Happy Birthday Week...Cont.

After our fun-filled Pre-Birthday Weekend, we tried to jam pack as much fun as we could into our Birthday Week for the Twins! I am just so grateful to have them here and to be celebrating a birthday for a child of mine that I wanted to give them the moon this week! Here is our whirlwind week of fun!:

Tuesday: Happy Birthday Jenna and Caden! After the twins got up, I took them to Party City and got them each a Birthday Balloon to play with. Then we had a surprise visit from Papa T! The twins looove Balloons!

Then I let them play with the Sunday Paper. They try to play with it every week and we always have to take it away from them. Since it was a special day...I let them play with it, tear it up in pieces, slide on it, crinkle it etc... You would have thought I bought them the newest toy out there. They had a blast! I did not have a blast cleaning it up during nap time:)



That night, we went to Sweet Frog (a new Fro Yo place here in town owned by believers! The "Frog" stands for "Fully Rely On God", they have scripture hanging in the restaurant and Christian music playing through the speakers!) The twins looooved getting all of that sugar!

Ryan says he "forgot" that you pay by the ounce. His one cup was as much as the rest of ours put together. haha!

The twins were so sweet and got me some Sunflowers for making it through the first year and as a thank you for giving birth to them. ha!

Wednesday: Daddy took the day off work to stay home and play with us! yea! We started the morning with our 1 year appointment...not exactly fun, but it must be done! I'll post their stats in another post. Then, even though it was raining off and on, we took advantage of our Daddy Time and went to the fair again! We had one meltdown, then the twins were fine and loved seeing the people and lights. There was no one there b/c of the rain so it was very nice to walk around minus the damp shoes :) We found our new favorite food: Red Velvet Funnel Cake with Cream Cheese Icing! WHAT?! Delic. I got my yummy corn photo. Remember last year's shot? I was 36 weeks pregnant with twins...huge...trying to walk and eat those babies out! haha Oh the difference a year can make.

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We had to get creative in a water-resistant way to shield the twins from the rain ;)

They were mezmorized by the waterfall.We definitely camped out here a while post melt-down.

We made a stop to go see my Aunt Alice who works at the Fair.

Thursday: We started our day by going over to our buddies house for a PlayDate. Wow did we have fun...we didn't even miss our morning nap! Jenna crawled everywhere and got right in the middle of the big boys playing. Caden hung out with Kailyn and tried to put the moves on one of his future girlfriends :) Dont worry, he kept his eye on his two new prospects...Baby Callie and Baby Adelaide.

Hmmm is that Baby Adelaide cutting eyes back at Caden?? :)

I know buddy, life is full of tough choices. Kailyn, Callie and Adelaide are all your type! It will be up to their Daddies if you can date any of them.

Baby Callie already waving at Caden while pretending to be asleep...


Today, Kailyn is my playmate of choice!

Then we went to Gigi and Papa T's house to celebrate Aunt Rob's Birthday. We are so glad we share a birthday week with Aunt Rob. We tried to do a test run with the birthday candles and blowing them out. The twins were not having it by that point. Oh well..next year maybe!


Saturday: Huge 1st Birthday Party. A post or three in itself. Coming soon!

Sunday: Went to the Fair AGAIN! Its hard to stay away when you can park and get in for free. We went with Miss Emily and ate and ate and ate. Jenna sniped my country ham biscuit in a millisecond and had the entire top half of the biscuit in her mouth. After fishing out most of it to prevent a chocking hazard...she thoroughly enjoyed it :)






What a fun week! I can't tell you how exhausted I was. After all of these fun days, I stayed up late every night getting ready for the big bash on Saturday. But it was a fantastic celebration and the twins are worth every bit! Next post is our super fun Birthday Celebration!

Happy Birthday Week!

Wow. Its here. My sweet, sweet babies are a year old. I don't have my head wrapped around this fact quite yet to write my big 1 year old post. But...I can post about all of the fun things we have planned for the twins to celebrate their big birthday and how much they mean to us! Soooo try to keep up...its going to be a fun week!

