Howdy....

Well, once again it's been a busy couple of weeks. Dax is LOVING pre-school. He is learning so much. His teacher sent him home with a "Happy Helper" chart, and everyday if he does something on his chart he gets to put a sticker on it and once it's full of stickers he gets to take it back to school and gets to pick a prize. He thinks it's the coolest thing in the world! And so do I, everyday he gets up and makes his bed and brushes his teeth so he can get his stickers and then he only gets one toy out at a time so he doesn't have to pick up a lot of toys so he can get his pick up toys sticker. It's funny how he won't make big messes when HE has to clean it up! I try to make him clean his messes but he didn't really listen that well (imagine that). So thanks Mrs. Vicki!!! Dax also started soccer a couple of weeks ago. He loves it! Soccer is THE sport in our house. Aaron lives, eats, and breathes soccer. He plays on an indoor league and has for years so Dax couldn't wait until he got to play too. It is so cute to watch, we like to call it Bunch Ball because all the kids just follow the ball and they all try to get it, it doesn't matter if your own teammate has the ball, they still try to get it for themselves. It's pretty funny. And of course Dax is awesome! The first game he scored the only 2 goals, and the next game he scored 4 out of the 5. He's one coordinated little dude!

Lovin his treat he got after the game

Going for the goal

The babies are doing great. Moving all over the place. Jacee can army crawl all over the place. She can't even sit up yet, but she moves all over the place and gets up on her hands and knees she just can't figure out how to move her arms. Jaxon rolls anywhere he wants to go and it trying to figure out how to scoot like sister. Gav is a lazy turd! ;) He would just rather someone hold him than try to move around on his own. But I could imagine that it doesn't feel too good putting a lot of pressure on his feeding tube button. But we try! They all have their own little personalities. Jaxon thinks he's hilarious, but he's kinda sly about it, it's so funny. He just laughs and laughs. Gavin is just the little sweetheart. He still just smiles all the time. And Jacee is indeed the princess of the house. When she wants something she wants it now and she's already figured out that she gets whatever her little heart desires (especially from daddy). Girls are so different from boys, even this early! And they have all noticed each other. Jacee usually could care less, but the boys love to look at each other and just smile and they try to grab each other. It's so cool that they have each other, they will always have someone to play with. That's going to be so nice!

So Big!!! She loves to stand up. Strong little legs.

3 naked babies!

Daddy & his Princess

The babies all had their eye appointments earlier this week also. Since their ROP is all gone, this appointment was to check their vision. Gavin's was perfect, Jacee and Jaxon showed some mild nearsightedness and both have astigmatism. So the Dr. said they would need glasses in the near future. So I asked what he predicted to be the near future and he said probably in 6 months at their next check-up. I think that's going to be so cute! I love glasses on anyone, so little babies, how cute! I'm not sure how much the babies are going to like them, but oh they're gonna wear em!

And we FINALLY blessed the babies yesterday. They're 9 1/2 months old and we finally did it! Things are a little crazy around here, so it took me a little longer to put it together. Aaron's grandpa was nice enough to bless them. He was a little nervous to bless 3 babies, but he did a great job! I was nervous about how good the babies would be, but they did great. Then we had everyone over for lunch after. I don't love to host things, so I was stressing all week. But YAY it all went good. Thanks to everyone that came! (we had over 80 people come, which is one reason we did it on a Saturday instead of Sunday)

Jaxon thought he might starve! It's hard to get 3 babies to sit still and look the same direction, so this is as good as it gets! My cousin Melody made Jacee's dress. Gorgeous huh! Thanks Mel!

Us...

Us & Papa & Yia Yia

Us & Grandma & Grandpa Neilson

Us & Great-Grandpa & Grandma Mason (Grandpa Mason is the one that blessed the babies)

The babies with Great-Grandma Rose

I'm going to take the babies to get their pictures in their blessing outfits, maybe someone else can get a good shot of all 3!

School Days...

Well Dax started pre-school yesterday. His birthday is this month so he barely missed the deadline for Kindergarten, but I'd rather him be the oldest in his class than the youngest. So this is his second year of pre-school. He is going to a different school than he did last year, but is way excited! It happened that my friend Shannon's little boy Gage is in his class and they are good buddies so that was a great ice breaker. I don't know how good it is for the teacher, they are crazy boys! But he did great the first day. He seemed to have fun and already is learning the Pledge of Allegiance and they learn a new letter every week. So this week they will be learning about the letter A. He goes on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's. He woke up today and was way bummed that he wasn't going today. I'm so glad that he likes it and isn't scared to go.

