June! What a month!

We've had multiple doctors appointments for Hannah because of recurring ear infections. Thankfully, her ears are all better now. We have also had ECI out twice to get things set up to have them help Whitney with her walking and help all of them with their speech. By the way, Whitney is walking so much better while holding our hand. She is much more stable. I personally think she could walk on her own now but really just lacks the confidence. She is very cautious!

We worked our little booties off, over a one week period, getting this house ready to sell and boy, did we do something right! We had a contract on the house literally 3 or 4 hours later!

Craig has been wanting to get lasik for quite some time and finally decided to bite the bullet and get it done before heading back to work. He is now on cloud nine! Also, Craig will be returning back to work Friday of this week.

For a couple of weeks after the surgery, Craig has to wear these plastic eye pieces that are attached with this sticky tape. He didn't want to use those, so he went to try and find a more comfortable alternative. This is the alternative...

We had a family Father's Day/June birthday celebration, celebrating Craig, Kyle (Craig's brother), Byron (Craig's BIL), and Steve (Craig's dad) for being the wonderful fathers they are. We also celebrated Kyle, Steve and Victoria's (the oldest cousin) birthdays. It was great fun visiting, having lunch, opening presents and cards and watching Michaela (SIL) practice her cosmetology skills on Lisa (SIL) all while sipping on iced coffee with the girls. :) :)

I had a fun play day with one of my oldest friends, Christi and her little girl, Elizabeth. The kids had fun having lunch together, playing with toys together and playing outside in the pool and on the slide. Elizabeth said she liked Tyler! Maybe a crush??? :) :) It was a great day and Christi and I had a great time visiting and catching up.

Whitney, Hannah, Elizabeth and Tyler

Whitney and Hannah were getting tired and whiny so they went inside with Craig and went down for a nap. Tyler and Elizabeth sitting together at the table. Isn't that cute? Tyler is going for older women!
Craig and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary - an extended version. We spent time together just the two of us in Fort Worth and ate at Texas de Brazil for dinner! We caught a movie, strolled through Sundance Square and went to a museum as well. Fort Worth is such a nice city - they have so much going on downtown. Lots of great places to eat, tons of museums, and I was quite surprised by how "alive" the city was even on a week night.

Since we had so much stuff going on with trying to find a house, we didn't have much of a Father's day for Craig. We did get up that morning and the kids painted their first picture for their Daddy. They also colored their first picture for him too. The finger paints was a rather messy project and they weren't quite ready for it but it was still fun (for me).


Then I let him open his cards and they all wore their "my daddy is my hero" stickers as well as Craig got to wear his "best dad ever" sticker. I registered for school and will be taking another 2 classes in the Fall. After that, only 2 left!

A few miscellaneous pictures from the month of June....

Whitney was so tired, she fell asleep on her back, which is so rare.

Daddy with his girls. Isn't Whitney hilarious? I guess she is imitating her Mommy - wearing the sunglasses, with my phone and the remote to the ceiling fan in her hand. Sixteen months going on sixteen!
Daddy and Tyler being silly putting on pajamas before bedtime.
Hannah just hangin' out on the towel right after a bath.


And she's off...
I love these two of Whitney and Craig. So silly...
So serious...

Good news on the house hunt

We put an offer on a house yesterday and they accepted our offer! We are so excited to have new place to call home. The house is beautiful and we really love the neighborhood. The house is new construction and the ladies that work in the office are all wanting to introduce us to different families in the neighborhood. The ladies who work in the office said there are lots of young moms with young children who stay home, so that will be fun to meet them and get to know them. As we drive through, everybody waves at us. It just has that good ole small town feel, just like where I grew up in a small town of 2200. Our current neighborhood is rather unfriendly and keep to themselves and we couldn't be more excited to start a new chapter in this small town of Melissa. I was afraid I might feel isolated trying to adjust to being further out but I think we will be just fine. We are supposed to close on the sale of our house July 2nd and the purchase of this one July 13th so please keep us in your thoughts and prayers during the next few weeks that all of this will go smoothly and both homes will close successfully.