We will start with the Pre-Birthday Weekend (yes we are dragging this out as long as we can!). On Friday for lunch, the twins and I set out to tackle the fair with some friends for lunch. Remember, last year I was released from bedrest and hit the fair up with my girlfriends to try to eat and walk the babies out! How fitting to take them back this year so we could enjoy it together! I felt sooo much better this year than last year walking around! haha The twins did great and despite no nap and having to eat on the go in the stroller. (and yes, please notice the twins sporting the conservative, Republican stickers thanks to Aunt Caitlin who wouldn't walk with us unless we displayed proudly. We had to move Jenna's to her jeans...she wanted to...surprise...eat hers. :))

Caden helping himself to some of my FRIED COOKIE DOUGH. Yes, it is as good and unhealthy as you are imagining right now.

Jenna is a fan of the cookie dough!

It is definitely a whole new level of stroller skill driving that thing around the state fair with thousands of people! I felt like I should have earned a special license or certificate for not cutting anyones ankles in front of me:)

Saturday morning we had a visit from Nana and Papa and lots of tools! Ryan's parents got the twins an A Frame Set to hang their swings from for part of their birthday. Ryan and I bought the swings for next to nothing at the Twin Consignment Sale in August but had no where to hang them. Yea Nana and Papa!

As usual, the boys had to take a trip to Lowes before they even began to get the right parts :) But they made steady progress with only a few missing or "extra" parts :) We got it all set up ready to go and placed in the perfect spot right as the twins woke up from their nap. Of course we had to try it out...make sure it was level...and so on and so on :) As expected the twins LOVED it. I'm so glad we have some swings in our backyard for them to enjoy! We went with a simple frame so it would be easier to move if our house sells. We didn't want the super delux swing set 1000 until we are in a more permanent, long term house. Its perfect! Thanks Nana and Papa!





And then Saturday afternoon we headed down to good ole CU again to watch a volleyball game! The twins loved it. We had so much fun. The twins even got on the big video screen due to their cuteness :)

Caden definitely had the hang of cheering and clapping when we got a point...actually when either team got a point :)

How cute is that! Makes you just want to eat her (Jenna, not Robin :) )

No kids, neither your Mama nor your Pops played on this floor. We had the nasty, falling apart, asbestos, cobwebbed, not-up-to-code gym to play sports in :)

Labor Day Week

Yep, its October 10th and I forgot to do this post. So it will be short and sweet and just include pictures (what we all want anyway, right?) haha. The twins and I made it a week by going down early and staying late! What a blast we had with family..beautiful weather, more mobile twins and even the Dogs!

This is how Aunt Robin had to crawl in and out. She is a champ and super-Aunt. Jenna looks terrified. And yes, I realize if we had a minivan, this would not be a scenario. Still doesn't change my mind :)




Hanging out in the hammock. Silly Jenna Girl!
"I like it when my girls are home." - Dad every time we are together. Even with the husbands in the room. Sorry guys haha

This is how we bathe at the beach now! Really wishing I had deep sinks at our house!

The twins made it so easy to feed them now that they are such a big boy and girl holding their own bottles and burping themselves!

Jenna's Permahawk. It makes appearances every once in a while.

"I'm trying to talk on the phone please!"

"Hello?, yes one second, my brother is right here eaves-dropping."
Aunt Robin and Uncle Brad giving the twins their October present. haha They are such a great Aunt and Uncle!

This is my beach-loving girl! The first of many many days on the beach with mama!
Jenna Girl and Uncle Brad having their moment together.

Check out the use of our new awesome wagon! Packed full!

The storm the weekend before had formed alot of erosion on the beach. Well, that was great news for us at least...lots of kiddie pools to play in! It was perfect~

Ahhh Caden. My boy loves his sleep. Yes, he even took a break from the beach to take a nap. Jenna? ha no maam.

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Oh No...Jenna!

These three words have become as common as breathing in the Little household lately. I have gone back and forth on whether or not to post this, but I ended up deciding that a) I want to remember this occasion and this blog has temporarily become the kids' Baby books (I'm waaaay behind) and b) we're just keepin' it real, folks!

