Today

Today is so crazy!! Minus the snow making things worse, my stepdad is having surgery. Shawn slipped on ice Monday night and broke is femur bone is several places. He previously has had two knee replacements and recently stints put in his heart. Both not helping out is situation.



At first, we did not know if we could find a ortho. to perform the surgery. His regular ortho. could not perform the surgery and thought we might have to find a trauma doctor in another city. Luckily, Dr. Hanby said he could do the surgery. I hope he can.



My mom and sister(Amanda) are at the hospital. Thanks to the 2 ft of snow they received, they are there without any support that was going to be there. Shawn's daughter (Kayleigh,14) and his mother can not be there. We can not be there. Folks from Church can not be there. At this point, if anythings goes wrong it could be a very bad situation.



I do not want to think the worse but I am. For the past 15 yrs., it has been one death after another and I am really hoping this is not going to continue. Since each have been a close relative or friend, they have each messed with my emotions. I have stress to many people that spending time with family and friends is more important than money, possesions, anything but God.



I have not done much since 6pm last night, except sit on the couch. I am so stressed, my head and chaw/cheeks hurt. Brian was suppose to be home today but went to work. Possible he will be there until they close. The kids of course are climbing the walls. Nothing I suggest is good enough. We have books we need to practice reading, DSs and Leapsters to play, computer to play, barbies, cars, etc. But no, they want this, they want that.



I hope getting all this down helps me have a better time with this.

2011 is here!!

So basically I have not post anything in almost a year. I had few post drafted but never completed them. With Facebook it is almost not as important but I would like to start posting again.
A lot of things ended 2010 for us. Some good, some not so good. We are thankful that 2010 is over and we are able to start 2011 off with a new beginning.
Spring Soccer season is on its way and Softball/Baseball will start shortly after. We will be balled out by the end of May. All kids are excited to get the ball rolling!
Homeschool has started off great this second semester. We added piano lessons to our afternoon activities. Cadence still struggles with reading but within the next week, I believe, it will get better for her. She will have reading glasses by Wednesday!! We will also start our 10 week classes that we attend with other homeschoolers this Friday.
Springs is going to be busy for us! We hope you enjoy yours.

 

Cadence turn 6 on May 16th. We can not hardly believe it but time is flying. In her six years she has become a very bright girl. Artistic, Athletic, Godly, and Strong Willed all describe Cadence. She has help me out so much with both of her siblings.

We celebrated her birthday with a friend party and a family party. She was very gratefull for all the friends who made it to her nail party. Even more grateful for the gifts she received from everyone.

Garden 2010

 

Our garden started out pretty good this year. We planted Sunflowers, corn, tomatoes, green beans, okra, zuchinni, lettuce, spinach, radishes, carrots and few more things. Everything produced except the corn. The stalks grew but no corn. We only had one okra plant that produced. We are still getting tomatoes but the heat pretty much killed the rest of it. We are in hopes of planting a fall garden but the heat is just to much right now. Maybe next week......

Snow and Valentine's day

We had snow this year for Valentine's Day. It actually snowed 3 days before V-day so some of the parties planned with the kids friends was delayed until Monday after. Brice need to make a box for his class so we decorated a huggies wipe box. For some reason I started saving these and glad I did because there was a Lightening McQueen box and all Brice really needed to do was put hearts on it. Cadence got her box out she made when she was in Pre-k 3 and sproused it up a little. We also made a few homemade valentines.












Brian was able to be home the day after it snowed so he spent most of the day outside with the kids.

Gymnastics

Cadence and Brice started taking gymnastics in January at University of Gymnastics in Sherman. They both have been talking about it for a long time and they constantly acting like acrobats in the house. Jumping off the couch, flipping of the couch, trying to do cartwheels, etc. I was using more energy putting them in time out and spanking than they were being acrobats. They kept doing it no matter how much trouble they got into. We figured if they are going to act like this we might as well get them training before they really hurt themselves.

Bad teeth

We started the New Year off with visiting the dentist every week for the first month. Cadence's developed an abscess tooth the weekend after Christmas and had it pulled a week later. This tooth was one of her top left back molars. The weekend right after that tooth was pulled her right side of her mouth became sore and by Monday her right side of her face was swollen. Much worse than the left side. She had another abscess tooth and ended up with having both top back molars pulled. We knew that she had cavities but did not have an appt. to get them filled until the end of Jan. Cadence was excited about loosing the tooth and did ok getting the first tooth pulled. When it came to getting the second set pulled it was a little more drastic. We end up going to two different dentist because the first dentist felt sorry for her and wanted to put her to sleep. However that was going to take a least another month to get an appt. for that. Luckly another dentist in town, obviously with more experience, was able to get them pulled without putting her to sleep. Anyway this is over and we are being more strict on what Cadence is doing. I personally had but more trust in her on not eating to much junk and getting her teeth brushed good. Candy no longer exist in the house and a little more supervision on brushing teeth. (she always finds the candy no matter where or how high I put it) Here is few pictures of the first tooth. Fill free to use this as an example on eating way to much candy and not brushing good can effect your teeth.





By the way, Brice does not have any cavities.