Family Pictures

Back in October we had family pictures done.  I'm just now getting around to posting them on the blog.  Hope you enjoy!

 

 

Christmas! Yes, finally

Amongst the craziness which was our December, we made another trip to Grand Junction to spend Christmas with my family.  Hey, we were homeless: what choice did we have?  I was definitely not a great picture taker this year.  I feel like I'm getting worse instead of better!  I only have like three pictures of the twins first Christmas-ack!  I have like three million of Tiernan's first Christmas.  I am THAT mom.  In any case, we had a great time and were spoiled because it was actually a very WHITE Christmas which is especially uncharacteristic.  It was so beautiful-and we got to burn off little boy (and man!) energy by shoveling the driveway four times!

 

Zane has been such a roller lately.  He was so proud of himself for rolling over to the Christmas tree and grabbing the lights.  It was all fine until he tried biting them.  We were worried we'd have a Christmas Vacation moment....

Tiernan was SOOOO excited about his new vaccuum.  That kid cracks me up because he has been OBSESSED with vaccuums for the past year or so. 

Do you love that he's half naked?  When are my kids ever fully dressed?

I think Ethan was more excited about building Legos that Tiernan

The best present of the day was the Cozy Coupes from my parents.  Tiernan is WAY too big for it but still had fun cruising around my parents' driveway.

 

The twins' first Christmas!  I was so embarrassed because like five minutes before we opened up the twins' gifts for some reason I was complaining about overalls and how cute they are but so annoying.  Of course that is exactly what my mom got for them.  Me and my big mouth...

The week after we were in Grand Junction we stayed at Auntie Megan's house.  I think their cat Asher was a little traumatized by two small people chasing him around.

 

So sweet!  I think I'll keep them!

Grand Junction, Trip Uno

Some pictures from our first trip to Grand Junction:

 

Cameron was my brave child who sat on Santa's lap.  Tiernan would have nothing to do with it.  Libby was giving Santa the business about all the presents she wanted.

Tiernan was SOOO excited to help decorate the tree since we weren't able to have a tree this year at our house.

We visited a "museum" and the boys loved looking at and sitting on all the equipment and watching the trains.

Zane loves his Grandma!

The big boys loved watching the huge model train set up.  Those train guys are serious about their trains!  I personally see no reason for a grown man to dress in overalls and play with trains, but maybe that's just me. 

Well, we've completely lost it

So, in case our lives weren't crazy enough, we decided to list our house for sale in September.  Our house was located on the corner of a relatively busy street, and we'd been concerned for some time about the safety of our boys.  Plus, the layout was not great (laundry in the basement, two story, no master bath, one car garage.)  We considered waiting, but recognized that life is not going to get any easier as the babies get older.  Showing the house was a bit of a nightmare.  Have you ever tried keeping a house clean with a four kids four and under?  Plus, showings always seemed to be during naptimes or mealtimes-yuck!  Fortunately we got a contract on the house at the end of November and then the real fun began!  Have you ever tried PACKING with four kids four and under?  This is pretty much the progress I made:  two kids in boxes that I had just filled with stuff 

 

My parents came over the first week or so and helped finish packing up the kitchen and stuff I was anal about.  Then, the boys and I went and lived with them for a week, before coming back for closing (we stayed with Ethan's parents) and then back to my parents for Christmas.  Right now we're staying at Megan's house while we move into the rental in Greeley.  To say the least, I've had it with living out of suitcases.  I'm ready to have my own space again-but feel discouraged because I know we have to move one more time into our real house.  I know it will be worth it in the end but what a hassle!  We are praying that the most perfect house shows up here soon and we can become more permanantly settled.  I am thankful that so far the boys have handled the transition well (except for some meltdowns at preschool) and that Ethan and I are still friends!     

November (yes, I'm behind)

Here is our November, in no particular order:

 

Crazy Zane

I'd like to think I live somewhere near a beach.  But alas, I live in landlocked Colorado, where we just have brrrrr freezing lakes.  November was very mild-we got to spend alot of time outdoors, and one day I was very brave (and/or crazy) and loaded up the boys to go to the park near Windsor Lake. 

Jaxson finally decided that the Bumbo was not so scary

Doesn't Jaxson seem so thrilled?

Ethan was horrified one day that I let the boys play with my eyelash curler.  Hey, there's only so much entertainment you can have indoors....

All tuckered out.  I love pictures of the boys sleeping.

Apparently this is the only blanket I ever get out to lay the twins on.  We have three million baby blankets, and we use one.

 

Another favorite indoor activity-building blanket forts. 

Trying to be a more responsible parent and actually feed my babies real food (if you consider baby food real food)

 

The boys had so much fun that week getting into the wagon and rolling down the small hill in our yard.  I thought it would end in disaster, but they actually did pretty good sharing. 

Snoozy Jaxson

My favorite!