Ahh Spring

Hmmm, I've tried to load more photos but it's not working out for me. I guess we'll have to make due with one. The babies are a little over 4 months old! Can you believe it? We go to the doctor on the 5th, I can't wait to find out their weights!! Brett & Brileigh were posing for the camera, but Rylan thought something else was way more important to look at. They have been doing amazing, and now that the weather is warming up we get outside for walks. They love to sit outside and check everything out! That's a good thing, we'll be spending a lot of time out there! There is an Easter Egg hunt planned in the park by our house on Saturday. Of course the weather is in the 70's all week, until Saturday... So we'll just have to see what it's doing before we decide to go.

I've been trying to get some crafting done in my "spare" time. Mostly I've been working on a scrapbook for my brother. He is graduating from High School in May. After watching commercials for the cricut in the middle of the night while I was pregnant and couldn't sleep, I took the plunge and bought one on ebay. Brand new, half the price of Walmart. So it's been fun playing with that! So much easier for the novice scrapbooker like me!

Another thing that took up some time, the Twilight books! I hadn't seen the movies since I like to read the books first. I'm an avid book reader, but I put off reading those books because I knew when I picked them up, I'd ignore everything else! I bought all 4 and had them done in 6 days. I'm a speed reader, so after the kiddo's went to bed at 10 I would read for 2 - 3 hours! I'm glad I'm done, I was missing that sleep!!

Well it sounds like someone is up from a nap. I hope everyone is enjoying Spring so far like us!

Spitten Image

So everyone always looks at your children and tries to figure out who they look like. I could see myself in Brileigh but until I pulled out an old photo of myself, I didn't realize how much she looks like me. I was a little older when my photo was taken, so it will be fun to see how she changes with age.

Everything else is going great in the Hall household. The babies are spending more time awake during the day, so I have less time for the computer. They are starting to be a little more active also so that's a lot of fun. We actually got out for a couple of walks before the rainy weather showed up. Hopefully the rain clouds go away soon because we all enjoy getting out!

Snowy Sunday

What a day, all hopes for an early spring are gone. We are getting dumped on, again. They say 3 - 5 inches in our area, I think we've already got the 5 and it's still snowing. It does look beautiful out though...

So what to do on a snowy Sunday with sleeping babies? Ebay! I've recently listed a bunch of stuff and I'm not done, I'm hoping to raise diaper money! Most of the items I've listed are things I've made.

Here are just a couple of the items I've listed:




I hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday!

A Valentine Post

How to catch a babe...
(a sequence of photos courtesy of my triplets)

1st, Spy a cutie

Say Hello!

Try to act as cute as possible.

Try to make small talk.

Act really cool.

Oh she's warming up!

Go for the hand hold!

Oops too soon, she is not happy.

After she refuses your advances, try sulking.

Then you realize she's already with someone.

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentines Day!

Another Baby Update

First off, I apologize, I have been a horrible blogger! Can I use the fact that the babies came home Jan. 3rd as an excuse? I have been having so much fun with them, a lot of things have gotten pushed to the back burner. So far I've done it by myself and it's really not that hard. They came home eating every 3 hours. The feeding (and pumping) schedule was 10 1 4 7. I can feed them in an hour so that left 2 hours to sleep. I did take naps with them in the afternoons. After a couple of weeks I stretched it to every 4 hours. We are now on a 3 7 11 schedule. I for the most part don't need naps now, which is a good thing because there is always someone up between feedings in the day. They have their nights and days figured out, as on now they sleep between their night feedings. (Knock on wood that doesn't change!)

It works because they are my only priority. I don't have to do anything else, so they always come first. That's the nice thing about being self employed. I have gone into work with them a couple of times to catch up on paperwork, since my husband is not a good book keeper. Other than that we have only left the house for doctors appointments. I have had help with those, thankfully. Being winter I haven't wanted to use the stroller, so either my parents, mother-in-law or other family members have helped me carry them into their appointments.

As for the babies, they finally past their due date (Jan. 28th) so now they are starting to act like newborns. They coo a little bit and their eye site is a little better, they will focus on your face.

I finally got around to hanging some things in their room. It's pretty crowded in there, but it works for now. As soon as they can stand we'll have to figure something else out. I can already imagine them crawling into each others cribs with them that close to each other!

