Twilight ~by Stephenie Meyer
As most of you know, I am not a book reader. Every now and again, I'll try to read a book or book series & usually I don't get too far. Sometimes, I may finish a book or two, but sometimes stop midway thru a book, never to finish it again. Magazines are more my style.
Well, it's been quite a few months that my sister, Kim, was telling me about this book / book series she was reading in her book club about vampires, called Twilight Series ~ humm... sounds, kind of interesting & maybe like a book I'd like to read. She'd continue to tell me as she read the next 2 books in the series & I said maybe I should give them a try.... she said I'd love them.
Well, long story short~ I do!!

It was in February that I started Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. I set a goal for myself to read a chapter a day & to finish the book in a month. I know to some of you that is reading slow, but I don't always have time to read, nor do I read fast & that gave me some extra time if I got off track. Well, I did finish Twilight in February & was quite excited to start book 2- New Moon when I got the worst cold that held on for 3 weeks~ every extra moment during the day I wasn't watching kiddos I was trying to catch some sleep. I finally got over my cold, but I hesitated to pick up book 2, not sure why. Well, I think it was sometime last week I finally decided to pick up New Moon & I haven't wanted to put it down since! These books are quite addicting! It's almost all I do while the kiddos nap & I try to read a bit before bed. I have book 3, Eclipse, that I will be starting before weeks end, but book 4 (Breaking Dawn) doesn't come out until August.... can I wait that long. WOW~ I have never been excited for a book to come out.
In short~ these are GREAT books, even to a "non-reader". Check them out & Enjoy!
Also, there is a movie on the horizon for Twilight~ not sure when that is scheduled out.

Hi everyone!! It's that time of year again. We are planning on walking in two 2008 March of Dimes "March for Babies" this year. We plan on doing the Cedar Rapids walk on April 27th & then the Des Moines walk on May 3rd. The walk in Des Moines will be our 2nd year with team H.O.P.E. (Helping Other Preemies Excel). If anyone is interested in walking with us in either walk, let me know and I can get the information for you.

For anyone who does not know, March of Dimes funds research to help prevent premature births and help premature babies. This is such an important cause for us since our babies were born prematurely. When I was pregnant with the triplets I went into the hospital for preterm labor and an incompetent cervix at 23 weeks (it'll be two years ago, April 10th. Oh, was that a very scary time for us! Yes, I'm crying right now just thinking about it), at that time I had an emergency cerclage and was given the Surfactant steroid shot to help the babies lungs develop (the research that was done to make the Surfactant steroid shot was funded by the March of Dimes) I was then in & out (mostly in) of the hospital for the next 3 weeks and then home on strict bedrest with a monitoring system for almost 3 months. The end result of all that hard work are our 3 beautiful and healthy babies, born at 33 weeks (7 weeks early on June 18th) and only needed approximately 2 weeks+ in the NICU to learn to eat and grow. If the physicians and medical community had not had the knowledge and skills that they did, I don't know that we would have been so lucky.

Please come walk with us or give a donation to help other families have happy endings too.

http://www.marchforbabies.org/Ernbergertriplets

Please come back & visit our blog for new pictures of the trips, I try to update weekly.

http://www.ernbergerfamily.blogspot.com/

Thank you!

Kristi, D.J., Austen, Caitlen & Brooklen

Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter morning, the kiddos did a great job hunting for eggs (plastic eggs filled with mini M&M's) and finding the goodies the Easter Bunny left for them in their baskets~ Sesame Street books & sunglasses were the biggest hits.

Oh, I love the sunglasses!!

Holy Saturday (Easter Eve)~

Yesterday we spent the morning into the afternoon at my mom's with my sisters & their families~ a lot of kiddos, but it's always fun to get everyone together. Unfortunately, I didn't get any photos at my mom's~ just too crazy! We had lots of great food~ thanks mom! Love the cinnamon rolls, they were soooo yummy =) My kiddos made it until 2:00ish, thanks to cake & ice cream we had for Bailey Beth's 8th birthday, which is next weekend, but we celebrated it a bit early since we had everyone together.
The kiddos fell asleep shortly after we had everything loaded into the van! Don't they look so peaceful?

After nap we headed to Target to get our grocery shopping done. Decided what the heck & everyone went~ yes, busy day! We packed jelly sandwiches & juice cups to help entertain around the store. Then it was home to get ready for bed. Here are a couple pictures reading bedtime stories with bunny ears on.... we were getting ready for the Easter Bunny! They are all starting to (sometimes) look at the camera, smile & say cheese~ it's so cute!

