Valentines Dinner

For Valentines Dinner we triple dated with 2 other "Love"ly couples. We went to my all time favorite, go to once or twice a year restaraunts Ruths Chris. After we stuffed our faces with steak and Julies delicious stuffed chicken, we headed on down for a blast of a time at the Comedy Club! So much fun!

So the craziest thing, every time Trever and I would try and take a picture, we would get this white flash come out! But when we took pics of our friends, lo and behold, no white flash!! Whats up with that? We even tried to move to different areas of the table but still a white flash ahh!!

Julie and Mark

Jenny and Justin

Pee Pee in the Potty

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Literally 10 seconds ago Madelyn went pee pee in the potty!!! Does this mark the end of diapers for her? I THINK SO!!! WHEW!! GO MOW MOW!

Quads Turned 3!!!

Parker, Madelyn, Preston and Dahlia are 3 Now!!! I will let the pics tell all about their

"Little Monster Bash 3rd Birthday Party!"

The kiddos loved the clown!
Lindsey and her adorable son Colston

The Mossman family! Adorable!

Eva and her two best friends from school Olivia and Rebecca

Mamaw and Preston! Mamaw was so amazing and she did the incredible cornucopias of fruit for us!

Savannah and Eliza! Love these twins :)

Our cute little neighbor Gracie

Dahlia the tiger

Praew is Hailee's best friend. She is a foreign exchange student from Thailand and we love her to pieces!

OMG the Allens.... LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!! Julie made the most amazing cake balls for the event!

Getting faces painted

Sadie, Stacy and Shane Dickerson and Mieka and Tony Valdivieso Love them all!!

My favorite brother and mother!! Thanks mom for all your help!

Madelyn Trever and our sweet Nana

My dade with Liana and Hailee. My dad is so amazing! He drove all the way from Corsicana and back just to be here for the party! Love you dad!

My sweet husband and I

Dahlia Bear, Sukinawa, Suki

Liana, Flauta, Luwanda

Parker, Macho P

Preston, Meat, Junia

Madelyn, Mow Mow, Madelee

Eva the Diva, Eva Dovia

The dessert table minus Julies cake balls

I cannot believe they are 3!! Yay we have made it!

PS the names above are all of their nicknames:) Thank you to all who came and for all of the presents! Our kiddos were in heaven!!!

Madelyn

Madelyn-

She has been doing great! She is the tallest of the quadruplets and she probably is the most advanced in speech. She is starting to talk about going potty. We have tried a few times with potty training but she wasnt too into it. Since she is in preschool, we are going to try and potty train her during spring break so that she can have consistency over that whole week! Mon. Wed. and Fri. Shis is home with Dahlia and Liana so it has been fun to spend more time with her with less kids at home. She is learning to count and loves to say prayers at dinner time!

Here she is pushing Dahlia around in the stroller! Such a little mommy!

The Chaos That I Love

Last week was a really hard week for us. Dahlia was admitted into the hospital with pnuemonia. It all started on a Wednesday when Dahlia very first woke up, she threw up. She kinda was choking while throwing up but then she acted fine for the rest of the day. My kids all kind of have a week stomach (they get that from their dad) so I didnt think too much of it. Friday she started coughing and running a fever. She didnt have very much energy and just wanted to lay around all weekend long. We were able to keep her fever low and we were just thinking that maybe she had a flu bug. On Monday, she literally would not get up off of the couch and she didnt even want to walk.. Liana also began running a low grade fever with a cough so I told Trever I would take them both in to the after hours care when he got home from work.

I took them that evening and both had ear infections. They hooked Liana and Dahlia up to an oxygen saturation monitor. Liana was doing fine but the doctor thought she had RSV. Dahlia was not good at all. She was satting at 80! As you are reading this, you are most likely satting at 100. Doctors do not like to see anything below 95 for a normal healthy person. When the nurse saw this, she ran out of the room to grab the doctor. Without doing an actual swab, she diagnosed Dahlia with RSV as well. They hooked her up to oxygen machines and they rushed Dahlia in an ambulance to Dell Childrens.

When we got to the hospital, they did the actual test for RSV and it came up negative. But xrays showed her lungs were completely filled with fluid and diagnosed her with pnuemonia!!! They were very very worried and they admitted her into intermediate care (very serious). Long story short we were there for 3 days trying to delicately balance keeping Dahlia hydrated without overloading her with more fluid, getting the fluid out of her lungs, and also making sure all of this increased fluid wasnt putting more stress on her heart (remember she has a hole in her heart)

It was very very scary. We had a ton of friends and family covering the kiddos at home so that Trever or I could stay with Dahlia the whole time in the hospital. The children had a really hard time with Dahlia being away in the hospital and they were all very very worried about her. It was a really trying 3 days and poor Dahlia was really ready to be out of there... She finally was able to keep her oxygen saturations up on the 3rd day and was able to come home! Honestly, I thought we were going to be in there alot longer as her lungs looked terrible.

What all of this made me realize is that my day to day life is chaotic. Very very chaotic. 6 kids 4 and under is really really hard. There are very few minutes in the day for Trever and I just to sit. We spend all of our spare time cleaning. After this past week I realized that I really do love my chaos! By not being with my children at home, or my husband, or the thought of being without Dahlia made me realize that the chaos I live with is what defines me, its what I love and what keeps me going each and every day! I love each one of my kids so much and I feel so blessed for each and every one of their precious lives! My life is a daily challenge, one that I feel so proud I am able to accomplish each day!

Thank you for all the prayers we recieved for our children! I know they truly would not be here if they hadnt been blessed by those who have been praying for them!!

Eva was really really worried about Dahlia and had a really hard time at preschool. Her teacher sent this picture to us that Eva made:

Here is Dahlia getting ready to leave her room! She was sooooo excited to go home!

Happy Birthday Trever!

Mark and Julie
Justin and Jenny

Sheri and Matt

Trever and I on his Bday

Yep Trever turned 30 on January 14th and has the gray hair to prove it!

I am so proud of him and his accomplishments! He is such a great father and husband. We work so well together in our home and we are best friends! I threw a big 30th birthday bash for him and for some reason took only one pic of the night ugh! We had a full house of some amazing friends and we were never short of laughs! Luckily my really great friend Sheri threw a 30th birthday party at her house for her husband Matt that next weekend so I was able to get some pics there :)

Happy Birthday Baby Cakes :)

Our Christmas Sunday Best 2011

Liana

Madelyn

Dahlia

Eva

Preston

Parker

The King Family Christmas Day 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas this past year! My mom has moved down to Austin so we were able to spend it with her! The kiddos were visited by Santa and they sure were on the "good list" I just love how it fell on Sunday so that we could go to church and remember what Christmas is all about!