Merry Christmas to All!

We all would like to wish all of our friends and family a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We will be spending Christmas as a family here at home (luckily all of our family lives in Indy:-) and are looking so forward to seeing the triplets' faces on Christmas morning when they get to open their gifts. This Christmas will be a far cry different from last years'! Heck Bryan and I were so sleep deprived that we can hardly remember what we even did!!! What I do remember though is how overwhelmingly thankful we were to have our three beautiful babies home healthy and well even after all that they had been through so far in their short little lives. Hope everyone has safe travels and wonderful family moments:-) Hope you enjoy this next picture of the triplets experiencing snow for the very first time:

And here are two very fun videos of the triplets. The first one is kind of long but it will put I smile on your face I promise:-) People always ask us, "It must be so hard with triplets...I don't know how you do it!" Well, yes it is hard but it is moments like these that just prove how wonderful of a thing it is to be a parent of triplets:-D

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Christmas Time!

The weekend of Thanksgiving, Bryan and I feverishly decorated the house and put up the Christmas tree to get the holidays started....well, and to get ready for Amanda to come take our family Christmas pictures! She of course did another amazing job...especially considering these three little hooligans are SO busy! Here is a sampling of some of our favorites...hope you enjoy:-D

So Much to be Thankful For!

We truly have so much to be thankful for!!!! So Thanksgiving is a very special holiday for us because we get to spend time with family and truly reflect on how blessed our lives really are. Now don't get me wrong...we appreciate all that we have all year around but sometimes we get caught up in day to day life and sometimes we feel we haven't really stopped to thank God enough for all that we have. I could of course go on and on about what we are thankful for but of course at the top of our list is our three precious children and the fact that despite their rough beginning, God has given them their health. I often don't feel like I can be thankful enough for that! At this point, it is hard to imagine what life really was like for Bryan and I before our three little miracles came into our lives. What we do know though is that they are the best things that have happened to us since we found each other and for that we are forever THANKFUL!

As far as Thanksgiving Day went...it was wonderful!!! We spent the day at my mom and dad's house and Bryan's mom also joined us. I always love spending time with the whole family together and it is great to see the triplets play and interact with their grandparents. We all chipped in for a delicious dinner that turned out great! Harry, Olivia and Madeline got to eat their first real Thanksgiving Dinner too...they loved it! Especially the pumpkin pie for dessert;) They all of course have mommy and daddy's sweet tooth! Here are a couple of pictures from the day:
The family on Thanksgiving Day

Madeline riding mommy's rocking horse....this thing got a serious work out by me when I was little and Madeline loved it just as much...can we say future equestrian?!?!? ;-D

I think the turkey did Olivia in!

Harry LOVES his Grampy:-)

They're ready to eat!

Madeline playing with my parents' dog, Darma

Harry sitting on the footstool like a big boy

My mom and dad with the kiddos

And of course I had to include a few random pictures from the last couple of weeks:-D

Playing with Daisy...they LOVE Daisy and she is so good and patient with them.

Harry and Daddy...he was pretending to be a super hero in his cute pajamas;-)

Madeline

Harry playing with his truck

We took the kiddos to Holland Park a couple of weekends ago since it was unusually warm out. Here is Madeline trying out daddy's hat...she is of course a Colt's fan;-D

Olivia playing on her bouncy zebra

Harry...such a cutie!

Look! We are brushing our teeth!

Here they all are playing together...it is so much fun to watch them!

Madeline can now point to your nose when you ask her where it is...she was showing Daddy where his nose was:-)

So much fun to play on the couch!

Madeline watching Daddy put up the christmas lights...she was fascinated!

We got Christmas pictures taken of the family by Amanda last weekend so as soon as I get those I will be sure to share! Happy Christmas shopping until then:-D

Trick or Treat!

Harry, Olivia and Madeline got to go trick-or-treating for the first time this Halloween! We had so much fun with them and our three "little bugs" were a big hit:-) We met up with our good friends the Kline's and our friends from Louisville, the Angermeier's so that the triplets could trick-or-treat with their buddies Garrett and Addie...they were all so cute! Here they all are ready to go:


Here everyone is going to their first house to say, "trick-or-treat!"....well sort of;-)

Daddy pulling the trio along by the scary spider...well actually only mommy thought it was scary...the kiddos loved it!

Here we are with our first lollipops...we decided it was a special occasion;-)

Heading back home after a big evening of trick-or treating...that's "uncle" jeremy pulling us:-)

Olivia the ladybug

Madeline the bumblebee

Harry the spider

Whew! So exhausted after such a big evening...can't wait for next year:-D