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!