Here we go again...

Nope, you can all breathe a collective sigh of relief, we're not pregnant again.

We're moving!  Casey and I have always wanted to end up living somewhere close to Lake Red Rock, and he was just offered a promotion to manage the public hunting ground in and around that area!  We couldn't be more excited to be closer to family!  That said, it's going to be tough leaving our 8th home together (no joke).  Eden was born here, and Kam has lived more than half of her life here!  Jacie has been a part of a great preschool, tumbling, and AWANA, and we have been blessed to meet some really fun people.  We'll miss you all.  I had to drop the bomb on the gals I work with today, and it was sad, I made my two fellow ultrasound techs cry!  I will SO miss you, Trina and Kris!  Maybe the guilt trip will get me back on facebook...we'll see.  :)

So we're in for a crazy Christmas, moving in between two family celebrations, but then again, if it wasn't crazy busy, we wouldn't be the Trine family.  New mission:  Grow some roots!  :)

On a little bit different note, our 5 1/2 month old started sitting up last week.  She's quite proud of herself!

Go Eden, go!

I'm addicted to Etsy!

Found these adorable aprons for the girls for Christmas!  The girls LOVE helping me cook, so much that I just recently hauled in their little play kitchen into the big kitchen.  I'm going to have Kamry's be turquoise and Jacie's pink.  I just wish they had a matching bib for Eden!! :)

Race for the Cure 2010

October 23rd, the Trine clan (minus Kam and Eden) walked in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.  We started this last year in honor of my mother-in-law, Ann, a breast cancer survivor.  It's a good time for us all to get together, and remember the road she's been on.  God is good, and we're so thankful for his healing in our lives!

Getting a ride from Uncle Kelly

Kyle and Jacie ran the 4 year old race and did awesome! 

Gotta love PINK

Before the race

With Mema, our survivor!

On the way home, survivors received roses as they finished the race, so Mema Trine sent them home with Jacie.  She was excited, as you can tell!

Sisters :)





All of the Trine's, minus Kamry and Eden.  Casey wasn't able to really do the 5k this year because of his back, so we left the younger two at home.  I can't push a double jogger and the Graco by myself! :)  Jacie did the entire race without a stroller, thanks to Papa Trine and Uncle Kelly's shoulders once in awhile. 



Oh, Kamry...

This girl is our Entertainment.  I capitalized it on purpose.  Even Eden watches Kam in anticipation of what she might do next.  This morning Kamry and I were eating breakfast while Jacie was at preschool and we were talking about going to Mema and Papa Trine's this weekend for Thanksgiving, and she says, "Will Jay and Tammy be at Mema's Giving?"  (Jay and Tammy are my parents and she NEVER calls them that, it's always Mema and Papa Flora).  She loves getting a raised eyebrow for the silly things she says.  Kamry has been talking in sentences since 14 months, so talking with her is definitely like having a little conversation with a teeny tiny adult.  Here are some pictures of what Kamry Kate's been up to lately.

Always assessorizing...sunglasses, scarves, boots, you name it.

First official haircut

In the dog (cat?) house

Future Cubbie/Wal-Mart employee?

Loves to get in carseats, this is Jacie's upgrade from her Britax Roundabout that she was just getting too big for...a Britax Frontier 85.  We are on the road way too much to compromise safety, keeping Jacie in a 5 pt. harnass as long as we can!

The past three weeks, I have heard story upon story of guys falling from treestands with horrible outcomes.  I'm not sure if more people are having this type of accident, or if we're just more aware of them with Casey's fall on Oct. 19th, but I had to write this today as one of my good friends from Cedar Falls called to let me know that a guy we knew fell from his stand a week ago last Friday and is now paralyzed and is having some internal problems as well.  Just wanted to call those of you following the blog to pray for the Heying family as Aaron starts his recovery up in Rochester. 

When I heard this story, my eyes welled up with tears because our life could be so very different right now.  I'm so thankful that Casey's essentially back to normal.  Apparently God wants him able-bodied, and I'm so glad for that!  Don't take any day for granted, friends. 