**An update on the kiddos... Tyler is on the mend with the hand, foot and mouth disease, Hannah, my poor baby, is struggling the most with an on and off again fever and blisters in her mouth and on her hand and feet. Plus, she has a new tooth coming through that I discovered today. And of course, Whitney is getting the same thing... she started with the bumps yesterday. Hopefully my babies will be well soon and will not get too bad of a run of this HFMD.

Complete craziness!

First and foremost, can I just tell you how wonderful my in-laws are!!! They have helped us out so much the past week or so with the babies. Our four year anniversary was last week and we had an extended celebration, with which Craig's parents helped us with the babies by watching them so we could get some time to ourselves. They have also helped us a couple of other days so that we could take care of getting our loan set up for the new house. Then, they have helped us a couple of days watching the babies so we could do some serious house shopping. They will again be helping us today as we go write up an offer on a house we found yesterday - please say a prayer for us that this deal will go through smoothly as we don't have much time to find something because we are supposed to close on our house July 2nd. So, anyway, I just wanted give you all an update and to say a public thank you to them! They have been so helpful and we so greatly appreciate them.

Now, to add to the chaos, Tyler broke out with this awful rash on Friday. Then I started to see blisters on his hands and feet. We heard about the hand, foot and mouth disease and thought it sounded like what he has. We took him to the doctor yesterday and sure enough... The doctor said everyone will no doubt get it as well because it is highly contagious. Well, Hannah developed a fever yesterday and since that is one of the symptoms, we figured she was next and she is starting to get the blisters in her mouth (as does Tyler) and a little rash like Tyler has. On top of that, Tyler is cutting two of his molars. I discovered one about a week ago and another one yesterday. Poor little guy!!

*** UPDATED*** ...And four hours later... A contract

We put our house officially on the market around 5pm today. About 6pm, I got a call from my agent. There is a potential buyer that is about to put a contract on another house but their agent just saw our house pop up on MLS and thought it sounded like what her clients were looking for. She wanted to show them this house before putting the contract on the other one. So, they came over around 7:30 and by 8:30 we had a contract! And the funny thing is, the buyer is the brother of our next door neighbor. So, they not only love the house, but they love the location! I totally predicted this could very well happen. They want to close in about two weeks because they are going out of town but want to move in when they return. They are willing to do a lease back situation for the month of July to give us time to find something and get moved in. Please pray that this will work out as we haven't accepted their offer yet and will probably be doing some countering. This will be such a load off to not have to grin and bear it through a million showings with three babies and toys galore! We are SO excited!

***UPDATED***

The buyers accepted our counter offer so we are officially under contract. They want to close very quickly (2 weeks) and have that done before they leave town for several weeks. They want to move in after they return so they have agreed to do a lease back to us on a daily per diem but we have to be out by July 31st. This is perfect, it gets our house sold so we can go ahead and start looking and still not have to be out for 6 weeks. Now we just need to pray that their financing will come through, although, they don't foresee any problems and we will be set. Now we need to start doing some serious house hunting.

May Misc. Activities

I've pretty much blogged about our major activities for the month of May. But, I wanted to document a few other things.

We started the beginning of the month celebrating Craig's Mom's 60th birthday! We took Mamaw and Papaw to lunch one Sunday and had a great time. We tried to embarrass her by getting the wait staff to sing to her but apparently they don't do that at Uncle Julios.

I had a play date with my SIL, Michaela at the mall. My trio was of course very nervous and scared which made it pretty tiring but then I had another play date at the mall with my friend Jennifer and they did SOOOO much better. Then, I had another play group with the cousins on Craig's side. We went to a park in Rowlett and I will have to remember this park for the future. It is all fenced in which is great! A couple of schools came and unloaded about 3 buses of kids so they ran us off but we still had fun playing in the grass under the trees.

We had a social function with our ABF and we had so much fun. I think this was the first time we've been to an ABF function - the entire family - since we had the babies!! We ate at Spring Creek BBQ and had the entire back room reserved just for us. This is a great place to have large gatherings for future reference.

