London -Halloween 2003
Benjamin - Halloween 2005
Carter - Halloween 2007
Spiderman and the Angry/Sometimes Sweet Lion
The Sweet Lion - he actually wears the head piece! This costume has been worn by London, Benjamin, and now Carter. I will try and upload everyone in it.
Smiling at the pumpkin patch!
Spiderman, Ben chose this costume at the store. Of course the smallest was 4-5, but we got it anyway. If a few alterations, it works great! It is so funny seeing him wear the costume, he actually goes into character mode!
Triplets' Birthday Cake - I think this is the first birthday in history where they have had to share 1 cake together, usually they get their own cake.
Trips in the same order as the cake - Rich, Ryan, and Doug (the very soon to be new daddy)!
Rich and my precious Vaughn. Ryan and Benjamin are in the back in the hot tub. Didn't realize that until now, he will LOVE that picture.
Eric (Ryan's oldes brother) and funny man Harrison. For the longest time Harrison's name was Happy Duty. 
Yes, we have moved and are partially settled. We still have a few boxes left, but for the most part, WE ARE IN! I had to put the pictures of the old and new house, because it was such an emotional experience. Probably wouldn't have been bad if the lightning wouldn't have struck the old house days of both contracts were place. But, as you can see all is good!
I had to put these 2 pics on. My friend and I spent countless hours painting these on the boys wall. Carrie will be heart broken when she finds out 2 days after we moved out, they were painted over!!!!!
New house, YEA!
This is the only picture of Carter where he is smiling in the past 2 weeks! WOW, this has been a tough 2 weeks. I started back to work last week, I went all week! Now I am back to my part time work, and the transition for the boys has been terrible, I am REALLY TERRIBLE! Even on the days I am home with them, it is hard. I remember last year it took about a month to adjust to my schedule and when I home or when they are going to Sherry's school. But this year is much worse, I so hope it will get better each year. On the bright side, I am really going to enjoy my work this year. It is starting off GREAT!!! Our house has been on the market for about 1 1/2 weeks now. We have had a few showings, we just need to be patient. I am excited about the long Labor day holiday. I feel like summer is ending which is sad for my, but my second favorite season is fall (summer of course is #1).
Cartr got a hold of a pink marker at Kidsmuse last week. It took 2 days (and 2 baths) to come off. We called him our zebra for those days.
Benjamin - he loves going in Carter's crib after his nap with Carter. They can play for a long time in there (even without fighting).
Benjamin finally looking at the camera and almost smiling. He has reached that point where he turns from the camera because he thinks it funny. I am having a hard time getting pictures of him.
Benjamin and Carter LOVE falling off onto B's bed. We let them do it as long as they don't jump off, only fall. It will keep them entertained for at least 30 minutes. It is so funny to hear them giggling as they are falling on to the bed.
We got sunglasess, SPIDERMAN glass. It is the sweetest thing to see the boys just chillin out wearing ther glasses.
Carter eating breakfast. He wanted to wear brother bandana from VBS. I think he wore it all day!
Now this little guy is my smiler!!! I can even get a "Cheese" out of him. He loves smiling at the camera.
Bridge going into the main part of the city.
On the bridge over looking the water. The main part of the city is to the left, mostly shops and expensive homes.
Ryan and Brad (BIL) went to the seaside resort. This is a picture taken from the wooden pier. The hotel in the back is the nicest hotel in the country, we didn't stay there!
Resort, tons of people were out (it was a weekday), there were games, tons of fun stuff to do. Also lots of speedos!
Communist headquarters during communist regime.
This picture looks over the "old" city.
Marzipan was created here in Tallinn. This is a cake decorated with marzipan. Sidenote: Marzipan is my favorite especially with chocolate! The marzipan museum was here.
Town square, the buildings were homes and stores of the towns people. The more space (wide) the store, the more money you had. I would hate to be the gray one on the far left!
