Diehlicious Adventures: July

Sunday, August 30, 2015

July

July started out with a bang. Note to self: never open back door using remote when groceries are precariously piled in the back of the car.

July 4th party with the ward:

Eliza's conceptual ability really impresses me. I love the detail of the eyes. It's just a fly but she has a way of making it extraordinary.

Addie had a little cold and a red eye so I took her to the dr for some drops, that's all I wanted. Her regular dr wasn't avaible so we saw someone else. He said her ear drums were bulging so he prescribed antibiotics. She took the full course and on the last day broke out into hives. She had hives all over and her ear started swelling. I took her in because I had never even heard of anything like this. I'm telling you, this girl keeps us on our toes.

The dr said it was serum sickness, a reaction to the antibiotics. So apparently she is allergic to antibiotics even though she has had them before. Dr said it would get worse and other parts would swell and the hives would continue to spread but zyrtec and ibuprofen would help. It. was. terrible. She was miserable for 3 days. Her joints got so swollen she could hardly walk. Her face swelled up and her ear swelled up to 3 times its size.

Finally the swelling went down in time for us to go to my family reunion in the Gila Valley. We stopped in Yuma to visit my mom's grave and then continued on.

We got to Central in time for the Pioneer celebrations. The Gila Valley knows how to celebrate Pioneer day. It was very impressive!

The Ellsworth descendants in the parade.

That night they had dinner, a show and fireworks. The fireworks were really close and the best show I have ever seen. Seriously.

We had a wonderful time visiting with family and especially enjoyed attending the Gila Valley Temple to do work for our kindred dead.

On our way home we stopped at out favorite taco shop El Guero Canelo. Good and tasty.