Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

I CANNOT believe it is 2011. That is crazy beyond me! We had a wonderful Christmas this year. The babies had SO much fun....which made me and Josh have SO much fun too. It's so much fun watching their excitement. They LOVED opening presents...and wanted to play with the toys immediately after they were unwrapped (Big improvement from just the boxes and bows they were interested in last year!) We made a few stops in our days of celebrating...Christmas Eve at my mom's extended family's get-together, Christmas Day at home in the morning, Josh's grandma's for lunch, then my dad's family for the afternoon, Day-After with Josh's family, then Day after New Years at my mom's with her brother and his family....lots of running around, but lots of wonderful celebrations!

In my own photo collection i took over the holidays, i selected my favorites to put in a separate folder....which narrowed the 550 pics to a mere 150...so instead of sitting here uploading pics all night, i picked my favorite of each baby at each get-together to share with the cyber world.

Here we are all dressed up on Christmas Eve...

Uncle and Zach...

Avery "Rowing boats" with daddy...

the gang...

Colby chekin out the dancing snowman....not so sure what to think...

Mommy and her babies....

My sweet family...(josh had to work christmas eve and christmas day...so we had to make the most of the time we got to spend with him!)

Zach and his new favorite book...

Colby checkin out his new toys...

Avery excited about her princess chariot...

The 2nd favorite gift...bowls of cereal =)

CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!

Snuggles with daddy...

The christmas tree and gifts all ready to go!

Christmas Morning family pic...

Zach grabbed a toy and ran to hide with it! Only way to be safe around here!!! =)

Avery coloring on her new doodle board....they LOVE these!

Colby playing the new drum...with the new pot....

The big gift we had for the babies was transforming the basement into a playroom for them. We had the big 'reveal' on christmas morning...

Colby excited to have his pirate ship back!

Avery checking out the new kitchen...don't let this picture fool you....when she 'cooks', she puts everything in the microwave and pushes the buttons....i swear i use pots and pans!!!

Zach's FAVORITE! The new trampoline...

No such thing as too many cooks in the kitchen...

WORN out from a big morning...

Great-grandma Jenkins' house...with Avery...

Aunt Ronda's House...Colby and Uncle Mark....

Avery and Mamaw...

Cousin Kelly and Zach...

Celebrating with Josh's family....

Avery and her new pompoms from Aunt Jamie...

Colby and Elmo...

One of my best presents ever...with a very proud and wonderful papaw in the background...

Our New Year's Eve included a visit with Mamaw and some yummy chipotle for dinner....then bed by 8 for the babies and 10 for mommy...while daddy was at work.

New Years meeting at the new table...

Colby giving mommy a look at our last christmas celebration...

My sweet boy....

And the beautiful girl who looks in the mirror and says "Pretty" =)

AND i leave you with 2 videos of the cutest babies ever!!!
Their new favorite....

She's happy and she knows it!

Happy Holidays 2010!!

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you all had a great day! We sure did! We went to my moms and met all our family on all sides for a huge lunch then ran around mamaw's house like crazy kids the rest of the day!

We played her piano too!!

We had a wonderful visit with our families and were so happy to not have to make 3-5 stops with 3-1 1/2 yr olds!

Friday is kind of a blur...I left at 10:15pm Thursday night to start my Black Friday shopping...and was home by 7:30am to get up with the kiddos! Needless to say, i got tons of good deals and had a blast shopping with 2 of my fellow triplet mama's and great friends...but was EXHAUSTED!!

Saturday we relaxed and watched OSU beat Michigan..."yay" as the kids say!


Then we suprised them Sunday with a "pretty tree" in the family room when they woke up from naps.
Here's how it started...

Too hard to resist!

Little Lynus had a rough wake up from his nap, so he missed out on the low ornaments...but he now goes after the garland on the gate =)

And here's what it looks like tonight....notice the ornaments have moved up the tree to create a foot of clearance above the gate!?

And tonight...we took advantage of the great weather and went to the Festival Of Lights at the Zoo!

Getting ready to go in...Colby practicing his 'elephant' impression.

Started with a pit stop for daddy...sissy is saying "dada??"

Ahh...Daddy's back...here he is with the babies in the "pretty lights"

and again on the candycane trail...

We had dinner while watching the puppet show...

We met a penguin and gave him high 5's

We rode the merry go round for the first time...(not mommy's best side)

and all ended up riding on the bench...good planning on our part to pick the animals right in front of the bench!!

We met frosty the snowman...

And Santa's reindeer...

And you guessed it...paid a rediculous amount of money for our beautiful family pic with santa...i mean....We Saw The Man HIMSELF....SANTA!!!!

(Avery screamed and clung to me like glue when i tried to put her on his lap...and clearly the boys didn't like him either...but afterwards, they got a candy cane and all said "hi" to him...progress)

Got a family pic taken by the big tree...

And ended our night with their favorite animal at the zoo...

and wore one little girl out!

(and her mommy and daddy too! Goodnight!)

the past month...

so i am totally failing as a blogger...but wanted to let you know what (who) has been keeping me so busy in the past month!!

