Snow Day!

A little over a week ago we got close to 6 in. of snow here. Which we hve never seen here in the winter, let alone in Spring. Anyway we gathered what snow clothes we could find around the house and Tyler went out with the kids and played in the snow. They had a blast! Too bad it only lasted one day because the next day was lcose to 70 and it all melted.

4 weeks old

Kinsley


Madison



I cannot believe how fast these weeks have flown by. The babies are awake more and so obviously are wanting to be held more, but are doing well and are healthy. They are slowly growing into their newborn and 0-3 month size clothes but are still so little. some days I think they look alike, but we can still tell them apart pretty easily so I am questioning whether or not they are identical.

2 Years Old!!

It is hard to believe 2 years have already past since our Jack was born.
He is so much fun to have around and especially fun to watch playing with his big sister and brother. If you came to our house this is what you would expect to see and hear from our guy:

* You would hear him frequently say "what in the world!" or "Holy Cow"
* Watch him dunk the basketball in the hoop and say "boom shocka locka"
* Play duck, duck goose, or hide and go seek with Layton
* Get so excited when he hears the door open and close when Daddy comes home from work.
* Try and tackle Sydney and Layton while they are screaming "Stop Jackson!" you would think that a 6 and 4 year old could hold their own against a 2 year old, but Jackson dominates this house!
* Ask to watch Kung Fu Panda show. Watching this or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is proabably the only time you'll see our boy sit still.
* Count 1, 2, 4,7, 2, 4,7, 3, 7 and jump off the couch.
* Do somersaults and tricks with Sydney and Layton
* say "my babies" and give his baby sisters a kiss on the head
* See us coming with a tissue to wipe his ever running nose, sniff and say "there we go" in hopes to escape the wipe.
* tell us he wants to go on a bear hunt

Here is some of our birthday fun!







To end all our celebrations the kiddos camped out in the family room. They had so much fun!



There is a glare on the picture. Sydney wrote this on her white board and then told us to come read the sign. It says " no parints at the slep ovr." (translation: no parents at the sleep over). We thought it was so funny. We especially like the the mom dad with an X through it.

Highlights of our girls first week home!

I really feel this experience thus far has been incredible. Finding out we were expecting twin girls, watching my belly stretch until in Tyler's words it looked like it might explode, all the anitcipation, and nerves of what this might be like. then to have delivery and recovery go so smoothly. I feel so blessed!! I hope it continues. We were having family scripture study the other night and of course did not make it to the end of the chapter but ended on a beautiful scripture that just seemed to put into words what I am feeling. It's in Alma 26 vs. 11-12
"...but behold, my joy is full,yea, my heart is brim with joy, and I will rejoice in my God.
Yea I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things.."
I know I will need to be reminded of this when things get tough and I feel like I might go crazy.



Kinsley and Madison. (I usually put Kinsley on the left and Madison on the right, it helps me keep them straight especially in the middle of the night)

Wrestling with Grandma! We are so glad she has been here. We love Grandma!!


A game of pictionary on sunday night. Can you guess who it is!


These are my boys. What can I say, we have fun!!


I love this pic. They were laying in the exact same postion. No staging. I had to capture it!

After our girls were born they lost a little too much weight and had jaundice and since they were early they wanted to monitor them for a while. So we stayed in the hospital a few extra days. They weren't nursing really well at first because they were so sleepy so we ended up feeding them out of a cup. Who knew you could feed abbies from a cup. They got better about waking up though and to keep my milk supply up I would nurse each one and would pump after each feeding it got pretty tireing doing night and day. The whole process would take about 1 1/2 hours and would feed them at least every 3 hours. But they are getting plenty to eat and are nursing really well now. So I no longer have to pump. Yea!
Also while in the hospital they put both Madison and Kinsley under the lights for jaundice for one night each. The poor girls hated it so we were glad they only needed one night of that. I had been discharged from the hospital, but they let me stay in my room. We were in the hospital until Monday, it was so nice to come home.



Taking the girls home from the hospital. Madison is on the left, Kinsley on the right.


I think at our girls might be wondering what they got themselves into, we have fun but we're a little crazy!

Hanging with Grandma Terry, we are so glad she is here! I don't what we would do without our grandmas!

Our Girls Arrived!

The Details:
On Thursday Morning March 5th I was laying in bed at 5:45am. I got up and Tyler was not in bed. I looked all over the house for Tyler and found him nowhere. I looked in the garage and his car was there so I figured he was out for a run. Of all mornings to go out on a run!! At my Dr. appt on Tuesday I was dialated to a 4 so I was hoping it was just a short run. In the mean time I called my wonderful, awesome, lifesaver friend Emily. She was over by 6:15 and Tyler still wasn't home but arrived about 5 minutes later. He showered and we got to the hospital by 6:45. I got all check in and monitored and then brought to the delivery room and about 10 minutes later I felt our first one coming. There was no time for an epidural and Kinsley Jean was born at 7:41am and weighed 6lbs. 4 oz. Our next baby girl was breech and the doctor was going to try and deliver her breech without an epidural, I was really nervous and the doctor said we would just wait a minute or two or even up to an hour for her to get in position but decided after a few minutes he needed to break my water. After that she flipped around head first and
Madison Terry was born at 7:59am and weighed 5lbs. 12 oz. It was amazing but happened so fast it seemed hard to take it all in.






In these pics Kinsley is the one with the bruised face, poor thing she came so fast, delivery was a litle rough on her. Lucky for Madison she paved the way.



We are so grateful for our little girls and have so much more I want to write about but this is all the time I have for now. Ha-ha imagine that! More details to come...

Free day at the Zoo

So in January and February every Monday was free at the Oklahoma City Zoo so we went both Martin Luther King day and on Presidents Day since Tyler and Sydney both had the day off work and school. The kids all love it of course, and I really enjoyed getting out for a while with the kiddos and Ty.
Sydney said her favorite animal was the ant eater, he stuck his tongue out for us, I had no idead how long their tongues were! Layton's favorite was the tiger whih let out a nice growl for us. As for Jackson he seemed to just love it all especially all the running around. He was so funny witht hte things he would say. When we were at the Rhino's one kept walking towards us then turn around and walk away from us. We were pointing out the horn on the rhino's nose. So Jack would say "nose", then th rhino turned around and Jack pointed and yelled "bum". He would remind us what he saw every tiem the rhino turned around. He is so funny!
Anyway here are some pics.