Breathe Weekend

 All 3 kiddos attended Breathe Weekend at Grace Bible at the end of January. It's a two night retreat where they spend the night at host homes with their grade levels girls and/or boys.  11th grade girls stayed at Pastor Erin's house with his wife and a few other mom leaders. She and Mercedes went together and had a great time! I grabbed a few pictures from facebook of her group dressed up as old ladies as they competed in a derby race on Saturday, so fun!!

Kyler's host Mom sent me this picture Saturday morning! He had a great time. He's got a great group of boys in his 6th grade class at church.

This is how he looked going to school Monday morning....I've never seen his face so puffy from lack of sleep, haha! It was worth it though!

I didn't get any pictures of Levi, but he and Bryce Deason went together and enjoyed it as well. The speaker they bring in is always teen focused and they come out of the weekend on fire for God! 

This was Lex and I's first weekend at home with no kids, ever, I believe! We've gone places overnight without them, but never been home and all three of them are gone. It was very weird and got too quiet for sure. We couldn't do much because Lex had his surgery the Monday before this, so our only outing was a drive to Seguin to pick up our favorite Sushi! If he'd been up for it, we would have gone to a nice dinner, but this will do. It was delish!

Lex's ACL Surgery

The Sunday before Christmas, Lex was playing basketball at the High School gym in the "old man's basketball league". He'd been playing for a few months and really enjoying getting back into the game and meeting some new guys from around the area. He even dunked the ball a few times, which he hadn't done in 20 or so years!! I had even gotten him some basketball shoes for Christmas, which he hadn't opened yet! 

BUT....he must have planted wrong and he tore his ACL! He called me and I got some crutches from Kim and Dean and had to go pick him up. He recovered fairly quickly but couldn't extend his leg completely and walked with a limp for about a month until we got the final prognosis from the doc. It was torn and he had the choice if he wanted to have the surgery. We decided he's too young to limp the rest of his life and have restrictions on what he can do, so we opted for surgery. 

Little did we know how hard the recovery is. We are two weeks out now and finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It was rough and way harder than we thought. He still can't bend his knee very well, the goal is to get it to 90 degrees by this point, but it is just too tight. He started PT last week, so it'll happen and is improving it's just slow. Not being able to drive is the hardest part, or let alone bend is leg enough to even fit in the front passenger seat.  Praying for a full recovery!

This is about a week and half after surgery, still very swollen!

My backseat driver! haha!

Progress!

STATE Cheer

                                                             Junior Year Cheer State competition! 

Poth ended up 8th out of 57 teams. It was a great show and they worked so hard for months to prepare. I went up with Mandy & Pamela and we stayed in the same hotel the girls stayed in this year and had a great time! We found some great spots to eat and toured around downtown Fort Worth in between prelims and finals! Lots of memories made!

Baked Food Show

 We had TWO winners this year in the Baked Food Show for Wilson County! Both Katelyn and Kyler won Reserve Champion for their candies this year. Katelyn in the Senior division and Kyler in the Junior division. They were so excited because that meant they got to be in the auction, where local companies and families "bid" (or donate) to them for winning. They each scored a lot of moolah!! Too much in my opinion, but they are stoked!

Kyler also got 5th place for his Unfrosted Cake, which we were super surprised about! We thought it was a major dud, but apparently a crumbly cake is a good thing! The taste was great, it just was crumbly, but the judges liked that! We'll have to keep that in mind for the future!

Chocolate Almond Toffee **Winner

Levi made Southern Pecan Pralines that were amazing!! We think they didn't know what a southern pecan praline was supposed to taste like, because they commented on the texture. We believe they were comparing them to the pralines you get a Mexican restaurant that are more caramel textured. Who knows, but they were delish!

Lemon Blondies...we knew these were a fail, but oh well!

Pecan Upside Down Unfrosted Cake

Butter Pecan Fudge **Winner

Kyler made his fudge 100% on his own. It's the 3rd year he's made this fudge and by far the best because he had to make it when I wasn't even home. Lex "supervised" from the couch on the other side of the room, which basically means he just made sure the house didn't burn down, haha! 

Levi and Katelyn did great as well, I just sat there and read the recipe for them while they did all the work! Moral support was the goal!