It's A Big Chain!

This is a long chain, but the countdown is still on!  We will take one off each day until the day we leave on vacation.  Inside each ring, I wrote down something we will see or do.  The boys were excited to take one off this morning.  It is helping us all get excited and giving us something to look forward to.

Embarrassing

Today Kirk and I went to primary to hear Tyler give the closing prayer.  He was very excited and waved to us when we got there.  I had asked him earlier if he wanted one of us to help him, but he said he didn't need any help.  He offered quite the prayer asking for lots of things and failing to list any thanks.  But the part that got me laughing and made my face turn red was when he asked to, "bless the mommies to be nice."  If his teachers and the rest of primary haven't already wondered what is going on in our home, I am sure they are now. 

Lost

Digging up old pictures of the twins forced me to realize I need to take more pictures and organize the ones that I have.  Tyler, being the last child, has never had his pictures organized.  This was a slow week for me and I decided to start the process.  I spent one day working on it only to realize I am missing all of the pictures from his birth.  I have no pictures from the hospital or anything.  I do not know where they went and they haven't turned up.  It makes me so sad.  So for now, this is about as good as it gets.  I guess there are worse traumatic things in life....

We Are Rich!

This morning before the boys left for school, we were gossiping about the neighbors.  One of our neighbors put up a for sale sign.  They happen to have a little boy the same age as my twins, and they consider him a close friend.  The twins were very upset.  We discussed life, big houses, and why people might want to move.  Ethan chimed in and said, "We are rich in friends not money!"  And he is right.  Although losing great neighbors is hard, we feel so blessed for all our good neighbors and friends and we really are rich!   

A Trip Down 9 Years of Memory Lane

The twins turned 9 years old last week.  They are getting big and old.  Sometimes I feel the same way:)  It was exciting, just like all birthdays are.  It was Saturday and despite the nice weather in the background, it snowed all day.  So we stayed inside and spent some time together as a family.  Even though the boys are growing up, I love that they are still in a stage where they love legos.  Kirk and I are really good at legos too.  We have helped put together a lot of them!

Since my babies were born before blogging, I decided to put up some old pictures of them.  It was a lot of fun picking them out.  And since I don't scrapbook, I better scan a few photos in once in awhile, so here goes....

The boys turned 1 right as we bought our house.  We were a small family back then and I didn't even have enough stuff to fill all of my cupboards.  David and Jacob used to get in the lazy susan and ride around.  They thought it was hilarious!  I have two of these in my kitchen.  The other one was full of tuperware.  Another one of their favorite things to do was to throw all of the tuperware to the landing at the bottom of the stairs.  They would take out one piece at a time, walk to the top of the stairs, chuck it, and go back for another.  Sometimes I just left it down there.

I love this picture because it was taken at the house we lived in before we bought our home and it also has our old car in the background.  We had beautiful trees at this house and we spent our Sunday afternoons laying on the grass underneath them.  

This picture was taken soon after we came home from the hospital.  The twins were my littlest babies, even though they didn't stay that way for long.  I loved taking care of them all day.  

Even though David isn't looking at the camera, I still love this picture.  Our house was within walking distance of my grandma and we would walk over to her house often.  This was taken on one of our visits.  I also love it because I look so happy.  I really was so happy to be a mom and literally loved my life.  

I used to walk every morning with my dear friend Stefanie.  I bundled up those boys and off we would go.  They loved it!

This picture was taken on their blessing day.  As soon as they were born, it just seemed like life picked up and from then on it has been one event after another.  The time has gone by too quickly!  I remember Kirk giving Jacob a beautiful blessing, then handing him off to me and taking David and giving him a beautiful blessing as well.  I also remember I used to have to wake up at 6:00 am to get us all ready and fed for 9:00 church.  

As the boys got bigger, sometimes I would prop them up with their bottles as I folded laundry or did something else.  Looking at all of these pictures, I forgot how close they have been their whole lives.  No wonder David freaked out when he got his own room.  They have always been so close and they still are, though they both enjoy having their own rooms.  

And I love this picture because they are both full of mischief, just like they are now, goofing off is still their favorite past time.  I love those boys and I still love being their mom and I am still happy, I just look a lot older and more tired.  And that is because I am:)

My twins are special little guys and I look forward to all of the events, accomplishments, and learning that we will have together many more years!

Making Up For Last Night

You saw all that yummy produce, right?  Well, last night I made 2 different salads for dinner.  They had lots of ingredients, took lots of time, and tasted heavenly.  At least they did to me.  My boys ate them better than I thought, but it was the big boy who surprised me.  He seemed a little out of sorts.  About an hour after dinner he complained about being hungry and jokingly mentioned that I should not make salad for dinner.  I told him he could make dinner any time he wants and that it wouldn't hurt my feelings.  He replied that I could make a living any time I want.  Good thing it was a joke, we had fun laughing about it.  So tonight we had steak.  It is amazing the joy that steak brings to my family of boys.  Every single one of them was soooooooo excited for dinner tonight.  It was delicious!  We had steak, asparagus, left over salad :) and bread.  If you haven't tried Pugliese bread you should, I love it, we ate a whole loaf of it.  Now the dishes are done and the house is quiet, my favorite time of the day!

Look What Made My Day....

This morning I got all this produce for $15.  It really made my day and I so look forward to eating it all.  We made smoothies this morning with the fruit (the strawberries and blueberries are already gone) and tomorrow we are going to eat a lot of yummy vegetables.  If you are what you eat, I can see why healthy people look so good.  Doesn't this produce look yummy?  I just love it!

I bought myself a treat today.....

Happy Easter to me!