Two Year Pictures

Here are you few of the Twins two year pictures that I had taken several weeks ago. To take a good picture of one of them is difficult at this age and to try and take a good picture of them together is almost impossible. NV photo has done almost all of our pictures since our Walmart fisasco when Jacob fell off the table while getting his 9 mo pictures. They are good with our kids and take time with them, also they have great picture deals!

Jacob takes better pictures right now, simply because he is usually more outgoing and will warm up to strangers quicker than Ms. Alexis. She has stranger anxiety horribly and it is really coming out right now. By the time our session was closing she was starting to warm up to the girls.

As they reach each new stage in their development, life gets easier and harder. One thing I miss about them being infants is that they sat still and it was easy to get them to smile. This is no longer the case with my two. They are very active children and they see past all the peekabo games and such that we used to use to get them to smile. Hopefully next time I get pics taken I will have them both looking at the camera and smiling. We talk about Santa a lot right now in hopes that they will be anxious to sit on his lap at Christmas time next year, fingers crossed!

OK, so a year later I update my blog

Jacob and Alexis are no long babies! Since I last blogged they have become toddlers. Last week we celebrated thier second birthday with a Dora/Diego themed birthday. Like just about every toddler in America, they are obssessed with Dora.

Alexis trying to save the Dora pinata from getting decapitated.

Me with Alexis

Aunt Linda made our Boots and Dora cakes.

I know it has been almost a year since I blogged last and I have been full of excuses but seriously we have been busy. We have moved homes in the past year which is a task in it's self, I hope to never move again. We mourned the death of our computer in the fall and I learned a valuable lesson, do not order from Dell during the holiday season because it will take a month for your computer to arrive. Hmmm....I also trained for a half marathon which took up a lot of my extra time after the twins go to sleep. I ran my first half in Olathe on April 10th, I wish I had pics, but we didnt take the camera that day. Plus the death of my blog had a lot to do with facebook, when you load your pics to facebook and check all your friends status', who has time to blog?

I am going to give blogging another chance. Hopefully it will not take me a year to update!

The twins first birthday party

Ok, these pics are a month late. Sorry! The babies celebrated their first birthday over a month ago, a week after their birthday, we had a party at the local park with friends and family. I do not know what has happened to me, but I have become a horrible picture taker. The only pics I got of them at their party is when they were eating their cakes. Aunt Linda made them each a cake with their name on it.

He is so my child. I love cake and our little boy did too. He tore into it.

The twins with their birthday crowns on. This is the only pic I got of both of them wearing the crowns at the same time. As soon as I put it on they would tear them off.

Several days after the babies birthday party, Adam and I went to NYC! So much fun. I had been their before, right after I graduated from Graceland, but I had been dying to return. We did several really neat things, namely, taking the Sex and the City bus tour around Manhattan. I have a lot of pictures to post from the trip and more to post of the birthday party, but as usual blogger is being difficult, I am having a hard time posting pics right now. I am sure I mostly to blame and not blogger but it is easier to blame a website.

Also, Adam and I have other exciting news. We just put a bid on a home last week and they accepted our second offer this weekend. We are so nervous to be taking this step but excited at the same time. The home we are going to buy is 3 times the size of our current one, with a basement and a huge yard. It is located right outside of town, near both our jobs. We had our house inspection and our termite inspection yesterday and they went fairly well (no termites!). So if all goes well and we don't chicken out of the deal, we close the end of July and will move in sometime in August.

As soon as blogger and I get along I will post more pics of our vacation.

Happy 1st Birthday Jacob and Alexis!!!

Today we celebrated Jacob and Alexis' first birthday! To the twins this was just another day, but to Adam and I it was quite special. We have been reminiscing quite a bit lately on the past year and all we have been through. We both feel very blessed that we have two healthy babies, or almost toddlers. I know that every pregnancy has possible problems, but when you are told you are having multiples, all sorts of complications go through your mind.
We did not have a birthday party for them today, that will be held on Sunday. We gave them their presents early from us, Alexis got her Princess Cozy Coupe and Jake got a farm set. Today was my half day at work so Adam I spent some time outside with the kids in their 'cars'.

I gave them cell phones to play with while they were 'driving'.

Jacob is such a ham! He loves the camera!

Here is our little princess in her princess car.

I took this pic the other night of Alexis before she went to sleep. In the past month or so we have seperated the babies at night. Alexis sleeps in the crib and Jake is in the pack n play. Jacob is an extremly active child, or he is to me anyway, and he would crawl and stand on his sister. We seperated them and they seem to enjoy this better. Jake could care less that he sleeps on a mattress that is about a quater of an inch thick. In the morning when they wake up, I catch them talking to each other, it is so cute.

Bad blogger!

