Weekend Travels

We had a busy weekend! After the 7am feeding Saturday morning G&G Waind were helping us load up the boys and all of the many bags and props that go along with a weekend trip for us- which is A LOT by the way!! We were impressively on the road by 8:09am! The road trip to Grand Forks to see the boy's great-grandpa Warren Waind went pretty smooth. We got to a gas station by 11:10am and fed the boys their bottles before heading to Gpa Waind's cousin's restaurant at Kings Walk Golf Course. It was great that Grandma Chari made arrangements for us to have the private dining room available to us as I don't think we would have made it any other way! We set up a blanket on the floor for the trips to stretch out on and got some great 4 generation photo's in too (although not on my camera, boo!) After lunch we took the crew back to the home where GGpa Warren lives and showed off the boys to all the other residents- it was the 1st time many of the old ladies had ever seen triplets- it made their day :) After the 3pm bottles we packed up and started our next 3 hour road trip of the day to cabin at Lake Metigoshe.

We timed everything perfectly- can't do it any other way- and got to the cabin in time to make more bottles, get beds set up, feed the babes, get them to bed, and enjoy some time on the deck before we all crashed! We woke up to a beautiful Sunday morning on the lake. We were able to fit in a pontoon ride, including a visit with aunt and uncle Waind, and lunch back at the cabin before packing up all of the bags and beds and heading back home to Minot. We were home before 6pm- just enough time to unload, make another batch of bottles, put the beds back together, feed/change the boys, and luckily they were just as tired as we were and went right to sleep:) It was a lot of work- but well worth it!! We realized a long time ago that most things we will do as a family of 6 with triplets will be exponentially harder and more tiresome, but we want to give our boys as many "normal" opportunities and outings as we can. I really have a case of the "Mondays" today, and the road trip has set Ben's back recovery back (boo!) but we are happy we were able to do it and most importantly introduce G-Gpa Warren to the boys.

 Brody LOVES to be outside at the Cabin

 E-P-R, I tricked Gma with the hats on who-was-who :) I can't lie though, I even got Riley and Evan mixed up once while they were wearing them!

 Brody was playing peek-a-boo with the trips

 It was pretty cool to watch this plane take off right next to us while we were on the pontoon ride

  Ben was the captain for a bit :) We had the triplets on the pontoon in their triple stroller while they napped, it worked out pretty good!