Friday Night Lights....

Friday Night Lights......

In our little town football is a BIG thing. And following tradition you wear your "football" shirt the day of the game.

Sydney, Trevor, and Trent before school

Sydney and her friend K at the game


Sydney and L

This was Sydney and Trent's first football game and they did really good. We did have to leave early though. But we were losing....BAD!!!!!

I LOVE this time time of year. Fall is in the air. SEC football is a week away! Now we are just getting ready for some ALABAMA football.

~Sweet baby L~

I totally forgot to blog about my neice making her grand arrival. =) She was born on Aug. 12th, 2010(Her actual due date). She weighed 7lb 3ozs and was 19 1/4 inches long.

Sydney didn't get to see her until yesterday (we wanted to make sure she was healthy before being around the baby). She's 8 days old here.

~ Trevor, Trent, and Sydney w/ L~

She is the sweetest baby. Has a perfect complection and seems content (esp in Aunt April's arms.)

Sydney, Trevor, and Trent

Is soooooo happy it's Friday!!!! This has been one LONGGGG week!

Just checking in....

We had an amazing weekend. I got to go see my precious new niece Leila on Friday night. We had a great time visiting with new mom and dad and she already just LOVES Aunt April. =)

Saturday, Sydney wasn't feeling good...her throat was hurting again so we just had a lazy day. But it was what we ALL needed and we just spend the day together.

So far this week has been super busy. I'm on week 2 of my new job and still love it. I will be so glad once we get our schedule back on track though. Hopefully tomorrow I can post a "real" update and upload some pictures!

1st week of school

So glad that it's Thurday.....will update more later just wanted to upload these pictures.

Sorry the pictures are in the opposite order again. I forgot.

Sydney and Mrs. F on Wednesday. Sydney's "official" first day of school

Trevor and Sydney on Wednesday

(he was so sweet to walk her to her room)

Sydney's first day of school - she was facing the sun

Trevor's first day of 5th grade. He's growing up to fast and is such a cutie or "handsome" as he says. =)

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Trent - he wanted his picture taken too. He was headed back to daycare/pre-k

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These kids mean the WORLD to me. No matter how stressful it is being a mother it is SO worth it. They melt my heart when they say " mommy I love you"

Thank you God for blessing me with these children. They are true blessings from you.

waiting...

We are STILL waiting on sweet little Leila. She is taking her sweet precious time and plans to make a GRAND entrance sometime soon. =)

Sydney had a GREAT first day at school. Trevor was such a sweet brother and helped us take her supplies to her classroom. I'll post pictures tomorrow. It's been a long day so I'm off to bed.

Busy.....just a little ;)

Yesterday was plain hectic. My first day on my new job, Trevor's first day of 5th grade, Trent started back to daycare/pre-k, and Sydney (who should have started kindergarden) woke up with her face slightly puffy and redness under her eye. I got the boys off and headed to work only to be called before 9 that Sydney's eye was almost swollen shut, looked bruised and that puss pockets were popping up. Apparently this is somewhat normal b/c the doctor didn't want to see her he just called in a steriod and antibiotic (grrr...this is #7 in less than 3 months). HOPEFULLY this will be the LAST time she has to take steriods or antibiotics for a while.

Trevor had a GREAT day! He LOVES this teacher and so do I. She was his pre-k teacher and we just LOVE LOVE LOVE her! Trent was so happy to be back with his friends and his teacher too!

Sydney is sooo much better today. She will attempt to go to school tomorrow!

AND tomorrow my sis-in-law is having her sweet little angel. We have been awaiting this precious little girls arrival for so long! Sydney is claiming her as her "sister". Praying for a safe and easy delivery for mama and baby. =) So tomorrow I'll have LOTS of pics to update!

Step by step...day by day...

Sorry I haven't updated since Sydney's surgery but it has been a couple of hectic days. Sydney is doing GREAT....She is in a lot of pain still but that is to be expected! I am sooo proud of how she's done. Only a few melt downs =) Today is the first day she's really eat anything (yogurt, pudding, grits, oatmeal) She is still only eating a little ("maybe" half of a yogurt) at a time but it's a HUGE improvement from just a teaspoon or two. I'll try to upload the video from right before her surgery. She had already been given some medicine so she was pretty loopy. Here are some pictures of her surgery. The nurses were AMAZING to her and us. They even took out "bitty's" tonsils and adnoids. Bitty came out with a bandaid too! The pictures are in the wrong order.... Sorry. I'll do better next time.

Trevor and Trent were so sweet. They both prayed for her before her surgery. I LOVE those boys. =)

This is after she came back from surgery - she's OUT!

(they had to give her Demoral b/c she was fighting them and pretty upset)

The pad they had put on her bed to protect her. She must have been pretty upset...

Right before going in the OR.


The meds starting to take place...She was being sooo SILLY!

Sydney when we got into her room. She thought those booties/socks were funny.

She was so sweet. The lady who checked us in asked her if she was my little girl and she said "no, I'm mommies little princess". Talk about melting my heart.

Thank you GOD for answering my prayers. I prayed for a daughter JUST like Sydney.

Can my nerves handle this???

Nervous.......

Sydney is having her tonsils and adnoids taking out in the morning. I'm nervous.....and slightly scared. Why? I'm not sure. The doctor is AMAZING but she is my little princess. And she's being put to sleep. Surgery just makes me nervous. None of us have ever had to have ANY surgeries but a least its something minor. BUT hopefully this will mean NO MORE STREP!!!!! That would make us BOTH very happy! I have a feeling that the next few days are going to be a little hard. Esp. for Sydney. Love and patience and ICECREAM will hopefully do the trick. ;)

I'll update as the day goes on as to how she is.

Sorry I haven't been writing lately. This past week has been extremely busy and a bit stressful. Thurday I had to take Sydney to Childrens Hospital (about 4 hours away) for her routine appt. and then yesterday we had a follow up for her strep throat. The initial test came back negative but they decided to culture it just to be sure. They called bright and early that her test came back positive, so we are on antibiotics AGAIN and this is the 5th TIME she has had a positive strep since the middle of May. We now have an appointment with an ENT so hopefully we can get some answers. I'll try to update more later when I know something!