I am a horrible blogger. I cannot seem to find the time to blog weekly or at least bi-weekly. I seem to find other things to do around the house which usually are not productive. Meanwhile the twins are growing and their first birthday is in two weeks! Not only have I been a bad blogger, but I have also been a bad picture taker. These two are growing quickly and I have been too lazy to grab the camera.
Today Adam and I were off this afternoon and our goal was to get ONE good picture of Jacob and Alexis for their birthday invitation. We got several cute ones and maybe one or two good ones. They are extremely difficult to take pictures of these days. They are very busy and they will not look at the camera at the same time and smile.


Both kids look wild or possessed or both in the picture. Jake loves to yell and be the center of attention. He is all boy! He talks a lot, some we understand, most we don't. He loves to say: uh-oh, ball, dog, and no, no, no. He also trys to mimic what we say to him, it is too cute.
Alexis on the other hand, has her own language or so it seems. She will talk to us in full sentences and look us right in the eyes with this sweet, soft, little voice. Of course, we understand NOTHING of what she is saying. I am sure she is the only one who knows what she is trying to tell us, but is too cute!


The babies are also in their new wagon that their Great Grandma Donnie got them for their birthday. We put it together today and they loved it.

Also, note the matching tee shirts. I bought the matching shirts for their birthday off the internet. Cheesy, I know, but so adorable.

This picture made the invitation.

The babies at the front door. I think I mentioned before how they love our new storm door and to look outside.

They also love to put their tongues against the glass and clean it for us.

You can really tell in this picture that Alexis is taller than her 'Big Brother'. Jake still weighs more than her, but she is definalty the taller and thinner of the two. He has really short legs and still wears 6 mo-9 mo jeans, due to being vertically challenged. Alexis has the opposite problem. She is tall enough for some 12 mo pants, but they are too big around the waste.

Although they are crawling everywhere quickly. They still don't seem interested in walking. I keep seeing babies younger than them that are walking well. I have to remind myself that each child is different and on their own time table. Plus they were also born a month early which could impact their development. I am still hoping that one of them will be taking their first steps around their birthday.

I tried to get them to snuggle for a pic today, this is almost impossible. Jake who was my cuddle boy when he was smaller, is now too busy playing and being wild to snuggle. Alexis on the other hand, used to want to just sit in her little bouncy seat and watch TV, she now loves to cuddle and be held. She still loves television (the apple does not fall far from the tree), she LOVES Dora and all of the Toon Disney line up. She dances as soon as she hears the theme songs, I want to get it on video sometime to post.

Recently I bought the babies a little coup from a garage sale. I have been looking for one since I found out I was pregnant. I think these little cars are too cute. The babies like being pushed in it and one day squished both of them in it.
My mother told me that I would have to buy another some day and she found a pink and blue one at Toys R Us last week which picked up for us to give Alexis for her birthday present. Do you think Jake will ever know that his came from a garage sale and hers was brand new?

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Once again I have waited an incredibly long time between blogs. We have celebrated many milestones the past month. The twins have turned 10 months old, first of all. I cannot believe how the past year has flown by. I think about where I was a year ago, struggling to make it work daily and suffering from endless Braxton Hicks contractions. Anywhooo...the babies are super busy. Jake is a total wild man, very loud and into everything. He is also now mimicking some words we say to him. His favorite is Uh-Oh which he repeats after I say it to him and he will also sometimes say MaMa. Alexis is also a busy girl. She loves to crawl around and get into everything she is not supposed to be in.
The babies have also experienced several illnesses. Alexis had her first nasty ear infection and they both had a bad cold that forced them to be on antibiotics and me to stay home from work for a day last week.
Adam also has been busy this month. He got to spend a 5 days away from us in Vegas in March. His sister Claire got married out in Nevada in March and she had an awesome reception last weekend in Kansas City, which Adam and I attended, baby free!




Jacob and Alexis tonight at our churches Easter Egg hunt.

My mom got them the Easter baskets and we 'helped' them hunt for easter eggs.

We recently put in a new storm door and tile in our entry way, one of many home improvement projects we have to do this spring/summer. They love to look out the door and crawl on tile.

The other night I found the babies sleeping like this. Too funny!

Their first bath together. Adam remembered to capture this milestone.

They are pulling up to EVERYTHING!

Adam and I took them to see our cows a couple of weeks ago. Surprisingly, they were not afraid of the cows. Alexis even let one of the cows lick her, ew.

Alexis in her new bathing suit. Little does she know that for her first birthday she and her brother will get a wading pool. Jake does not have his trunks yet.

I recenly turned 30. One of my bestest friends, Kristine, sent me a basket of chocolates for my birthday, which is like the best present EVER!

This is quite possibly the best milestone that the twins have thus far accomplished; holding their own bottles. They have probably been able to for months, but I have continued holding them up to a couple weeks ago.

A couple of weeks ago, it was so nice outside, I put them in thier new shorts and we enjoyed the beautiful weather.
I will try not to go a month between blogs this next time.