Six Years

My hubby, Brian, and I celebrate our sixth year anniversary today.  What a wonderful six years it has been... but I have to say, this past year tops them all.  I remember last year on this day, we celebrated from the comfort of my hospital room.  Brian surprised me with bringing Italy to my room... Italian food, Italian music, flowers, and pictures of Italy playing on the TV.  It was as romantic as it could get in our situation at the time (we just had to ignore the beeping monitors, nurses, and me feeling so incredibly preggo).  We were also able to give each other an awesome gift of becoming debt free. 

I remember just wondering and talking about our future and what the next year was going to be like.  And Wow, this year has been the best year of my life.  From welcoming our three baby girls, to raising those three baby girls, and watching Brian become a father.  A part of him I had never known before.  You feel like you know someone so well and then they become a parent and exceed all expectations.

Although this year has been the best, raising triplets has been no easy task and it comes with its challenges.  The fact that Brian and I have made it through probably the toughest year of our lives amazes me.  Our relationship is stronger and we've learned more about each other.  We have become even better teammates than before.  We communicate, compromise, and work together.  We respect each other and always always always say Thank You.  That is some of our biggest advise to newlyweds.  Appreciate what the other has done for you and acknowledge them for that.  Its so simple and goes such a long way.  With the amount of things we do each day, we say a lot of thank you's.  Brian makes sure I know that what I do each day (stay at home with the babies) is amazing.  I make sure he knows that I appreciate him taking care of the house, going to work, and taking a midnight shift.

 

 

 The babies just love him so much.  I see it in their reactions when they see him.  They are genuinely happy and then cry if they aren't the first to be picked up.  It has been incredible to watch him as a father and I love his relationship with our daughters.  We are so thankful to have him in our lives. Happy Anniversary, Brian! I love you!

 

Triplet's First Christmas

I know I'm a little late with this post but we had so many celebrations that lasted to New Year's and then sickness hit the house so taking care of sick babies took priority.  Here is a compilation of A LOT of pictures from the past month.  It puts together everything for the girls' first Christmas.  It was such a special time to spend with them and with our families.  I know they won't remember it but it was fun to do all of the kid-like things and start our own traditions.  I tried to document every bit and piece (as you can see by the large amount of pictures below).  It went by in a whirlwind but I'm glad I will get to treasure these moments forever :)

 

The Country Club in our neighborhood had an open house with a snow hill and pictures with Santa.  We arrived promptly at 6 PM to find out that Santa won't be there for another 45 minutes.  Yikes, will the girls make it?  They get fussy around then and want to be fed.  But, they were troopers and we made it.



 

 

 

These are just some pics around the house in Christmas outfits.

 

 

 

Grandpa with his granddaughters. HO HO HO!

 

 

Meme with her granddaughters

 

 

You know how tacky Christmas sweater parties are popular right now?  Well, I decided to have tacky Christmas baby outfits.  However, they turned out more cute than tacky...

 

 

Ryley got in a lick.

 

 

The outfits my parents made the girls for our Christmas Card.

 

 

Christmas Eve.  We took a lot of pictures that day.  There are so many cute ones.

 

 

 

And this is one of my favorite pictures of the girls.

 

 

Time to eat some solids... In our Santa hats of course.

 

My precious babies :)



 

Christmas Morning



 

Ready to eat open presents.



 

 

Taylor and Ryley open presents the same way.



 

We packed up and headed over to Nana and Pawpaw's. 

 

 

Nana made the girls the most adorable hooded wraps for when it is cold.



 

We packed up again and headed for my parents house.  Our 3rd Christmas of the day.



 

 Aunt Steph and Uncle Beau getting in some quality triplet time.

 

 

Our first Christmas family photo turned out pretty good.

 

 

With MeMe and Grandpa.

 

 

I think the girls were a little spoiled this year...

 



 

On the 27th we took our first road trip with the girls to the hill country to my Aunt's house.  It is my Mom's whole side of the family and it is always a lot of fun when we get together.  This year was a little different though... there were 6... yes, 6... new babies.  All born between June and August.  Mine made up half of that, but I still think 6 is a lot of new family members for one family and I think it is so awesome that the girls will have (2nd) cousins their age.

 

In order for us to take this road trip, with 3 babies and a yellow lab, it took some strategic planning.  Luckily, my parents were able to follow us so they took Ryley in their car.  We purchased a cargo carrier off of Craig's list for the top of our Yukon.  And, we placed me in the 3rd row of seats so I could tend to the babies while we were driving.  We managed to get there in 6 hours which is normally a 4.5 hour drive.  I thought we did pretty darn good.  We used a crock pot set up in the back with me to heat up the milk so it would be ready to go when we stopped.  My parents had a little area left in their suburban to change diapers and stretch out a little.  I was able to keep the girls occupied while driving by singing songs, replacing pacifiers, and handing out toys (which they proceed to toss off the side of their car seat between the door where I couldn't reach).

 

While at the River House, our family got the larger guest room so we could set up 3 pack n plays and still have a play area for the girls.  It was a fun weekend and I had lots of 'baby holders'.  I can't wait to watch all of these kiddos grow up. They will have so much fun together.

 



 

Aunt Frances with Daisy.

 

 

Although she looks like my babies, this is Rylee with her Grandpa Joe.

 

 

Group pics with all the kiddos. 

 

 

Mallory decided it was time to come up on all fours... on a dining room table of all places.

 

 

This Christmas was so memorable with my baby girls.  I can't wait for years to come and see the excitement and magic on their faces.  I love being a Mom :)