December

Here is a catch up from December and Christmas!
Brad did really well sitting on Santa's lap this year- I think he lasted a full 30 seconds! Enough to take a picture at least!

Evan & Jared's first Christmas. (4 months old)

Brad had fun opening his gifts but wasn't as excited as I thought he'd be. I'm sure it'll all change by next year! His favorite gift was probably the mooing wands from the $1 section of walmart :)

Christmas 2010

My awesome sister and mom recreated these paintings for me. I had seen them in a store (like a year ago) and thought they would go perfect in Brad's room but wasn't about to pay $200 a peice for them. It was a total surprise to me when I opened them. They are perfect! I can't imagine how long it took for them to do it.

Brad and Mack's gift from the grandparents kept them entertained all Christmas day! Brad LOVES trucks

Ryan and I gave Brad and Mack these 4-wheelers for Christmas. It's fun watching them figure out how to ride them. Mack is a pro now but Brad doesn't watch where he's going and crashes a lot :) He loves it though.

My sister Sarah made the twins matching church outfits (and their cousin) for Christmas. They turned out really cute! (L to R: Jared, Wyatt, Evan)

Ryan's parents came down for New Years weekend to visit. This is Jared making faces with grandpa.

We went to Opportunity Village while they were there and walked around. I love this picture of Brad... he's wondering who the heck is that big white monster is standing next to him.

November +...

November was pretty busy for us. We started the month off with blessing the twins. Most of Ryan's family were able to come down for it and visit.


We also braved it and took the 3 kids in a long car drive to spend Thanksgiving with Ryan's family. It was much better than I had expected it to be. We didn't have to stop that much and the kids were only fussy the last 30 minutes there and back. Dinner was wonderful and of course so was the company.



Ryan started his new job the week after Thanksgiving and really likes it. He gets to come home at a normal time and won't have the rediculous busy season! I love it too!

The twins have grown so much. I keep looking back at pictures just a month ago and they've changed a ton. Still not sleeping very well but they're progressing some. I doubt I will get my Christmas wish of them sleeping through the night.


Brad is warming up to the twins a little better by trying to help feed them and give them binkys. However, one day Ryan came home from work and the first thing I did when he walked in the door was hand him a baby and boy did that make Brad upset. He threw himself on the floor and started crying because the baby got dad's attention first. Poor guy. Other than that, he is talking a lot more (others can't understand though) and picks up on things so quick. It's fun to see him do "grown up" things. He's not my little baby anymore. Good thing I have two more!



I wish my eyes had a built in camera because I don't get to capture all the good smiles and precious moments on camera.

Hope you all have a good Christmas!

October

This month, we had a visit from Cat & Todd where they got to meet the twins for the first time. Don't they look so excited to have babies one day??? :)

Brad got to see all sorts of creepy-crawlers and touch a giant iguana at the reptile show that my brother-in-law put on.

The twins grew a ton. At their 2 month check up, they were 10lbs 8&9oz. They are just so stinkin cute- lots of work- but cute. They are smiling so much now.

My sister made these shirts for them!

We went to a pumpkin patch to take some pictures. We had to recruit Grandma & Aunt Marilyn since we had so many kiddos.


As for Ryan and I, we are still sleep deprived and are just waiting for the night that we get a good stretch of uninterrupted sleep! And our time spent together is while we change dirty diapers side by side :) I am loving it though. Our 3 little guys are just so much fun.

Brothers

These are their first "matching" outfits besides their birthday suits. And I finally got a picture of Brad smiling with them! When I've tried in the past, he just runs away as fast as he can. :) I think he's starting to like being an older brother- he lasted a whole 5 minutes before he tried pushing his brother off his lap!

Pictures Done!

We got some pictures taken of the boys! We were there for over 4 hours and the photographer was so patient. I was ready to give up half way through but she just kept going. She did a great job. I don't think I'd be able to tell who's who if I didn't remember which child went first (sad- I'm the mom)! To see more click on: Valerie Christensen Photography



(Evan is on bottom, Jared on top)

Catch up on Brad

Can I just say what a cute kid Brad is? It is so fun watching him grow and try out new things. He just wants to be a grown up and do everything we do. Here's some things he's been up to:

Swimming: he's a natural and loves it!

Basketball: he goes around the house finding things to shoot a basketball in like our dresser drawers, hampers, etc. So we finally got him a real hoop for him to use. He even holds the ball and "shoots" instead of just throwing it.

Taking the trash out:

Helping dad finish work so he can play:

Feeding himself and making a mess (he loves to "do his own hair"):

Just being silly:

And having fun:

Family of 5!!!!

Our cute little twins are here and we just love them!
Evan Chad was born at 6:32pm 8/20, 6lb 7oz, 18 1/4 inches (left)
Jared Scott was born at 6:33pm 8/20, 6lb 15oz, 18 1/4 inches (right)

(it won't turn sideways for me??)

Here is my twin belly the day they were born (38 weeks):


We got to the hospital at 11:30am on Friday and was induced at 12:45pm. They gave me the epidural and broke my water around 2:30. The epidural was incredibly painful- which I don't remember it hurting much with Brad. A couple hours later, my heart rate dropped a ton and I started to go into shock. I didn't know how to explain how I felt to the nurse besides the fact that I felt like the top half of my body was going numb and I was really claustrophobic. They tried moving me around and giving me oxygen which helped. Finally around 5:45pm, I was dilated to a 9 and they wheeled me off to the OR to deliver. I was able to have a natural delivery and everything went smooth. Evan came out head first within 3 pushes and Jared followed feet first a minute later. We stayed in the hospital for 24 hours and they let us go. It was so nice to be able to go home fast and sleep in our own bed without nurses coming in every hour. I did like the fact that we had a scheduled time to go to the hospital to deliver but other than that I do not want to be induced again. My experience was much better with Brad than it was with this delivery.

We love having these two new boys in our family. Brad isn't sure what to think of it though. Sometimes he is really cute with them by giving them his blanket or their binky, and other times he just walks up to them and hits them. He seems to be warming up to them though.


Above: Evan(left), Jared (right)



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