Family Rodeo Fun

 We were able to go to the rodeo for a quick family night a few weeks ago. It was fun but we aren't built for late nights with school the next day. It was fun to walk through the steer show before hand though and run into some friends.

Cheer Tryouts

Katelyn made it through another cheer tryout and is so excited for next year's Varsity team. There are 15 girls this year and 8 of them will be freshman, two of which are some of her very favorite people!!  Yay Charlotte & Abby!

Excited for another fun year of cheer!

 

Kyler Lately

My baby you will always be! Love this sweet smile!

We decluttered Kyler's room a few weeks back and he decided to make this bookshelf his antique display. He's got quite the collection.

Kyler was one of the January Reading Raffle winners and got to attend a floral  arranging class at the High School. He did a great job and let me keep the flowers!!

Last Valentine exchange for elementary school.....

 
 

Kyler played and Lex coached his team in the SPURS Youth Basketball League this year. They had a great little team and did really well overall. This past weekend, they had a tournament and ended up getting 3rd place after losing against the other Poth team by 2 points in the last second, it was an exciting game!

This is what Kyler thought of most of the season....

Until they got a giant trophy, a tshirt, and a new basketball. Now it's his favorite sport :)

A little sibling chess time.

UIL Academics - 5th Grade

3rd Place Individual - Listening

2nd place team - Listening

Best Alternate Individual - Number Sense

1st place team - Number Sense

6th place Individual -  Ready Writing

1st place team - Ready Writing

So proud of all his hard work this year at UIL. It paid off!

Boys being boys....opening up the inside of an old laptop just because!

And reading everywhere he goes!

 

Levi Lately

Rodeo with Friends

Driving at the ranch with Pappy

Adventures on the canoe at the ranch. I didn't know this thing still floats!

Cutie

Always playing with the features on my car, phone, computer, etc. He loves technology!

7th Grade Discus & Track (800 and 1600)

 

Meet Cookie

 Welcome to the family, Cookie!

She's a 4 year old Mini Poodle, who was owned by some friends of ours as a breeding pup. They are phasing out of breeding and asked if we would like to have her and we jumped at the chance. She's the sweetest thing ever, we are all so in love!

Three days after we got her, two neighbor dogs made it into our backyard and attacked her. Lex and I were right there but it happened so quick we couldn't prevent it. Lex immediately got down and tackled the dogs, prying open their jaws, and doing whatever he could to save Cookie. I was kicking and screaming at them while trying to reach in and grab Cookie when they let go. It was horrific. It's hard to know how long it lasted, it felt like 4-5 minutes of fighting these dogs off. Finally Lex got them off and I swooped in and grabbed her up. 

We hopped straight into the truck and drove to the vet. They were amazing and took great care of her. She ended up having a 3 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and several large open wounds (so deep they could see her liver). They gave her a feeding tube and IV antibiotics as well. They sewed her all up and she stayed there for 4 nights until she could eat and relieve herself on her own. 

Here she is on Friday, the day after it happened.

And then Monday...

Tuesday she came home!

She's on strict restriction to stay in her crate so she doesn't try to run and jump with broken ribs and stitches. She's not a fan, but she is finally relaxing in her crate for longer periods of time, which we need her to do so we can leave the house every now and then too!

We are amazed she is alive and so thankful for her sweet go-with-the-flow personality! Getting a new dog is an adjustment, but this past week has been a lot! The kids love her so much though (Lex is probably the most protective of her :) so it's all worth it!

Lex and I both got bit too, mine required 3 stitches on my ring finger and Lex's was between his thumb and forefinger, a deep puncture but didn't require stitches. So glad it wasn't worse that that!