happy valentine's day!

                                                                                                                                                       

           
Thank you all for the love you have given me! Love you all and hope today you feel special.

one year older

Happy Birthday Sweetie Pie and Daddy!
I can't believe we have celebrated five birthdays together already, time goes by so fast. I love you more every year. I'm so proud of you!! You are the best dad and hubby. Thanks for working so hard to support our little family. 

two months

christmas

 Christmas was wonderful! Holidays are always so much more fun with kids. Last year Greg and I started a tradition of creating hope lists. We each wrote a hope list last year after Christmas of things we hope would have happened by this Christmas and then put them in our stockings. We didn't see each others and so this year when we pulled out our stocking we got to read them to each other. It was so much fun. On the top of both of our lists was that we hope we have a baby and Greg actually put he hopes we have twins :). Almost all of our hopes came true throughout the year. We feel so blessed and happy!! Christmas morning we did our own thing at our house and then later went over to my dads.

 Christmas eve was spent with Greg's family. We started a new birthday tradition where instead of buying each other presents we put money into a jar to save up for a big family trip and My mother in law just gave us ugly Christmas sweaters as a present. So for Christmas we all wore our sweaters :)

 Kim and Chad's sweaters were on my top favorite list :) 

Sad all the festivities are over, but looking forward to next year when Alta and Jayden can be more involved. 

one month

thanksgiving

Yes I'm that far behind....
I was able to scratch something off my bucket list this Thanksgiving.
Number 10: Host Thanksgiving dinner.
I think it turned out great. I had the help of my dearest Mother and Costa Rica Dad while Auntie Lauren and Greg took care of babies.

 It was so cute seeing Lauren with the babies. She is definitely not a baby person but her Auntie instincts kicked in. She was so cute with them and so willing to help so I could get some sleep.

 In addition to Thanksgiving we also celebrated my Costa Rica Dad's birthday by going to Red Iguana.

We had a ton of fun while everyone was here. It was horrible seeing them leave. As I'm sure any of you new mothers know. When your mom leaves it sucks. There were quite a few tears, but luckily though my mom is coming out again this next week and Lauren will hopefully come out for her spring break.

first week home

It already makes me sad to look at these pictures and see how much they have grown, time goes by so fast. I am loving every minute of being a mom and Greg is such a great dad!! I was always worried about being exhausted at the end of the day and having to fight with my hubby about taking care of babies cause he has had an exhausting day at work as well, but it hasn't even been an issue, when he gets home  he is so excited see them and take care of them.
I love my little family!

Alta

Jayden

Jayden

love these babies

K I don't have much time but I wanted to get a little start on catching up. There are so many pictures and things I have wanted to blog about, but just haven't gotten around to it. Here are a few pictures from the past month. My babies are already two months old I can't believe it they are growing up to fast. They say to   constantly be talking to them and playing with them so they start learning, but sometimes I catch myself just staring at them (and maybe sometimes getting teary eyed). I know pathetic, but I just can't enough of them and how blessed I am to be their mom.  They are already not as cuddly as they used to be. Today I was cuddling Jayden really close and squeezing him and he let out this "uhh". "Mom let me breath a little here."
Everyday I have to remind myself to take pictures and video and write down every memory cause they are flying by.

sneak peek

I finally feel like I have gotten a couple good pictures of my babes and announcements are being worked on, but i couldn't wait that long to share one of the pictures. I almost got to the point where I was just going to hire someone to take their pictures cause I felt I was having no luck, but I ended up getting alot of good ones. More so of Jayden. Alta is our little high maintenance baby and didn't stay happy very long. She always gets this little scowl on her face. They recommend you get newborn pictures taken within ten days of them being born and now I totally see why, that young they are so sleepy that you can do anything to them and they won't wake up. So no matter how tired you may be just suck it up for an hour or so and get some pictures of them. 

