Our Holidays?!?!?

On Thursday morning we woke the fellas up at 4:55am (after about an hour and a half of sleep for John and I) and were on the road by 5:00.  We were heading down to Whitefish with some wonderful friends of ours...we had been excited for weeks!

Here are the fellas ready to head out!

 The drive had been going really well.  We decided to stop in Sparwood for a little bit of a run around and visit the biggest truck in the world!

The boys in one of the wheels.

Me and my 4 boys!

Running under the truck...I think they look super similar in this picture!

Running to hug Daddy

The Super cute Roys

We loaded the boys back up and drove the rest of the way.  They got a little fussy towards the end but we would consider it a good drive down.

That's when things turned right around...for the worse.  The boys were the fussiest they have EVER been, like seriously EVER...and all three of them.  We could not keep them happy no matter what we tried.  We went and got groceries...the boys fussed the ENTIRE time.  They did calm down for about ten minutes when we let them play in the front seat of the vehicle..but then turned the attitude up ten times when we put them back in their carseats.  When we got back to the campground we went to the petting zoo, which the boys LOVED, but when we put them back in the wagon to head back they FLIPPED, they were throwing absolute fits, and one of them even flipped himself out of the belt, and almost got right out of the wagon.  We tried to entertain the boys in the trailer, but we were unsuccessful. 

It was now about 6:00 (about 4.5 hours after we had arrived) and we decided to load them up and head home.  It may sound like we gave up too soon, but we just didn't see this situation turning itself around.  We were beyond disappointed to not be able to spend our weekend with the Roys, but we knew this was what we had to do. 

Good news - they gave us back all our money

Bad news -  The drive home was BRUTAL.  The boys barely slept, and it felt like even when they were asleep they were whining.  (and we in no way blame the boys for being fussy for the car ride home...if it were socially acceptable I am sure John and I would have been doing the same).

Good news - they let us bring our beer back over the border duty free even though we were not even in the states long enough to have a liquor exemption.

Bad news - the drive home was longer than expected due to construction (which as far as we could see was not even happening)

Good news - we got home at about 1:00, the boys fell fast asleep the second they were in their beds and didn't wake up until 10:00 am, then napped from 12:00-4:00, and still went to bed at 7:00 and fell asleep within minutes.  I pretty much slept the exact same times as they did :)

We know that we made the right choice in coming home but are missing our time with the Roys :(  The boys are just at a tough age right now.  The campground would be AWESOME for kids...just not for triplet toddlers!  I can see us going back when the boys are older.

Here is one last picture...this was Matty on part of the drive home, he wrapped himself right up in his blanket!

Galaxyland

Today my 4 boys and I went on a road trip to Edmonton.  We needed some things from ikea, and have been wanting to take the boys to Galaxyland so off we went!

(when I went to take my first picture of the day I realized that I forgot to put the charged battery back into the camera...so iphone pictures is all we got today!)

Here is Nathan on the way up...just reading a book, no big thing!

After Ikea we stopped at Harveys to grab lunch...the boys each ate their entire burger, I guess they love it as much as their mom and dad!

We got to the mall and found the playpark...I wasn't quite sure what to expect.  I remember playing there as a kid, but was not sure if it was as good as I remembered...it was!

Here are all of our shoes in one of the little cubbies...we could have spread them out though since we pretty much had the place to ourselves!

Playing in the ball pit. (they actually had a machine attached to the ball pits that took balls out from the bottom, cleaned them, and then returned them to the pit...genius!)

On the go!!!  This was the last picture I got in the playpark because we were on the run the entire time we were in there, by the time we left all 5 of us were overheated!

We decided to let the boys try one of the kiddie rides...they were not fans of it...at all.  They actually had to stop the ride to let us off.  Once we got off we experienced the biggest public fit to date, not the funnest part of our day but we did get through it.  I am sure it won't be the last!

The boys (and I) slept most of the way home...and then Nate and Daddy had a little rest once we unloaded.  And when I say little I mean little, probably 27 secondsish...my cat-like reflexes allowed me to get this cute picture :)

We set-up some of our stuff tonight...and I am loving it.  I feel like we have "reclaimed" part of our house back...I hope it lasts :)

Look out Seattle HERE WE COME!!!!

We started off our day a little early today...5:45 yuck! We had some time to kill so we made a pillow pit in our room, the boys LOVED it!!!We got all packed up and headed into Seattle...it was the first time since we have been here that we actually made it into the city of Seattle! Our first stop was the first EVER Starbucks!!! Mel and I went inside to get the drinks and when we went outside John and the fellas had an audience! We took advantage and asked if one of them would take a picture of the 9 of us. Did we ever luck out, one of them was a photographer so she took the picture, and then a couple of them acted as traffic control and blocked off the sidewalks so we could get a good shot!!!

The 9 of us!
Then one of the "audience" members suggested that we flip around and get a group shot in front of the market sign!
We walked into the market to the famous Pike Place Fish Market. It was super crowded but we did manage to see a little fish tossing!