We had a quick doctors appointment last Friday to get a Synagis shot. They weighed them to get the correct dosage. Here is where we came in:

Rylan: 7 pounds 12 ounces

Brileigh: 7 pounds

Brett: 8 pounds 2 ounces

They've come a long way! And the fun is only beginning! I can't believe how blessed I have been. This bottom photo is of my dining room table. It has been transformed into a scrapbooking table. I've never scrapbooked before but always wanted to. I had a good friend Lori come over to help me get started. Due to our talking and baby playing I think we got 1.5 pages done all day! Luckily my Mom got me premade scrapbooks from Hallmark, so that will help a lot. I know if I don't start working them now they will never get done, so wish me luck!

Well it is nearing another feeding time, so this is all I've got to post today. Hopefully I'll be a little better in the future!

Baby Update

The babies are 23 days old today. They have been doing amazing! They are all gaining weight like crazy and we might be introducing bottles very soon! That means they are close to coming home! A typical day for me right now is get up, get ready, go to the hospital. Stay at the hospital all day and go home, go to sleep. Next day start it over. If I need to run an errand, I usually do it after I leave the hospital. I don't think reality has hit that once they come home, that wont be happening.

Rylan weighs 3 pounds 10 ounces today!

Brileigh weighs 3 pounds 11.5 ounces today.

Brett weighs 3 pounds 15 ounces today!

What a Weekend!

The Babies Are Here!

This weekend proved to be the craziest most anxious weekend of my life. Saturday I called the on call doctor with some mild complaints. She told me to come to the hospital so she could look me over, and she told me I might as well bring a bag. Well I had bags packed so I threw them in the car, I had myself convinced she would check me over and tell me to go home and rest though. That didn't happen. She checked me over and started ordering nurses about on what to do with me. I was hooked up to magnesium to stop contractions that I didn't even know I was having and given one of two steroid shots for the babies lungs. From then on I was on complete bed rest. The magnesium made me extremely ill, throwing up regularly, so I got another medication to fix that. On Sunday I got my second steroid shot, and 24 hours after that (Monday at 1:00) they started to lower my magnesium dose. They told me if I started contractions they wouldn't stop them. Tuesday morning when I woke up at 5:30 I was having contractions, but didn't think much of them. When they checked me over at 6 however, I was fully contracting, so to emergency surgery we went! It all happened so fast, I didn't have time to register what was all going on. I was just thankful my husband had time to get to the hospital. So now on to the important information:


Rylan Joel was born at 7:13 Nov 24th. He was 2 pounds 15 ounces and 16" long.


Brett Henry was born at 7:14 on Nov. 24th. He was 3 pounds 7 ounces and 17 1/4" long.



Brileigh Marie was born at 7:15 on Nov. 24th. She was 3 pounds 1 ounces and 16" long.



All three babies are doing extremely well. Breathing on their own and using their lungs to let us know they are here. They have been sucking on pacifiers very well and will start getting a little food tomorrow to see how their tummies handle it. The doctors couldn't be more pleased with how they are doing so mom and dad are relaxing a little more every hour.


I know it was everyone's prayers that helped these babies get to where they are and I thank all of you. I'm getting stronger every minute so it's getting easier to run into the NICU whenever I feel like it, expect some more photos soon!

Whew, Made it

Another Handmade'ns show over! And I made it through the whole thing. Not that I did much, but someone has to hold the chairs down don't they? We sold a lot of stuff, almost all out! Now I need to start working on next years items if I have any hope of making enough for the show. Ha! We'll just have to see how the year goes... These photos are just a couple of the ones I took before the show started. We do have pretty lights on all of the tables and trees, but I wasn't about to go crawling around to plug them all in for these photos, sorry.

For the most part the babies behaved themselves through the show. After the set up on Saturday, my little girl decided she didn't want to cuddle with her brothers anymore! She had been laying lengthwise like the boys and on top. She moved to stand up on my right side, her head up in my ribcage. That was not comfortable for me at all! Sometime during the night she finally moved, I'm not quite sure where. I guess I'll find out at my next appointment. They got measured at my last appointment, week 28, and the girl and 1 boy are 2 pounds 7 ounces, the other boy is a little smaller. He wasn't cooperating with the doctor so measuring him accurately was impossible. So the good news is they are all on track for their "age". I'm just glad to get past 28 weeks, now the next goal is 32! December can't come fast enough!

