Big Surprises!

Boy did we have an exciting day yesterday. It was Christmas at our house! Lani got us wonderful surprise...a new TV!! She is such a wonderful, generous sister!
We got it just in time to hook it up and watch the Bulldogs play basketball...I think it helped them win! The babies have on their MSU bibs and Mahlon is looking cute as ever in his hat!


Then yesterday I found a great deal at a consignment store on this bike trailer! It is practically brand new! Wesley has really been wanting one of these! Yeah for bargain shopping!


Yesterday we also had our first "sick visit" to the doctor. In 7 months the babies have never been sick. Well once they had runny noses, but they are very healthy. Anyway they both have a cold...runny noses, drainage, dry cough and a low grade fever. How sad is it when you are sick and you can't tell anyone how bad you feel. We have had a few sleepless nights this week. Poor babies! And all they can take is Motrin or Tylenol...Willie Ann would say "Bless they hearts!"

Oh and their weight this week...Mahlon was 21lbs 12 oz and Sara Beth was 19 lbs 14oz.What big babies we have!

Infant seat no more!

Today we upgraded to the "big boy/girl" car seats! It is so sad. Now they are no longer infants! After the last few days of Mahlon kicking and screaming each time we strapped into his infant carseat we decided it was too small. It is probably a good thing because carrying a 20 something pound child plus a 5 pound carseat wears you out!






I call these the recliners! I think they are much happier and they nap quite well in them. I just hate that we now have to wake the babies up whenever we get where we are going to put them in a stroller. Life was much easier when you could just click the carseat on the stroller! Boy these babies are growing up fast!

Veggie of the Week

This week we tried carrots. And the babies love them!SO now we are up to 3 veggies and 2 fruits that we like and bananas that we don't like!





This is Sara Beth showing off her bottom teeth. She is so proud!


These pictures are from after church on Sunday. The babies were in such a good mood after the time change! I love how Mahlon has his eyebrow raised. They are getting so big. Sitting up is easy now! We still fall over every once and a while but they have so much fun sitting up and playing together(or stealing each others toys!)

Had to post a few more pictures from the birthday party on Saturday. It is rare to have all 4 of us in a picture together!



Looks like Mahlon and Sara Beth are attacking the birthday boy! We'll say they are giving Carter a hug!

Birthday Party

Saturday we celebrated Maury's late 2nd Birthday and Carter's early first birthday. Maury and Carter are Sally's children. Sally and I were roommates through most of college. If we didn't live together we lived across from each other. She is a wonderful friend and mother. It was so cute to see our kids playing together. I took so many pictures I had to make a slide show. Thanks for inviting us to the birthday party. We had so much fun!

Happy early 1st Birthday Carter!

Today we celebrated Carter's 1st Birthday a few weeks early. I made a slide show, but had to show these pictures together. Carter loved his cake!

Visit from the Smiths

The Smith's came to visit today. Mrs. Susan is Cheri's best friend and Lani and I grew up going on trips to the beach with Reed and Drew. We were sad Drew didn't make the trip, but so glad to finally meet Becca and Grayton! They live in Austin and Tyler Texas. Even though we only had a short visit we got some cute pictures! We also got a glimpse of what we have to look forward to! Grayton is almost 2 and I am going to be one busy mommy in a year and half!


The Smiths Reed & Becca with their son Grayton, Susan and Gary



Mahlon and Sara Beth are getting hugs from Becca, Mrs. Susan and Mr. Gary



Best Friends and their grand-babies!


I love this one of Grayton giving Sara Beth a fist bump!

These are some random pictures from this weekend and this week. They were too cute not to share!

Mahlon and Daddy playing!


Lillie Brooks and Maci came to visit yesterday. The babies were so entertained watching Lillie Brooks walk around. And she was such a good helper. Everytime one of the babies dropped a toy or paci she was right there to pick it up. I think she enjoyed herself until Mahlon pulled her hair! OOPS! Isn't that how little boys flirt?? She didn't understand why he would do something like that! Thanks for coming to visit. We had fun!


Our friend Cade passed this MSU baseball hat along to Mahlon. Isn't he too cute. I think he'll be the tallest baseball player MSU has ever seen! We are predicting he'll be 6'8"!


This was too sweet of Mahlon loving on his daddy. It's a little fuzzy, but it looks like he is giving his daddy a hug! How precious!



Do you think my babies are teething! They are chewing on EVERYTHING! Sara Beth already has her 2 bottom teeth, but we think she is working on her top teeth now. Mahlon doesn't have any yet, but we think he is on his way...especially since today he has his first fever. Poor baby!

Happy March!

The babies are 7 months old! WOW! And this morning we woke to snow! We ran outside and got a quick picture before it all melted. I don't think they knew what was going on. Mahlon just kept looking at the ground. Too cute. Our first snow picture!

Fruit from last week

I forgot to add this picture from last week. We added pears and the babies love them, they also help disguise green beans! Aunt Lani was here on Monday and got to double feed (what a talent) while we cooked dinner.