PS Casey was already back in the stand last Tuesday, crazy kid.  I think he likes me to chew my fingernails off as I wait his arrival at home.  Thanks to a good buddy, he was in a safety harness.

We've got a Cubbie!

Jacie has been attending AWANAs at the First Baptist Church in our town for about a month now and LOVES it!  It really is an amazing program, she's memorizing Scripture like crazy (Casey and I have been committing more to memory through it too!), loves the kids she attends with, and the leaders have it so structured and organized, the kids always know what to expect. 

When she gets home she is bursting at the seams to fill us in on every detail of AWANA, down to the snack they had.  It's great.  Here she is so pumped to tell Daddy

Our little Cubbie :)

She thinks her vest is the COOLEST piece of clothing she owns.  I love it.  Very WalMart-esque, but it shows her patches that she has earned through memorizing verses, and it's a big deal at AWANA!

Five Months!

As of November 10th, our baby is five whole months old!  What!?!  I know.

Miss E has only rolled over 1.5 times (ha), and is very content to just chill on her blanket.  As the mother of three, I'm perfectly content with her waiting a bit to start moving like a crazy chick.  We've got our share of movers and shakers between the older ones.  :)

Eden is sleeping from 7PM to 7:30AM, nursing 5 times a day, however just today we're trying out the four hour routine, and succeeding so far, so we're aiming for 7, 11, 3, and 7 feedings, with two hour naps between each one and twelve hours of sleep at night.  Gotta love routine around here.

Eden's a talker.  Go figure.  Casey's in for it.  Luckily he is a great listener!  :)  My mother-in-law, Jessica, I, and the babies (Eden and Grant) went shopping in Des Moines last weekend and the babies did great in the hotel and in the stroller at the malls.  When Eden and Grant saw each other, Eden went crazy with baby babble filling him in on all he had missed in her life, since we hadn't seen them in about a month.  He pretty much just looked at her in and then tried to beat her on the head with a ball.  She just smiled.  :) 

Here's as updated a pic as I have of her!  The girls have fun with her, and as I've said before, thank goodness she's laid back.  Yes, she's in a doll stroller. 

Five month stats:
13 lbs. 12 oz.
25 3/4 in.

Eden's Dedication

On October 17th, we dedicated Eden at church.  It's always a big day for the girls when we do this, and both Jacie and Kamry were dedicated at PLC in Cedar Falls.  Our church in Creston is Crest Baptist Church, and we love our church family and our pastor, Chuck Spindler.  When we dedicate the girls, we pick out a "life verse" for them that we pray specifically for them and we also pray Jeremiah 29:11 for all three of them. 
Eden's verse is Philippians 4:8.

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

 

Dedications are important to us and we love to have as much family as we can there to support us.  In this world, it takes the love, support, and prayers of wonderful family to raise up children in the way they should go.  Our prayer is that when they grow they will not turn from the values, truths, and paths we strive to set them on.

 

 

Just in case you were wondering, Jacie's promise verse is Psalm 25:4-5:

 

Show me your ways, O LORD,

teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

And Kamry's is 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18:

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's

will for you in Christ Jesus.

And for everyone out there, know Jeremiah 29:11 says "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."  It doesn't get much better than that!  :)

Have a great week!



One foot in front of the other...

So some of you might know that our past two weeks have been anything but easy.  Two weeks ago this Tuesday (the 19th I think?) Casey was bow hunting and I was home to fend the wild animals we call children on my own.  It was supper, bath, bedtime at home, so I was crazy busy and my phone was on the charger downstairs.  Apparently it rang three times as I gave Jacie and Kamry a bath, but I didn't hear it.  Just as I was about to pray with Kam, I heard Casey downstairs, and something didn't feel right, so I ran down there to see what was up. 

Turns out while Casey was waiting on a doe to turn broadside, the strap holding his tree stand about 15 feet up in the air broke, and he, the stand, his bow, and two live arrows fell.  After a few minutes of catching his breath and wiggling his toes to make sure he could, he walked out of the timber (albeit slowly) praising God he could walk.  I got the girls down to bed, nursed Eden and put her down, and we called a girl we have watch the girls once in awhile over so that we could head to the ER.  He had a hard time catching his breath so I wanted to make sure he didn't break a rib and puncture a lung or something crazy like that.  Turns out he really did "break his back" with a compression fracture on L2 (mid to low back) and also what they called a limbic fracture.  Nothing really we can do, but it is pretty painful for him, and it's been tough around here with the three little girls (okay, and me too) who like to hang on him.  He's been going to the chiro several times a week (we usually go at least 2x a month anyways for wellness) and that is helping some too.