Ryan and I were walking through the streets and ran across this restaurant. The menu was full of Tex Mex things, it did make me miss home! The restaurant had the Texas flag by the door, very cool!
This is the wall that separates the "old" city from the new part. All of the government, shops, and more expensive homes were in the old part. The new part looked very different, more industrial or commercial astmosphere.
Pictures inside and out of the Rock church. It was amazing to see! It was one of the best "sites" on the trip.
St. Isaac's church with Isaac on the horse out front of the church. This is the 4th largest church in the World.
The Church of Paul and Peter, it is set like a fortress with water surrounding it. It has all the Czars, Queens, and Kings buried in it.
This is the Church of Spilled Blood. It is now a museum. Everytime I saw this picture before our trip, it just looked Russian. It is more beautiful in person than any picture I have ever seen. Across from this church was an open "tourist" market. I got a Christmas Russian doll set. That is the wooden figure that keep getting smaller and smaller.
These are 2 tombs from the church of Peter and Paul. I wanted you to see these tombs because they are each from 1 big stone. The green is jade, and I can't remember the red stone. They each weigh several TONS. Where are the bodies you ask? All bodies are not in the tombs up top of the church for people to look at, they are buried under the church in crypts.
Ryan taking his own picture with Peter the Great. The statue is very different. They actually took a real print of his head, and didn't notice that is was quite small to the rest of his body until after the statue was put together. The body was not done to size. You were supposed to rub his long fingers for luck, I didn't pertake of the rubbing!
This is the center square in Helsinki. This was a famous church, now it is a church open to the public. It was a great place to drop us off to view the city. Helsinki was a neat town. If anyone has every been here, please let me know what you think of it. We went to the square, you can also see the picture below with Ryan. That picture was taken with the church to my back. But after visiting the square, Rock church, and the open market, what else is there to do in Helsinki? So let me know if you have been. I feel that is one place I cross off that I have visited, and I don't need to go back. Don't get me wrong, the city and people were great, just not a lot to do there.
Sometimes you must find humor in pictures.
Some of the food that was prepared and served the in open market down by the water front. Ryan one of the little fish in the middle. It reminded me of sardines, but Ryan said it was wonderful. He was even mad at me that I did get a "freebie" for him to eat it. I personally didn't want the smell on my hands! The open market had produce, flowers, places to eat, things to buy, etc. It was really neat. I always like going to the open markets because it says a lot about the town. One of the most popular meats in Finland was reindeer. The meat was super red in color, and "no" neither of us tried it. I am sure Ryan would have if the opportunity came.
This is the Rock Church. My inside picture didn't post. (I will try and post it separate.) It doesn't even look like a church on the outstide. It is amazing. The inside is all rock too, very natural. When we are visiting, an organist was getting ready for a wedding, so we had the nice classical music playing in the background.
This is the city hall building for Stockholm. Stockholm was a nice city, I just didn't feel we had enough time there. We only took a 30 minute walking tour through one part of the city. I did learn that the Nobel Prize was development there from the man it was named after, and that is where they hold the ceremonies to award the Nobel Prize. One thing we did was visit the Absolut Icebar! Which that sounds crazy, but the bar is made out of total ice! The floor, walls, seats, bar itself, and cups to drink out of - all made out of ice! Here are 2 pictures below. They give you the jackets when you enter.
Old town area of Stockholm. In pictures of Stockholm, I would always see these different colored buildings. This center square is very close to the Royal Palace.
Nobel Museum - you can't really read it off the glass. I didn't go in it, but thought the picture would be cool. Lots of buildings in Stockholm have the name Nobel in it, due to the fact, that family gave tons of money to the city!
Yes, sitting on ice. You could not sit for very long even with the jacket on you. You can see the walls behind us, just huge blocks of ice. They cut the blocks out of a river in Northern Sweden when it freezes over. The block of ice are kept frozen and sent to the Icebars located in other places.
