Happy Thanksgiving!

Well as some of you know we were out of town last week visiting Brian's family and at a conference for our job, Campus Crusade. Six days in a hotel definitely did us in and we are all very happen to be home. Good to see family and friends but good to be home. It's funny how even little people get drained and out of sorts when away from home for a long period of time. And then just like us love being back in familiar surroundings. My most favorite part of the trip was the quality time I was able to spend with one of my closest friends, Kyra. We used to work together here at Chico State. She is an amazing mom of triplets who are almost 1 1/2. Like ours, her life is chaotic so it's always nice to share in the craziness of life together. Our time together (lots of time in the hotel hallway while 6 kids were sleeping/crying) made me miss her a lot and realize even more how special she is to me. Thanks Kyra!

Brian is home with us all week (lucky him!). No bible studies, library time or anything so it has been nice for us all to be home. As you know from the video posted yesterday we've had some fun outside, more pics to come. And side note, I'm officially addicted to our leaf blower! I could do it for hours, just blowing everything away. It's a great feeling. Mmmm, what do you think this says about me??? We've been preparing for our first family Thanksgiving meal. We had the traditional meal in Long Beach with Bri's parents so we decided to put a little twist on the menu.

• Rib roast- Brian is in charge of this and I'm not sure of the details but I do know it's is going to be stuffed with goat cheese and chorizo. With that said, how could it be bad?
• Sweet potatoe casserole
• Stuffing with sausage
• Asparagus- one of the few veggies my husband will eat
• lots and lots of crescent rolls
• Pumpkin cheesecake

Yummmmm I can't wait.
But first before we get down to business with the T-Day Feast we have some other important things to do. We are running in the local Run for Food race. It's a 3 mile fun run, with over 2000 people signed up! Yep all 5 of us. And then when we get home I'm continuing the tradition that I did growing up, which my mom didas as little girl too. We will watch the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, eat cinnamon rolls and little oranges and sip egg nog!

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your day, there's so much to be thankful for!

To a faithful reader

I have 2 faithful readers of our blog, at least that I know of. I'm not complaining about only having 2. I don't keep this blog as a popularity thing. And the 2 faithful readers that I have are amazing, and I love them both. So this song is to one of them, it's an all-time favorite, so I'm told. She is a great friend, an awesome mom and so fun to be around. She makes me laugh and is some one I can be myself around and not worry about not having it all together. Thank you for your friendship...you know who you are.
This one is for you...

Hanging with the triplets

Here is a picture from a couple months ago of the twins and triplets.

We hosted the 3rd annual Chili cook off at our house with the college students. It's become a favorite and more and more people come every year. I think the total count last night was somewhere near 60! As exciting as this is we didn't want to have the girls around that many people so me and Kaia Theia went to hang out with my Kyra who has 6 month old triplets. Her and her husband, Dave are on our staff team and she wasn't going to the chili cook off either. So last night it was Kyra and I and 5 babies. She has 2 girls, Elia and Paisley and a boy, Cooper. Poor Coop was greatly out numbered. When I got to her house the triplets were sleeping so were Kaia and Theia. Perfect, we thought, let's eat pizza and watch a movie. Who were we kidding! We maybe got 10 minutes of conversation before there was a chorus of crying babies. First, it was the girls because it was time to eat. But then the triplets soon joined in one by one. I think 4 out of 5 were crying at once! It was pretty funny...and loud. We had each others babies, switching on and off. Eventually, mine were fed and hers were calmed down. Dave and Kyra's roommates came home and helped out but they also have a one year old girl. Make that 4 adults and 6 babies in one house. I had a great time.