Our Babysitting Experience

Well this past Friday Kelly and I took on the task of babysitting 3 little girls, triplets to be exact! They turn 1 on Saturday! Their names are Amelia, Claire, and Ella. We were a little nervous on the drive over wondering if we could really handle it!! See Kelly is not a baby, baby guy. He prefers it when they are walking and talking! Or so I thought! Turns out he was great! We played, rocked, sang, and laughed together! Oh what we will do to make babies smile! At one point, Kelly had Amelia and Ella on his lap holding a bottle for one and talking to the other. I was trying to console poor Claire who is teething! Then bedtime came! Try putting 3 babies down in the same room and get them to fall asleep! Ha it’s impossible or so we thought. Their mom wasn’t kidding when she said don’t try to rock them to sleep just put them down and they will talk or cry together and eventually fall asleep! Did we listen to her advice? No, of course we wanted to put them down peacefully! Well at 8:45 when they were still crying in their rooms we picked up Claire and gave her Motrin for her teeth and thought the others would asleep… yea right. We ended up with all 3 back up and started all over putting them down! This time we let them cry and finally there was silence and the babies were asleep! Until 10:00 when Amelia woke up crying. We quickly swooped her up so as not to wake the others and found she was stinky…. Guess who got to change the diaper! You guessed it! Me. I had already changed 3 wet diapers with no assistance! But this one required an observer to complain to about the stench!! Then Kelly rocked her until her parents came home! Well 2 out of the 3 isn’t bad! It was a very rewarding night and after Kelly said I could handle that! I said don’t even think multiples!!!!

Tricia Engaged?!!!

On August 9th my sister called to inform us she was engaged! This is excited news! Apparently she forced him to go to plan C for proposing considering she took a nap through plan A and B! That’s Tricia for you! So we are in the midst of planning a wedding. (Her talk of aloping and taking the money apparently fell through!) The date is set for December 20, 2008 in Hot Springs, AR. It’s going to be at the Garvan Woodland Gardens in the Glass Chapel! It is a beautiful location. So mark your calendars and RSVP if you’d like to be there! Please say prayers for their new life together!

Family Visit!

August 8th Bill & Ashlea drove up from Wichita Falls to visit us! They are our cousins from Kelly’s side. We ate at Old Chicago the first night and had a great time hanging out! Then it was home to watch the Olympics. We found out they are Olympic fanatics too! We watched every event we could. Shopping was on the agenda next! Wow they showed us how to find great deals. Bricktown followed with a quick stop at Bass Pro for some candy of all things (for a baby shower) and then the Bricktown Brewery. Of course me, being on a diet, asked for the nutritional info, which they didn’t have. And after nicely asking the waitress for her input on what was healthy she politely said “Well nothing here is really healthy”… So everyone ordered great food while I ate half a chicken sandwich cooked without butter! Bless his heart Kelly being the supportive husband split it with me! Eating out is hard on a diet! After that it was back home to make it in time to see Michael Phelps race in the 4x100m Medley. It was such a great race we were all screaming and no one was sitting! We attended worship service together on Sunday. After lunch at the Killian grill, I headed to a baby shower while the other 3 headed to Staples in search of more good deals! And boy did they find some. Free glue, cheap computer paper, etc. I’m still amazed at the deals those 2 find! Shortly before our Home Group meeting they left to return to Wichita Falls! It was a great weekend full of laughs and bonding! Too bad they don’t live closer!