My Poor Baby Addy!!

This morning we went to our friend Braden's 4th birthday party...the girls were having a blast.  They were all eating cupcakes outside...so I took a picture of Addison...

then took a picture of Hailey....and then walked around the table to get a picture of Emily...
but before I could get a picture of  Emily, poor Addy started screaming like crazy and I saw a BEE on her face and then stuck on her arm!!!  Poor girl!  At first I thought her arm got stung...but after 5 minutes of holding her...we noticed her LIP!!
My sweet baby got STUNG!  The first bee sting.  I don't know if the stinger is on the inside or the outside of her lip as she won't let me near it...but she did down 3 popsicles...and she actually took some Benedryl so that's good....but she won't put ice on it or anything. 
Emily and Hailey and the other kids were so concerned.  Some were even rubbing her back.  So sweet.  
Now she's sound asleep in bed.  I just hope she's not allergic!  It's a good thing it didn't happen to Emily since she's allergic to everything!  I just feel so bad for her!  I hate that I can't DO anything for her and it's in the worst place!!  I love you Addison!!!  Thanks to all the moms for helping me with the other girls!  

Kara & Cory's Wedding Week!!

What a GREAT week!!!  Where do I begin?  Well, first of all, we drove down to Chicago to fly to Denver for my sister's wedding.  We met her fiance Cory at a parking place down there and then he flew with us so we could each have a girl on our lap!  It was FABULOUS to have his help but also quite comical because even WITH his help, we still looked pretty crazy trying to drag all of our luggage, kick 3 car seats around, pull 2 strollers, 3 babies, 3 backpacks, etc.  It was nuts!  But we made it!!  The girls did pretty well on the plane!  No melt downs or anything...Addy and Emily were very hyper and restless but at least that is doable. :)  Ryan got lucky cuz Hailey was on his lap and she slept for a little while!  Overall though, the trip there was great!  Then it was so fun to just hang out with my whole family and help get ready for the wedding. Thursday night was the Bachelorette party which was SO fun!  We went to one of our favorite places called the Grizzly Rose - a country line dancing place.  It was SO fun!! Then Friday was the Rehearsal....and this was another story. :)  The girls were NOT interested in going down the aisle.  Instead, they were having a blast taking every single pencil and welcome card out of every pew in the church. :)  They were running around like CRAZY and the only way they would go down the aisle is if someone held their hand or if we would chase them and pick them up.  We thought bribing them with cookies in Cory's pocket would work but for some reason, they could care less about cookies that night.  So Ryan gave it a 1% chance that they would go down the aisle...let alone hold their flower ball without whipping it at each other AND keep their headbands on (which they NEVER keep on for longer than 3 seconds).... After the rehearsal, we had the rehearsal dinner...but the girls were awful!  They were the worst they have ever been at a restaurant.  All of them were screaming, temper tantrums, throwing food, putting their face in a bowl of ketchup, not wanting to sit for anything, etc.  They were overly hungry and overly tired!! We finally took the girls outside and Ryan said "We are NOT having any more kids!" Haha!  Thankfully, Grandpa and Grandma Dooyema came to our rescue and came and picked the girls up and put them to bed so we could enjoy the rehearsal dinner and actually talk to people and eat in peace! :)  We were TIRED after that...and we just started praying the wedding day would go better!  