We took the babies to a splash park in Allen and you guessed it, they were pretty nervous and scared. Hannah warmed up the most but even she was a little standoffish. They enjoyed the park as well. And they are really starting to enjoy climbing up the steps on the playground which makes for two very busy parents trying to keep the three of them from falling off!

I was invited to be in a book club. I figured I could probably handle it during the summer but I am not sure if I can keep up when school starts back up in the Fall. I read my first in a long time, non-children's book. It was great being able to "escape" in a good book and then get together at the end of the month to discuss the book and socialize with friends.

In other news... Whitney began pulling up on everything. This started about 2 weeks ago and we are so excited! She is also cruising a lot and we are helping her walk around while holding on to our hand.

We all got sick with some sinus infection cold thing. We are pretty well now... just the lingering runny noses including me! Craig has gotten over his but mine and the kids just won't end. Hannah is on her second round of back-to-back ear infections. If this medicine doesn't work, we will try one more then we will have to see an ENT. She had an ear infection before they got sick then when I took her back to follow up, she was at the tail end of her cold thing so we aren't sure if it is another infection or the same one and the medicine didn't work.

We are also working on teaching the babies how to use a spoon to eat. I was really surprised by how well they are doing. They are really interested and Tyler especially doesn't want me to feed him with a spoon, he wants to do it. It will be so nice and less messy once they get this down. Then, it's on to plates and bowls.

ECI came out this week and evaluated the babies. They were very pleased with them all around for being triplets. They were only behind in their speech (with the exception of Whitney's not walking) so they will be working with us on these two things.

As you can see I am not the best picture taker. I need to get better but I think I need an extra set of hands for that! Ha! Enjoy a few random pics below.


Whitney pulling up and standing at my feet.
Yeah Whitney... Standing at the play kitchen!
My best climber got in the car all by herself.

Isn't she cute?

Hannah and Mommy playing during pool time outside.
Tyler and Mommy one-on-one time.

Tyler checking out the fence.
Tyler exploring - checking out the fire wood.

Brotherly - sisterly love!
Is Hannah under there?
I think this was the day we went to the Arboretum.

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Mmmmm... Paint!!

Have you ever tasted paint before???????? I can now check that off my list of things I haven't tried.

So... many of you know we have been wanting to move into a bigger house for quite some time. Well, the time has come to get the house on the market and before we could do that, we had to touch up a few things around the house with paint. You know, neutralize a few rooms and touch up some old, worn paint. Because Craig had shoulder surgery on his dominant arm, he wasn't able to help me do any painting.

In three days I painted the front door, a portion of the kitchen, one of our bathrooms, the backdoor and last but certainly not least, the chimney! This is where the fun began this evening. My brother was going to help me with this project but because there have been some sick kiddos around here, he wouldn't be able to bring his little one, Zachary, so I decided to try and wing it on my own. Before I got up on the ladder, Craig asked me if I was sure I was up for this and I said, no but it had to be done. So, I climbed up the TALL ladder (appx. 15 feet or so) and painted the chimney. It was all so wabbly but Craig assured me it would hold. He works for AT&T and often times has to climb ladders. He said "I make my living positioning ladders safely for climbing." Anyway, the higher and higher I got, the more stiff I became. And mind you, it was quite windy, which also freaked me out! Then, while I was painting above my head and my mouth held open to balance my body just right and steady my hand just right (kinda like how we women have to hold our mouths open to put on mascara), a drip of paint fell off my brush and right into my mouth! Let me say it didn't taste good! I began spitting it out and as the wind caught my spit (yes, gross I know!), it sprayed all over me. Craig let me use his white t-shirt he had on to wipe out my mouth - again gross but I didn't care because I wanted that out of my mouth ASAP! He said I had paint all in my mouth - all over my tongue, teeth, gums - everywhere!

HILARIOUS RIGHT?

It has been a productive few days and I am proud to say we only have one more big project with which my brother Les will be coming to help with tomorrow. Then, we just have to get a few window seals replaced and the carpet cleaned and we'll be ready to put the house on the market. I am so glad we were able to get so much done in just a few days. Hopefully it will sell quickly.

Happy painting!