Five minute Friday

Merry Christmas!!! This certainly was a different Christmas. Not only are we in Las Vegas with the Pulliam family, it actually snowed last night-didn't stick, but still counts, and we had to make an ER visit. Avila likes to give us a scare every once and awhile. All is well now for the most part. With a chest xray, breathing treatment and some medicine our little babe is almost back to her normal full throttle mode. Grateful for cautious nurses and helpful family. It's been a fun couple days here already and we still have a couple more to go. Just a couple pictures from the day from my sister in law. I'll post some from our Christmas last weekend when we get home. 

Five minute Friday

I had a great birthday last Saturday! Friends and my sweet babes and their daddy made it very special. And then yesterday Kenny gave me an early Christmas gift with tickets to Adele next November! Spoiled week for sure. Tomorrow I get to extend the celebrating and go on my traditional birthday trip to Anthropologie with a girlfriend sans kids. Avila is feeling better and has moved into her "big sister "bedroom upstairs so we can put together Lyla's nursery when we get back from Vegas. The biggest sisters room is finally done for the most part. Since we will be at grandma and grandpas for Christmas we asked Santa to come early to relieve his work load next week ;) I have a feeling he maybe becoming this weekend. Avila and I went to all three kids school parties yesterday and she loved every sugar filled second of it!! Fun today and weekend ahead, it really is the most wonderful time of the year.

Five minute Friday

Little Avila has a bad ear infection. Hoping after another couple days of antibiotics she will be feeling a lot better. We all need some sleep :/  Tomorrow morning I'm going with a girlfriend to a vintage market, so excited!!! Coffee, mini road trip, old stuff, perfection! It's been a good week and we are looking forward to a short week next week. 

Five minute Friday

Well the little girls have colds, Elle lost her sixth tooth this morning, Kenny had his work Christmas party last night, I have a craft fair tomorrow, and Rylan is cruising along with all the ins and outs of this sometimes too busy family. Short and sweet post, but a few more pictures. Kenny's party attire, all Elle wants for Christmas is her two front teeth, Blake in her "fort" watching a movie after school.

Five minute Friday

We hosted thanksgiving yesterday which included ten kids eight and under and six adults. We all had a great time and full bellies. Today we are planning to get our Christmas tree and start decorating. We got almost a peek at baby Lyla on Wednesday. She had her hand in front of her face this time and last time her face turned away so she is just going to make us wait until her birthday to see her little face. The biggest sisters got bunk beds last weekend and are doing great sharing a room. We are almost done with their room, then I'll start Avilas transition into Blake's old room before Christmas and the nursery after Christmas. The kids have been off all week and I think will be ready for school Monday. 

Five minute Friday

Today was the turkey trot at the kids school but Rylan was the only one able to participate but he came in number eleven out of second grade boys and they are about 130 kids second grade. He had been working hard and really wanted to be too three but stoked to get a ribbon for being in the top twenty. We said good bye today to our beloved pediatrician and this hormonal pregnant mama actually held it together. The kids are off all next week and anxious to decorate for Christmas next Friday. We are almost all healthy, hoping this two month bout of illness is coming to an end soon. Yesterday the little girls and I had thanksgiving lunch with the kids at school. Love this time of year!!!

Five minute Friday

Still rounds and rounds of someone with something. Avila's cold came to visit me :/ In better news it's cooling of and feeling like real fall, jeans, socks, windows open and everything!!! This makes me one happy mama. The kids had a fun week at school with international children's day booths today. It is one of my favorite events at the school as well, sadly I couldn't be a part of anything this year. Today we have a birthday party for one of our favorite two year olds and Avila's first friend! I have been having some terrible headaches and round ligament pain that some resourceful and gifted friends are helping me with that I'm beyond grateful for. These ladies are helping me get back to the normal mama I want to be for the babes already here. Less than three months until baby Lyla will be her an covered with kisses, so excited!

Five minute Friday

Two for one...still using my old phone but downloaded the blogger app again to get back in the routine of posting. The pictures from this phone are terrible, it's actually not user error, swear! We have had round after round of illness, cough, fever, hives, tummy bugs, you name it. It has rained and rained and rained and made us miss plans, but Halloween was cool and dry. Kids were wiped out after about a hour so Kenny and I had almost a real date night in since the kids were soud asleep by 8:30. We are heading back down to San Antonio tomorrow for the weekend to visit Kenny's parents and grandma. Time is just flying by. About three months until we met out newest family member, so excited to kiss that little face. 

Five Minute Saturday

Another late post...another week of being sick and Thursday night was worse :/ The kids had a cook out at school I was very sad to miss and then a sock hop for their annual Bluejay Bash at the school. Daddy took the three bigs and I hung out with Avila for a bit before she went to bed.Our week seemed to fly by, but we have had fun beginning to choose things for baby to be. We are very close to a name, just working out spelling. It started raining really hard about three this morning and hasn't let up, we need the rain, but by tomorrow the kids will have cabin fever I'm sure. I, however, am enjoying a true fall day, under seventy degrees with grey skies, ahhhh! I made scones for breakfast and will be making soup for dinner, yes!!!!

Five Minute Friday times 3

Shortly after my last post I dropped my phone in the toilet :/ So I am behind from that tragedy (heehee) lots of visitors and sick kids. Rylan had an awesome party celebrating his eight birthday, in fact he said it was his favorite party! We had lots of fun and got a lot accomplished with nanny and papa were here. Shortly after that our friends from California came to visit and we got to show them some of our favorite things including Magnolia Market in Waco and Sweet Berry Farms in Marble Falls. In the middle of all that we also announced our biggest news! Our family will be adding a daughter (LMP-"L" yet to be decided) in February!!! Our healthy baby girl was very shy with her face at our twenty week ultrasound. We have had this secret of our girl for over ten weeks. We were lucky to find out so early, it would have been a long wait for the ultrasound. This weekend we are going to San Antonio to bring Grandma Sugar a birthday treat a little early for her 98th birthday. The kids participated in a short term Tae Kwon Do class and their graduation is on Saturday. It'll be another fun weekend. When I can I will update this post with pictures from the last few weeks.