its that time of year again.....

Life is about to become more hectic around here..

Its baseball and softball season....

Spencer got asked to be on a traveling baseball team and he is pretty excited!

He will be playing in Deep East Texas baseball this year. He has the same coach as last year in league ball but he has decided to take the boys and travel this year!

Hannah will be playing league softball with 12 and under girls! She loves softball and is eager to get out there and play again...

I am going to try and blog on a regular basis but with work, school and now ball, I cant make any promises!

Wordless Wednesday

11 years ago.....

Today, I gave birth to my 3rd child and my 2nd daughter. Its hard to believe that its been 11 years since my Hannah was born... It was a very long day but short labor.. Hannah was a lil stubborn and was 11 days late.. She was comfy in mommy's belly.. I was at the hospital for 7 hours for them to tell me ma'am you are not progressing and should just go home.. They sent me home slightly contracting but dilated 0.. I was angry.. Was told to take a tyl pm and just got to sleep! I went home took the tyl pm and sat on the toilet for an hour.. Next thing I know, I was in horrible pain... I was yelling at kids dad to take me to hospital and he was like Kristal, you are not in labor we were just at hospital.. I was mad and in serious pain.. Finally I told him either he takes me or i am calling cab.. So we get to hospital and the lady was like, didn't we just send you home? Uhmm yeah but still lol... They put me in a room with another lady ( who sadly was losing her baby ), they didn't believe i was in labor so they were just putting me in there to check me.. Little did they know that when they checked me I was gonna be 9 cm. I was rushed to my own room and was told no epi or pain meds.. WHAT??? I was scared to death.. I didn't know if i could manage a natural childbirth.. But to my surprise, I did... At 4am my daughter was born... weighing in 8 pounds 9 oz.. Today she is a lovely young lady and I am so proud to call her my daughter!

Happy Birthday Hannah Lynn!!

Scarecrow Day Part 1

We took the kids to Scarecrow day yesterday and they had a blast.. It was the perfect chilly day for it...

Here are a few pics of the petting zoo.. I was really surprised that Spencer fed the horse and goats....

lets go mom.....

Spencer feeding the baby goat

Taking a break from feeding the animals

the animals

an Alpaca that I totally thought was adorable..

but it never moved lol.....

Part 2 coming up next............

Busy Bee..........

Life has been a roller coaster for me in the last few months.. But for now its calmed down a lot. Kids are enrolled in school, I officially have a 10th grader, 7th grader, 5th grader and 2nd grader..

They all love their school and have made tons of new friends already.. I thought the move to Michigan might take them a minute to adjust but they are doing great! Hannah took it upon herself to run for Student Council the first week of school, her teacher was so proud of her considering she was new and the kids didn't know her. Sadly she didn't make it but she was okay with it.. I cant believe my Hannah is in her last year of Elementary school.. Where has time gone.??.

Its almost my birthday, sigh, I will be 35... but I will leave that for another day....

Now that the last 2 weeks have calmed down, I have more energy to prepare for the next busy 3 months... We have 2 birthdays in Oct, one in Nov then Christmas...

So by January I will be ready for a vacation =)

Hope everyone has a great weekend

I feel so bad for her.................

All my life I have never had to worry or deal with Poison Ivy, none of my kids were allergic, well that's what I thought.. Poor Hannah is highly allergic to PI... She got it on 4th of July. Jennifer and My friend Lynsie also got it that day! Their cases are mild compared to Hannah's. I took her to the Dr last week, gave her a shot of steroids and an oral dose to take at home.. I have been putting ointment on her and keeping her on benadryl around the clock... Today her PI got worse, she was saying it was itching and hurting.. I decided it was time to go back to Dr, They gave her another stronger shot.. She was such a trooper, you can tell she wanted to cry but she didn't! Then they wrote her another dose of steroids but this time at an adult level. She is borderline children's meds and adults meds they said... Thankfully this one is on the 4 dollar list at walmart... Their insurance isn't covering their meds right now, so the cheaper the better... Its one am and she is finally asleep, I am hoping these meds help this time.. If not then she will be going back for five days straight to get a shot once a day... Please please please work......
Plus Hannah has her end of the year softball tourney this weekend.. She wants to play so badly... Please keep her in your thoughts....
Go away PI, Go away =)

This is tonight (July 12) before I took her to Dr the

second time. those are all PI spots under ointment

seconds trip to Dr, that shot hurt =(

the beginning on her face

all swollen but can still smile, she wasn't

happy she had to wear gloves

Just got her shot, what a trooper(first trip to Dr)

this is what her body looks like now, but ten times worse

All around her eye....

proud to say

Its that time of the year again, soccer season...

Hannah and Spencer play Upwards Soccer and this is their

second year. They both love it.. Saturday was our first game,

and we had perfect spring weather..

I am proud to say that

I am a soccer momma....