Happy New Year!

This is the year the boys turn one! I can hardly believe it! Update on them:
-They are trying to walk and trying to stand up without holding on to anything
(that seems to be more important to them than walking, for some reason)
-They have 4 teeth for Cade and 3 for Carson
-Carson says 4 words and Cade says 3 words
-They are almost out of frozen breastmilk and seem to like the whole milk
-They love to drink from sippie cups
-They don't want baby food anymore - they love table food
-They especially love balls and remotes or phones

Here they are with their favorite view of the yard!

And then they decide it's time to move on for now!
Then they try to crawl up the stairs!
Here they are helping Daddy make breakfast Saturday morning!

They decide it's time to play before we go shopping!
They love all their toys, but they especially love this toy from Uncle Adam, Aunt Joni, and Austin! They want Austin to come play with them!

Carson says: "Daddy and Cade - don't take a nap now. We're going to go for a ride in the stroller while Mommy is shopping!"

Cade and Daddy say, "Ok, that sounds like fun!"

The twins really do nap a lot, about 14 hours of sleep a day still. But today they're taking an extra long morning nap! We hope it will make them feel better - the ear infections and upper respiratory infections are no fun. Daddy is gone to teach the Sunday School lesson this morning. When they get up we'll go to Grandma and Grandpa's house where they've made some homemade chicken noodle soup to make the boys feel better! Here's the babies after I just slipped out from underneath them! Aren't they sweet!

Cade was resting up on my chest . . .

. . . and Carson was resting down on my legs!

11 Months Old!

. . . a little late!

The boys are Tom Cruise'n it in white shirts with socks (some missing) and undies! (Reference to when Tom was cool and still sane.)
Carson playing with a toy from the "Little People" collection!
Cade is playing with his little person that we named "Lila."

Anyway they are getting close to a year old - it's so hard to believe! We are so thankful for how the Lord has blessed us so much with these precious babies!

Merry Christmas!

We enjoyed Christmas so much this year - it's definitely better with children. We had a lot of fun - every little bow and tag, each bag and piece of tissue paper, boxes and presents alike - it was all investigated and appreciated by our little Christmas boys! The boys learned the true meaning of Christmas! We taught them about God sending His son Jesus as a baby to save the world! They listen so intently and love their books about the Christmas story!

Here's Papa teaching Cade how to ride the Pony!

Here's Nana teaching Carson about the Manger Scene!
Here's Suzi playing Nana's computer!
Everybody's having fun playing!
They grandchildren loved all their gifts from Papa and Nana!
So much that they tried one out all together instead of each getting in their own little cars!

Papa and Nana got the babies rocking chairs!

Cousin Suzi walks around with the adults as Cade and Carson crawl behind!

Then she crawls over to the twins!

Here's 2 of my beautiful cousins Tonya and Kelly!

Great-Grandmama enjoyed playing with the babies!

Suzi helped everyone open presents! When we sang Happy Birthday to Jesus, she looked up like: "It's my birthday again!"

The boys had fun with Grandpa on Christmas Eve!

Grandpa and Grandma got an early present - picture of the boys!

We took a family picture!

Here's Great-Grandma Ree with the boys!

Someone was getting Carson to open presents too early!

Here's our house on Christmas morning after Santa Claus came!

We woke up the babies to see what Santa Claus brought!

Santa brought the twins guns to hunt with when they get big like their Daddy!

Here's the boys enjoying the big bag with a train inside!

And here's Cade playing in one of the boxes!
Daddy and Carson are helping cousin Austin figure out one of his presents!

And Grandma gives Austin a present!

Grandma and Grandpa gave the boys a plane!

And a schoolbus!

We gave them a picture of their children and grandchildren!

And here's our family!

Cade and Carson really enjoyed Christmas!

They like all their toys, but usually one at a time - like both of them playing with this ball when everything else is right there!

It's a little better when Mommy's not making them pose for a picture, I guess! Well, the boys wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here Comes Santa Claus!

The twins got to meet Santa Claus at Kevin's work! They had a very nice Christmas Party for the children of all the employees! Cade and Carson were in awe of Santa Claus. They were so amazed! They would hardly look at the camera. Cade is sweetly putting his nose on Santa's soft suit here!

Here Carson is telling Santa he thinks they've been good!
And finally a picture of them looking - the only one we got! They just love Santa Claus that much!
And here, Cade is telling Santa Claus to remember they want guns like Daddy!
When they got home, they went straight for the toys - this really is straight down the hall from the back door.

On Wednesday, the boys had their first Christmas Party at DayCare! They enjoyed it very much! Here's Cade going after the big Teddy Bear from another baby at DayCare and Carson playing with the Puppy Dog another friend gave him! They also had fun picking out gifts for the other children earlier in the week!

We'll just say they're always busy. Cade is trying to get a berry off one of the pencil trees by the stairs! And, no we don't put up all 12 trees like we did before babies - we just have 9 up and 5 are little 2 or 3 ft trees up out of their reaches!

Carson really loves this dog! Cade is "having a ball" or two. A sweet friend gave him and Carson these cute light-up balls!

Thanks for all your concern, everyone after the crazy sick week last week! The boys do not have to do the Albuterol treatments anymore, and their ears are clearing up. They have definitely had a fun week. You'd never know they got a virus. Carson threw up 5 times Wednesday night! We thought it was from the Augmenten and sent him to DayCare, but we found out they had a lot of kids (5 out of 12) sick, so Daddy stayed home yesterday with them and ended up getting sick. Then Mommy had to leave work at 9:30am to come take care of all three boys! They're all fine now, and we plan to make our way to see Papa and Nana for more Christmas celebrations! We'll have new pictures soon!