Well the babies are doing better with the solids. Jaxon loves it still, and Jacee just decided that she will like it to so they do great. Gavin doesn't seem to gag as much but still will not swallow it! I don't know if he just doesn't like it or if it might have something to do with his eating problem. So the OT's are going to work with him on eating solids so hopefully that will help.


And they sure did get their colds back. Dang it! They gave their colds to Dax and it looks like he gave it right back to them. They are starting to feel better now, so hopefully we can be done playing tag with the cold!


And last weekend Aaron and I decided we needed a getaway. It's been a long, hard year for us so it was much needed. So Amber and Brian were nice enough to come stay at our house with the kiddos at night and then they would take them to my mom's during the day. So it was a group effort. And we are very thankful!!!! We decided to go to Vegas. We stayed at the Planet Hollywood resort which was so nice. We decided that Vegas is pretty nasty, good people watching place, but very nasty. So we mainly hit all the shops and ate at lots of yummy places. And we went and saw STOMP. It was so awesome!!! We've seen them before when they came here, but it was even better in Vegas because that's their "home" now so they were able to do a lot more stuff than they did when they came here. It was so fun! We had a great time.


Here's a pic of Dax before he left for school. He was so proud!

And he had to show off his super cool Spiderman back pack.

Busy, Busy..

Wow. It's been a busy couple of weeks! We've been going non-stop it seems. We started out by going to Aaron's sisters house 2 weekends ago. She and her family moved up to Mountain View Wyoming a while ago and we hadn't been up to see their new house yet so we finally we able to go up and stay the weekend with them. It was so fun and their new house is so nice. Dax had a blast playing with Landon and Ayrion. Since then I've taken the kids to Kennecott Copper Mine, the Davis County Fair, Lagoon, and Raging waters. Just to name a few! Crazy I know. But it's been fun. I just really need to get used to people stopping me all the time. We're quite the sight! Aaron says that we need to start charging!


And yesterday Derek left for school in Washington for his aviation program. We are all so excited for him, but it was sad to see him go. If you ask Dax who his best friend is, he'll say Derek. They've always been buddies. I remember when I told Derek I was pregnant (with Dax) that all he said was that it better be a boy. They've been best friends ever since. So Dax will be sad, he doesn't quite understand how far away Washington actually is.


And Aaron took Jacee to get her ears pierced on Saturday. He's always said that when we have a girl she is getting her ears pierced as soon as she can. So we did it. Jacee did so good. She cried for maybe 20 seconds then she was all smiles. And she looks so cute! We got little pink "diamond" earrings. Too cute...


Well and update on the babies food. Right after we switched them to soy formula they ALL got colds. (3 sick babies, so fun!!!!) So we couldn't really tell if it was helping the congestion because they were all so stuffy, so finally 2 weeks later the colds are about gone and they are much better! I think the soy is helping a ton. Jaxon sounds much better. And he is all smiles lately. He thinks he's hilarious, laughs all the time. But the baby food is a different story. Gavin still gags every time I give him some, and Jacee doesn't care for it either. Jaxon loves it. Gobbles it right up. I'm giving it to them twice a day now, so hopefully the other two will just get used to it. I don't remember having such a problem with Dax. Any tips would be much appreciated!!!!!


Oh and I want to say Congratulations to Aaron's brother Austin and his wife Tiffany, they had their second baby girl, Miley born on August 12th. And another congratulations to Aaron's sister Angie and her husband Kelly, they had a baby boy Treyson on August 19th. (that's the 4th for them, 3rd boy). Since last September every one of Aaron's siblings has had a baby (or 3). So that's 7 new grand kids (17 overall) for Aaron's parents in less than a year. Wow huh!

Well here's the latest pics.

Kalee, Devree, Dax, Me, Amber and the babies at Kennecott

Me and Dax at the mine.

Jacee and her earrings, they're hard to see in this pic.

A better look of at least one earring.

This is just a funny picture of Jaxon. He has to hold on to something when he sucks his thumb so he rolls all over until he finds something. This time he rolled half way under my bed and grabbed on to the bed skirt. So his head is under the bed. So cute!

This is Derek and Dax before Derek left. He gave Dax his beloved baseball hat collection. ;)

The whole fam minus Aaron and Dax, they went to Rocky Mountain Raceway to watch the Napa 125.

Me & Derek before he left. =(

And I have to say what a nice wife I am. Aaron went hunting for 5 days! And I didn't pitch a fit or anything. How nice huh! And he did get himself a nice 3 point buck. He just jerky's it all. Yay. But before he left, he and his cousins got the bright idea to cut their hair into mohawks! And I cut Aaron's and his cousins Cliff's. See how nice I am. I help my hubby to be crazy!!!

