Other October Happenings

We had a super fun October so I wanted to document a few other things before December gets here! ha! Maybe one day I will post about our life as things happen instead of recapping the previous 2 months. I also realized I never posted about our Halloween costumes! shame on this mama! I love how busy our Octobers will be from here on out with the twins birthday, Aunt Robin's birthday, fall festivals and gorgeous fall days!

First, before our big Birthday bash, Ryan's Grandfather, Pape, wanted to host a big bash of his own with all of his friends and family while they "could still enjoy it." So party we did! It turned out to be a beautiful, warm day to hang out with family.

Pape and his buddies got out their guitars and jammed for the crowd. It was awesome! The kids loved it!

This is a very serious stare contest of some sort.... hehe :)

We outgrew our baby bath tub...



We played in our fun Halloween PJ's...




Then we had a few scary nights of crazy high fevers. All of a sudden one day after nap time, I picked up Jenna and thought she was on fire! I went over to Caden and he was warm too! Over the next 3 days sweet Jenna's fever got up to 104.5 and Caden was in the 103's. Long scary nights, but ultimately, they ate fine, slept fine, and just acted lethargic. The Doc said it was probably a virus going around...

We went to the local Pumpkin Patch where the kids wanting nothing of it. They had just gone through 4 days of very high fevers...on this day, it was a mere 99.5 so we headed out! Turns out they had Roseola...of course we didn't know that at the time because the next day the lovely rash popped up out of no-where. Aa-hah!No wonder they were so cranky and afraid of the giant pumpkin! :)

Jenna is not feeling the big scary corn stalk...

Come on Kiddo's! Just one picture, please!

Then we went to the Fall Festival at our church. The twins were a bit young to participate this year but they had a blast watching all of the other kids walk around in their costumes and playing with their buddies. Introducing my biased opinion, the two cutest Pea's in a Pod EVER!

I taught Jenna from an early age how we dislike spiders in this household. She was very confused by this handsome, friendly spider :)

And THEN, Halloween night was a wash out here so we couldn't make our fun visits to neighbors and such but we did squeeze in time for three surprise Trick or Treat visits. First we went to Grammie Kathy and Papa Peter's house. Caden was in a mood and a half there not cooperating! Jenna found a sparkly pumpkin so she was happy and content.

And then we headed to Gigi and Papa T's house and played with their trick or treat candy. So fun!

And our last stop was to Nana and Papa's house. We had fun making our surprise visits to show off our costumes! I was telling Ryan that twins have to be "peas in a pod" at some point in their life, right? Might as well do it when they can't say no :)

Whew! What a fun month...now on to more present happenings like Christmas Tree's, ornaments and lights!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who reads this blog! Our hearts are overflowing with gratitude for the goodness God has poured out in our lives...overall and especially the past 13 months! If our struggle with infertility taught me nothing else (which trust me, it did) it taught me to be in a constant state of gratitude. Of course I loose my patience, my temper, my kind words and thankfulness quite often, but I can truly say and praise God for His work in my life that I am a much more thankful person than I used to be.

Enjoy your families, your food, your turkey-coma nap, and God's grace that is being poured out on your life this very minute!

And now to debut the twins' Thanksgiving outfits which I'm overly excited about! Thanks to Etsy and my mom....tada! I LOOOOVE coordinating the twins outfits!

Weekend in Asheville

The first weekend in November, Ryan and I went on our "congratulations-for-surviving-the-first-year-of-twins" celebration trip! It was soooooooo needed! We played around with ideas on places to go, but ultimately didn't feel like we were at a point to ask anyone to watch the twins for more than a weekend...they are a handful :) So we decided on driving distance and since it fell in the beautiful leaf-changing fall, to the mountains we went! Ryan found us a great cabin right outside of Asheville that doubled as a spa! The owner is a certified, massage therapist, yoga instructor, sauna something etc, etc! So they built the cabin to have a place to offer all of these services. Perfect for two tired, busy, scheduled parents!

Ryan's parents eagerly took care of the twins all weekend and allowed us to get away and relax! We went stopped in Chimney Rock first and did some hiking on Friday.






Then we checked in at our cabin...cute as can be and look at the view!








Then we went to an amazing Italian restaurant...given the choice, I will Always choose CARBS! Hello yummy bread, olive oil, and pasta!! Also, let it be known that I found my first canoli that I did NOT care for. Yes, a weekend of relaxation was needed if I'm turning down canoli's! :)



Saturday we jumped up and went to Biltmore. Neither of us had ever been and since they were decorated for Christmas, we decided to mark that off the list! That place is crazy! Very interesting to learn about the history there and it was a beautiful day to walk the gardens!






That afternoon, we headed back to the cabin and I.TOOK.A.NAP! True vacation right there! It was heavenly....drool on the pillow kind of nap. ahhhh Then we took on an adventure. The "basement" of our cabin was a sauna. The owner had a "cycle" that she told us we should do to really get the benefits of the sauna. She said if we completed this program that she took from the Sweeds or Norwegians or somebody like that, it would detox our body of all of the stimulates, sugar, caffeine etc... We just wanted a relaxing time, but thought we could handle it. We stayed for about an hour after deciding we were pansies in the hot sauna room. haha Later that night we went to dinner at the most amazing restaurant ever! If your in Asheville or NC for that matter, make your way there! It is called Nine Mile. delic. Anyway, we could hardly keep our eyes open at dinner! It was like our first night out after the twins were born when we could hardly speak we were so tired. haha Guess that sauna did suck out all of the sugar and caffeine! We ordered coffee and chocolate at the Chocolate Bar downtown though and put it right back in :) yummmm! Liquid Truffles anyone?

Sunday, we had massages and packed up to come home. We stopped by the outlets to do some kid-free shopping and headed home to see our babies! What a wonderful weekend to enjoy being the 2 of us again!