Anyways, keep us in your prayers!  We keep saying to each other, "Just put one foot in front of the other" as we tackle the everyday chores in maybe just a little different way.  I've really had to conquer my fear of the basement because Casey isn't supposed to carry the laundry up.  ScArY!  :) 

Happy Halloween!

So we're not huge into Halloween, but the kids like dressing up, and so we took them to the hospital where I work last Tuesday evening.  (That's one week post Casey's 15 foot fall from the treestand for those of you keeping track, and yes, I unloaded the stroller, not him :) ).  I got the girls' costumes last year at Target for 90% off, and so Eden ended up a pumpkin, we didn't know her gender at the time!  We called Jacie a Candy Corn Princess, Kam was obviously a giant piece of candy corn, and Eden our little pumpkin.  They had fun and Kamry tore it up scoring treats.  Saturday night we went with some friends and their two kids to First Baptist Church's Harvest Party which was a blast, except for we had to leave early as Jacie ended up coming down with the stomache bug.  Sorry to any kids we unknowingly infected at FBC!



What a lucky guy :)

More family pics

We got our CD in the mail today from Jennifer Waters Photography.  I couldn't believe how many pictures we got back!  There were 15 posted to her website, and our CD had over 110 images.  So excited to finally get our old ones changed out.

Casey and Tara

Dork:)



Jacie Josephine - 4 years

Jacie's growing up like crazy.  Sometimes she does something so sweet and thoughtful and just GROWN UP that Casey and I look at each other and about cry.  We have a hard time believing we are the parents of a four-year-old.

The other day my mom and I were driving home with the girls and talking about this guy that once fixed our ceiling in the "dance room", which is our upstairs porch.  I couldn't remember his name, but knew he was there while I was in the hospital after Eden was born.  Jacie pipes up from the back, "Mommy, I think you mean Gordy Barry."  How she remembers things like that is beyond me.  She will bring up the house we rented when we lived in Atlantic ("I loved that carpet!" she says.  It was BURGANDY.)

Jacie's a great helper to me, constantly running upstairs for diapers, wipes, or other random things I forget.  She now takes Kamry with her when she goes to the bathroom, and I can hear her in there encouraging her.  "No, try putting your panties on this way, it's way more comfortable!"  Kamry runs around a lot with them on backwards, just like her shoes are always on the wrong feet.  Jacie, being the responsible first child she is, always has put her shoes on the correct feet.

Jacie's current loves are perfecting her letters and numbers, learning how to spell common words and names, the kitties we have, landing her cartwheels on her feet, and the kitties.  She takes forever to get moving in the morning, dislikes sleep, and is so much like me it isn't funny.

The Trine tongue, gotta love it

Kamry Kate - 2 years

Kam is our free entertainment.  She performs daredevil tricks (hair clippy, anyone?) and never stops moving.  She's got the best sense of humor!  She loves to laugh and make us laugh.  Her latest accomplishments are the transition out of diapers to the potty and drawing circles that are beginning to take on a human resemblence.  :)
Today Kamry and I were playing outside while Daddy and Jacie were at the pumpkin patch and Eden was napping.  I had to run in for something and when I came out, she was putting our kitten, Sally on the rug.  I asked her what she was doing and she said, "Sally will not stay on the scooter, so she has to go to timeout!"  After Sally got out of timeout, Kamry took Sally for a spin on the scooter, and Sally rode the whole time.  It was great.

Jacie and Kamry have really started playing well together, before I think Kam was just a little to young to understand what Jacie was trying to orchestrate so Jacie would get frustrated that Kam didn't get it.  Last night I was in peeling potatoes for supper and I looked out the windows and they were in line like a parade both blowing on Casey's duck calls.  Farm girls.

