Happy 10th Anniversary to us!
Today is our 10 year anniversary- WOW, 10 years.... that is a long time! I can say I don't think it feels like it's been 10 years, but then when I look back at all we have done, accomplished & enjoyed, we've done pretty good the past 10 years & I'm looking forward to 10+ many more.
Looking back, we have lived in 2 states, 6 cities, bought 5 houses (sold 4). We purchased a Harley & went on wonderful rides up through the Rocky Mountains. We took trips to Las Vegas, went to Lake Powell many times (some of our best memories!), went to Denver sporting events, went to many, many live concerts. Got to go on 2 super fun vacations with friends- one to Cancun and then a cruise to the Western Caribbean. We then decided to moved back closer to family & we had our 3 wonderful & oh, so precious children. I wouldn't change a thing!
I love you sweetie~ Forever!
Here is a picture of us on our wedding day & a picture today... I don't think we've changed a bit. (HA HA HA.....I really think DJ looks pretty much the same, but I look just a little older =)

We are celebrating with a weekend getaway to Wisconsin. I know it's not far or extravagant, we wanted to go on another cruise (we went on a cruise for our 5th anniversary & said we'd do it again in another 5 years) but times & money are tight, so we just headed up the road a few hours & spent the weekend with some good friends. We went out for dinner, did some shopping & just relax. Thank you very much Josh & Betsy for a GREAT weekend! We hope to see you again in a couple months.
This was our first time leaving the kiddos overnight- BIG, BIG step!!! My mom is watching the kiddos tonight & Sharon is watching them tomorrow. Both the mom's will be coming to our house to help keep the kiddos on schedule. A huge THANK YOU to the mom's for babysitting so we could have a weekend getaway.

Sesame Street LIVE~ Elmo Makes Music

We took the kiddos to see their first Live show; Sesame Street Live~ Elmo Makes Music & they just LOVED it!!! They love Sesame Street (started watching it sometime in January) & they love music. Oh, it was so much fun. Most of the show I just watched the kiddos faces. They just lit up seeing their favorite characters up on stage, so big & right there! It was great. We invited both our moms to go, Grandma & Nanna, which they did & they also enjoyed watching the kiddos faces. Special thank you to Nanna for the Elmo outfits, the kiddos looked too cute!

Here's a few photos of them before we left for the show.

Austen chillin in Daddy's chairCaitlen with Honey BearBrooklen with Dobby (favorite buddy)
Got to the show just a little early, so we enjoyed some juice & teddy grahams, to try to keep us in our seats until the show started. Snapped a few photos during intermission.
Photos from the show

Happy Mother's Day

Sending out a very Happy Mother's Day to my mom, my mother-in-law, my sisters, my sister-in-law & all my friends & relatives that are Mom's. I hope everyone has a special day & maybe gets sometime to relax. I know us mother's don't get much time to relax & spend some time on ourselves.
Enjoy your day!

March of Dimes / March for Babies

A BIG Thank you again to everyone who donated!! We collected $830! I think that is absolutely awesome! Next year our goal will be $1000!!

Unfortunately, we were unable to make it to either of our walks this year- bummer! The CR walk was April 27th at 7:00am & it's a 8 1/2 mile walk. We woke up to a pretty chilly morning & we didn't think it was a good idea to take the kiddos out in the cold. I know they say you don't catch a cold from being cold, but we've had our share of colds for the winter & I'm ready to be done with colds! D.J. & I thought about just us walking, but we didn't have a babysitter at such a late notice. We didn't think too much of having to miss since we were planning on walking the following weekend in DM on May 3rd. On Tuesday, April 29th my Grandma W. passed away and her funeral was held on May 3, so we didn't make that walk either. It was also a windy & chilly morning in DM on May 3, but most of our group made it for the walk. Here is a picture of our group minus us & one other family.

The march for babies is coming up quickly. We'll be hitting the streets for little feet!
If you would like to donate, please click on the video below or the badge to the right. A big THANK YOU to everyone who has already donated, we really appreciate it!
Click here to help me reach my goal!

Eclipse ~by Stephanie Meyer

Preview to book 3...... I hope to start soon! But then what will I do until August when book 4 finally comes out?

"BELLA?"
Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.
This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine—like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.
* * *
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob—knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

New Moon ~by Stephenie Meyer

Here is a preview, "taste" of book 2.....

"Shoot," I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.
It all happened very quickly then.
Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table...
I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. I felt the searing, stinging pain that ran from my wrist to the crease inside my elbow.
Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm—into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.
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For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning...
Legions of readers entranced by the New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for the continuing story of star-crossed lovers, Bella and Edward. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

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!!