Uncle Will's and Caroline's party

Will's and Caroline's birthdays always make the summer more fun.  This year Will avoided a princess themed party and got away with a slip-n-slide party instead.  These cousins have such fun together.

Summer Trip: South Dakota

We headed on to South Dakota to visit my Grandma Della Mae. Unfortunately, she landed herself in the hospital before we got there, so we took over her hospital room and wore her out!  Surprisingly, Oscar only hit the nurse-call button once. Grandma is the toughest little lady with an incredible sense of humor - even after a rough surgery.  My Aunt Colette and cousin Brandi were there too to make for a great visit.

The minivan with the door open was our rental car.  This is what we walked out to after spending a few hours in the hospital (one of the kids had the keys on the way in and must have hit a button). 10 days worth of luggage for 5 people, my purse, laptop, etc. were all still there and untouched. Ahhh to live in a place where people treat each other right.  I miss South Dakota dearly!
Since it was lunch time, we had a quick parking lot picnic.  It took Oscar all of 2 seconds to pour out the entire box of goldfish.. and another 2 seconds for the girls to join him in stomping on them.  Rental cars are a great thing!

Our next stop was the Niederauers in Sioux Falls.  George is such a fun and busy boy - Oscar is just like him, just a year and half behind!  And Ainsley is an absolute sweetheart who let our kids steal toys from her the entire time without a peep.  I'm hoping the next time we are together she'll fight back a little more.

Will and Connie on our double date night out - a great way to finish our trip.  Well it would have been - we actually finished our trip with Lainey vomiting in her cousin's carseat again as we were pulling up to the airport to fly home... and then came home to a very warm house with a broken air conditioner.

Summer trip: Nebraska

We decided to take another trip to the Midwest this summer since we likely won't be traveling much after baby #4 arrives in August.  This trip started off with Oscar having explosive diarrhea as we were going through security (somehow this was the first time in his life to ever have diarrhea).  We found it interesting that when you go through with clean, sweet little infant triplets the TSA staff is happy to hold a baby for you, but when it's a toddler with poop up his back and down his socks, they let you know it is absolutely against all their policies to hold a child even for a second or touch a stroller.  So Will is holding this poopy kid trying to collapse 2 strollers to get through security while I'm holding 2 kids (7 months pregnant) trying to get all our other stuff through.  I'm pretty sure we acted as a good form of birth control for some onlookers.  After a quick flight we were greeted by the kids Aunt Heather in Omaha... and 20 minutes later, Lainey projectile vomited in her cousin's carseat.  It was only fitting then that Willie Grace vomited in her pack n play crib at bedtime.  Thankfully each kid had only one episode of 'output' that day and the rest of our time in Nebraska was filled with lots of fun with the kids' Aunt Heather, Uncle Dustin, cousins Brogan and Parker, their Grandparents and Great Aunts Judy & Marilyn.  The kids were introduced to their first trampoline, water table, sprinkler (love at first sight), bank and meat locker (Will's favorite place in rural Nebraska).

LOVE Parker's feet!

 Yoga pose in the morning sun