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.

Mothers Day family picture

Mothers Day

My first Mothers Day! It was so special to finally be able to celebrate it! I got a much needed gift from the babies and daddy, a day at the spa!!! needless to say my back has never been the same since having the little darlings and they continue to wear it out! The babies were dedicated at church on Mothers Day so that made it extra special. It's still so hard to believe that I am a mom of two babies after waiting so long for just one! What a blessing! Also over the weekend we introduced cereal to the babies for the first time, here are a few pictures of that as well, Asher thought it was really funny that we were putting something into his mouth and Lilly spit every bite out!

Getting ready for Michigan

We bought the babies these sunglasses yesterday thinking the little band that goes around the head would be better then the normal kind that rest on the ears, but of course they are too big! I had to take this picture quick because Lilly was not at all happy about having them on! I hope she changes because I'm sure she will like it better if the sun isn't in her eyes. Anyway....every year over July 4th we go to Michigan to see my husbands family and have Christmas in July! It's really the only time everyone can get together (Brad has stepbrothers/sister in CA, Minneapolis and Chicago, and we are here in Nashville). So we head up to MI every year with Christmas presents and beach supplies, what a mix! His mom puts up a tree and everything, only the tree is decorated with red white and blue ornaments and flags! His parents live out in the country on a dirt road with lots of land to walk trails, go on jeep rides (I'll explain)....Jeep rides....Brad's step father mows these wide paths thru the fields and hooks a trailer up to their jeep and we all pile in the back of the trailer/wagon thing, padded with patio furniture cushions because the ride can be a little rough! And he pulls us around the property at a good speed. When you hear some one yell duck, you listen! It's usually just a tree branch or something you might have to dodge. So then after the ride is over we take our sore bottoms out of the trailer, brush of the leaves and go in side and check for ticks! Sounds fun huh? It's wonderful! Anyway, across the road is where Brad's grandfather lives on a private lake with a beach area, which is where we spend most of the days swimming, canoe rides, paddle boating, etc....with a bunch of his family. Then on or around July 4th we have our own, very impressive, I will add, fireworks show over the lake. (We sometimes have to do a little dodging with the fireworks too!) We are soooo excited to have the babies this year and for most of the family, it will be the first time they see them. They will be a big 6 months old when we go and we are curious to see how they like the water and sand. Should be lots of fun things to video tape. One of my favorite things is to walk back to Brad's parents house after the fireworks when it is really dark. We take one of the paths that have been mowed thru the field and their are hundreds of lightening bugs twinkling all around you, it looks so cool!

A few more of Lilly in a better mood!

tired boy, grumpy girl...

sleeping thru the night...

The babies are sleeping thru the night now! We never thought it would happen. The first couple of nights it happened we thought it was just sort of by accident because they didn't take good naps the days before, but it's been a couple of weeks now and they usually don't wake up any earlier then 5am and we feed them and put them right back to bed and they will usually sleep until 7am. Lilly can actually sleep until about 8:30 but I usually wake her up! I think Asher is teething already, he chews on his fingers constantly and is doing funny stuff with his mouth and tongue, so it's about to get really fun around here!~

the cutie pies!

these are from today...

Our babies are 3 months old today! I can't believe 3 months have gone by just like that! They are doing so good and getting really fun! They smile tons now, we can even usually get Lilly to smile even if she is crying. She loves her daddy and just stares at him like he is her hero. Asher is still a busy body, so curious and always looking around and kicking and moving his arms like he is just dying to get moving on his own. He still gets really mad when the bottle gets taken out of his mouth to be burped and usually cries until it's put back in. (Can't wait until we don't have to burp him anymore so he can drink all he wants without stopping!) Here are a few pictures I took the other day of my big boy and girl!

finally snapped a smile!

Here is one of Lilly smiling, I'll have to take a good one of Ash smiling and post it later. She's a sweetie! Then right after that she spit up a bunch on her outfit and I had to change her. Oh well she looked cute for about a half hour! Oh and here are a few Brad and I took last night to show them when they are older! hahaha. Poor things, were way over tired, then tired turned to hungry. They didn't take their last two naps very good, so they were very cranky babies last night and even after they had full bellies at 8:30pm and were very tired, they still didn't fall asleep until about 10:30pm. I still think I heard Asher whimpering at 11pm. We thought for sure that since they were so tired and didn't fall asleep so late that they would sleep longer!!! For a split second I was excited, but just knew it probably wasn't going to happen...and it didn't! 1am , right on time!, actually it might have been about 1:45am, but it should have been more like 3 or 4am! They are not sleeping thru the night yet, still waking up about 1am-2am and again at 5-6am. We are really looking forward to that night when it happens!

the babies are getting sooo big!! and changing fast!

It's funny how different the babies are. Asher eats more then Lilly but you would never know it! You would think it's the other way around. I was looking back at older pictures and I can't even believe how fast they are changing. Lilly especially, just doesn't even look the same to me. Asher is still putting up a pretty darn good fight about sleeping in his crib. We can even get him to sleep first and then try and lay him down in it and he still wakes up and cries! he can have such a temper at times. When he is really awake and hungry he absolutely hates it when you take the bottle out of his mouth and burp him. he will stiffen up and fling his body back to lay down for that bottle, while pretty much screaming the whole time and he will try and stand so you can't sit him down on your lap. If he is tired or in a pretty mellow mood he will let you burp him and not throw a fit! But as soon as he gets his belly full he can be in the best mood. When I take him to his room to change him he gives tons of smiles and coos! Lilly on the other hand doesn't really care about getting burped, as a matter of fact she can be wide awake but as soon as she gets about half way thru the bottle she starts falling asleep no matter when it is. So when she is sleepy she is sooo hard to burp, i have to pat her for a good 15-20 min. sometimes because I know she will just spit up if she doesn't burp. Today she got a cold wet wipe rubbed all over her and her feet tickled constantly just so I could burp the poor girl! She is smiling more also and it's so sweet!