Never a Dull Moment

Weeks after we found out we are pregnant with twins, Garrett got his dream job offer!  We are currently in the process of moving to Appleton, WI.  Garrett will be working for Gulfstream Aerospace as an Airplane Technician.  We are all very excited about this move as it means the very real possibility of purchasing our first home and staying in an area for more than 2 years!

In the midst of this good news we also had our 20 week ultrasound where we found that both babies are growing well and looking good!  They are both 12 ounces!  The GIRL is in the 50th percentile while the BOY is in the 45th percentile.  Both are very active and I'm excited for when Logan and Noah will be able to feel them kick and move around!  We took Logan and Noah along with us to the 20 week ultrasound because we thought they would find it interesting... luckily a young woman from our Small Group at church could come with us so when the boys quickly became bored she could take them out to play in the waiting room.  (What a blessing! Thanks Kim!)  Garrett and I enjoyed all 1 hour and 30 minutes of watching the babies kick and move.  We are THRILLED to have a little girl coming our way!  Not that boys are excellent, we are just very excited to experience the "sugar and spice and everything nice" that little girls are made of!

I tried to get some fun pictures of the boys with balloons to announce we are having a girl and a boy, but it didn't turn out as I had hoped.  Here they are anyway!  Enjoy!

Picture Update

I finally, after a few months, updated my monthly picture slideshows on Snapfish.  So if you want to see lots of pictures this is the link for you!
http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=5690595024/a=159579568_159579568/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/

Enjoy!

More Thoughts and Lots of Pictures

Garrett and I feel truly blessed to be entrusted with not one but two additional lives to nurture and raise in the fear and admonition of the Lord.  We are so excited and overwhelmed about our family doubling in size!  We greatly appreciate your prayers for safety and growth for the babies during the next 6 months and patience and grace for me as this pregnancy is already proving to be much more taxing then my previous ones.

Little Slugger

On our way to our favorite place to play, the dirt pile!

Riding a dirt bike like Uncle Kenton

Sweet moments like these make a mommy's heart happy!

Sin is never far away though...

Babies 3 & 4!

"Our mom lets us dig in the dirt!"

My Thoughts on Twins

When the ultrasound technician told me we were pregnant with twins I literally guffawed in her face.  I'm the person who secretly thought to myself every time I was pregnant "I'm so glad I don't have to worry about having twins! Lord knows I would never have enough patience for that!"  Well our God has a great sense of humor, does he not?!  So in my year of praying for patience with my precious 3 and 1 year old, I'm coming to understand that this prayer for patience will most undoubtedly be a life long prayer!

I know that's not many thoughts but Logan just woke up ~ CRANKY, again!  patience, patience, grace, patience! Maybe this should be entitled My Thoughts on Patience! More thoughts and pictures to follow!!

Camping

About a month ago we went on our first family camping trip.  It was a blast!  Well except for sleeping part... we might have slept a total of 4 hours all night, but other than that, we had so much fun!  The boys loved being outside and dirty 24/7 as the pictures show!

Library Days

One of Logan's favorite days is Library Day!  I absolutely love that he is so in love with books.  Whenever it is raining or even just cloudy he says, "Mom, when Noah gets up from his nap let's go to the library!"  So we go and pick out new books, play with the trains and trucks and puzzles, clean up the toys and get a sticker.  Then the whole way home the boys look at books and as soon as we get home Logan dumps all the books out on the floor and sits down in the middle of them to look at them all over again.  Noah mostly eats the books, but he loves to look at the pictures as well.  He prefers looking at the paper books because he likes the feel of the pages.  So far this has not been a problem - no ripped pages yet.  My very favorite part of having books all over the house is when Logan sits down and reads the books to Noah.  I LOVE it!  I unfortunately don't have very many good pictures of these book times, but I'm sure you can picture them in your mind!

* A note about the video ~ Before I actually shot the video Logan was reading the book out loud.  Of course as soon as I managed to get the video rolling he stopped...

Birthdays!

May is the boys' birthday month!  It's kind of fun to have them so close together, although Noah definitely got shafted this year.  But really does he even know??  He was more excited about all the wrapping paper then the actual gift he received.  Gotta love the things that thrill a 1 year old.

Logan however could hardly contain himself!  He ripped open one gift and was right away looking for the next one to rip into.  It's so much fun to see the enthusiasm this child greats every day with!  I can't believe he's already 3!