Easter Bunny
We took the kiddos down to see the Easter Bunny last night. Austen & Brooklen did a great job, but Caitlen didn't like the bunny at all! Well, I shouldn't say that, she didn't mind looking at him a far, but not up close!
I don't know about you, but Easter is really sneaking up on me this year being so early. I'm not even sure if we have everything! We will probably either color eggs tonight or tomorrow, maybe I'll boil them up tonight so they are ready to go tomorrow night. Maybe we'll see if the kiddos want to help. Otherwise our plans for the weekend are to go to my mom's tomorrow and then just hang out at home on Sunday, have an egg hunt, eat some candy, relax. (Nanna is in Florida, enjoying some sunshine~ lucky Nanna!) Believe it or not, but the weathermen are threatening us with some snow today!? Wasn't yesterday Spring~ that means no more snow!
Here are a few more pictures I took with our camera, she just really didn't like him! Poor little girl.

Bunny 08 & Bunny 07
I always like to see how much the kiddos have changed in the past year~ oh, it's a lot! Kinda makes me a little sad..... ok, back to my point of this post.
Here is this year's Easter Bunny picture & last year's. I like the look of last years bunny better, but I do remember he wasn't so nice. It doesn't look like Caitlen cared much for him last year either, there were no tears, but she has a funny look on her face. It also looks like it was much warmer~ short sleeves & no socks or shoes! I have to say TOO CUTE!

Gloomy Day
Ya know, today is just one of those days for me...... one of those days you could just do without! It's cloudy outside, may rain or snow (really aren't we done with the snow yet?) The kiddos are all in moods~ not good ones either. Cranky, always wanting what the other one has, more needy than normal. Just kind of a bummer day.... then I saw my horoscope for the day, guess I should have just stayed in bed! But, my silver lining~ tomorrow will be better =)

Leo July 23 - August 22
The good news is this: it can only get better. For today, however, there may be some trying times in store, dear Leo. If you're a parent, the children will ask, "Can I please?" every five minutes, and at work you will feel pressure from all sides. Not even your love life is immune from the feelings of doubt that seem to hover over your head. No form of compromise is possible for you today. Just sit tight and know that calmer days are coming.

Side note: Happy St. Patty's Day!

Seriously- SNOW.... SNOW....and more SNOW!!

We have had an unbelievable amount of snow this winter. I think we are at around 55"+, which is like the 7th snowiest winter on record and it's only mid February! Anyway, I really don't mind the snow, but I don't like all the ice we are getting & I don't like the fridged tempuratures.

Here are a few pictures of the kiddos playing outside. These pictures are from a few weeks ago- the snow in the backyard is deeper than they are tall now!!

Austen- all bundled up & looking so cute!
Love this picture of the girls- I think it's just too adorable, love their hats!

All 3 just walking around in the snow. And then a close up of Caitlen & Brooklen alone.

It was semi warm one afternoon as it was starting to snow so I bundled up the kiddos & took them outside to play in the snow. After a couple of trips up & down the stairs trying to carry 3 coats, 3 hats, 3 pairs of shoes, 3 pairs of mittens, a towel to step onto when we came in, oh and my shoes, coat & mittens. Once we got outside I realized I forgot the camera &/or video camera, it was too late & I knew I wasn't going to be able to just step them all inside the door to grab it. They had fun playing outside & was hoping for another nice day. Oh it was pretty funny when I called DJ at work & told him I took the kiddos out to play & how cute they were, but that I forgot the camera he said "maybe you can take them out again after nap" Oh, like it was just that easy!! Well, we were lucky enough to get another semi warm day when DJ was home, so we bundled them up (much easier with another set of hands!) and we took them outside. They like walking around- they really like having their shoes & coats on, it's like a treat. I must not take them out enough, which I know I really haven't- it's either too cold or someone or all have a cold!
Enjoy the pictures!

Snowy Roof

Thought this was funny, doesn't it look like 2 eyes & a nose. This is a picture of our neighbor's roof, we are looking out our kitchen sliding glass doors- it looks like someone is looking right back at us!

Back Up & Running

Pictures are on their way!! Yeah!! I may also have some back posts- I had the posts written, just didn't have the pictures on the computer to go with my babble! So, I have a few that are just saved as drafts that I may now add the pictures to & share with you even though it's old news- the photos will still be fun. But, right now it's time for lunch, so we'll see if I get back to the computer today or maybe this weekend, but we kind of have a busy weekend planned. We are doing a JDRF walk tomorrow & then on Sunday I'm having my family over for brunch & a little get together.
Anyway, D.J. showed me how to get the pictures from the camera to the computer by hooking the camera up to the computer. I had always just taken the memory card out & put that in the computer- Yes, I'm that technology challenged! Well, not super tech challenged, just didn't know which cord or whatever to use- it was super easy once he showed me.