Nana and Papa

Well, we have moved!

We moved into our new house on the 9th but just got our internet up and running yesterday! It seemed like we had a jump through a lot of hoops to close on both house, get our internet and TV working, and get everything switched over to our new house but my faithful husband worked long and hard to get everything done! Dan put a lot of time into closing both houses! I am truly thankful for all that Dan did! It has turned out great and we LOVE our new house! It is such a blessing!

We have been hosting people since 5 days after moving in! Thanks to my wonderful parents, we were settled in VERY quickly! It has provided us with SO much more space! We have enjoyed running laps around our house daily (the rooms are all connected so Quinn, Rex and Myla can crawl around the whole main floor!) Quinn calls it the "Boo game" when we run one way and scare the babies or Daddy and then run the other way! Quinton runs so so so many laps around our house every day! Funny guy. We have enjoyed the LARGE backyard and deck (pictures to come), all sleeping upstairs, a large kitchen, a main floor laundry room, and tons of playing space!

Nana and Papa came for a week!
I am pretty sure that they both left EXHAUSTED!

We were very blessed to have them come before we moved to help us finish packing and cleaning and then help us get settled into our new house!

My Wee Rudes especially LOVED their week with Nana and Papa!
We all enjoyed many coffee runs, although our new house is no longer close to my parents favorite coffee place, park dates, adventure walks, and good quality time with Nana and Papa.

Quinton still ADORES them and loves all the extra attention!
Quinn and Papa being silly!

Quinn is so funny and has a great memory!
In our new house we have some storage areas upstairs that Nana suggested would be good to store games in. Well... for the next few days Quinn would walk by the cabinets or remember them and ask Nana where his games were. So, on a Target run Nana bought Quinn two memory games. We have enjoyed learning how to take turns and find matches! Maybe Christmas will bring more games for his cabinet!

Enjoying some books with Nana and Papa

Myla and Daddy looking so cute

The Rude Girls

Rex and Myla LOVED the park. They spent most of their time crawling back and forth through this little tube. Rex especially thought it was just awesome!

She's beautiful

My kids got lots of loving
Nana and Rex

Papa and Myla

I think that my babies are getting a little big to be three in the stroller. Myla is no longer thinking the bottom of the wagon is fun and I'm pretty sure that Rex kept pushing her the whole ride.

These are pictures from Rex and Myla's big day!
They enjoyed their cupcakes and balloons! Both made a big mess!!

My sweet one year old boy!

Mommy and the twins

Daddy is so excited to have one year olds!

Messy Myla

Rex

Well we are enjoying our messy one year olds and our now two and a half year old (on September 24th) in our new house! We welcome any visitors if you are in the neighborhood (if you need our address let me know). I will be working on posting some new pictures of the inside of our house soon... just too much going on!

Thank you Nana and Papa for all your hard work and for staying for a whole week! We really enjoyed your help and all the play time!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REX & MYLA!

I cannot believe that my babies are one today!

What an amazing year it has been! I could not ask for better babies

I remember talking to different mothers of twins when I was pregnant and they all told me the same thing... " the first year is awful and you can never go anywhere..." Well, I definitely don't agree with them. Although there have been some times that required a little less sleep and a little more patience, I have LOVED being a mother of twins, even in the first year. It was been tons of fun and I'm pretty sure that it has not slowed us down at all!

Look at how tiny she was!
3 lbs 8 oz... just a wee one!

What a handsome boy!
5 lbs 9 oz... a big boy!

It's amazing how quickly I forget what it was like to have such a little baby!

Just looking so peaceful!

Home at last!
They always loved being together!

It's so funny how they looks so different and have such different personalities!

Quinton adores them. They are all going to be the best of friends as they grow up!

They have the cutest profiles

I love when they start to smile!

Rex and Myla have made our lives so much more wonderful!

They are the sweetest babies with tons of personality! It is so amazing to see that even after being "womb mates" they are still so different. They have made having twins truly amazing. I get a little teary eyed thinking about how quickly this past year has gone. It really does seem like just yesterday I running back and forth to the hospital and feeding them an ounce for their whole meal. Now days I don't think an ounce of milk would suffice for even a few minutes.

