It's official

Well.. we have a visitor that came to visit my kiddos this week.... It's name is "FLU" ( not the visitor I or my family was looking forward to)

Monday night we took Megan in to the afterhours clinic as she was really not feeling well and her temp would not break 102' after spending more than a hour there we were told she tested positive for the flu.

Today, Chance woke up really tired, coughing and had a fever of 101, so I decided to take him into our pedi to get checked out and hoping that his was just a cold, but after they did the flu test ( which is not fun) it came back positive as well.

I'm not really sure where we caught this nasty bug, but I am hoping for a quick recovery for them. It's not fun seeing your children not feel good, having bad headaches, high fevers or just not acting themselves.

I have been cleaning everything and we have a new bottle of Lysol on hand that has been sprayed on everything in the house ( even the curtains) I plan on knocking this visitor out fast!

So we are going to make the next few days while were inside at home a fun one. ( if they are up to it). We are picking out Red Box movies, playing board games, playdough...

Happy Blogging,

Julie

Sickness please go away!

I am ready for the weather to be more consistant, I mean I'm not ready for the 112' weather, but this 50' degrees one day and 80' degrees another is getting ridiculous! We haven't cracked yet, but this weather is making sickness around here.

Sometimes I wonder can a house be "Too Clean", are we using germy gels too much or are we "Lysoling" everything too much? Can being too clean make you get sick more often? Well I'm starting to wonder because we have one that is under the weather right now again. ( It came on around lunch time today) It seems like we can't get rid of these germs.

I dislike it when my children are sick, sometimes there is nothing you can do. I feel helpless sometimes when you go to the Dr. and they say it's viral, no meds! Ugh!!!

Well hopefully this will past very soon! As for now I'm stocked up on orange juice, crackers.

I can not wait till summer and hopefully we will have a summer -free sickness. Let's cross our fingers!

Happy Blogging,

Julie

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to my wonderful husband and to my two precious children!

They make me so happy and I love them to pieces!!! They mean the world to me!!!

Happy Blogging, xoxo

Julie

"Showtime" Dance Competition

Competition yesterday went Awesome!!! The girls performed their routines so great! I don't know what it is with this group of girls, but they really do great together. "Showtime" was the host for this contest and it was held at Rouse High School, here in Leander, so it was nice that it was down the road.

I was proud of Megan on how she performed, since the night before she had started coming down with a bad cold, the runny nose, that just wouldn't stop, it was so stuffy, she could hardly breath, but besides seeing her with kleenex's throughout the day, you wouldn't of known she didn't feel 100%, she danced great and kept her smile from ear to ear, and I think hammed it up even more in the hip hop routine ( that's her fav.)

The girls walked away with some high awards that included:
*Judges Award
*Sweepstakes Award
*Best in Catagory in Pom
*Best in Catagory in Lyrical
*Best in Catagory in Hip Hop
The girls also was awarded GRAND CHAMPIONS FOR ELEMENTARY DANCE TEAM!!!

Us mama's were so proud of all of them!!!

Way to go E-Team Star Dancer's!

Some of the girls before the Lyrical routine
Megan and her "buddy" for the day MaKayla

Star Dancer's E-team with their awards

The Star Dancer's Dance Team ( all teams and directors)

We are looking forward to the next competition that is coming up in two weeks, until then...

Happy Blogging,

Julie

Excited to save for our family vacation

We have been thinking of a place to take our next vacation, and we were thinking of DisneyWorld. The last time we went to Disneyworld, the kids were a bit younger so we thought it was time to go again. But....I have seen another fun idea on commercials and Chad had a friend from work just return from here and he said that they had a lot of fun on their vacation, so we are going to save up for a trip on the......

DISNEY CRUISE

I have been looking it up online to start looking at prices and get ideas on where we would depart from and where to go so we are going to start saving today! The easiest for us would either to depart from Galveston or Florida and when I looked the only times that would be great for us to go is next year in Feb or Mar. when the kids have their school breaks. So that will give us a lot of time to save so we will have a fun time!

We are not ruling out Disneyworld, but we still have plenty of time to decide ( at least by Oct. so we can start booking everything.)

I think either vacation the kids will enjoy and all that matters is that we are together enjoying as a family!

Happy Blogging,

Julie

A proud mamma's moment...

I am so proud of Megan and Chance. They are truly the sweetest kids! How did we get so lucky to have two great kiddos!

They are not only brother and sister, they are the best of friends. Chad and I love that they both get along so so well. It's so great! They hardly have those "brother & sister issues".

We love that they always listen and talk about their days that they have at school, it's so fun listening to them having conversations in the car or at home.

At the end of every night when we have our bedtime stories, Megan always compliments Chance on his reading. So sweet!

This is a biggie.... We love that they have the best of manners when we are out at resturants or anywhere... We have gotten so many compliments from other people ( some older people, which I love) saying how well behaved our kids are. The other day, we were in the hair salon and their was this mom with two boys that were acting out and she stating to her boys " Look at those kids, look how they are not playing around, they are sitting nice and still" It made me proud that Megan and Chance know how to act in public places. :)

They both make us so proud with everything that they do, school, extra activities, but it how they act towards each other and how they know how to behave when we are out and about makes us so proud of them! I know it makes me smile and makes me realize that we so far have done a great job as parents.

We love them to pieces! I know that their brother and sister relationship is going to grow even bigger and bigger!

Happy Blogging,

Julie

Chance got to Meet The Austin Toros!

Chance plays basketball for Neighborhood Sports League during our winter months, so as being a member of Neighborhood Sports he was allowed to attend a free basketball clinic hosted by the Austin Toros Baseketball players - Super cool! When we asked him if he wanted to go, he said YES!

It was held this past Sunday at Cedar Park Middle School. They had a great turn out, so many players from the league. Three of his own teammates on his basketball team now came, so that was a lot of fun for Chance to know a few boys there.

The Toros taught the boys some "drills" and they practiced them. The clinic was only a hour but Chance had a lot of fun. Afterwards, they lined all the boys up so they could get the Austin Toro's autographs if they wanted. Chance and his buddies jumped right in line, they signed their basketball and they also signed a little Toro's basketball flyer.

It was a fun Sunday afternoon!

Happy Blogging,

Julie