First thing anyone says when they see Kamry is something about her crazy blue eyes.  They seriously get cooler everyday.  So glad someone got Rick and Casey's eyes, they're pretty amazing!

 Eden Elise - 3 months

Eden is a super laid back, easy going baby.  I've said this before, but when you are the third child to two very active big sisters, you become laid back if you weren't to begin with.  Eden started sleeping 10 - 730 at 9 weeks, and just started her 2nd week of sleeping 7 - 730.  So thankful to have a few more zzz's around here.

Eden's latest discovery is her feet.  She can get ahold of them and almost get them to her mouth.  I love it when babies can grab their feet while they are on their backs, it's so cute!

She loves to look in the mirror and her big sisters are the greatest entertainment.  Sometimes while she's watching Kamry be Kamry, she'll give me this look like, "Well, what can you do?" 
Eden's rolled over once, but might be a little behind because we couldn't give her tummy time until about 7 weeks.  Poor stinker ended up with a broken left clavicle from delivery (ouch), which was surprising since she came so fast and in a push and a half.  But sometimes I wonder if because she came so fast she didn't quite get turned enough to get out and that's when it happened.  We'll never know for sure, but I'm so thankful it's healed and I barely can feel the bump anymore.

If we knew future children would be as easy as Eden, Casey says we'd have more.  I'm the one that has to deliver the babies, though, and I'm pretty sure I'm happy with three. :)   Honestly, God made us to be a family of five, and we are so happy with what he's blessed us with.

Family pics

I love October!

I have to say, October has always been my favorite month.  I'm not a fan of being hot, and I love the changes that the colder weather brings.  It also happens to be the month my awesome cousins introduced Casey and I, and the month we were engaged 364 days later.  :)

I took this picture on October 10th, 2010, and it was 80 degrees.

A year ago, on October 10th, 2009 it snowed.  I wrote it in Jacie and Kam's books.  I remember Jacie putting her snowboots on with a fall jacket and making footprints on our deck.  This year we almost could have gotten out the wading pool.

This month we have lots going on, Eden is now 4 months, as of 10/10/10, she'll be dedicated at our church the 17th, my awesome brother-in-law, Brandon will graduate from Palmer (he's a DC - doctor of chiropractic), the Trine family is going to participate in the Race for the Cure for the 2nd year in honor of Ann, and Casey and I will celebrate 9 years together and 8 years since we were engaged.  Wow.  And I forgot two preschool trips in there, one to the pumpkin patch (Daddy's going along for that one), and to the Fire Station (my turn!).  She's pumped.

Here are some pics of what we've had going on.  My parents watched the girls October 2nd so Casey and I could have a weekend away, and we went to Ames and watched the Cyclones beat Texas Tech in some pretty sweet seats (thanks, Dad!).  We had Eden during the day as we shopped and ate at Hickory Park (a fave when we were dating) and then my dad picked her up before the game, and we had our first night away from all three girls.  It was much needed, and we are so grateful to my parents for watching the girls.  I think they enjoyed it as much as or more than us as they took Jacie and Kamry to Carroll's pumpkin patch in Grinnell where they had a blast. 

We've been sticking around home finally, Jacie and Casey fished one afternoon.

October also means hunting around here.  Casey got a new bow this year after saving for quite some time, and he's been sighting it in the past few weeks.  Apparently there's a "monster" buck where he'll do his bow hunting, so I'll keep everyone updated on whether or not he gets him this year.  His last BIG buck he shot the first year we were dating (2001!) and even though he's had some decent ones since then, we think he's due.

Like I said before, we went back to the Marshalltown area the first weekend of October.  The girls do okay traveling but we haul way too much stuff.  It's ridiculous.  The two big girls are in the back seat of the van, Eden in the middle with the other seat stowed, and Casey and I up front.  Sometimes we wish we had earplugs.

 Jordan Creek Mall is our halfway point traveling, so we stop here a lot because the girls need a break, Eden needs fed or changed, or Mama needs an excuse to go shopping.  Living where we do, we only have Wal-Mart for shopping.  I think the poor girls think that's the only place a person can shop.  Sad.

Eden all dolled up for our Ames excursion!