1 Year Appt and Day at the Park!

So yesterday, Monday, the boys had their 1 year old check-ups. And while they look huge to us apparently they haven't grown a whole lot!

Walker:

18lbs 4oz

27 3/4in

Brayden:

17lbs 14oz

27 3/4 in

So they've both gained about a pound since their 9 month appts but they've gotten about 3 or 4 inches taller...silly boys, they're so skinny! Would you believe that most of the clothes they wear are 3-6 months!?

Before their appt my sister, Caitlin, brought over the 2 year old she nannies to play with Walker and Brayden and we walked to the park just up the street to let them all play for a while!

The boys loved getting the fresh air and it was nice to go out for a walk, we used to go all the time during the summer, but haven't been in quite a while!

We are loving the spring weather and lookin forward to spending more time letting the boys play outside this year!

Walker--they liked the slide!
Brayden--striking some sort of GQ pose don't you think!?

Love these silly boys!

Walker

Brayden

Hello World!!

In case you're still bothering to follow our blog--that we haven't updated in 3 months--I thought I'd finally post! So hopefully there's still someone out there who wants to hear about our little family!! Things have been busy and crazy and wonderful all at once! Since I updated last I had a wonderful 24th bday, we had an awesome Christmas/1st Christmas, a new niece--Rosalee, Joseph and I's 4th Anniversary, a PGY performance, a long weekend vacation to Pismo Beach, a sweet Valentine's Day, Dance Festival performances--I taught a Hip Hop number, a finally--the main reason I'm blogging a 1st birthday party!!

So considering that it would take for-ev-er to update you on everything I'm skipping right to the best part--Walker and Brayden's first Birthday! We had a wonderful day with the boys, their bday was Saturday March 20th, we started out with a wonderful breakfast made by Dad-Joseph-chocolate chip pancakes with peanut butter! The boys absolutely love them! After playing with them and singing happy birthday to them all morning they went down for their naps and then we ran out for their Party! We had a nice party at our Stake Center with family and a few good friends! The boys had so much fun being the center of attention--they loved their cakes and got so many wonderful pressents!

Sleepy Walker wondering why Mom has the camera out so early!
Equally sleepy Brayden, waiting to pancakes to be made!
Joseph is quite the chef, and makes some killer chocolate chip pancakes!
Enjoying their bday breakfast--such big boys!

The Party was Sesame Street themed and both boys had their own cake to demolish!
We played a game during the party where I made two posters with 14 different of Walker and Brayden on it and the guests had to guess who was who in each picture from birth to now! It was really fun--mind you the boys technically are not identical but I had some really tricky pictures! I had my money on Cole winning and he actually tied with Joseph's cousin Harrison! It was super fun!

Just starting to dig into their cakes!

BraydenWalker

Their birthday crowns were courtesy of my mom--they turned out so cute!

Confessions of a Mother of Twins...

As my boys are 8 1/2 months this week, I have decided that this is apparently the point when your brain...at least my brain says, 8 1/2 months without sleep is enough see ya...the story is, a few days ago I was feeding the boys breakfast and thinking wow, these peaches are super runny and getting all over the boys clothes...I continued to feed them trying desperately hard to keep their clothes clean, upon giving them their last bite I realized...I NEVER put bibs on these silly boys...Thanks brain...please come back soon! As you can tell they're quite happy about being so messy...
Goofy Walker

and Brayden

One Little Tooth...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving this year!

We have so much to be grateful for this year, but most of all are thankful beyond words for two little boys who keep me too busy to update my blog sufficiently!!!!! We are spending the day with Joseph's parents tomorrow and are excited for the boys to enjoy their first Thanksgiving Day!

Just a quick update...the boys turned 8 months last Friday...
they are both crawling,

they both say Dada and Brayden says Mama,

they love to talk and make all sorts of fun noises,

they eat solid foods and love bananas and sweet potatoes best,

Brayden has one tooth...and they're both still nursing (keeping our fingers crossed),

they can both sit up on their own,

they sleep in their own cribs in their own room,

they are starting to pay more attention to eachother and love to giggle at eachother,

and they're standing up to everything...pulling themselves up...

they are everywhere and in everything!

We love them and their budding personalities sooo much!

Brayden
Walker

Just had to say...

So, I've been thinking lately about being a mom of multiples...

Everywhere I go people seem to have something somewhat negative to say...

Oh wow you have your hands full,

Do you ever sleep?,

That must be so hard,

Imagine when they start walking,

You must've been scared to death when you found out,

I'm so glad it's not me...

and the list goes on...

I have made it very clear that I am just tickled to have twins...as most of you know, but I was thinking the other day that I want to give myself a pat on the back...I think I have taken well to being a mom and especially for having twins, what brought this on was that on Wednesday I was leaving the boys with Joe for an hour and a half to go teach dance and he was asking me what to do if they were both sleepy at the same time...I went on to tell him what I do and demonstrated how to lay them down in the crib at the same time, or how to lay one down if the other one is still awake, and just went down my list of all the different things I do...

And I thought despite the fact that somedays I'm a complete zombie I think I'm doing alright...and I'm doing something that a lot of other people think would be their worst nightmare and loving every minute of it...so here it goes, in light of legally blonde...SNAPS for Kira! Today is a day to feel good about myself!

P.S.--the best comment I've ever gotten about having twins came from an employee at Costco who looked at the boys and just said, Oh what a blessing!

Two faces to wash, and four dirty hands

Two insistent voices, making demands

Twice as much crying, when things go wrong

The four eyes closing, with slumber song

Twice as many garments, blowing on the line

Two cherubs in the wagon, soaking up sunshine

Work I do for twins, naturally comes double

But four arms to hug me, repay all my trouble.

~Author Unknown

It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're blessed with twins. ~Author Unknown

Dear Walker and Brayden,

Please stop getting so BIG!

Please go back to being 5lbs and stay my little babies forever!
It's not that I don't love playing with you and listening to you starting to talk and trying to crawl...it's just that I want you to be my little babies forever!
Love, Your Mommie