So, the day of the wedding, I was gone all day...getting my hair done with the other bridesmaids, helping Kara, taking pictures, etc.  Ryan and Kim and Kathy were with the girls and they were in charge of waking them up from their naps and bringing them to the wedding all dressed up.  :)  I was so surprised when the girls got there, because they all had their headbands on - and seriously, they NEVER keep those things on!  So I couldn't believe that.  Anyways, so the wedding begins...and all the bridesmaids and groomsmen start walking down the aisle.  I was the last one to walk since I was the Matron of Honor.  Usually, when you're in weddings, you stand in the back in  a nice line and you wait quietly before it's your turn to walk down the aisle.  You should have seen what it was like in the back.  Me and 3 other "helpers" (thank you!) were chasing the girls around the back of the church while the wedding was beginning.  We were trying to keep them quiet.  I probably gave them each like 15 peppermints just to keep them happy.  I was sweating.  :)  So I'm running around like crazy after the girls and then all of the sudden I realize I'm next so then I run over to the aisle and start walking slowly down the aisle acting like I was all put together.  Ha!  :)  So I get to the bottom of the aisle and I hand Cory some peppermints for the girls and then I take the twizzlers that I had hidden in my bouquet out and I turn around and start begging the girls to come down the aisle.  I was totally caught off guard by what I saw.  My beautiful baby girls were walking down the aisle WITH their headbands on WITH their flower balls and they were just looking so beautiful and doing SO WELL!!  I started bawling and my lip started quivering.  I expected to cry when my sister walked down the aisle but I had no clue I was going to cry like crazy when my girls walked down the aisle!  I guess I didn't even think they would DO it!  So anyway, the girls did a FABULOUS job and we were so proud of them!  I'll try to post the video that Ryan was trying to film of the girls coming down.  As you can see by the lovely :) quality of the video, Ryan was also VERY nervous with his shaky hands. :) Oh man... :) :) 

Anyway, the wedding was absolutely perfect.  And my sister was honestly the most beautiful and most happy bride I've ever seen.  I love you so much Sis and Congratulations to you and Cory!!!  

 Craig, Laura, Kamryn, Cory, Kara, Mom, Dad. Emily, Hailey, me, Ryan, Addy, Heather, and Kyle
The Bachelorette party on Thursday night
The Newlyweds!!!
Love you Sister!!

Absolutely gorgeous!!
Addy, Kamryn, Emily, Hailey

Trying to get a Grandchildren photo... :) 

Trying to get the girls to come down the aisle!!
Here they come!!!  

My dad and Kara surprised everyone with a choreographed dance to "My Girl."  It was SOOO cute and my dad has moves! :) 
Dancing with my girlies..

Cory and Hailey 

Ryan was the M.C. and one of the things he said was "Kara is a twin, she has nieces that are triplets.  The next number in that sequence is FOUR.  Cory, how does wedding night QUADS sound to you?"  By his look in this picture...I'm pretty sure I know how he feels about that. :) 
My amazing youth pastor and prayer partner Dave!  

So anyway, then we were supposed to fly home on Monday with Ryan's parents and leave Denver at 2:50p.m. We were just about out the door when we got a call that our flight was CANCELLED!  I couldn't believe it!  The only flight that we could take now...left at 9:50 p.m.  Which would put us in Chicago at 1:30....which would get us home after 3 A.M.  with 3 babies.  Yikes.  Then THAT plane got delayed....til 10:17 p.m.  Then we get on that plane and we sit on the runway til 11:10p.m.  We land in Chicago and get to the parking place...only to find that our battery was dead.  We got home and crawled into bed at 4:47 A.M. this morning. WHAT a long day.  The ONLY ONLY good thing about all of that was that I got to see a good high school friend at the airport...and the girls did sleep for the most part on the plane...even though they didn't go to bed til like 11:30 which is really 12:30 a.m. their time.  We all slept in til 10 a.m. today which was soooooo nice.  The girls were definitely worn out after our crazy busy week but overall, I know we all had a blast.  Always an adventure around here! :) 

 

Saying Prayers and Washing the Car

The other night, Addison wanted dinner so badly that I put her in her chair and then continued cooking, I turn around, and see her deep "in prayer" as she knows that she should pray first before she gets her food.  So cute that she folded her hands and closed her eyes without us telling her to!  

Washing the car with daddy
Daddy and Emily
Addy was hogging the bucket :) 
Snack time - Emily, Hailey, Addy - I love it when we don't even prop them up for pics like this. They get their snack...and then they all just went and sat on the stair together.  I love it that they are "buddies!" 
Emily and a lot of soap
Addison showing us her smile
Hailey giving directions about something :) 
Addy, Em, and Hailey
Enjoying a meal outside on the patio - loving summer!!!!

Good Day/Bad Day

Good Day...