Happy Birthday Rex and Myla!
Dan and I thank the Lord for them every day. We are a truly blessed family! We are excited to see what the next year has in store... I have a feeling life won't slow down but it will definitely continue to get more and more exciting!

It won't be like this for long!

I heard a song by Darius Rucker called, "It won't be like this for long"

It made me think about this past year. I keep this picture on our refrigerator to remind me to be so thankful for my children. It is a good reminder to me that the Lord can carry me through the hard times but also a good reminder to enjoy the happy times. I definitely would not want to have my babies in the hospital for a month again but looking back it was such precious time. I used to go up to the hospital at 5am and cuddle and hold my babies and believe me they do not take the time to cuddle now they are too busy crawling around and getting into anything they can get their hands on. But at the same time I can remind myself that "it won't be like this for long"... I won't have to pick up every book off the book shelf 5 times a day so I should enjoy it and just be thankful that I have three Wee ones to pick up books after!

This picture was taken a few days before they came home!
I can't even remember them that tiny!The nurses dressed them up one night and took this picture!
They are still the best of buds.

I know I have shared this before but I also keep this poem on my fridge. It again is a reminder to enjoy my children. Especially these days with my house a disaster from moving! So enjoy your children, enjoy your day, be thankful for the circumstances that the Lord has put you in whether joyful or difficult because the Lord will use it for good if we let Him. So remember "it won't be like this for long" so get an extra snuggle with your babies!

Moving Soon!

We are moving one week from tomorrow!

I can't even believe how quickly everything happened! I'm not sure if I filled you all in but a friend of ours bought our house. He is going to have a couple of guys move in with him. With our friend buying our house we were able to get the house that we had our eye on! It provides much more space for our family. We will now have four bedrooms, two living room areas which will allow us to host a bible study and have people over more often, a couple of my favorite parts... a main floor laundry room and a huge deck on the back with a large backyard!!!! It is only 2 miles west of our house now. It is close to a couple of parks, a grocery store, a coffee shop, ice cream... all the necessities!

We are really excited to move and I am really excited to have my house back in order.The moving process is quite a task! We had cleaned out a bunch of our things to show our house and are storing them at Dan's parents house! But there is still A LOT of stuff here! It is amazing how many boxes are needed to pack up a house. I have either packed or moved most of the toys into Quinton's room and I am trying to put most of the boxes in this corner of the living room. I am truly grateful for the friends that I have around me that are willing to help. Next Thursday we have some great friends lined up to help clean and move. It should make the process go fairly smooth... keep your fingers crossed that everything goes well!

We are still enjoying many days at the park! Rex puts absolutely EVERYTHING into his mouth and I'm pretty sure that he has eaten buckets and buckets of sand! I've tried to convince him that it doesn't take good but he just laughs at me.

Rex now has seven teeth and Myla is still just working with her two!
Myla mimics EVERYTHING these days. The other night Quinton kept leaning his head back during dinner and so she began to do the same and then all three would laugh hysterically! She is so funny and any time she bumps anything or gets hurt she throws her hands on her head and lays her head on the floor, she is a little dramatic but oh so sweet!

Both Rex and Myla have mastered the stairs! Our new house is going to present some challenges with the staircase. It is a little hard to explain, I will have to post pictures but it will be a challenge to keep them off of!

My babies will be one on Friday! I can't believe how fast that went! A year ago I was laying on the couch all day. These days their is no rest with my three Wee ones... but I sure do love chasing them around!

Rex is sporting a new outfit from Nana and Papa!
Looking Handsome!

Myla wearing a new outfit too! I love the pants!

Quinn and Hannah enjoying snack time together at the park!

Our garden has been somewhat fruitful. We have had many cucumbers, jalapenos and cherry tomatoes. Quinn loves to help pick the vegetables and wash them off.

You can be praying for us as we get ready to move! Stay tuned for pictures of our new house!