Lots of fall fun....at the pumkin farm....

back to Garver Farms again...last year's pic...

this year's pic...

(is this really possible?! i cannot believe it has been a year since we were there last!!)

Halloween Morning...


Halloween evening, ready for trick or treating!!


Our triplet friend's birthday party. This was the "baby play area"...in this pic are my 3 friends, and most of their families...so 4 families pictured...missing 3 siblings....that's a lot of kids!!

Lunch before the party at cracker barrell!


My sweet 19 month olds!! (they are sitting on the roof of their pirate ship...so i was trying to hold on tight...and no i don't have a mullett....the light is doing something funky to my hair!)

Going on walks...even though it's getting a little chilly, we have very cute winter gear to show off!

and the best part of this post....we've been practicing our dance moves...

avery's favorite dance partner is really colby, but he just isn't really into dancing with her!! we're working on that though!

we have so much to be thankful for this year! topping the list are 3 healthy, happy, adorable toddlers....and much much more follows! happy thanksgiving everyone!

18 months old.....already!?!?!?

Here are my sweet sweet 18 month old babies! We went to the dr. last tuesday (3 shots each=NO funx3!) and they all got a perfect bill of health! Avery is still the shortest and lightest, but she's catchin up fast! She weighs 23lbs 2oz (18 months ago she was 3lbs 6oz!), and is 31.5"tall. She's in the 50% and 25% on the charts! Zach is 23lbs 8oz (18 months ago, 3lbs 4oz) and is 32.75" tall, also 50% and 25%! And the big boy Colby is 26lbs 6oz (18 months ago 3lbs 11oz) and is 33.25" tall, in the 75% and 50%!! While we were there, the dr. asked me how many words they said....i was caught way off guard, and guessed in the range of 12-20. When i got home though, i started listing everything they say, and the list is well over 30!!! Way to go talking babies! My all time favorite is "I yah yah"....I love you. They all say it, sponateously and on their own, and know exactly what they are saying, and it melts my heart every time!

We have had lots of fun with this wonderful (sometimes too warm!) fall weather! We went to HallZOOween last weekend at the Cincinnati Zoo! It was a beautiful day and a great time! They had "treat stations" around the zoo...and by far the favorite was the banana ("nana" station!)

(Snugglin with Mamaw! They're getting so big all 3 barely fit...and when they do fit....they aren't smiling, they are pushing to try to get their 'space' back!)

Yabba Dabba Dooo!!!
This weekend was my multiple's group fall festival! We had a blast! (And won the 'most original' costume contest!!) It was the perfect location for my crew to run around and have fun! We went on a trail walk through the woods, ate a yummy hot dog and mac and cheese dinner, went trick or treating and ate lots of treats....doesn't get much better than that!!

Fred and BamBam

Fred and Dino (this is pre-pumpkin accident. =( Colby found a little pumpkin and was carrying it across the yard and fell....and dropped the pumpkin...well his momentum was going towards the ground, and the pumpkin bounced up off the ground and they met in the middle with a big bump and scrape in the middle of his forehead)

Fred and Pebbles

The whole Flintstone Family

Fall Picnic

We had to run an errand tonight, of course right at dinner time, so instead of dividing and conquering (Josh stays home and feeds the babies and i go out...or vice versa) I packed dinner up and we all went together! We stopped at a park for dinner...and had a BLAST! Pretty much as soon as we "sat" (by sat i mean josh and i sat down on the blanket while the kids ran around and stepped on their food) down, 2 ducks must have smelled us coming. And once the kids saw them, they were in trouble! Avery chased one duck around waving at it and yelling "HI!" And the first thing Zach did when he saw it was made and "Elephant" noise...i guess looking at elephants in pictures makes them look about the size of ducks!....we'll have to work on that one! Then Zach ran after one and was talking to the duck in a language we couldn't understand....but i think he was explaining that the pieces of bread that Josh was throwing to it were going to be shared between the ducks and the babies....b/c that's exactly what happened. They all took turns (kids and ducks) eating the bread out of the grass. We didn't stay too long (hate that it's getting cold and dark so early!), but had tons of fun in the short time we were there!

This is when Zach was talking to them! Wish you could have heard it....it was hilarious! Maybe with a little bit of a french accent??


Here's Avery eating some bread...good thing the ducks were good share-ers


Left the hubby in charge of taking a pic of our picnic, and this is how it turned out...me with a freaky looking hand, and one child completely hidden by another...owell...we were at least all in the same place right?!


The ducks were not scared of us at all!! Just a little intimidated when the babies started chasing them...throught for a second they were going to come sit down on the blanket with us!! =)

Dinner Breakdown: Avery: A few bites of bread, some grass, and a bag of vanilla wafers she wouldn't give up on the way home. Colby: A few bites of his sandwich, and a vanilla wafer or 2 Avery passed to him in the car, Zach: A few bites of bread, some grass....he sits infront of avery, so no wafers =( Ducks:2 slices of cheese (who knew ducks ate cheese!?), and about 3 slices of bread, Cooper: (after we got home and were cleaning out the bags) 1/2 a piece of meatloaf! VERY Nutritional when you go to the park for dinner!