Monday, May 11, 2015

A delicious graduation

2 Super duper great friends in our ward graduated from Dental school last week and are/will be off to Wyoming to go be real practicing dentists! Crazy talk. We were finally in town for a graduation party bbq and it was so wonderful to be around so many friends. A family who graduated last year was even there t celebrate with us all which made it even better. Man we sure did win the jackpot when it comes to friends here in Nebrasksa!

















Max looks awful in this picture but it's the only family one we got.







Casey is especially sad since these two guys are essentially his bff's. They're the graduating ones
ANNNNNND, remember this pregnant picture with friends we took at my baby shower last year?
Here we all are with our cute babies!!!!!! Fun, right?

Congratulations Christopherson and George families, we will miss you oh so dearly! Luckily we'll all live in the practically uninhabited state of Wyoming together someday so we'll for sure see each other even if we live hours away, chuckle chuckle.

March and April videos

The twins giggling throughout the March video is the best





shout out to Bailey for helping me quickly have music for these videos now, you da best girl!

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Well it is that time again where we appreciate the mother's in our lives! Especially the mother of my kids! Kimber is quite the mom even though she is always yawning, or saying I am tired, she is always a go-getter with our kids. She is a much better teacher and example to the kids than I am and I know the kids are going in the right direction with her in the home. Here are a few pictures that remind me of her great motherhood!






Also, Happy Mother's Day to my momma and mother-in-law. We don't learn the ways of the Lord and parenthood without your examples and guidance. Love you!!

Monday, May 4, 2015

a bunch of April

Max is a lover of cuties. LOVES loves loves them. One day he sat at the window looking out while peeled and ate 3 if not 4 just so contently and happy. That sweet boy of mine.

It's about once a month that Max asks to hold the babies. When he does it makes my heart really happy It lasts for literally 4 seconds before she says "all done!" and starts wiggling himself away from them making them fall in all directions. Quinn was especially enamored by him here.
That jean blanket my mother helped me finish years ago is getting CONSTANT use these days. Oh man how we love that thing.
Gotta figure out shade for the babies!
FHE.
The patriarch to be included in out FHE picture.
Enamored by the neighbor mowing the lawn.
Obsessed with climbing on bikes.
a. these glasses crack me up
b. Max insists on "climbing" trees these days ever since Casey showed him it was possible… Julie joined him this day apparently.
Had a garage sale with neighbors a couple weeks ago with friends. I don't know what it is but it's just fun to do/have/be apart of a garage sale. I can't believe how much stuff we all got rid of and how many people came through on a chilly borderline rainy day. The month of April had an overall theme of getting rid of STUFF from us and we feel a little bit skinnier because of it! For lunch at the garage sale we pizza'd it up with our friends. As you can tell Max was very enthusiastic, jk he truly loves pizza. But his face in this picture makes me laugh a lot.
After Max got his fix of being outside running a muck during the garage sale he ventured into our neighbors house to watch Dora (for a very long time) on this super cool blow up airplane with his favorite frenemy, Grace. Then he ran a muck of my neighbors house...
a. Scavenging cookies from unknown places.
b. The story of Casey and that blasted headset getting lost in the mail will forever be remembered in our family. A month long journey of endless phone calls to XBox, USPS, and FedEx, ugh. So annoying just because it made Casey so upset!
A new favorite hang out spot for Max.
a. I pretty much NEVER get the chance to hold sleeping babies so this rare occasion of a snuggle with Quinners was extra special!
b. The tulips this spring were beautiful!
a. Max making messes
b. Casey cleaning up messes.
The babies 6 months check up! And Max yet again, just ran a muck.
Our favorite doctor/nurse practitioner, Jamie! Oh man how I love that woman! She takes such great care of these kiddos and shows so much interest in our lives. And she always guesses the twins correctly amazingly enough!
QB
Max and these glasses were hilarious to me
Quinners!
Bryson!
Book Club with a really great group of girls. In April we read Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. I didn't get a chnce to read it although I did listen to her Ted Talk which was great and we had a really great discussion overall abut being vulnerable and motherhood and beyond!
I've been trying to go on walks as much as I can lately with such great not-humid weather. Babies were champs and fell asleep while Max played on the tractors at the tractor museum.
I'm not an ice cream fan usually but THIS stuff! Now this is a different story!!!!!! Hello yumminess!
This picture is upside-down but how adorable are these shirts! My SIL sent them to me because her and I are both Harry Potter fans and the Marauder's map leads back to the twins Fred and George!
My great friends took Max on a walk one day with them while the twins slept and I FINALLY got my dishes done! How great are these girls!
A rare occasion of docile Maxson during a particularly active day.
a. Kids got styyyyyyle
b. Our kitchen gets pretty cramped with the babies forcing their way in these days with the walker.
Bryson found his toes! Thus far Quinn has been the first to do most things (roll, balance better, etc) so I was very excited for Bryson to have  first first too!
a. A particularly cranky day of twinsies! Max was sleeping and they just wanted t be held! I really needed to get food made for a gathering that evening so carriers it was! Worked out pretty well! Bryson even began falling asleep in the back
b. Max is usually so happy to come downstairs in the morning to find the babies on the ground and greet them with hugs and kisses. They love watching his every move (and are beginning to grab his toys and face and other things he takes away haha).
a. Funny for him until he couldn't get out. Funny for me the whole time
b. Future gymnast (no I really have contemplated putting him in gymnastics in the future to harness that energy of his for good!)
a. Our (extremely rare!) Friday night date to the crepe place and then a bunch of errands afterward, ha.
b. If there's one to thwart the plans of family nap time it's usually Bryson, that baby...
I love when i find twins sleeping like twins :)

Whew! The end!

Congrats to you if you made it through it all!!!!

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Folding laundry at 7:30 am

When did I become the person that folds laundry at 7:30 am?

Quinn woke at 5:40 to eat. Once I put him down he was still awake and crying for a little while, once I pick him up to nurse again now Bryson is awake and crying. I send Casey downstairs to get a bottle for Quinn while I switch to nurse Bryson. By the time I'm done feeding Bryson it's 6:20 and both babies are awake to stay awake and happy. (they went to bed at 7 pm so I guess I shouldn't complain about their wake up time since they never did wake up in the middle of the night to eat).

I want so badly to have Casey get up with the babies, but he coaxes me into waking up with them since he stayed up late studying.

Babies are awake and happy. I guess I'm pretty happy too since they're so smiley and happy, it's a contagious kind of thing when it comes to them.

From 6:30 am-7:15 am I sweep the floor, fold the babies' laundry, pick up toys, take out the trash multiple times, change 3 diapers, play with babies, and eat breakfast.

When did this change occur?

When did I start actually trying to be productive in the early hours of the morning instead of lay on the couch and try to continue with what sleep I could?

Once I put the babies down at 7:25 I came back down stairs to fold just one more load of laundry and it is at this point when I think about it all. It's 7:30 am and I am folding laundry… I guess that makes me an official wife/homemaker/mother.

You really do grow into your calling as mother and wife. For me, at least, it's a slow process of learning to sacrifice yourself a little here and a little there until it just becomes what you are. Heavenly Father is a wise being. He slowly molds you into the person He wants you to be. Not all at once, that would hurt and you might become bitter. It is a long slow process to become like God and I guess I'm unknowingly working on it everyday.

I'm grateful it's long and slow…