so i haven’t kept up as well as promised, yet again.. but things are really hectic here, as you can imagine!!  everyone is holding strong somehow though, and we are surviving… hopefully soon michele will take some professional photos of the family, but for now here is a glance at some of what’s been going on..

cade and collin are doing great.. by now collin is over nine pounds and cade is around eight… they are starting to be awake longer, as well as sometimes sleeping longer.. they continue to be good boys and are getting to the age of being real snuggle buddies…

mr. collin

mr. cade

they like being together….

meleia has been playing with her dress up trunk from christmas almost everyday still… she always has on some costume.. jewelry… high heels.. lol
a very busy girl she is.. always playing, playing, playing.. going from one thing to another.. she has picked up on so much and the things that come out of her mouth crack me up… oh this kid… couldn’t live without her..

and she really, really loves her baby brothers.. how lucky, getting two?

recently she had teddy bear week at school and did special activities with him all week.. we were to prepare a float at home for the bear to ride in and invited to watch the “teddy bear parade” mommy, daddy, danielle, and meleia worked on her float all together and it turned out so cute.. you can’t tell in the picture but the fabric is pink with skulls on it.. which matches her shirt and sorry… she walked so fast the picture is blurry, lol.

after the parade there was some major teddy bear dancing going on

the same is going on with me.. lol. taking care of kids! doug and i did get out of town last weekend for the night, and it was a much needed break…. for some reason though, there are no pictures… hm… anyways.. my ocd still has not gone away so i still find myself cleaning and doing laundry constantly.. i’ve even gotten baskets and organized the junk drawers.. but i don’t complain because i love to clean.. what i don’t love, is putting away clothes.. and here is one reason why… there are four other closets that look just like this here… wayyyyyyy too many clothes…

and daddy is the same too.. still working and working… and resting when he gets the chance

hope that everyone is well and that i can update again soon
and i also hope that luck is getting better for everyone out there…
because i know a lot of us that need it..

obviously it’s been awhile since my last post.. life with twins is definitely more than i imagined it to be!!  it’s incredible though, as much as tiring.  i think having one baby would be a piece of cake now!  douglas is a big, big help… getting up every other feeding in the night, and sometimes taking care of the whole night when he doesn’t have to work the next day.  night time is rough with twins as it takes twice as long to do everything and then by the time they are in bed again it’s only a couple of hours before getting up again.. the boys are really good babies though, which is a blessing.  collin tends to need a little more attention, but as cade is growing he is getting there as well.. both are still in perfect health and growing great…. cade is still a little peanut though  :)  meleia is an awesome big sister and helps more than i ever though possible.. it’s amazing to see how well she does with them, even at her young age.  of course the whole family loves them to pieces and stop by often.  doug continues to work at cargirl, as well as trying to work for clients on the side of this hectic household. but we manage.  we’ve got  a few helpers coming in now and i am still able to manage to keep the house as OCD clean as normal  ;)  i don’t get out of the house much, but really i don’t mind it.. doug and i have had a little time to ourselves, but the weekend after my birthday we get to get out of town for the whole night!  recently he also got the hot tub up and running so we have been taking advantage of that… christmas came and went.. we went overboard as usual and everyone got a truck load of things.. but it was terrific.  new years came and went, was nothing exciting, but atleast i was with my babies…for now that’s all of everything new in a nutshell.. i’m really going to try to update more often now… and  i’m very, very behind on pictures on here so i am going to just start posting favorites and some of the older ones can be seen at www.randomsignificance.com

collin christmas eve..

cade christmas eve..

meleia at her christmas program for school…

meleia playing dress up with the items she got from family christmas drawing..

grandma joy with cade and collin..

meleia with all her stuff christmas morning.. spoiled!

my beautiful green children

cade and collin looking adorable!

the cutest butts around

our twins have been born cade theodore and collin oliver
very exciting…
being completely exhausted all i have time right now to do is give you the link to their own website
pretty special boys..
i will post my story and pictures soon, hopefully but for now, you can learn about them at http://www.randomsignificance.com

we are very blessed.

this is a complete shock (as most of this pretty much as been) to everyone… no one expected me to get two girls like i had hoped, but atleast one of each… as of today.. the ultrasound showed, clearly, two boys… i am soooo… upset. i cried.. and cried again. what will i do with two boys?? i won’t have any idea.. i am so scared.. poor meleia even thought it was one of each and i am sad for her because she won’t have anyone to play dolls with.. lol. obviously this has made me very emotional. i am so girly.. and so is meleia.. how will i deal with frogs and mud? little penis’s? just boy stuff… i know it all sounds petty.. which it is, i know a lot is hormones and still being scared in general.. i know that i will be happy as long as they are both healthy… just very apprehensive at the moment.. name wise, i have no idea really.. it’s really up in the air at this point.. as is everything!! here are two new pictures… at about nineteen weeks..

baby a’s thigh leg and thigh bone…

side view of baby b’s head and face…

since they are bigger now and so tight in my stomach it’s hard to get good pictures of them, or even all of one of them it seems..

pray for me!!!