All sorts of fun

Well, this is the exciting weekend of the Church Softball Tournament!!! Can you believe it?!?! Okay, maybe it's not that exciting but it should be a good time. :o) I'm hoping the weather holds up and none of my teammates get injured. I just remembered that last year during our last game I got hit by a line drive right in the quad. Man, did that hurt!!!! It was one of their strongest hitters and since I bruise pretty easy you can imagine the pretty colors my leg was for quite some time!! :o) So, I'm hoping we won't have repeat of that this year!! We have one game tonight (it's a make up game, not part of the actual tournament), one game tomorrow night (the start of the tournament) and then all day Saturday. My kids are very excited about this because to them it means that their fun Aunt Nikki (my 12 year old sister) will be staying the weekend at our house to hang out with them while Mommy and Daddy are off playing softball. I'll be sure to let you know how it all goes...

This last weekend, Anthony and I got to go to his 10 year high school reunion!! Man, it made me feel old! I remember being in high school and thinking, "Man, my 10 year reunion is SOOOO far away! I'll be, like, ancient by the time it's my turn to have my 10 year!" I know it wasn't MY 10 year but mine's next year and it affected me just the same. It was a lot of fun though! We got to see some people we hadn't seen in a long time. The few hotties from his class were still lookin pretty good! :o) There weren't really any surprises...everyone pretty much looked like they did back in high school...just 10 years older...imagine that!! :o) I guess the only amazing thing we heard was that there was one girl from his class that had 5 kids and had been married 10 years! Talk about getting started right away!

Well, I've gotta jet. Time to head to tonight's softball game. Until next time...

Let the Fun Resume

So, Tirus is healthy again...thanks to antibiotics that I have to quite literally shove down his throat twice a day for 10 days. :o( He's had a rough transition back to reality though. I think he'd gotten quite used to being doted on...having his mother at his beckon call. He hasn't really enjoyed returning to life as usual...Mom telling him "No, you can't have yet another popsicle/cup of cocoa". Oh well, he's a resilient little bugger, he'll survive. :o)

We got to go to the Family Fun Fair at our church this last week and it was so much fun! Alena got a pony painted on her cheek and Ty got a spider painted on his. :o) They both got snow cones, hot dogs and popcorn. It wasn't healthiest of affairs but they had fun, gosh darn it! :o) Tirus's favorite carnival game they had there was the one where you throw darts and try to pop the balloons. I think he liked it just because he was allowed to play with something sharp and was encouraged to try to make loud noises. :o) Alena loved any game that she could succeed at. After playing each game she'd ask "Did I win, Mommy?" I don't know where she gets that competitive drive!! I blame her father... At the end of the festivities the kids got to pick out prizes based on how many punches they got on their little punch card (each game you played you get "x" number of punches on your card). They were in hog heaven when it was finally their turn to pick out their "treasures". :o) It all looked like junk to me (except for the full size candy bars on the back table) but they acted as if it were pure gold! Oh, to be a kid again and be so easily satisfied!!

Well, I'd better go let Alena come out of her room from her quiet time. She was only supposed to be in there for an hour and that was about an hour and a half ago!! She hasn't complained though I wasn't about to either!! What a good kid! :o) Until next time...TTFN!!

On hold

I feel like our summer fun has been put on hold for a little while. My little boy, Tirus, is sick right now and the doctors can't seem to figure out what's wrong with him. He has a high fever of 102 to 104 degrees and really no other symptoms. He's complained of stomach pain but we got an ultrasound done today and everything looked completely fine. He's been slightly congested so our pediatrician started him on an antibiotic today, thinking that perhaps he has an infection in his adnoids. It sounds to me like we're grasping at straws but I'm getting to the point where I don't even necessarily need to know what's wrong with him. As long as the antibiotics work, I'll be happy. I don't know if that's a good way of looking at it...but that's where I'm at. I know that God knows what's wrong with Ty and I just keep praying, asking Him to reveal to me and the doctors enough that we can help my little boy get better. It's hard to see a normally energetic, crazy little boy being lethargic and lifeless for 4 days straight. :o(

Other than this lame week, our summer has been wonderful!! Anthony and I have gotten to play tennis together a couple of times and I've LOVED that!! I played in high school and he's ridiculously athletic so he can play just about any sport well. One of the things I've actually enjoyed the most about going to play tennis is enjoying the fact that our kids are now old enough to take to the tennis courts with us and they'll just ride their bikes or run around while we play. :o) I'd been tempted to have one or two more babies for a while there but the more I've enjoyed this new stage my kids are in, the more I think I'm done having kids. I think I just want to move on from the baby stage and enjoy the beginnings of the school age stage. I love babies and that's why I serve in the nursery at our church twice a week...but I'm enjoying my own kids more and more as they get older.

Well, I need to go take Tirus's temperature again. I hope all is well with those who've taken the time to read this. I hope it was as exciting as you've come to expect it to be. ;o) God bless!!!