My Parent Trap: Catch up post

I've ignored the blog in the past months and now regret it. I have so many pics to post and not enough time to do it. We had a great Christmas break, January and February came and went - quick.

This morning Alex is going in for surgery on both his legs. He has what they call miserable malalignment...but they are only working on the bottom half of his legs. Lucky us. He started having knee pain towards the end of football season and then completely giving out during the tennis season. Since he has been restricted from all physical activity except straight forward running and lifting weights, he has been doing great. But one 1/2 hour of street basketball in the neighborhood and his other knee gave out.

We got second and third opinions from the best we could find... All said have the surgery and do it now. He will miss the rest of the school year and I know he is just heartbroken over it (insert :: rolling eyes here ::). He will also miss all that ridiculous TAKs testing... but he will be just fine and can do his work from home. We thought it would be easier if his siblings were gone for a half day at school. Jaz will be off from work for 6 weeks and I only have two weddings left until Fall (of course they are this weekend and next).

Spring break is next week and it is NEVER the second week of March. For once, my parents and family have spring break the third week and this year we have the second week. So all the help we planned on isn't panning out, but we can handle it. Every year for spring break we brainstorm on our adventure. We went to Florida one year and they had so much fun. Try driving 12 hours with 5 kids to the Florida panhandle. Last year we went camping, for the first time with all of them. This year, we are caretakers. Another adventure, just different. We are moving our adventure to July and heading out to West Texas to visit some land we will develop, camp in the heat, and scuba in the San Salamon Springs in Balmorhea. I'll update on his progress in a few days.