Mitch, Aaron & Cliff with their super awesome hairdo's.

Aaron with his "cool do".

8 month check up...

The babies all had an 8 month check up today. They are doing so good. The doctor was so impressed that they were rolling over (Gavin started rolling over last weekend in Yuba) and they reach for toys, so they are doing great developmentally. Jaxon weighs 13 lbs 1 oz and is 24 3/4 in long. That puts him in the 45% for height and 25% for weight (for their ADJUSTED age). Gavin weighs 13 lbs 3 oz and is 24 1/4 in, so 25% for height and 25% for weight. And Jacee (Miss Piggy) is 13 lbs 9 oz and 24 1/4 in, so she's in the 50% for both height and weight. The Dr. seamed very happy with the results.

And pretty much since Jaxon has been home he's been so congested, sometimes even wheezing so we have to give him Albuterol treatments. We got a suction machine to help suck everything out and it helps but an hour later he's stuffy again. He never has a fever so we never thought he was sick or anything, but we've been wondering what the heck is going on. And Gavin is about the same, though not quite as stuffy. So the Dr. is thinking that they might have a milk allergy so he switched them to soy formula (stinky!) and hopefully that helps. We'll keep our fingers crossed. The Doc also said it's time to start solids. So we are giving them rice cereal at night and if that goes good we'll give it to them in the morning along with some veggies and fruit. So I tried the cereal with them tonight, Jaxon couldn't figure out what the heck I was giving him, Gavin acted like I was feeding him a spoonful of poop (he gagged so hard he threw up), and of course Miss Piggy gobbled it right up. (Pretty sure she takes after her momma, I love to eat!)

So once again things are great! Yay!

Oh and I have to say I finished the 4th book in the Twilight Series, Breaking Dawn. Finally I can go back to being a mom and wife!!! I'm sure Aaron's glad I finished! And I've heard mixed reviews about it but I guess I'm just a sucker because I loved it!

Here's some pics of their first time eating solids...

Jaxon...

Gavin...

Jacee...

And yesterday we went to the good 'ol Weber County Fair with my friend Stephanie and her kids and Kalee and Devree. Besides that it was so freakin hot, we hot a lot of fun. I forgot my camera of course but Dax got this super awesome prize so I had to take his picture with it. ;)And here's just some cute pics of the babies...

I have no idea why Gav's picture is sideways...

Yuba Lake

We went camping this past weekend with Aaron's family to Yuba Lake. I've never camped at a lake before so it was a new experience. But we had so much fun. It was hot but you just played in the water all day so you didn't mind it. Just had to wear lots of sunscreen! The only downfall was the wind. It would just blow sand everywhere, so needless to say everything had sand in it. We were joking that we all were getting free micro-dermabrasions! So the babies got to stay in the trailer most of the time because they didn't care for sand in their faces. So when they took their naps we took advantage and went and played in the water. Otherwise Aaron and I took turns.

Aaron's sister brought this blow up platform thing and Aaron's mom brought a blow up slide that hooked to it and so everyone just played on that the whole time. And Aaron's cousin brought a boat so people went out on that too. Or we would just put our camping chairs out in the water so you can just have your feet in but still be cool, and the sand storms didn't really make it out to the water too much. And Dax loved being able to play with all of his cousins. Lots of fun.I kinda slacked with the picture taking as usual, but here are a few.

The boat...

Aaron & Dax playing in the water

Playing on the slide

Aaron got the bright idea to bleach his hair and goatee. Crazy.

Dax playing with Landon & Bronson

Jacee cuddling with Mckenna

(she never cuddles so good job Kenna!)

Kenna got Jacee to sleep

Dax playing on the kiddie slide

New Pictures

Well as you may have noticed I changed my blog layout. I added some new family pictures. Aaron's cousin Dani took our pictures. She has a little studio in her basement, her blog is danigphotography.blogspot.com if you want to check out more of her photos. She did a great job. Taking pictures of 3 babies and a 4 year old is not easy. So the family one is the best we could get, but oh well! =) We focused mainly on the babies so that's why we don't have any of just Dax. He gets new ones for his birthday in September so I'll add more of him then. In case you can't tell, Jaxon's in the top left, Gavin's below him and then of course Jacee.

