It is now Labor day and I have been yessed at multiple times to update the blog. I will keep it brief with a lot of pictures. The last post was in April so since then, we had my Mom's surprise 60th birthday (May), went to Texas and to Florida (June) Garrett and Savannah turned 10 on June 28th (OMG!! Where did that decade go?!?!) Garrett and Savannah did swim team. We did a lot of remodeling in our house due to the new addition. My Mom and I re-painted Savannah's room to give her a Pre teen room, we kicked Garrett out of his room so that the two little girls could share a room. Garrett now has what used to be our office and now the biggest room in the house!! We took out our hot tub room and made that our new office. I swear I will never pick up another paint brush in my life!!

We satarted another school year a couple of weeks ago. Garrett and Savannah are now in fifth grade. Holy cow they are going to have teh "big talk". Not so sure if we are ready for that!! Savannah keeps us busy with her competitive soccer schedule. Garrett is in his second year of football. He is QB again and get ready for this......................He is playing for the Longhorns. His coach gradutaed from UTA (same school as Billy and I) and graduated in the late 80's. His assistant coach is a grad from Texas Tech. One of his teammates uncles was at the game This past weekend and played little league with Billy in Abilene Texas. Knows the whole family. If that isn't crazy I don't know what is. The funniest thing about the whole thing is that Garrett, Savannah and I always give Billy a hard time about Texas. Garrett always said he would be QB for CU. Garrett came up to me and told me that his coach wanted hime to hold his fingers up like UT does and say "Hook 'em Horns". I told him he had my permission to tell his coach it was against his religion. His coach answered back with the team running out onto the fiels with a longhorn flag. OK I loose!! :)

Sydney has been batteling some sort of illness. Not too serious but scary. She has been sick quite a bit the last few months. A week at a time with only a high fever. She has had strep throat and an ear infection but after multiple times in the doctors and urgent care, two rounds of blood work and UA's they are pretty confident she has what is called Periotic Fever Syndrome. It is exactley what it sounds like. She gets high fevers for a week at a time (high like 105) and then she is fine. They come around every 3 or 4 weeks. We gave her a dose of a steroid the last time it happened and it knocked it out on the first day of fever. The good thing is is that it could last 1-2 years and burn itself out. She will grow out of this thank God!!

I am doubleing up on my Masters right now so I will be done in December instead of May. Billy will finish his in May. I am now 7 months pregnant and I think I am carrying a twenty pounder!! Her name will be Avery Jo.

So this is a longer post than I anticipated. Enjoy the pics!!