October Happenings

Since I am really bad at updated my blog all the time I will try for a monthly update. October has been another busy month. Trevin is knee deep in football and loving it. Right now they are 4-3 and if they win one of their next two games they are headed to the playoffs. McKade just finished up fall baseball. He kind of stalled out at the plate but finally got a chance to pitch in a couple of games and did a great job. I have already told him he has to give football another chance next year. The girls are busy at dance working on competition routines and solos and trios. Brett and I are just busy getting them to where they need to be.

Parent Teacher Conference

We are back into the swing of things at school and it's time for Parent Teacher Conferences already. I am so proud of all four of my kiddos. Harlee is keeping up with her classmates and actually has two girls in her class that she is trying to be just as good as. Competition is a great motivator for her. Brynlee is reading on a high 4th grade level and completing math that is the end of a 3rd grade level. She is a very good student and a good friend. McKade has 4 different teachers this year. He is really quiet but is doing very well. Trevin is in 8th grade and has 8 different classes. By looking at his grades one might think he is struggling but all of his teachers say that he is a really good student. He is focused in class and they are not worried about him at all. I love gettting good reports like this.

Brynlee's Baptism

Brynlee turned 8 this past July and made the choice to be baptized. Because of a family reunion in August we had to postpone it until the beginning of September. She was so happy and we are so grateful for all of those who came to help us celebrate this special day for her.

Summer Catch Up

We had a busy summer full of swimming, baseball, dance and various other activities. Back in July the girls had dance tryouts and Harlee was finally old enough to try out for a team. She made team Platinum a average age 6.5 team and Brynlee made team Jasper and average age 9 Advanced team. Brynlee is doing a Lyrical solo this year and Harlee is doing a trio with 2 of her good friends. It's going to be a good year.

McKade had a full summer of baseball. He played on the All Star team again and they did pretty well. They placed 2nd in the All Star Pre-Tournament that was hosted out at our field. They didn't fare as well in the actual tournament but it was a lot of fun.

Trevin spent his summer at a few football camps getting ready to play football again this year. He went to one camp hosted by Paul Krueger and received an award signed by him.

I took the girls to see Big Time Rush at Usana. It was their first concert and alot of fun for me too.

That's kind of our summer in a nutshell. We were crazy busy but it flew by!

First Day of School

I guess I need to back up and catch up a little bit. The kids started school back in August. Trevin started 8th grade, McKade started 6th grade, Brynlee started 3rd grade and Harlee started Kindergarten. They were all so excited and are loving school so far. McKade said now that he gets to rotate through 4 different classrooms that the day goes by so much faster. I don't know how ready I am for the onslaught of homework but it sure is nice to have some kind of daily routine again.

Harlee

My poor Harlee has been through the ringer in the last couple of weeks. About 3 weeks ago she came to me and told me that she had a sore on her leg. It was on her upper thigh and almost looked like a bug bite of some kind. I took her to Instacare and they confirmed it was an abcess. They gave me an antibiotic onintment and a prescription if the ointment didn't seem to be helping. 4 days later there was no change so I picked up the antibiotic and called to make an appointment with her pediatrician. After seeing him he agreed we should wait a few more days to see if the antibiotics started helping. One week later there was no change so we went back to the Dr. He immediately called Primary Children's and sent us up there to have it drained. She was going to need to be sedated and this was the best option. Little did I know what was in store. They gave her some Vercett to help relax her enough so she wouldn't fight the nurse when they put the IV in. They didn't put her all the way to sleep but she doesn't remember anything so I guess it worked. When they puncutured the abcess to numb it, it exploded like a big zit. I can't imagine how much pain she was in. They drained it, packed it, waited for her to be fully awake and keeping liquids down and they sent us home. We had to go back to her pediatrician the next morning to have the packing removed. It's been 11 days and it is finally scabbed over and she went without a bandaid today. She is such a trooper!

SLACKER!

Yup, that title is about me. I am a total blog slacker. It's so easy to post pictures from my phone to Facebook and I forget sometimes that I even have this blog anymore. Life has been crazy to say the least. We just finished up another competition season and a successful one at that. The boys are still in the middle of the baseball season and school is almost out. I guess I will start with one kid at a time. Harlee-She is graduating from preschool tomorrow and then she will be a big Kindergartener. She absolutely loves dancing and she should because she gets dragged to every dance competition whether she likes it or not. Brynlee-She just finished up her first solo season and although she didn't win any Queens, she always came in a close second. Most of this was a learning and growing experience and I am amazed with her dance progress. Her team finished up another successful dance competitions season. With all but one 1st place finish for her jazz dance, five 1st place finishe in Lyrical and five 1st place finishes in Hip Hop. They also got a High Point for Jazz, High Point for Lyrical, High Point in Hip Hop and Overall Mini High Point Champions for Hip Hop as well. What a year. She is looking forward to finishing up 2nd grade in the next week. McKade-he is busy playing on 2 different baseball teams. He has really come along way as a baseball player this year and I am amazed every day at his progress. He has finally gotten used to his braces and is also looking forward to the end of the school year. Trevin-he succesfully completed 7th grade and maintained a 3.7 grade point average the entire year. He is enjoying his first year playing on a Superleague baseball team. He spends all of his spare time texting his friends and playing video games. Yup, he is a typical teenager. I do need to post a bunch of pictures and I hope to have some time to do that in the next couple of days. That, in a nutshell has been our crazy life for the last 3 months.