We have some busy days ahead. We leave on Friday for a much needed trip to Wisconsin! It's our 1st real road trip with the boys and 1st vacation with the boys. For weeks now Jason and I have been preparing list after list to make sure we will have everything needed for a two week trip.
Our 1st stop will be in Indiana to meet up with the Blakemore/Kiefer crew. It will be a quick over-night stop, but the Kiefer boys and Meade boys can't miss the opportunity! We can't wait!
After the Indiana stop we are off to Lodi, WI where the boys will have plenty of family to love and hold them every second of the day. There are a lot of fun events planned for the boys and our visit so thank you to all of you who have put the time into making their 1st visit to Wisconsin the greatest.
Next stop will be Milwaukee and that is where the remainder of my vacation will be. Jason, his dad, brother, cousins and a few friends will be in Canada for a week so Grandma CiCi, the boys and I will be holding down the fort.
I am sure you can only imagine the amount of stuff we would have to pack to go on such a trip when you have 17mos old triplets; fortunately many friends and family were kind enough to hunt down all the big items we will need while away....THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU! No U-Haul for us!
In the last two weeks we have been busy, busy...as always. We had some friends in town for a long weekend. Melissa, her daughter, Maddie and Mitch came to join the crew for a few days. We took them for a fun trip of tubing down the river in the mountains. Had some run-ins with some mean rapids that flipped a few of us off our inter-tube, but it was a blast! Later that day Jason ran back to Knoxville to pick up the boys and our babysitter and off we all went to a pool party in Maryville for the evening.
The boys swam, the adults played corn hole (bags for some of you) and then we had our 1st bad accident with Skyler. Skyler was walking with me and our friend/babysitter, Grace around the pool when he lost his balance and fell on the corner of the diving board. He hit his eyeball and his eye was instantly swollen and black and blue. On Monday we took him to the Dr. and then to Childrens hospital for some xrays to make sure he hadn't fractured anything...the result came back fine and Sky was a trooper. You will see some pics below.
The rest of Melissa and Maddie's visit was pretty low-key. Jason and Mitch got out to Golf for an evening and us girls hung with the kiddos.
The boys are doing great. We continue to try the training potty out. Asher sits with his book and I always get to do the pee-pee dance! Good job Asher! I know we are so far from the actually training, but the sooner we can get them comfortable with it, the better. They are not far from 2 years old you know! If we can have them trained by 2.5 I will be one happy camper!
To date I believe we have one new word and that is "tree". It is funny what words the choose to pick-up on.
Yesterday afternoon, we loaded the boys up and took them into Pigeon Forge (near the mountains) for some live outdoor bluegrass music. We had a nice little grassy area for them to run around. The bands ended up coming on later than we had anticipated so by the time the music was ready to take off the boys were ready to go home. They enjoyed what they got to hear, but hopefully next year will be better. WDVX, which is a local TN station put on the event and our boys were lucky enough to have their pictures taken by the station. It should be up on their website in the following days.
That is about that for updates. Wisconsin here we come! Wish us smooth and safe travels! Love to you all!
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| Sky after the hospital. |
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| Ryder and Maddie |
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| Sky and Maddie |
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| Asher getting ready to play ultimate frisbee...peekaboo style. |
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| Look at all my teeth!!! |
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| Ash |
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| Ryder |
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| Sky |
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| Ash listening to the banjo tune-up |
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| Ryder and Sky lovin' the music |
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| Proud Dad |
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| Asher |