all the little things

We are all still alive and functioning. The babies and I have been doing great. Today is the first day with just the three of us. Up until today I have had the huge blessing of either having my family here or having Greg working half days from home. the fact that I found time to make my bed, take a shower and now blog is really saying something.  Lately blogging has been taking a back seat among all the other things we have going on. Normally the days priorities consist of taking care of babies, spending time with hubby, personal hygiene, preparing for Christmas, laundry, cleaning bottles, oh yeah and eating :). I think I am finally getting the hang of things though. Twins weren't as hard as we were expecting but they are definitely not easy. I can only imagine how easy one would be :). I think the hardest part for me about having twins is I feel bad when I can't distribute my attention evenly. It is already weird thinking I had these two little guys inside me just a few weeks ago.  I couldn't imagine not being pregnant and now looking at these pictures it is so weird seeing myself with a huge belly.

On November 10 we went into the hospital at about 6:30 to prepare for my c section that was scheduled for 8:00. I didn't sleep at all the night before it was like waiting for Christmas when you are a kid.

We took a couple last pictures of me being pregnant and then the nurses started prepping me to go in. I think the most painful part of the entire day was getting the IV in my wrist. Once the IV was in I was taken into the operating room and scared out of my mind cause Greg wasn't allowed in yet. I got an epidural which I thought was going to be super painful, but wasn't at all it was just the icky feeling of having something going into your spine that I didn't like. Once they were ready to cut me open Greg was able to come in. The doctor pinched me and asked if I could feel it...nada. They say you will feel pressure, but I didn't feel a thing. I asked Greg if they were already starting to cut me open and at that moment, at 8:27 am I heard Alta screaming. It all happened so fast. Of course I started bawling, it was such an overwhelming feeling. Jayden came two minutes later screaming as well. 

 Jayden

 Alta

Although having a c section was definitely not how I planned on bringing my babies into the world it was the best situation for us and I am so happy to have two healthy babies. I am so glad I wasn't in so much pain, I couldn't enjoy the experience. And secretly I am kind of all for c sections now, I recovered so quickly and felt like my old self again within a week.

Alta & Jayden

Jayden 

We have been really blessed to have such healthy twins. They did have to stay in the NICU for a few days because they were losing too much weight, but luckily didn't have to be on oxygen or have a feeding tube. The NICU really was a huge blessing the nurses were so sweet and we were able to have more time in the hospital to learn how to do things and feel more comfortable about bringing them home. I have never done something so hard, but so rewarding in my life 

introducing...

Alta Lindsay Conover

Born 11/10/11 at 8:27 am

5 lbs 12 ounces 17 inches long

Jayden Abram Conover

Born 11/10/11 at 8:29 am

5 lbs 2 ounces 17 inches long

We are so in love. It is crazy the instant and immense love you feel for you little ones.  I can't imagine life without them. They make us so happy. Not only have I fallen in love with them, but with my hubby, all over again. He is the best husband and daddy!!! 

A million more pictures and stories to come soon. 

boppy covers

Since babies are taking their sweet time deciding to come out I have been getting a lot of fun little projects done. Thanks to Pinterest I have a bunch more on my list to pass the time. The last couple days I have been working on boppy covers. If you are interested I used this....boppy tutorial. It took me a while to figure out, but making the second one was a piece of cake.

Two things I learned that might make it faster for you...
1. A basting stitch is a longer stitch. So normally you sew using 2.5 stitch length and when basting I increased my stitch length to 4, the reason you want it longer is because it is temporary and after you're finished you unpick it, having a longer stitch makes it easier to unpick.
2. When using your zipper foot (at least on my machine) make sure to have the needle in the center!!! My machine automatically when I turn it on goes to the left which is fine normally but with the zipper foot that doesn't work. I broke my needle on my sewing machine cause I forgot to center the needle. No biggie cause you can just go buy more, but it is a pain in the butt when you are in the middle of a project.

Also make sure to get an invisible zipper, she didn't specify that in the tutorial. It is not something you have to have but looks nicer in my opinion. I couldn't find a 24" invisible zipper so I just got a 22" and it worked out great.