Well the other day we got to go to another triplet mom's house for a playdate.  It was super fun!  The kids had a blast and so did we!  This is the mom that I talked about in my post a while ago about the Mastercard Commercial where she has a 3 year old, and triplets the same age as the girls, and then she's pregnant again after they thought they couldn't have any more!  Wow!!  Hopefully we can get together again soon!

From left to right (Hayley, Addison, Cole, Cameron, Emily, Hailey, Lauren)
All the kids eating lunch.  

Hailey is our little flirt...so does it surprise you that she's stuck in between Cameron and Cole (also identical) :)  All I know is if we ever have triplets again (ha), I would definitely be getting one of these tables.  SOOO much easier to clean instead of 3 high chairs!!  

Okay so that was the good day....

now today we've had a bad start to the day.  

We were headed to the zoo this morning, so I put the girls in their carseats all strapped in.  Emily was crying so I gave her my keys to play with and then ran inside to grab some sunscreen.  I come back outside like 1 minute later...and all the car doors were shut.  And I was like...Uh oh... then I looked...and ALL of the doors were LOCKED.  So all 3 girls were staring at me through the windows and I'm thinking "ahh!  what do I do?"  They are STUCK inside the car..WITH my keys...and I don't have  spare !  THANKFULLY Emily hadn't dropped the keys yet...so through the closed window, I start telling her to push the buttons again.  She pushed and pushed all sorts of them.  The alarm was going off, everything.   The trick was that she had to push the unlock button twice in a ROW.  So it took about 5 minutes of this...and then finally, she did it!!  i was soooo proud of her!  AND so thankful that it was Emily that had the keys because she is my little detail princess so she was happy to figure out our little problem.  I can just see it...if Addison would have had the keys, she would have done a little squeal and threw them across the car and THEN what would I have done.  :)  Hailey is a little tease so if she knew I wanted the keys, she probably would have hid them from me and giggled or something.  Ohhh man.  SO then I was all frazzled and now we were late so I quick drove to the zoo and just as we're pulling up I realized I forgot my wallet and my zoo pass.  So back to the house we go.  Then we go BACK to the zoo...and then met up with friends...and then somewhere at the zoo, Addy managed to lose her shoe (her pink croc...which is ALLL they wear!!!)  So...I ran all over the zoo looking for it but couldn't find it...so now when they wake up, I guess we're going shoe shopping!  What a day! :) 

Northern Bay 2009!

We're back!  We just got back from our annual vacation to Northern Bay Resort (a resort like 45 minutes past the Wisconsin Dells).  We go with the Dooyema's and the Otten family (who Ryan's family has vacationed with for years!)  It was a blast AGAIN and we had perfect weather and lots of laughs.  The group keeps growing which is so fun!!  The girls LOVED it this year.  We want to go back! :) 

The Dooyema clan

This pic sums up how Ryan felt after attempting several family and group photos with the girls... :)   haha

Ryan and Addison, Grandpa and Hailey, Uncle Shane and Emily.  

Braden, Emily, Hailey, Tyler, Addy
The girls loved the hot tub water and once they got used to that, they weren't huge fans of the pool! (Emily, Hailey, Addy)
So this looks like Addison took a spill....but nope..she was found just laying in the sand like this making "sand" angels.  She LOVVVEESS the sand! :)
Emily pointing to boats... 
Hailey, Emily, Addison
More boat watching...
Playing at the kiddie pool

Then, these next pics are from the 4th of July!  My BFF Heather and her hubby Evan have lived here for 5 years (I was spoiled)  but now they're moving back to Sioux Falls to be by family....and now they are expecting!!!  Yay!  So...on the 4th of July, we threw a going away party/couple's baby shower party for Heather and Evan.  I am so sad to see them go....but totally at peace that this is where God wants them and what is best for them.  It really is bittersweet!  Anyway, here are some pics.  WE WILL MISS YOU GUYS!!!  
Des, Heidi, Heather, me
A group shot minus a couple people that were inside.....this was taken by a 4 year old!  Not bad! :) 
And this is Addison, trying to console her sisters who were both in time out behind the door. :)  So funny. :)