Haven't done this since last March,
but figured I may as well give it a shot since it's a new year. I am
not remotely ashamed of letting this go from my to do list last April.
Raising 3 boys is hard enough when we're not busy, but last April was a
game changer. Besides being soccer season, we had 3 other big events.
First, Garrett turned 5 years old, so he wanted a party...a Mario party.
We had a great time with friends. I made a star cake and cupcakes. The
kids loved getting to decorate their own cupcakes. We played our own
version of several Mario party mini games and Garrett was blessed with
many wonderful gifts. The next weekend we hosted our annual Easter
potluck and egg hunt. As always we had a fantastic time. The 3rd big
event was something we hadn't planned on. On April 27, 2011, 5 tornadoes
touched down in Bradley county. One of them came through our
neighborhood. Amazingly, even though our house wasn't touched, our lives
are still being affected by the tornadoes. I should probably write a
whole separate article on it; there's just too much to tell here.
May
saw a lot more soccer when Caleb (and then Sam) started practicing for a
traveling team in addition to their rec team and the soccer club Caleb
was doing at school. Because of the tornadoes Sam's end of the school
year field trip to Dollywood that Dewayne had planned to chaperone had
to be rescheduled. It just happened to be moved to the day of Caleb's
field trip to Dollywood, so they all got to go together. Sam rode his
first roller coaster, but I don't think he's interested in doing it
again any time soon. Garrett started a new daycare in May because the
roof had been blown off of his. Even though we had been without power
for 6 days earlier in the month, we still chose to go camping for
Memorial Day weekend and had a great time like always.
The boys
had their first soccer tournament the first weekend in June. We drove
back and forth to Crossville for that. Boy was it hot! The rest of the
month we had break from soccer. At Garrett's Shriner's appointment they
told us he didn't have to come back for a year. What a relief after 4
surgeries and many more visits in 5 years. The boys went to youth camp
together. Sam participated in splash camp and Caleb was a volunteer.
Soccer
started back up around the middle of Julyfor Caleb and Sam. Caleb
turned 13!! He had a few boys over for a sleepover. I made a chocolate
cake with chocolate icing surrounded by kit kats and topped with Reese's
pieces. We also had an ice cream sundae bar. One boy commented that we
had "exceeded awesomeness." They all had a great time. At the end of the
month we headed to Texas. Of course it was the hottest summer in 30
years!!! We had fun hanging out with family, shooting at uncle Don's and
Aunt Lori's, and going out with Dalena and our new brother-in-law
Trent. We played what must be the best game of Quelf ever. We went to
the Splash park and pool a couple of times. Dewayne had the honor of
speaking at his family's church.
School started the first week of August which meant we had 2 middle schoolers and a kindergartner.
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