Twins 1st birthday and Disneyland trip

Ok, so these are not in the right order but who cares. They had such a fun time. I planned so much and had us on such a schedule, we were all sooo tired when we finally left. This is the babies when we were leaving. Here is Abe with Maddy and Mickey Mouse

Freddy and Mickey Mouse

Our friends from school were there and we hung out with them awhile. Abby and Nathan on the Toy Story ride. How cute are they!

Bubby sucking his thumb during the Playhouse Disney Show

The family during Playhouse Disney show, Abby LOVED this. Her favorite is Little Einsteins.

Maddy finally wake to eat at Ariels Grotto

This while she was asleep at Ariels Grotto, when all the princesses came by. Here with Sleeping Beauty

Bubby with Abby and Cinderella. He would not leave her alone, he was grabbing her earrings, her lips.....it was funny.

Abby and her favorite Tinkerbell. She was in ahhhhhhhhh

The babies with their sunglasses but they did not last 1 minute.

The babies first bite of birthday cake at Goofys kitchen, they spit it out.

Abby got a cake too.

Bubby and Abe with his pirate birthday cake chest

Maddy and me with her princess birthday cake chest.

Babies with Chip from Chip and Dale

Over all we left the house at 6:45am and got home at 10:30pm and we had a great time and I feel very blessed to have the beautiful kids I have!!!!!

Now we have our small birthday party today. I will blog more later.

Things to do this year 2009.

I have been making a mental list of all the things I wanted to get done this new year. There are big and small things to get done, but they are all very important. So I decided to blog them and check them daily to see my progress, and have others ask me how things are going to give me a kick in the pants! They are not in any order just as they come to mind, I'm sure I will add more as I think of them.


1. Tell my family I love them multiple times a day.

2. Take Abby to the dentist for the first time, I am scared of this one!!!!!

3. Read scripture everyday.

4. Reconnect with friends I have not seen or talked to in awhile (this one I have already done)!

5. Scrapbook more, trying digital scrapbooking, maybe that will be easier. Where to find the time with 3 kids?

6. Go see Evie more often (Az)

7. Call people back when they call me.......you know who you are :-)

8. Start a couple new business from home ( in the process).........

9. Eat better

10. Go to a womens retreat with church.

11. Start a Bunco group...........

12. Start Abby in pre-school, well at least start looking.

13. Go to the denist myself, and the dr for all the tests they want me to do. :-(

14. Start Christmas shopping ASAP

15. Turn 40 with a big party!!!!! Abe is planning this one

16. Do some charity walks (Abe has wanted to do this for soo long)

17. Read all 4 Twilight books again :-), :-)

18. and so the list goes on....................................................

Baking cookies with Abby.

So I decided to make sugar cookies with Abby. Just different shapes, she thought they were Halloween or Christmas. But I told her they were just speical ones for daddy. Here is Abe and Abby with the finished cookies. Abby did not like the frosting, I made homemade buttercream and the smooth frosting. Here is Abby pressing the cookies out, she was covered with flour.

And here is the last picture of the two of us, we had alot of fun!!!! YES that is me with my dark hair, what do you think? Nah or yah??????

Happy New Year!!!!

Ok, so I stayed up on New Years eve alone to ring in the new year. Abe was still so sick that he fell asleep early. I made crab legs etc had a great, fun night planned. Well needless to say those plans went out the window. The kids were still sooo sick, Abby still had blisters in her mouth that were sooo painful, she crys constantly. Maddy now has them on her feet, will this ever end?


So I sat up till midnight and I have to tell you it would have been great to have Abe awake to share it with but, honestly it gave me time to cry and think and really look back at the year I would never be in again. I have said that at this time last year (2007-08) I was miserable pregnant, I had a amazing pregnancy with Abby, but with the twins it was miserable. I never had a problem admitting that but now I do. It makes me so sad that I was not able to look beyond the discomfort and pain and take it for the amazing thing it was. I HAD 2 HEALTHY BABIES. That by the way, did not want to leave their comfortable spots. I carried them 39 weeks.........ughhhh. Anyways I look at the joy they have brought me and how funny, adorable and healthy they are and I just want to cry again. Abby is so great as well she is so sweet and funny and loving to her brother and sister it warms my heart.

So I think this year I am going to try and STOP and appreciate everything GOOD and BAD and be thankful for it all. 10 years ago I would have told you Abe and we would not have a home with three beautiful children, I was so discouraged.

So with that said: I am so thankful for my kids, my husband, my family, my friends and my relationship with the Lord. I will try my best to appreciate all of them!!!!!!!!!!

Old fashion puppet show

So at Gymboree they had a couple parties. This one I missed because the twins were sick, so Abe took Abby. It was a old fashion puppet show, with string dolls and everything. Abe said it was great and the kids LOVED IT!!!! I love the idea of bringing something we don't see that often back, and seeing the way the children love it the same as back in the days! She had a blast with all her friends as you can see in the pictures they are all sitting with full attention.

The twins in their new cars.

So here are the babies in their new cars........

Freddys first black eye.

Ok.....so is this what I am in for????? I swear IT IS a boy thing. Freddy just in the past 48 hours has managed to try and stand at our end table, fell forehead first giving him a huge bump right between the eyes. Then tried to stand at his crib and went down face first again and had a little red mark on his face. Then the big one was him standing at their changing table and missing and hitting his face AGAIN and now has a black eye...............

The poor guy is sooooo easy going he crys for about 15 seconds then just goes on his way. I am worried about him, he is a danger to himself. Meanwhile little Maddy is so cautious she rarely hurts herself, unless bubby hurts her while playing she never gets hurt. Yet my poor little guy always has some mark on him. I'm scared to see him at 10 yrs old, ughhhhhhhh!!! BUT he sure is handsome :-)