announcements

We got these out a little late, but we got them out that is the important part :) My friends sister, Erin put them together for me and I love how they turned out! Here are a few more pictures I took of them....

Makes me sad seeing how much they have already grown up. I want to cuddle them and have them be little forever. They are so much fun! They make me the happiest person in the entire world. Although I wish they would slow down it is so fun seeing them learn and grow. As long as they aren't hungry or tired they are the happiest babies ever, so many smiles. I can't get enough. 

oh, how I miss you!

So sadly I have turned into more of a facebooker and an instagramer. They are so much quicker to post pictures and give little status updates on my phone instead of sitting at the computer and writing it all out. I don't remember the last time I sat at the computer. Where as before the kiddies I never went a day without doing something on the computer. Life has definitely changed... for the better though of course :). I have really missed my blog. I normally am religious about reading all of your updates and am so behind on reading your posts.  So today I decided to forgo taking a shower and cleaning my house and am catching up on blogs and starting to update you on what has been happening, while the little munchkins are sleeping soundly.

I am so in love with these little guys....

 Alta

 Jayden

Today as I was rocking Jayden to sleep I just couldn't get over how blessed I am. I have the two cutest kids in the world and they are so good. Although they don't give me much time to have hobbies at the moment :) I wouldn't change a thing. In these pictures they are two months old and now they are four months old! Where does the time go? They are a lot more awake now which is one major factor in why I don't get to the computer. They smile a ton, laugh, coo....My two favorite things of all times are the cuddling sessions :) and when I go to get them in the morning they give me a huge grin. I have been gradually trying to train them to go to sleep on their own, but almost once a day I can't resist the urge to just cuddle them to sleep. Well babies are awake now so I'll have to finish later, but three month, four month updates, blessing pictures, and announcement pictures to come!! And one of these days I'll get my photography blog up to date and running.

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.