Its that time of year again....

The business has begun. We have now had several meals in the car and I have just ordered a fun personalized little cooler from Thirty One to help out with that! We now have two children in two different sports, with 2-3 practices a week plus games , in addition to one in piano and one in dance, that are just once a week. However, we typically have at least two of those things a day! The biggest challenge of it all is dragging Levi around to everything. He has been walking for two months now. I thought that outside at soccer practice would be an okay place to let him out of a stroller and have some freedom. It was okay but not as easy as I had anticipated. Who knew there were SO many things on the ground in grass that he would think looked great to put in his mouth! I choose not to let him roam around at dance b/c the floor turns his hands black and then again there is that whole mouth issue! The poor kid has had a rough first year due to various illnesses which I have not had time to blog about. Turns out having a third, and working full time does not give much free time to Mamma! Here it is in a nutshell:

Christmas Eve: Chicken Pox ( due to cradle roll teacher not knowing she had shingles at the time) You have to be a year old to get the vaccination and he was 10 months. It was fine really b/c he was oblivious to the fact he had spots covering his face, but it prevented he and his dad from being around family at his very first Christmas :( Side note, that next morning Trent ran out of the room with a stomach bug as our kids ran in to see 'Santa's' loot :(



January: RSV

February: week before his birthday- his little finger was severed in the hinge side of my daughter's door. It was horrific. My least gracious moment of my life as I was yelling at ER nurses, in my defense I was holding a screaming infant trying to keep him from getting to the finger I held in a papertowel as they were asking me what he was allergic to. First off he was born there and they have access to everything on one page, second he is not quite a year old and we have no idea what he may be allergic to! Trent said he would hate to see me in a life threatening situation, well me too!!!

March: first week- stomach bug and pulled stitches out of his re-attached finger.
week before spring break- we think may have been the flu. March:Fever everyday for 5 days and at one point was up to 104.

Well the Spring has begun with three games now under our belt, and three days of blowing dirt! The JOYS of living in Lubbock Texas! The true joy will be this summer. Seriously the summer nights here are priceless and we spend most of them on our patio. I am VERY much looking forward to summer this year and hoping to return to the pool on a regular basis, now that baby is old enough to have sun block! Spring Break teased me hugely! We had a wonderful time and were able to get away but that will be another post later. I will include pictures soon to go along with the finger and pox. They are going in his baby book as well! He has recovered by the way. The finger looks terrible but at least it no longer has to be bandaged!

Levi's First Birthday

All that birhtday fun WORE me out!

NEW YEARS 2011!!!

We met at the Summers house before going on to a fun swanky little restraunt called Stella's here in town. Its one of my favorite date places that we don't get to go to real often. Wonderful food, good music, and even better company! My parents were in town and were able to keep the kids. It was the first time Trent and I had been 'out' on New Years in MANY years!



The girls!



A 'tattoo' my friend Calllie made. It lasted a week!




Spoon with all the girls!

WHAT A CUTIE!

Sarah, Brandi and me...

Christmas 2010

BEST buds!




Santa at the Spruiell's Christmas Party!

Ooooh...pretty!

Her stocking.

She got a 'big girl' scooter. She ripped the fringe off within hours :(

Aunt Tina gave her makeup!

This captured one of my favorite DAD moments with Trent. Trent has been working a lot of hours and was working on his laptop one evening not too long after Christmas and Ty came and asked him to play checkers (that he got in his stocking) and Trent dropped what he was doing and said, "sure son. anything for you." They played several games. SO proud of the dad Trent is.

Ty's turns SEVEN

Ty chose to celebrate his birthday at the same place as last year, 50th Street Caboose! Its kind of like a main event/restraunt. Great food and perfect size game area. He invited 7 little friends, most from school and one from church. He and Noah have been friends since birth! He opted for a Transformer cake this year. We had a lot of fun! I can't believe its been 7 years since I became a mother, in some ways ;)

There were two grandpas more than willing to wrangle the little brother!

Ty's friend Caden just also happens to be the brother of Olivias good friend Rylan!

Olivia's FIFTH Birthday

Olivia just celebrated her fifth birthday on November 11th!
We had her party the following Saturday in our backyard with campfire festivities! We invited her class, and soccer team with four church friends/neighbors. We roasted hotdogs (pre-cooked with crescent rolls) and then Cita, my mother read campfire stories in the tent while I transitioned to dessert... S'mores! A great time was had by all! The day of Olivia's birthday she and I made our annual trip to James Avery and she picked out a butterfly charm for this year! We also went to Chuck E. Cheese with Pop and Cita Friday night in celebration! Today I am able to report all of this because we are actually home today because Olivia has the stomache bug :( Its been an eventful week to say the least!

Best Bud Avery and good friend and neighbor Reagan

Cody and Elizebeth Dye eating their dogs!

classmate Kaylin roasting her dog

eating in the tent