March, what??

How can it possibly be March already?  It seems like just a couple days ago it was Christmas, and now it's going to be St. Patricks Day.  We have been plugging along here at the Turner house.  Everyone is getting excited for spring break, although we have no plans.  I am looking forward to not rushing out of the house in the morning and doing some fun stuff with my kiddos (and some extras that will be here too).  Austin finished up his basketball season.  He was really into it, so it was sad to have the season end.  He loved playing and can be found dribbling a basketball all over the house now at any given moment.  Shawn has recently introduced card games to the kids.  Austin loves playing solitaire now.  Tonight we were playing Kings in the corner, and he loves to play a little "war".  Good times.  We played a lot of cards over the weekend. Even Lucas sits up at the table and plays cards - he loves to point out the "jacks".  I just love my family.  Shawn and I played cards for an hour Saturday morning. . . probably should have been working on that kitchen remodel we are suppose to be doing, but cards is way more fun. Gabriella turned 4!!  She was so excited to have her own b-day party with just her girlfriends.  We had a great time.  Shawn and I surprised the kids with a trip to ChuckECheese the night of Gabriella's b-day.  When we go to the parking lot Austin screams, "This is the best day of my life!"  So you can imagine how the night went over.  What fun!!  Shawn is plugging away at work - pray for lots of construction in Kansas City!!  As for me, I have taken on some day care.  I am blessed with awesome kids, but it is definitely some extra work.  I have also started tutoring some kids in math and am hoping the word gets out that I am awesome so I can get some more work.  Unfortunately, I am really struggling with some sinus issues.  We thought we had things on the right track, but I am headed back to the doc tomorrow to see what's gone wrong.  I am hoping things can get figured out with the least amount of meds as possible.  We'll see. . .
That's all I know for now, I plan on laying on this nice couch for a bit.
Have a great week!

{Why I love my job.}

My job is to take care of our family.  To keep the kids safe, healthy, happy and well entertained (and be a counselor, a nurse, a clown, a party planner, a baker, a carpool driver, a coach, a disciplinarian, a friend - you get the point).  I love my job.  I love my family and I love that my girls are playing in the mud in their dresses....
What a beautiful day today - we have been waiting for sunshine and warm weather for so long now.  We have been outside all day and have no plans to come back in any time soon! 
Happy Sunshine!

How about just some pics??

I thought we could use some pics. . .here's my cute girls.  I love those smiles and I love knowing they will always take care of each other!!

 And here's some serious wii playing.  Lucas "thinks" he is really good at the wii.  The kids love playing Super Mario Brothers together - it's awesome that they can all play at the same time.  Gabriella is surprisingly quite talented at it, Ashlyn just likes to mess with everyone else that is playing and Lucas thinks he is the master of all games (obviously). 

 I couldn't think of anything better to do than some finger painting while we had 3 snow days in a row!!  We actually thoroughly enjoyed our days off together.  Lots of snugglin' going on!!  (after they were cleaned up, of course)

 That's definitely the kids' table. . . where's all the adults??  No worries, Lucas and Sam got it covered.

And there's my cute fam - everyone is getting so big and growing up.  Hard to believe. . . 

 

Where does the time go??

 That's Lucas down there, all bundled up.  Poor kid kept falling over since the snow was past his knees!  He wasn't real fond of it. . .but definitely liked throwing snow balls at Austin.

Amidst all these snow days one would think I could get some blogging done. Not so. What with all the hot chocolate, marshmallows, movies, popcorn, playing in the snow, and serious wii-overload, I just haven't found much time to do anything else.  I probably need to go buy us all new pjs as we have stayed in our pjs for several days in a row lately!  I tend to agree with the kids - if you're not going anywhere, why get dressed??  I have such smart kids.  Although, I must admit I feel a bit guilty when Shawn comes home from work and we are all in our pjs and I haven't even gotten out of my robe yet.  The kids finally got to go to school on Friday, and I must admit, it was nice to get up and get dressed!  We have had our fair share of snow here - 13 inches last week and rumor has it we could get a few more tomorrow.  It's hard to imagine all of this snow melting some day! I can't believe how fast time is slipping by.  I don't think I even posted anything about Lucas turning 2!  Yes, we did have a party in between illnesses over here.  And let me tell you - he definitely knew it was his birthday.  He was all about holding up those two fingers quite proudly and ripping into any presents that came his way.  His latest saying is, "Oh Brother."  Hilarious.  I mean, really, what does a 2 year old boy have to say "oh brother" about?  I love it. 

Austin is having such a good time playing basketball and has improved more than I can even believe since the season started.  He still has 3 more games.  In his last two games he scored 3 baskets!  The look on his face after he scores is priceless.  And of course I scream obnoxiously like he just won the super bowl.  He's starting to understand the game a lot better which makes it a lot more fun.  Although we did enjoy when he thought you were suppose to play defense the whole time - even when you were on offense.  It provided for much entertainment on the sideline.  The one thing he is having trouble with is not doing a full court press - but if you ask me, if you are going to do something wrong, then it might as well be playing too much defense. 
Ok, so that gets you a bit caught up on where we are here.  I'll try and throw some pics together soon and post, maybe say, twice this month?  No promises. . . .
Happy Snow!!

All is right with the Turner Family.

