Happy 10th Anniversary!

Sorry but this post will probably leave you triplet deprived! Phil and I celebrated our 10th anniversary a couple of weeks early. We ditched the kids and took a 6 day get away! It was sure nice to sleep in everyday, eat out in peace, and have more free time than we even knew what to do with. Yes it was awesome! In case you were wondering, the kids stayed under the care of their mama Elda and had a blast. It's safe to assume that they didn't miss us much, ha!

We stayed a couple of nights in Carmel-By-The-Sea (yes that's it's official name). It's a fancy little town in California with more art galleries than you can shake a stick at. 

We watched the sunset on the beach each evening with a glass of wine : )

In true Portland style we brought bikes!
In Carmel we did the famous 17 mile drive and got to see some pretty spectacular coastline views.

Philly

The 17 mile drive wraps around Pebble Beach golf course whose official trademark is the Lone Cypress. 

On our way south to Pismo Beach (our next stop) we drove down highway 1.
The seemingly never ending twists and turns right next to huge cliffs leaves me never wanting to do that again. The views were pretty amazing though. 

At a look out along hwy 1

We made it to Pismo Beach alive! We spent another few days here bumming around on the beach and stuffing ourselves with fried seafood : )

I'm such a sucker for fish and chips!

One day we rode our bikes to the next beach town to do a little wine tasting

It was a much needed kid free vacation, we had a blast but we are glad to be back with our stinky little boys : )

3yrs & 9mo!

You all must be thinking that I died! Sorry for the hiatus but I assure you we are all well and fine. There has not been much down time since we've been in Cali for me to post anything. We are having a great time and I'll try to catch you up to at least the first few days here in California.

CET are 3 years and 9 months old!

Your all american triplets, heehee! They look so old timey : )
(this was actually taken in Portland before we left but I HAD to share this one)

We made it to San Jose in 13 hours and along the way we stopped at this park in Yreka where they had an old mine to explore.

The boys got world cup fever with Tio Temo after Mexico won their game earlier last week : )

Seeing as how California is in an unprecedented drought I couldn't bring myself to fill the pool any higher than this.
It didn't seem to bother the boys any : )

Cold Appetizer 1 of 3: Goat cheese stuffed blossoms with figs and peaches oh my! (explanation to come)

Warm Appetizer 1 of 3: lamb, mmmmm!

Phil and I enjoying a round of champagne with my cousins daughter Livy in the background showing off her muscles.
We got the treat of our life after my cousin invited us out to dinner.

My cousin and her man who is the Chef de Cuisine at Waterbar restaurant in downtown SF. We could have never afforded how much food we got so we are very grateful of the fine dining experience, we certainly left a generous tip!

After all the apps that were brought out to us my sister and I decided it was best to cancel one of the main dishes and share this one together. We couldn't even finish it we were soooo stuffed! Even though we passed on the desert menu there was still a treat brought out, we obliged : )

My sister and I

The Bay Bridge in San Francisco and our view from dinner!

Happenings

The pictures have been piling up and no time to post! The background of our pictures will be different soon, a much needed vacation is just around the corner...

Behave, someones watching!

Caleb

Thomas

Eli

CET

Barnes & Noble storytime

Wild animals at the zoo!

Someone forgot to tell them that they don't fit 2 by 2 anymore!

I was inspired to make tye dye shirts when I found out how well they cover up messes.
Can their whole wardrobe be tye dye? I would never have to worry about getting stains out!

A break from riding bikes

Grad Party

Last Saturday we went to a friends graduation party and his parents catered it with their taco truck! The boys had a lot of fun and even got to skip their nap since the party started right around the time they'd be going to sleep. They did ok but come 7:30pm they started acting like drunks. They were getting really clumsy and falling left and right, ha! They went to bed around 9pm and we had to wake them up at 9am so we wouldn't be late to meeting (but of course we were anyways) so who know how long they would have slept in!

Of course these truck obsessed dudes were in awe of it!

The boys got to spend a few minutes "driving" the truck

Caleb almost lost it when his 5 minutes were up, there were many tears

Eli was being very photogenic this day (more to come)

The boys were excited to see more friends arriving!

playing futbol

Thomas

Eli looking like such a big kid!

Eli showing off his balancing act

uh oh he's losing it!

out for the count!

And he's back!

I was waiting for dessert to come before we left but after seeing how tired the boys were I asked Eli if he wanted to go home so he could go to bed. His reply was, "me want cupcakes." It's a hard life waiting for dessert to come!

Oh Crap! moment #68-74

I haven't done one of these in a really long time. I think it's because I've become desensitized to all the bumps, cuts, bruises and shenanigans that these boy get into on a daily basis. How people survive childhood eludes me...

Oh Crap! moment #68

As I walked into the living room one day it felt like a bug went into my eye only it stung so bad that I immediately ran to the bathroom to rinse my eyeball out. I never found the bug and without too much thought I went about my morning. That is until I walked into the boys room to find that they had dusted half the room with cayenne pepper (and they tried to clean it up, notice the baby wipes). That morning was spent washing their hands and vacuuming. And in case you haven't put two and two together the thing that landed in my eye was a floating speck of cayenne. How the boys didn't get any in their eyes I have no idea?!

Oh Crap! moment #69

Yup you guessed it, talcum powder all over the floor, their legs, and hands. More vacuuming...

looking quite satisfied with themselves

Oh Crap! moment #70

There have been so many split lips that I've lost track, I don't even remember how Eli fell when he got this one. It does look like a particularly bad one though. Maybe it was the time someone dove head first off the bathroom counter...

That's one fat lip!

It's cut on both the outside and inside

Tah Dah!

Caleb kissing his bro's booboo

Oh Crap! moment #71

We never heard the crash but this little uh oh cost us $170 to repair!

The point of impact was toddler fist level

This was near the scene, it stands about 10 inches in length and it was one
of Caleb's favorite toys at the time. You can say I have a suspect in mind...

Oh Crap! moment #72

The boys have this game they call "hay lobos" (there's wolves) and it involves getting completely naked, jumping on our bed, and scaring each other in the closet. They had been playing their game one morning when they came out to the living room. I was picking up some toys off the floor so I wasn't paying too much attention to them. At one point I turn around and all three were perched on the window, like in the picture below except they were completely naked! And as you can see they are in plain view of anyone driving down the street or walking down the sidewalk. Thankfully they were only up there a few seconds before I caught them! Can you imagine if someone had seen them... at least I don't think anyone saw them?!

I had them pose for this picture but I normally don't let them do this with or without clothes!

Oh Crap! moment #73

Around the same time that moment #72 happened, maybe it was even the same day, I picked up the boys from nursery school one day only to find them all running around in their classroom completely naked! After talking to the teacher she told me that for the last half hour the boys had refused to put clothes on after stripping them selves down. I wasn't gonna wait till the third strike so we now have a strict "underwear at least" rule AT ALL TIMES!

Oh Crap! moment #74

What's worse than your kid throwing up in a crowded paved playground? Your kid peeing in a crowded paved playground! Talk about wanting to crawl under a rock with embarrassment, thanks Thomas! What can I say, at least pee is sterile...