Wrap up of 2011

So we've been in our house now for two years. We're tweaking and changing things to make it ours for the first time since we've lived together. The half a decade we were together prior to getting the house was perpetually filled with moving boxes. Always afraid to hang a picture, knowing we'd have to patch the hole its nice to finally do what we want!!

Rick and I have been continually blessed from our jobs to our kids. I've received two promotions and am now a salaried manager (which is good and bad) but am LOVING my new responsibilities. They have tweaked the position to use my best attributes and I know do a variety of things I LOVE. Rick has been equally blessed and has also received a promotion and while he's still logging the hours his prospects are looking great and he will soon be where he wants to be.

Kiddos! They are coming on the big 5!! I can't believe how fast we've blown through the last few years. They started their first official day in daycare, which they enjoyed and dad and I HATED. They also started swim lessons and are rocking through the lessons like Olympians in training! The talk with attitude and walk with even more of it.

My goal is to keep this better updated now that we've settled into some normalcy with our schedules. So here's hoping!

2009 Update

Hey everyone - so its been over a year since I last posted - I apologize for no new pictures but my printer/memory card port went kaput so I'm stuck for awhile. This is the latest I had on file - Christmas morning (2008).

The boys are doing well. We had to have Jon's four top teeth pulled out (bottle rot) and michael will have to have this pulled also. Jon bounced back like nothing happened though, and my "little boy" ended up gaining 15 pounds in 2 months!!

Rick and I are in escrow - 7 days till we close on our first house!!!! We are ecstatic! We're going to be paying less for the house than our apartment!!! That's AWESOME!!! We have a 10 year plan to have it paid off too....so hopefully we can stick to that. Who knows though right?

We've been talking about having another baby now that we have a house. But we agreed we're going to make sure Rick can cover all the bills first. If we have another baby I don't want to go back to work until they are all in school. So we'll see what happens. We'll keep everyone posted on a housewarming "get-together" so everyone can come and see the new digs.

Love you all!

Merry Christmas

It's been a hectic couple of weeks getting ready for the boys first Christmas. Rick and I argued over how many presents to get the boys. Since there's so many family and friends buying for them this year, and their birthday only 25 days after Christmas. Even limiting our purchases the boys made out with som many things that we're going to have to move out so we can have a playroom for just their toys!!
Well Merry Christmas everyone....here's some pics of the boys....

Update: Twins 8 1/2 Months Old

Michael and Jonathan sitting up like BIG boys!
Smiling for the Camera!
Jonathan discovering his feet.
Running wild!


The boys have both had a cold this last week, which they kindly passed on to Me, Rick, Mom and Rick's Nephew and Niece. So we are all coughing and have sore throats, it's been a regular barrel of laughs over here. The Boys are doing great, they are sitting up by themselves and are eating baby foods, three times a day now. They both have their two bottom teeth in, so no more chewing on mom's fingers!!!

So Tired!!

We have been so busy lately! Rick and I sat down and talked some stuff out, and decided for the sake of my sanity and to help save money for a house of our own, we would move in with my mom.

He fought it kind of hard, since he feels he's less of a man for not providing a place for us by himself. I just had to point out, that he was doing that, but unless he got a second job, we would never get out of an apartment.

So the weeks have been busy trying to pack up our apartment and clean out moms house so we have room for all of us. She is going from a house with 2 cats and herself to: 3 Adults, 2 babies, 1 dog and 3 cats. It's going to be a busy, loud house, but we're all okay with that....wish us luck. :-)

We also got our first official family picture taken. THAT was a fun experience....I don't know who was more tired by the end of the day, the kids or Rick and I!

Hard Day this week...

So this past week has been really hard. Rick came down with a really bad cold on Tuesday night. So I decided to take the kids and spend the next few days at mom's house so me and the boys wouldn't be at risk for getting sick. Then at 5am on Thursday morning I woke up to Jonathan coughing and gasping for air. He was choking and could hardly breathe, so I took him into mom's room and called the doctor. They said it sounded like he had serious respiratory distress, so to get him to the ER, and if it got worse in the next few minutes that I should call an ambulance....way to calm me down right?

So I ended up in the ER at 530am with Rick and Me in the Triage Area and Mom and Michael in the waiting room. I felt SOOOOO bad for Jonathan. The poor little guy was short of tourtered!! The x-ray machine for infants is this Hannibal Lector like contraption that has a saddle like seat to sit them on with leg holes for their feet to hang through. Then this plastic incasing surrounds them holding their arms above their head and finally a leather strap to help support their head!! Then he got blood drawn which it took me, Rick and two nurses to hold him down. (Fight or flight instinct is amazing!) The RSV swab which they swab the inside of his nose which pissed him off too. So in the end....Jonathan has pneumonia and Michael has the cold that Jonathan had prior to it going into pneumonia!!! Poor guys!!! At least I got some new pics of them....

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone! Here are some pics of the boys in their Easter Outfits.