We had such a great day here that I felt I had to document it.  NO one threw up.  NO one had a fever.  NO one said they didn't feel good.  What a beautiful day!  It all started with Austin's very first basketball game.  So. Much. Fun.  I love getting into sports with the kids.  Austin got offensive player of the game - pretty impressive!  It's a really cool league.  To start the game they shut all the lights off and have the music playing with an announcer guy and lights everywhere just like an NBA game.  They announce each player as they run out.  So cool.  Austin was pretty pumped up!  Then I did some shopping with my mom which is always a treat.  Watched K-state basketball (not so good), got stuff done around the house that needed fixing (thanks to Shawn), cleaned out my closet and boxed up two huge bins of stuff for garage sale time, did some cleaning and assisted the kids as they made their own pizzas for dinner.  Turns out they really like macaroni on their pizza.  hmmmm.
That's it for today - I look forward to seeing some snow here soon!
Stay warm and stay healthy!

The Big Guy Totally Misunderstood.

So last week I was saying how hard it was going to be to get back to routine and I didn't want school to start.  Just wanted more time with my kids....yeah....well, I think God may have taken that the wrong way.  On Sunday night Austin just didn't seem quite right, had a bit of a fever.  And then the flood gates opened.  I took him to the doctor on Monday because I was just feeling a bit strange about how he was acting.  The doctor said he had no ear infection, no strep, no flu.  So we did a urine sample  and he had blood in his urine.  Then he said it hurt when you pushed on his stomach and he had no appetite.  Then they drew some blood (Oh my, was that an experience and an entire post of it's own.  Took 45 minutes to get him to let them draw his blood.  He was screaming and flailing like nobodies business.  He was bawling, I was bawling, even the nurse was bawling.  Took 4 of us to hold him down to draw his blood.  I have never felt so bad in my life!)  Anyway, after we got the blood results a few hours later his white blood cell count was up and the signs were all pointing to appendicitis.  I was shocked.  I thought he had a simple ear infection.  So now we were to get him to Children's Mercy Hospital for a CT to check the appendix.  At this point his fever had gone up and he was delirious.  He had no idea he had gone to the hospital.  He was suppose to drink these 3 drinks before doing the CT scan and couldn't keep any of them down so they just had to do the scan without them.  Finally after seeing the scan they said he did not have appendicitis and we could head home.  Scary stuff.  I was not prepared to put my baby in surgery.  So, he comes home.  We are still treating the fever, but it wasn't bad.  We went thru the whole next day doing pretty good. I am thinking we can finally go back to school on Wed until Tuesday at 4:30 when his temperature went up to 104.9.  That definitely scared me yet again.  I immediately called the doctor and did all they said.  Since he was keeping water down and wasn't too dehydrated we managed to stay out of the hospital - thank goodness.  Lots of cold rags, Tylenol, ibuprofen and speed prayers and we are finally well again.  We missed 3 days of school this week, but tomorrow I guarantee we will be FIRST in line at school drop-off!!!  I could have sent him today, but wanted to get just one more day of rest for him (although I don't think he sat down all day).  I think it might have been God's way of saying sorry.  It was a nice day with all 4 kids home - no one sick, hot chocolate for breakfast and movies in the afternoon.  Lots of play-do on the floor and it's a hazard to walk thru the living room - but I wouldn't have it any other way.  I am so thankful for all the help and prayers everyone has sent our way.  You all know who you are and we love you.  And thank God my family is healthy again. 
I must go now - I gotta get to bed so I can get up early and get all the kids to school!! YAY!!
And now....Happy New Year.

Last post for 2010

I am feeling the pressure to get one last post in for the year 2010...especially since I have neglected blogging for over a month, bad, bad, bad.  In my defense it's been crazy busy so when I've had time to blog I found myself either falling asleep on the couch or some other productive activity.  Let's see where I last left off - looks like it was the end of November, Shawn's b-day.  Since then we have had some fun times...and not so fun times.  We made it through the preschool Christmas programs which were adorable.  Gabriella stole the show when she bowed for a good 20 seconds and NO ONE else did.  Then she bowed so long that she fell over.  (and aren't girls suppose to curtsy?)  So hilarious.  And Ashlyn sang her little heart out including doing all actions which is funny since she didn't want anything to do with it last year.  She also said her lines perfectly.  She even did another girls' lines that was sick that night!  Might have an actress here... That was on the 16th.  Then we had the "plague" hit on the 17th.  My sister and I went out for some shopping that Friday night which was fun.  But, about an hour after we got home that night I started to not feel so good.  And then it hit....stomach flu.  I have never experienced the stomach flu before and I would not wish it on my worst enemy - wowsers it was awful!   I didn't get out of bed until Sunday night.  I finally made it downstairs to see the house totally destroyed...don't worry though, Shawn claims he was in control the whole time.  About an hour after getting up Ashlyn decided to start throwing up...then an hour later - Austin is throwing up...about 10 minutes later Shawn is throwing up  and a few hours after that Gabriella is throwing up.  This is NO joke.  It was a terrible few days we had.  I have never been so exhausted and done so much laundry and cleaned up so many peoples' messes in my life!  We ended up having to postpone the Turner Christmas for a week, Austin missed 2 days of school, we had to cancel all the boys going to the KSU game at the sprint center and had to cancel seeing Santa at church, it was just not fun.  The good news was that we were all a go for when Santa finally arrived.  Christmas was wonderful, the kids loved their new stuff and it was just nice to spend time together.  Shawn has had the whole week off which is always so awesome.  I love having him get some time off.  I am sad that it is coming to an end.  Although I do like schedules and routine so it will be nice to get back to school next week, but for now I LOVE sleeping in every day.  Even the kids have been sleeping in every day!  It's now time to get my party on..out with 2010 and in with 2011!!  Bring it on!!
Happy New Year!!