Welcome To Our Crazy Life

We are the Colls and this is about our life with our triplets. My name is Sandi and my husband's name is Kevin. We got married on Feb. 7, 2004 and instantly started trying to have a baby. 5 years, many tears and loads of help later we found out we were having not one, not two, but three babies!

Braedan, Teagan and Sean bounced into our lives on Nov. 12, 2008 and everything has been turned upside down, flipped sideways and scattered about since then. I’m not going to sugar coat it....it wasn’t easy in the beginning. The NICU, late nights, screaming babies, being thousands of miles from our families because we were stationed in Hawaii, exhaustion and then Kevin deploying to Afghanistan for 6 months the day the kids turned 6 months old......not fun.

But now they are getting older and Kevin has been medically separated from the Marine Corps and we've moved to NY to be closer to family. It's great to finally have family around...... especially now that we've hit the TERRIBLE TWOS triple time!

Even though we are close to family now, we are still learning to survive life with triplets.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Ahoy Matey! We had our BIG birthday celebration!


We had our BIG birthday celebration yesterday and it was a lot of fun! All of our friends came to play, eat and jump in the bounce house! We have a lot of pictures so we'll just go with picture overload now!

OUR DECORATIONS:
Skull and bones ice cubes

Kevin drew them a treasure map

I think he did a GREAT job on it

I made them personalized skulls and hung them around the house

Sean and Braedan's balloons from Grandpop and Leigh-Leigh

Teagan's balloons from Grandpop and Leigh-Leigh

Our pirate flags

THEIR OUTFITS:

I couldn't find a cute girl pirate shirt......so I made this the night before the party!
It's a glittery skull hand-sewn on along with a hand-sewn bow!


Kevin found cute shirts for the boys though!



THE CUPCAKES:
We had lots of food for people to eat. Kevin grilled hamburgers, turkey burgers and hotdogs! We had potato salad, baked beans, chips and of course - CUPCAKES! I had planned on making 3 different flavors for the guests, but ended up with just two due to running out of time. So we had strawberry pureed ones with strawberry buttercream icing and vanilla bean ones with chocolate icing (I planned on making vanilla meringue, but ran out of time!) The kids each had personalized pirate cakes. It was my first time working with fondant....and it was a lot of fun!

L-R Braedan, Teagan and Sean's XL cupcakes
                                     
                                              As soon as we gave it to her she started eating it!

Sean giggled at his cupcake before biting it
Braedan ate the eyeball first and then bit the chin off!








BOUNCE HOUSE FUN:
We LOVE, LOVE, LOVED the bounce house






















We are thankful for all of our presents also! We'll put up pictures of us playing with all of our new cool stuff later. For now, we are all exhausted and off to NAP!



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