all over her arms, legs, and throat-- as expected she had HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. I must say, it was one of the worst illnesses we have ever dealt with.  By Saturday afternoon she was wigging out from how itchy her blisters were. We decided to skip out on fireworks and just head home to an Insta-Care in case it were something worse than hand, foot and mouth. The nurse said it was the worst she had ever seen--and the itchiness is usually very mild. Guess we got lucky. NOT!

Just look at the after-math!
(sorry for the tushy picture, but it was one of her worst places)

The actual virus wasn't all that bad. She had a  mild fever (well, THEY had a fever. Linaya had a mild fever and a few blisters. No biggie) but Adelia's itching was what made it all so horrible. It nearly drove her mad, and therefore, me too! After several days though, she cleared up and the infected ones got better. --thank you Dr. for an antibiotic I got to give her 4 time a day! ugh!--

But once she cleared up that was JUST the beginning of the horror. 

About 3 weeks after the blisters, then her skin started falling off. We went to Bear Lake and the little blister pockets deep under the skin opened up, filled with sand, and then looked and felt awful. 

A few more weeks went by and then all her toenails and many of her finger nails fell off.  It seriously was 1 weekend of feeling yucky but 1 and a half months of awful effects. It was well into August before pieces of her body stopped falling off!