preschool

We got Sam's preschool packet in the mail today and he is so excited to start school in the fall!! I am excited also just seeing the amounts in writting has made me very sick to my stomach all day!! I have been crunching numbers and it is going to be a very tight this fall and winter!! I'm going to have to let go and let God on this one!! Sam has been talking about going to school for over a year now and he just can't wait!! Now I just have to figure out how to get into the carpool without carpooling!! Guess I better be getting to know these other mothers!!!!!! Whats nice is that they have mommys day out at his school while he is there on mondays or Tuesday so the trips could go to!! However to send three to MDO cost just as much as sending Sam to preschool!! My little man is growing up!!

thankful

The kids are eating me out of the house and out of the wallet!! The price of groceries are insane to feed a family of 7!! We are spending on average 150-200 a week during the summer and this does not include diapers, wipes, laundry deo. and cleaning products!! I can't imagine how expensive it will be when the boys get older!! They already eat like crazy. We average approx. 9 gallons of milk a week!!!! It's like I need to get a part time job just to feed us!! Thank God for MOMS!! My mom always picks extra things up for us everytime she grocery shops and Rick's mom shows up with diapers and wipes every few weeks!! Gotta love our helpers!!
So since I am on the subject of grocery shopping we took the trips with us to the grocery store for the first time this past weekend!!! Man was that a mistake!!! No really it was an ok experience except for the entire shelve of glass jelly's that shattered all over the floor!! I was glad daddy was pushing that strollers so he took just as much fault has little Jax!! I didn't panic at all actually I just started laughing!! I mean if we are in a store for over and hour and the worse thing that happens is broken jelly jarS then that's pretty good!!

approaching 30 very fast

Yeah yeah so most people freak out about growing older!! Are you kidding me not this lady!! I look at life in stages now and if 30 means I'm out of the biting, taking diapers off, Autumn bored because school is out and Sam mad because Autumn won't play with him stage then bring on the 30"s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I remember my parents in their 30's and I would easily say it was the best part of their parenting lives!! Yeah there were ups and downs but more ups in that stage so I can only hope my 30's compare to theirs!! I have a little over 6 months left in my 20's. I wouldn't say I have accomplished some things I had planned on however 5 kids before 30 put a little damper in my dreams lol!! I have asked my husband for a trip with just the two of us for my birthday instead of a party! Lets just hope our budget will allow this because I have yet to take a real vaca with just him and that is exactly what I would like to do to kick off a new decade. now turning 40 might be different because that means I will have 5 drivers and that is just scary! Our house will look like a car lot!!! I have one last goal before I turn 30 and that is to lose 30 pounds! 30before30! The triplets are my personal trainers they have me running, squatting and twirling all the time!!! I'll let you all know how the weigh loss is going. December 28th I will officially be 30 :)

Weekend

wow, I never am glad for weekends to come to an end but man this one wore me out!! Yesterday we headed to the zoo, in the afternoon, and it was completely dead!! So it was a multiples mom dream come true!! The boys really took interested in the animals this time!! The Giraffe was the fav.. Sam decide he was going to give all the animals names!! For some reason like 8 of the animals all got the name "little brown eyes"! He is quit the character!! You know every mom says I think we should leave you with the monkey but I'll tell ya I think the monkeys might have been afraid of my boys!! So, we decide to try the splash park at the Zoo. Let me first start out by telling you that I hate the Splash Park!! I mean come on, we go to the zoo to see animals and the water park to get wet how in the world did those two things get combined. You see when you already have to pack a diaper bag for three the last thing you want to lug around also is a beach bag!! To top it all off, then you have wet kids who want to go to the inside exhibits!! Sorry, just not a fan of the Splash Park in the middle of the Zoo!! Anyways......I gave in and took the kids!! It was just our luck that as soon as we got the trips into their swim trunks they turned off the water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To be completely honest my hubby and I were OK with that because the trips weren't wet so it saved us wrestling with them to change again!! Luckily we didn't get stopped by to many people wanting to know if they were triplets(that gets old fast). All and all it was an amazing day!!

Fathers Day...our maybe we should have called it mom will take care of all the poop day!!

So I woke up to a dog that apparently had been sick all night. YIKES!! So I started the day shampooing carpets. Then I made my way into make my husband a yummy breakfast, while he was eating he said "um Westin took his diaper off and poop is everywhere!! So I got to shampoo the carpets AGAIN!! Rick's family had a little shin dig today!! It was intersting! Nothing like being at a house that isn't childproof! We must look like idiots because everyone is sitting down visting(or gossiping) while Rick and I chase kids cussing under our breaths! We are now ALWAYS the last people there and the VERY first to leave :)!! I think Rick enjoyed his day though! I'm sure in the years to come it will be better when he can go fishing with his boys and hangout with them instead of chasing them!! I hope everyones day was grand!

Benjamin, Westin and Jaxen

The boys are 17 months and man are they a real handful!! Ben is a climber so he has me running a lot!! He thinks it is funny to see how fast he can get me to react!! I wonder if he will be like that in his teenage years?? Lord lets hope not!! Wes is a sweet little guy who never stands up for himself!! You would think after being bitten by Jax all the time he would already know how to throw a good punch! An then their is Jax my little biter!! He is also or little athletic kid! I'm pretty sure he is going to be my first to break a window!! M.O.M. mom of multiples who would have ever thought!! My husband just had to have that third child!! But I could never imagine one with out the other they are just a true trio!! I love my babies!!

So here I am blogging for the first time!! Most people wonder where I find the time to blog and that simple in between wiping butts, feeding mouths, breaking up fights and asking God what the world he was thinking!! See.... before I could even write this next sentence I had to go hand out hotdogs!! Food is the way to their hearts or maybe it just the way to get them to stop fussing?!?! Anyways, here is my story: a mom of 5 before 30!! Autumn is 8, Sam is 4 and my triplets: Jax, Ben and Wes are 17 months! Life is crazy, their are a lot of smiles and a lot of tears!! The smiles way over weights the tears(most of the time)! The point of this blog is to let our friends and families into our lives on a daily basis!! If you are looking for a good laugh or a good cry you will probably find it on this blog! I will be sharing all of our ups and downs, laughs and tears, joys and boys and all the funny things that come out of my kids mouths! Somedays you will think I am nuts while other days you will say that girl is a saint!! Hope you all enjoy my new Blog: check back daily to see what we are up to!!!