Happy first Fathers Day Brad!

It was a good fathers day Sunday, it was special to celebrate Brad's first one. We went to church and then to lunch with some friends of ours from church that we are just getting to know. They had a baby a couple of weeks after we had the twins, so there we were 3 babies at a table! I think some people wondered if they were triplets! Anyway...HAPPY FATHERS DAY BRAD! WE LOVE YOU!

BIG dorky fan...

So yesterday Brad and I were at target shopping for a few things and he says..."ok....if I say this I don't want you to freak out" because he knows that I love this person and have been a huge fan for a long time. Anyway, he then says "look behind you" so I turn around only to see the one and only Wynonna Judd! I love this woman and have for a long time! I couldn't help myself, it was as if something took over and just made me immediately start walking towards her and I could hear Brad in the background under his breath say "oh gosh....." nervously. I knew Brad wouldn't want me to go over and talk to her so I just took off the minute I turned around! So there she was, flaming red hair, big dark sunglasses, she looked great. I went right up to her and said, HI! I know you probably want to be left alone and this is really cheesy, but I have been a fan for a long time and just wanted to shake your hand and tell you how excited I am to meet you! So she shook my hand and said she appreciated me coming up and meeting her and if it weren't for fans like me that still believed in her where would she be! Now wasn't that nice! She was really nice and very cool about meeting me, she even walked over to our cart and asked Brad his name and shook his and and asked us questions about the twins and said they were cute and talked to Lilly for a few minutes (Asher was asleep so he missed the whole event). I was so excited about the whole thing I didn't even ask if I could get my picture taken with her which I'm sure Brad was relieved about that! Anyway, just wanted to share that news with you all!

5 months old...

The babies are 5 months old now and doing great! They are both laughing and smiling lots, Asher laughs when you tickle him and Lilly laughs when daddy kisses her neck. They are eating cereal, fruits and veggies and doing pretty good. At first Lilly spit every bite out and then would start to scream and cry when we tried to feed her more, now she is loving it and eating really good. Asher has done good from the beginning. It's so funny to see them open their mouths for the next bite. Asher rolled over from his back to his belly the day after he turned 5 months old! We knew it would be any day because a couple of weeks ago he had started rolling over on his side to sleep. Lilly isn't quite there yet with the rolling but she did learn how to do something a couple of weeks ago as well. She now makes rasberry sounds with her mouth and it's so cute! We will sometimes here her doing it on the monitor when we put her to bed at night. Next month we go to Michigan and I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures and stories to post about that!

My drooling babies!

A week in Indiana...

Just got back from spending a week in Indiana with my family, it was so much fun! Even though the babies got off schedule and totally forgot how to nap during the day, resulting in some crankiness, it was still great to be there. Lilly naps in her bouncy seat and Asher usually his swing, but I didn't bring the bouncy seat with me and mom has a swing just like mine at her house, but for some reason that wouldn't even get Asher to sleep most of the time. So I figured since Lilly didn't get to nap in her bouncy seat and the swing wasn't really working anymore, it was the perfect time to start trying the crib again. They slept fine at night in the pack n' play, which was a really good thing! Today went pretty well with naps, especially for being the first day back from a week without their schedule. They took a 1 and a half hour nap in the crib today, which is just amazing with these two! I just tried to lay them down for another nap and it's not going as well as the last, they cried off and on for about 25 min. with me having to go in and do some patting and put pacie's back in, we'll see how long it lasts! At this point it would just be a huge step back to return to the bouncy seat and swing after a week of not really doing that. Anyway, my mom and sisters live in like this perfect little neighborhood. It's a new neighborhood which makes it look extra perfect with sidewalks down every street, a pond a cute little city park right down the road, lots of kids out riding bikes and playing. We took the babies for walks alot in the evenings, now that it's summer it doesn't get dark there until after 9pm. They also have these great neighbors that invite them over for cookouts all the time and to relax in the hot tub so we took them up on that a couple of the nights. One thing I did find out was that Lilly and Asher really enjoyed sitting on the patio in the early evening with us in the double stroller just looking around and being outdoors. Here are a few pictures of the cuties and a picture of my two sisters.