Two drunken driving incidents in less than four months in which a woman drove drunk with her children in the car led to jail time and the loss of a driver's license for Mari-Teresa Price, 36, of Corvallis.

Price pleaded guilty Tuesday in Benton County Circuit Court to two counts of driving under the influence of intoxicants and two counts of recklessly endangering. She also pleaded no contest to a charge of fourth-degree assault.

At Price's sentencing, Benton County Deputy District Attorney Mike Flinn outlined the underlying incidents of the three separate cases that resulted in the charges:

In April, police were called to Adams School by people who saw Price, drunk, trying to leave a soccer practice with her children in her vehicle. Officers saw Price stumble as she tried to get in her vehicle, which she then started to drive away.

In July, police were called to Willamette Landing community pool. Price was drunk, throwing up and naked from the waist down. She had driven to the pool with her two children and another child in the vehicle.

When police contacted her, Price was passed out next to a fence. She was taken to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, where an initial blood draw showed her blood-alcohol content was 0.52 percent. Three other samples, which were sent to the Oregon State Police lab, showed percentages of 0.50, 0.45 and 0.53. The highest reading was taken about two and a half hours after her arrest, Flinn said.

The next day, police and medics were called to her house. She had drunk half of a bottle of vodka and was vomiting blood.

Three days after that, Price got in an argument with her husband and brandished a knife. Her husband was able to get the knife away from her, but cut himself in the process, leading to the assault charge.

Judge Locke Williams was stunned at the 0.53 blood alcohol level.

"I haven't kept official tabs, but I think that's the highest I've ever had in my court," he said. "I don't know how a person survives a .53."

He noted there were at least three documented incidents of Price, who had a 2005 DUII conviction in Georgia, driving with her children while intoxicated.

"I think you're fortunate that you didn't kill them," Williams told Price.

"I know I have a problem," a tearful Price said as she addressed the court. "I love my family more than anything. I know I need to get better."

Williams said she needed to take advantage of the treatment if she wanted a chance to make things right with her family.

"If you don't right this ship, then you have lost them," he said.

Price was sentenced to 180 days in jail, but she will be eligible to enter a residential treatment program after 90 days. If she successfully completes treatment, the remainder of her jail sentence will be suspended. She also must serve 24 days on a work crew and will be on supervised probation for 36 months.

Charges of reckless driving, refusal to take a breath test, reckless endangering, contempt of court and driving while suspended were dismissed as part of the deal, as were two additional counts of reckless endangering.