"Oh No Jenna" moment 1: I go upstairs to change Caden, come downstairs to find a million pieces of an indoor houseplant we have all around Jenna. Of course she is chewing on a leaf. I don't think much of it at first, but then go look this plant up on line. Of course it is poisonous if the leaf is punctured and the sap is exposed. Great. I call Poison Control and we go through several action steps and they give me signs to look for over the next hour. Thank goodness, all is well, no after-effects. Whew!

"Oh No Jenna" moment 2: We notice that Jenna is pulling up and standing in her crib. Time to lower the crib, right!? Well, smart first-time-parents we are, we lower it one notch, not all the way. We will just wait until she is a little taller before we go through that process again. haha, suckers!

I go in after a nap one day and upon opening the nursery door, I'm pelted with the horrible stench of poo. Not unusual, Caden is just like clockwork and usually has a nice, full diaper waiting for me after this nap. I check and it's not him! I look over to J's crib and freeze. Little rascal has managed to stand up and stretch far enough to reach a diaper I had left on the changing table in between their cribs. I forgot to put it in the diaper genie. Lesson 347 learned. Jenna has reached the diaper, pulled it in the crib, somehow managed to unstrap the thing and found a nice little surprise inside. She then proceeds to play, smear, toss and yes....EAT her new found treasure. I literally don't know what to do. I realized that she had done her damage at that point so like any mama would do, I run and get the camera. She WILL know about this at a special future time in her life!!

I call the Peds office to see what I was dealing with and they tell me it is perfectly fine, it is all her natural "stuff" anyway. Other than me being mortified, she will be just fine. That is when I have to tell the nurse it wasn't her poo. It was definitely her brothers. Ahhhhh life with twins! I don't even need to explain the disinfecting, sterilization of everything that had to happen that afternoon...

Happy Fall Ya'll

It's like the "Merry Christmas" of the Fall season. I hear this phrase and see it everywhere these days. I must admit, I have been bit by the Fall-Home-Decorating bug. Probably because I'm home ALL DAY. :) So, last week, when the first day of Fall hit the calendar, I was ready! Thanks to Pinterest and the twins fantastic napping schedule, I have enjoyed adding some festivity to the house.

I also feel the need to show you some pictures, specifically one of my Glitter Pumpkin. I feel the need to clear its poor little reputation from one Laura Robinson and Liz Laney. :) Maybe they will love glitter again after seeing this cutie:

I love my glitter pumpkin. And it is super easy to do! I started with a real pumpkin so if it was horrible, I could chunk it. However, now that I see the finished pumpkin, I may turn my attention to some of the other plain craft pumpkins.

All I did was cover the entire pumpkin in Mod Podge, then I took four different colors of glitter( they came in a 10 pack so I had my choice of colors!)and sprinkled it all over the pumpkin. I used a Pink Champagne, Gold, Orange, then topped it off with a White-Iridescent. After letting that try a little while outside, I shook off the excess glitter then put a coat of Mod Podge on the outside to seal in all of the glitter. So, NO, L and L, there is no glitter all over my house, face, hands or floor :) I had some paint left over from a project too so I painted the stem a brown color. Martha, as in Martha Stewart suggested that. :) I scored the candle holder from Goodwill. So, all I had to buy was my 70 cent pumpkin, $2 candle holder and $3 pack of glitter. Not to shabby! On to the rest of the house...

On the porch so our guest get in the fall-mood!

Our mantle...I couldn't take the pictures of my babies down so they must stay :)

Loving my big flower arrangement. Michaels had their stuff on super sale last week so my entire arrangement was only $4! I already had the vase.

Here is my other Pinterest inspiration. And thanks to the talented Ryan Little (he drilled some holes all over the top of the pumpkin for me) we have this masterpiece! And yes, this pumpkin is fake as can be so we can reuse this bad boy year after year.

And of course, what is Fall without the amazing scent of a Pumpkin Spice candle...