We hit up RR again for our lunch today and then walked back through the market. We got seperated from the Roths for a little bit but thanks to the walkie talkies we made a quick reconnection!!! I could probably do an entire post on all of our walkie talkie-ing but I will just let you know the most important thing...our handles! We decided to give each other names so the Roth's are the fab four and me and my four fellas are five alive! We have used the walkie talkies non-stop while driving around...they have made the driving time a lot of fun!

Here is fab four trying to get ahold of five alive...

A successful reconnection!!

Cooling off in the fountain...

entertaining the boy...I felt the need to get right in the fountain and it was only 32...thank goodness we did not come across a fountain yesterday hahaha!

Nate fell asleep on the walk back to the car. I have said it once and I will say it again...sleeping babies are SO CUTE!!!

Adam and John went to the baseball game tonight so Mel and I took a walk over to Whole Foods (super cool grocery store) to get some supper and then hung out at the hotel. Bennett was wrapping up each of the boys in his blanket and rocking/snuggling them and singing them a lullaby...SO FREAKING CUTE!!!

Luc loving his snuggle

Nate was a little harder to catch!

Matthew a little unsure about what is happening!!!

the day came full circle and we finished our night with a little more pillow pit time :)

To see more pictures from our trip click here to visit the fab four's blog

Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

Our main activity for our second day in "Seattle" was the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. It was a little loud while we were getting ready so we put an episode of GLEE on and it was a total kid magnet/mute button! I kind of wish this was a video because they were all dancing too! SO FUNNY!!!We finally made it to the zoo after a couple of GPS recalculations! Here are the boys pumping up the tires in the strollers!
When we got in the first thing we did was the aquarium. ALL FIVE boys LOVED these fish!!!

Nate could not get enough :)

Here is Daddy and Lucas checking out some of the animals.

Notice anything funny about this picture???

There is the missing baby!!!

Since it was SO HOT out we got some ice cream for the boys. We were in the polar bear area and there was a man doing a talk on some interesting polar bear facts. Even though he had a speaker on I doubt that anyone could hear him because whatever babies did not have the spoon in their mouth were SCREAMING!!! I could not get that spoon around fast enough. Needless to say we left pretty soon after this!

After the zoo we stopped at a little fish and chips/burger shack on the beach...yum yum yum! Here is John feeding the boys some snacks while we were waiting for our lunch.

Tailgate party!

After our lunch we headed to the Seattle premium outlets. It was way too hot (38 degrees) for the babies...and most of the adults too. I ended up bringing our fellas back to our air conditioned hotel early and then Mel and I went back to do a little baby free shopping after supper!

And did I mention how H.O.T. it was???

Just One...

well I guess not just one! The internet in our hotel is CRAZY slow, and I am CRAZY tired but I just wanted to post this picture of our pictures. We went to the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium today and we stuffed our family of five into the photo booth, and I LOVE the pictures we got...and it gave us two of the exact same photo strip, and it just seemed to focus better with both in the picture! We are headed into downtown Seattle tomorrow, and hopefully I will start blogging a little earlier and will have more patience which will result in more pictures!!!

We Made it!!!

Today was another travel day. After a quick stop at McDs we departed Kelowna just beofre 8am. Here is John double fisting his breakfast (don't worry we are at a stop light).The kids were all WONDERFUL travellers. We had probably one minute of fussing the entire drive. While the boys were asleep we changed to a coldplay cd for a little bit and when they woke up they were not huge fans, we switched to GLEE and they instantly went quiet.

I took this picture while we were driving because John said that it looked like the twilight movies so we kept an eye out for vampires and warewolves...unfortunately we did not see any!
We made it all the way from Kelowna to Burlington without a single stop, like I mentioned earlier the boys were all total rockstars!!! We had lunch and then browsed the outlets, John found some deals!!! Here are the fellas (even though you can only see 2 they are all in fact in there!) while we were browsing the outlets.
Adam also found a good deal on some new sandals...here he is destroying his old ones...he was not a huge fan!!!

John and Adam took the boys back to the vehicles to load them up while Mel and I got a few more minutes of shopping...thanks boys!

With two successful travel days the adults needed to celebrate. And $13.99 for a 12 pack, who could resist!

Cheers!!!

We babyproofed the hotel room and played for a bit. It was weird because even though we were with the boys all day they were in their carseats, and when we got them out I just wanted to cuddle them all non-stop, I missed them a ton! After playing we took a "leisurely" walk to find a place to eat...this hill was MUCH steeper in person, I am sure we all may be a little stiff tomorrow!

The Roths headed to the park to play and John and the boys and I went to Red Robin!!!! Oh how we LOVE it there! We had the BEST service, and the BEST food that we have had in a long time! It was the first time we have ever ordered the boys their own meal! Macaroni and cheese :) Here are my 4 boys and I!

On our way home we had a Jamba Juice...pretty much the same as a booster juice, but Jamba Juice just sounds like so much more fun! And the name of our drink was the Strawberry surf rider, also fun!

When we got back to the hotel we fed the boys and put them into their pea pods. There was NO crying tonight, just giggling and babling until they fell asleep...I LOVE IT!!!