Our fun-filled week

This week seemed to be all about the babies! All of us were home for Thanksgiving and with 2 brand-new babies there was plenty of holding, feeding, crying, and kissing to be had. Grandpa figured out how to burp both at the same time.

They took naps in the cradle together.

We all went on a drive and hike one day.

More baby time--just chillin together on the floor One of my fave highlights from the week was our karaoke night in the living room. It was totally spontaneous and sooo much fun! We hooked up a mic and put on some music and the guys really let loose. I don't remember the last time I've laughed so hard in one evening! My dad sang, "Hey Jude," Trent impressed with a rousing rendition of "I'm Too Sexy," Josh sang and danced to every song under the sun, and everyone took their turn with the mic having fun.

Josh and Chloe even did a duet.

We somehow managed to fit all of us in the hot tub at the same time. The boys did the annual polar bear plunge by running back and forth to the pool from the hot tub to see who could stay in the freezing pool the longest.

Magaw and Papa enjoying their baby time. We had a great week and I'm so glad everyone was able to be there together.

Happy Thanksgiving!

All gathered round the table

Tim and Michelle's baby, Bryson, is 2 weeks older than Kendra. There was plenty of baby holding during the week!

Auntie Chloe with Meggy

Bryson and Kendra, our indians in training.

The whole gang in our pilgrim and indian attire for the 15th year in a row. Even though we're grown it's still fun!

Silly picture time!

And my favorite, the serious picture. Just look at Megan's face! Love it!

Team Edward Until...

Jacob Takes His Shirt Off!


This is what Kelsey's shirt said and it couldn't have been more true! We went out Friday night to see New Moon and I absolutely loved it!! Uh-Maze-Ing. It was sooo much better than the first movie! You could tell the new director, bigger budget, better special effects, and better acting really helped this movie surpass my expectations. I have no complaints about Jacob's 8-pack either--holy smokes. :) I can't wait to see it again. The scene with the Volturi was well done and I thought Aro nailed his role. The transformation of Jacob and others into wolves was seamless and done better than I thought they could. It really was a great movie and stayed quite true to the book.

Honestly, before the movie I was more a vampire fan, but after watching, I think I am Team Switzerland. It's hard not to watch the movie and hurt for Jacob. He is so good to Bella and just keeps getting rejected and I had a really hard time staying true to the Vampire-lover I thought I was... I think I have a soft spot for the werewolves now... Yep, neutrality seems the best option.

It was so fun to go out with girlfriends and have fun talking and laughing and being out together. We took the babies to dinner and dropped them off (my dad watched Kendra since Trent was working), so it was nice to be completely kid-less for an evening.

Most of the gang out to dinner at Boudin. A San Francisco bread/soup/salad place, really good. We made our shirts at our girl's night to wear out to dinner and a movie. The different sayings are, "Puppy Love," "I Love Edward Cullen," "Vampires. I Know, Right?" "Vampires or Wolves? I'll Take Both!" and my favorite: "Team Edward Until... Jacob Takes His Shirt Off!" If you saw the movie, you'd get it... :)
Megan holding Beka's baby, Leah, and me nursing Kendra.

Chloe and Me, still nursing...
Me and Kelsey pumped for the movie to start!!
On our way out of the theater we saw the ad for Eclipse-the third movie in the series and we are all SOOO EXCITED!! June 30, 2010... The countdown begins... :)

Just a Buncha Twi-Hards!

Kelsey and I threw a Twilight party to get everyone pumped about our girls' nite out to see New Moon. We had fun painting our nails blood red, eating food, laughing, making shirts, and watching Twilight. It was such a fun night and such needed girl time! I had a blast!

We had lots of fun decorations.

Kendra wore her "Future Twilight Addict" outfit and pretty much slept through the whole party!

Kelsey and I had a little too much to drink! And it was sparkling cider!

Some of the gang.

We made our shirts with iron-on transfers and I made sure Kelsey's letters went on straight by ironing it straight on her. Alright, alright, she chickened out at the last second and we used the ironing board. :) And holy crap, I didn't realize my hair was so long! lol

We made blood bags for everyone to take a bag with them to the movie.

How cool are these?! All the drink bottles said, "Type O Negative," "Type B," "I'm thirsty.," or "Drink up," on them. They were red for obvious reasons and looked really cool on display and in our glasses.

We had a blast planning the party and making decorations and are looking forward to the next party!

We made and hung these cool red, white, and black tissue paper pom poms.

My Twilight-themed food: veggies and a, "I'm on a special diet" sign, since the Cullens are "vegetarians."

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So, I taught myself how to make a flannel blanket with sating binding and how to mitre the corners. I think it turned out pretty well and I'm excited to have learned something new!

It's big enough to swaddle her in or put over the carseat when we're out in the cold or rain. It's super soft too. I don't think I could ever get enough of a sleeping baby profile--so cute!

Mikayla loves when I can pump a bottle and let her take a feeding. She's really good with Kendra and a big help with burping and holding her so I can get stuff done.

Kendra in her swing. She likes the swing and I love the brown/pink combo! I got a matching swing, stroller, and car seat for her off of craigslist and I am in love with the cute brown and pink pattern. I figured we'd ditch the gender neutral stuff this time around because obviously we aren't making boys any time soon and I want some girly looking stuff!

Mikayla and a Big Fat Hen

We went to visit my aunt and cousins at their house. The little chicks the girls got to hold as 2-day old balls of fluffy feathers are now a bunch of big fat hens (and a few roosters!). Mikayla walked into the coop, scooped up Chicken Licken and sat on a chair for almost a half hour just stroking the hen and talking with her cousins(well, my cousins who are about her age, so she calls them her cousins). It was the funniest looking thing to see her holding a big 'ol chicken and to have no fear scooping them up to hold.

House Update...

HVAC is in!

Roof is now completed!

Windows are in!

We let the girls draw and sign their names on sheetrock and they think it's pretty cool that their artwork will permanently be in the home!

(How cute is the little handygirl! She desperately wanted to help drill some sheetrock, she did well too!)

Sheetrock is all installed! Mudding and taping in progress... Next step: texture and paint! It's coming along and I'm excited thinking we might have a Dec. 1 move-in date--we'll see! :)

I Can't Stop Taking Pictures of My Baby Girl!

She is so stinking cute!

I Failed At Growing Pumpkins In My Garden...

but look at the cutie I WAS good at growing! We had fun taking some pictures at the pumpkin patch last week. I was experimenting with some vignettes on here, not sure I like them all, but it gives the pics some different looks, that's for sure.

Happy Halloween!

This year, we went easy on the costumes. Little Kendra was a flower. She looked better all swaddled up tight, but nonetheless, the bright green blanket and flower in her hair sufficed.

Mikayla and Erik at the trunk-or-treat.

Brock and Megan, cute as ever!

Our little Snow White. Thank you Kim for the costume and wand, it was nice not to have to try to shop for or make a costume this year with baby on the way! Megan is VERY into makeup, so she was quite excited to get to wear some eye shadow and blush out of the house! So cute!

Mikayla was our cowgirl. Complete with boots given to us by a friend, stick horse we had, hat from grandma, and my OshKosh denim jumper that I wore on my first day of Kindergarten 22 some-odd years ago! She sure was cute and we were pretty amazed that we spent zero dollars on costumes this year. Low stress for mom is always a good thing!

Our candy-huntin' cuties!