And all of you family memebers out there, I'm working on putting together a photo announcement for you so don't worry, your pictures are coming! =)

So Jaxon rolled over yesterday. He can go from his back to his tummy. And Jacee can now roll back to tummy or tummy to back. And Gavin's getting closer. Jacee can also scoot around on her back. She just pushes off with her feet and gets all over the place. Her hair is NEVER going to grow in on the back!

Have you ever heard of Jeff Foxworthy's "Here's your sign"? Well whenever we go somewhere people always stop me and say, "Wow, are those triplets?" Seriously, what else would it be! So the smart a** that I am, I need a good response to tell them. I can't think of anything good to say. So any help would be appreciated. And yes I know I'm a brat. =)

Here's a cute picture of them last night. They all fell asleep under their little activity center. So
cute!

-Sorry I can't figure out how to rotate the pic!-

Time Sure Flies...

Wow, I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted. Time sure flies when you having fun, or going crazy, either one! :)We are all doing just fabulous. The babies are sure getting big, and fun. Jacee started rolling over a couple of weeks ago, so she gets around. We even had a fall off the bed accident, whoops! But I think it just scared her more than anything, after a few hugs she was fine. She also found out she could talk so she just talks all day long. It's so cute, that's how I know when she's up in the morning, I can hear her in there talking. Jaxon and Gavin can roll onto their sides but that's all they are really interested in right now. And Jaxon LOVES his thumb! I know it's naughty but it's too cute, I can't not let him do it. I'm sure I'll have a different story in a couple of years. Gavin's doing good with his bottles. He usually takes about 1-2 whole bottles a day. But lately he's been throwing up (like a fountain) so we are trying to work on that right now because his weight gain hasn't been as good lately so hopefully we can get that figured out.
Because they were so early they are enrolled in the Neonatal Follow up program. So we take them down to SLC every few months to see how they are developing. They had part of their appt last month and the other part today. We go through all types of doctors like an assembly line. We see one and move on to the next. It's a very long appt! They base everything off of their corrected age (which is how old they should be based off their due date, March 16th). And they all were right were they should be! The doctor said 3 for 3 were great, and for 24 weekers that's pretty great to say! I love to hear that!!!!! They have no obvious problems or signs of problems. And their heights and weights were all in the 50% for their corrected age. Good job babies!
This past week my uncle Doug came to visit from Pennsylvania. And then my Grandparents from Florida. I haven't seen my uncle for a few years, so it was nice to see him. He's a pilot and his airline now flies into Utah so he only got to stay for a day, but it was still fun. I hope the rest of his family can come down soon, I love to have extra baby holders. (Cassie!!!) It was also nice to reminisce about my cousin Kristen. She was so funny, and it was nice to hear more funny stories about her. We sure miss her. She was such a great person.
I haven't seen my grandparents for 2 years and they got to stay for about a week, so we did lots of stuff. We kept them busy, they're probably excited to be home and relax. ;) We went to Park City and we rode the Alpine Coaster (so fun!), the Hill Air Force Museum (the type of plane my grandpa flew in the Korean war is there), a barbecue at Lennon's, watched some old home movies and went to the fireworks at Weber State. Wow huh! We had tons of fun though, I hope it's not 2 years before we see them again!
Also, (I know this is turning into a novel) we went camping to Flaming Gorge over the 4th. That was lots of fun. Both Aaron's and my family go on big camping trips over the 4th so we take turns going with our families every other year, so this year was my families turn. We just hang around camp and we also go raft the Green River a couple of times and then Dutch John does fireworks, so we go to them (they are actually really good fireworks for a small town) and speaking of fireworks, I had a lot of fun! Let's just say don't take allergy pills and an energy drink at the same time, plus I think I had some bottled up energy I needed to release. But that's all that I'm going to say about that. Everyone there knows why! ;) And my mom was nice enough to stay back with the babies so that Aaron and I could go raft the river, so thanks Mother! Great times!
I guess I better end this, if anyone is even still reading it =). Again, the babies are doing great, they are so nice to us. Still sleeping through the night, they go to bed around 8 and sleep until 7 or 8 the next morning. I'm so thankful for that. I don't think I could do it if I was tired. And Dax is a great brother, he really looks out for the babies, he checks on them while they're sleeping and even will smell their bums to let me know who's poopy. Go Dax! We love ya dude!
Well as you can imagine I have a lot of pics so here's another slide show! (and I didn't even take a lot of pics camping or when my grandparents were here, probably check Amber and Kalee's blog for that)
Oh and one more thing, hahaha. We want to welcome home Amber and Brian. They've been real home sick, and after they came home to go camping they decided that they want to come home, they just miss us all way to much! ;) But we are really glad you're home to stay!
That's all, really.