Our life is crazy, often out of control,
but always filled with love and lots of laughter!
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.
Friday, July 8, 2011
July 4th Weekend
What a weekend! Kevin's new friends at his job told him about a warehouse you can purchase fireworks at down in Pennsylvania. So off I was sent in search of a spectacular array of fireworks. The kids and I loaded up and made the trip to Northeastern Fireworks. I was expecting a small store, but it really was a warehouse packed with a great variety of things to blow up! We bought a bunch of different things and headed back to New York! After picking Kevin up at work it was obvious that we were going to have a noisy night. Sure enough, we used so many fireworks that we had to plan a trip to go back to the warehouse the next day! HAHA After our 2 day haul we ended up with enough fireworks to last all weekend as well as put on a great show on the 4th!
On July 3rd we started the day by picking up some Dunkin Donuts and heading out to Letchworth State Park. The kids had a blast playing on one of their favorite playgrounds and then we took them to see some of the waterfalls.
We found this funny sign on the way out of the park. So......there isn't a speed limit once you pass this sign?
As we were leaving Letchworth we found in a brochure an add for a safari park. After plugging it into our GPS we realized we were only 20 minutes away....so off we went. We were so glad we did! It was similar to the one we found in Ohio when we were heading to my parent's house. In fact, we learned the owner of this one created it after visiting the one in Ohio. Instead of driving around in your car to feed the animals though, you side in a covered wagon pulled by a tractor. Since the kids are obsessed with tractors now, this was PERFECT! We had a lot of fun and so did the kids. We fed all kinds of different animals on the ride as well as in the petting zoo. During lunch Kevin even had an Elk burger!
So EXCITED
He tried it and liked it
These things are HUGE! Can you see me standing under it?
The 4th Of July
We started the day hanging out with Sam and Alex at the house while waiting for Tom and Leigh to get back from Long Island. Sam and Alex ended up taking the kids to visit a friend of theirs and go swimming which left Kevin and I a chance to catch up on some sleep, take a walk by the water and grab some ice cream! How RELAXING! Once the kiddos got back, we fired up the grill and started cooking. When it got dark we had a great fireworks show put on by Kevin! We hugged and kissed Sam, Alex, Leigh-Leigh and Gpop goodbye and made it to our town just in time to see their fireworks show. What a great end to a great day!
Kevin was VERY careful when letting Sean play with a Sparkler
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