We're Still Alive and Kicking!!!

Oh my gosh! I can not believe that it's been SOOO long since I've posted anything. I've still been an avid blog reader (not such a good blog commenter though). Life has just been busy as usual.

We had a great Christmas with family and friends. Santa wasn't the boys favorite person...maybe next year...but the gifts were well received. Brittney had a bad experience with a scavenger hunt that Santa left for her. Note to Santa (and any other readers with 10 year old dramatic girls), just leave the goods out in the open. Don't wrap them, don't leave a note, and especially don't tell Santa to be creative and incorporate a scavenger hunt with clues...it won't be received well at ALL. Matter of fact, unless you want to almost ruin Christmas for your daughter with tears and all, don't participate in this event. Of course, if you'd like to get a good laugh and join the "bad parent club" like Steve and myself, go ahead and do it. I will spare you all of the details but it was some funny stuff.

New Year's was good. We celebrated at some friends house and EVERYONE attended and stayed up to long enough to count down to midnight. The boys had so much fun running around with a few kids their age, Brittney had a few friends her age, and we had great adult conversation. It was a wonderful way to bring in the New Year.

We endured a very LONG cheer season during our new house transition also. We traveled out of town to Dallas 3 times, San Antonio once and Galveston twice. At least there wasn't any out of state travel this year. Brittney had an outstanding time at this new cheer company. Her team placed first at all but 2 competitions. She finally won the coveted Cheer Power leather jacket. She couldn't wait to wear it to school...it didn't matter that we had a record high that week. Then at their end of year Spirit Rally, she won the Most Valuable Cheerleader for her entire team. It was such a big honor and she was ecstatic!!

Rugby is also in full swing for Steve. He's been a traveling fool. There were a couple of weekends that I was out of town with Brittney for cheer and Steve was in another town for rugby. Thankfully we had the grandparents lined up to watch the boys. Those cheer competitions are long and loud and not child-friendly at all.


Speaking of the boys, they are completely potty trained. They have been now for a couple months. Now we just need to work on their AIM. I'm spending more time cleaning bathrooms than I have EVER done so in my life.

It's so weird to be out somewhere and they tell me they need to go potty. We are frequent visitors to bathrooms everywhere. Once we were out to eat at one of our favorite places, Spanish Flower, and I took them to the bathroom SIX times. Thankfully this place has exquisite bathrooms and Brittney and Steve were there to "hold down" the table. I didn't mind taking them except for the hassle. After all of those visits, I took their drinks away from them and got us out of there as quickly as I could.

They still wear pull-ups at night. They have recently become lazy and wake up dry but don't feel like going pee-pee as soon as they feel it. So they are wetting in the mornings. Then they can't stand the feeling and change into underwear as soon as possible.

They are the best of friends at times, playing so nicely and politely. But then they are the worst of friends, biting, yelling and taking each other's toys. They are typical brothers.

Brittney has written a lot of stories this year as a fourth grader and always like to refer to her brothers as "cute but evil". That pretty much sums them up.

How can she say that about these adorable faces????










Hopefully my next update won't be SOOO long.