Now a nursery update, we have decided to change rooms! The room I was going to put them in sits in the corner of our house and gets a little cold. I was planning on putting up window treatments, but my husband won out and we are moving them to another bedroom. Of course I don't like the decor in there for babies so I got some paint out and he freaked! I then placed a call to a local gal who paints and she is coming later this week! After that's all done we'll start putting things together. Nothing like waiting til the last minute!

October Update

Okay who's as big as a house? ME! And I'm only 27 weeks! What am I going to look like in the end? Maybe I should start working on the the nursery, while I can still stand. I made a trip to Walmart and Target yesterday and bought everything in bulk so hopefully I don't have to go back. I had a couple of other stops but I couldn't make them. I started have braxton hicks in Target so I checked out and went home. On a bright side, I have almost all of my Christmas shopping done! I have the women, nieces and nephews done, just the guys to do. Any suggestions? They are always the hardest. I figured I had better get going on this. If I make my goal of 36 weeks, that's January, I'm not going to be able to do any shopping in Dec! And if the babies come sooner, I wont have much time to do anything! My last check up went great, he has put no restrictions on me yet. I keep thinking one of these times he's going to say, alright, time to slow down, but he never does. I guess I'm doing a good job of knowing when to stop myself and rest. There was a time I didn't know if I would make my baby shower this Saturday, but now I'm pretty confident I'll be there. So that's exciting! And next Saturday is the Handmaden's show, I might even make it to that! Speaking of that, I got a couple more things done. Check them out below...

I only got six of these ornaments done, but I plan on making more for my website in the future. I really like how they turned out. I had covered some styrofoam balls with paper mache last year and never got around to using them for anything, so they worked great for these!

I had one more old door panel waiting to be painted so I finally got around to that. I like the old dirty distressed look. I painted this Saturday as I watched the Huskers play a pathetic football game. I guess that was a good thing, since they were playing so bad, I was able to concentrate on painting!


Well that pretty much covers what I've got to say today. Hopefully the next post I'll have nursery pictures to show off. It would be nice to get the crib boxes out of the garage!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween!

Boy Boy Girl!

Well winter has come rather quickly in the Midwest! We had over a 1/2 foot of snow on Saturday! I didn't leave the house all day! Now today it is raining, and with temps in the 30's it wont be long before it gets nasty. The forecast calls for slightly warmer days in the future however. I can't help but notice how screwed up our seasons are getting! But hey cold weather calls for crafting right?? Since I didn't leave the house on Sat. and Sun I was gone only as long as the church service, I had plenty of time to craft! I have met my quota for the Handmadens craft show, which is always a relief, now I can work on extra things!

I made quite a few lights this year. Here is one example. I have multiple lights per room in my house. I love the soft glow they add to corners and cupboards at night. They are pretty simple to do. Find a container and start filling with goodies! This one has tons of greenery, candy canes and glittery ornaments. I topped it off with one of my homemade glittery white bulbs.


Now, while I stayed home all weekend, I didn't feel like getting out of bed much, so I found the perfect thing to do in bed! Penny Rugs! I started making the oval runner on Saturday and finished it yesterday. On Sunday I put together these pillows and stained and baked them. Then yesterday and today I sewed the pennies on. They are nice little projects that go rather quickly. I might just have to make more!


Okay now I know the title to this post is Boy Boy Girl, and I haven't even touched on that yet! Well at my appointment on Friday, the doctor finally confirmed that the last baby was a girl! We are both soo happy. We wanted a mix and God willing the doctors are right, we got it! Things are still going great inside. The outside, well, I am really starting to wear down. It doesn't take much for me to get exhausted. Luckily I have plenty of opportunities in a day to rest and I take full advantage of that! In a couple more months I will be getting NO rest! I'm starting to think my goal of having these babies in January isn't going to happen though. I guess as long as they are ready and healthy when they come is when they come. I just ask for prayers that the rest of the way goes as smoothly as the past!