Sorry for the lack of updates lately. We've been keeping busy here. Let's see.....we had bachelor/bachelorette parties to attend for Dawn and Nathan. Dawn and I met in college and became really good friends. She found a great guy and they are getting married 9/13 and I get to be a part of their special day. Now I just need to work on fitting into my bridesmaid dress :) With my personal trainer, I only lost one pound, but I did lose 7 inches. But, I've been slacking, so if I want to breathe that day and be able to eat and drink, I have to bust my butt and eat healthy. I have 3 weeks :)

Here is the most of the group that went out for the party.
This is most of the rest of them
We had to go to the mall that day to get me a shirt for the party. I let Alli ride the rides in the middle of the mall, but only once, then she threw a fit when I made her leave. But she looks so cute in this picture

My Aunt Sue passed away last week. She was fighting cancer for almost 14 years, so now I know she is more peaceful up in Heaven, looking down on all of us. Jim's Uncle Rick also passed away suddenly last week. He was only 41 and they think he had a heart attack. I had only met him once, but he seemed like a really nice, good guy. Thanks for all of the thoughts and prayers from everyone.

This past weekend, we went to visit my sister and her family in Nashville. It took a long time to pack and we had lots of stuff. The ride down there started off bad, because hwy 64 was closed downtown, so we had to take a detour and it took us 40 mins out of our way. Then we stopped at McD's for dinner and that took another hour by the time we fed everyone and changed them, etc. Then we got stuck in one lane traffic for another 20 mins. SO, it took us 7 hrs to get there. The babies were so good and slept the whole way down, but of course, we got there at 11pm and we were tired and ready for bed, but they weren't. We spent Friday at the pool, then went to Demos' for dinner with Jackie and Bill. They always talk about how good it is, so I've been wanting to try it. It was very good and very affordable. Good meal :) Saturday, we didn't do much. Went to Bread Co. for a bagel in the morning, went and got some lunch, then that night I went to see Pearl Heart perform at the Musicians Hall of Fame. They did great, like always. It was cute to see people (fans) wanting to get their pictures taken with them. Jim stayed home with the kids--none of them felt good. I'm not sure if it was the Southern air or the dog or what, but all 4 kids had runny noses, wheezing, coughing, sneezing, etc. None of them slept well, so that was hard on us. It was a good trip, but sort of hard. At home we have swings, exersaucers, etc to keep them occupied and give us a rest. But we did have extra helpers, so that was nice. Anyway, it was a good trip, just sort of rough. Hopefully next year will be a little easier :) It was good to see everyone though and that was our test trip. When Alli was 9 mos old, she went to Poland and Italy. The triplets at 9 mos got to go to Nashville. I'll probably be hearing about that when they get older ;) Oh, we made it home in 5 hrs and didn't have to stop once. Just kept shoving bottles in their mouths when they would cry.

Getting ready to go to the pool....that took about an hour just getting ready
Jimmy puked on Jim's forehead
Jimmy fell asleep on Daddy. He didn't feel very good :(
Alli got to play on the playground
I told Alli to get a picture with Chase and she decided she wanted to do a full photo shoot. She is such a character!
Mommy and Alli

Alli and Steph (or as Alli calls her, Snefanie)
Newest family photo :)
Uncle Bill and Alli
From all of the pictures of Alli, I'm sure you could tell she had tons of fun :)

Today my friend Christine helped me take all the kids to the helmet appt. It was the best appointment we've had to date! Only 45 mins long! AND.....Cassie is the first one out of the helmet! She looks so darn cute without it. Jimmy and Jenna are looking great too, so hopefully when we go back in a month, they will be done also. And, I thought I was going to make my last $500 payment for Jimmy and be done with the $4500, but they told me insurance picked his up and we should be getting a check for the other money we paid for his. So, at least one was covered. We are working on the appeal for the girls. Hopefully this just makes our case stronger, because Jimmy's head was the least severe of the 3 of them, and they covered his helmet, so why wouldn't they cover the girls????

Anyway, we met Ann and the babies at Bread Co. for lunch and now we just had our first appointment with the new physical therapist through First Steps for Jenna and Jimmy. She is going to come twice a month. She didn't see any major issues with either of them, but did give us some stretches and exercises to do with them.

And this is MY little escape artist (Cassie)....we can not leave her alone for 5 seconds in her car seat or she flips out of it. She is always on the go. Starting to scoot backwards a little, but rolling all over the place.