Playing catch up!

August has been a busy month! Hence, no blogging. We spent lots of time with friends due to Mandy and Josh moving to San Diego. It was a great couple of weeks because we rarely hang out with friends in groups so large that often any more. We went to a derby. Had tons of hang outs. And played lots and lots of games.

My sister in law had her baby shower. They are expecting their baby any day now!

I had my 23rd Birthday! Over that weekend we spent time with friends and family in celebration. I was spoiled this year and got a combined $500 from Dave, Mom and Morry, Dad, and Grandma Reynolds. Shopping shopping shopping!!! :)

My little sister and sister in law also celebrated their Birthdays!

Dave started school.

We spent 5 days in Bear Lake with the Dent family. Boated. Played at the beach. Swam at the pool. Rented wave runners. Played games. Watched movies. And just had a really great time. I'm so thankful I married into a family that has a condo up there!

On another note: I can't believe fall is already around the corner! I enjoy fall and winter, but I'm sad to see summer leave. It never lasts long enough. I'll make the most of this forthcoming chilly season, but I'm already looking forward to sun, warmth, pools, boating, and vacationing next year! :)

Happy Anniversary!

Wow. I can't believe Dave and I have been married one whole year now. Well, a year since August 8th... I'm a little late on this blog. It feels like just yesterday we were in San Diego getting married on the beach! I would have never expected my first year of marriage to be ANYTHING like it has been. Our initial plan was for both of us to finish school. Get some traveling in. And after 2-3 years start having kids. But life goes nothing like you plan! I would have never expected to find out I was pregnant just a short 3 months into marriage. And I would have never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have twins!! Then having to quit school in the middle of the semester and quit my job in the same day to be on bed rest for 3 months. Then having the babes! It was truly a crazy first year of marriage. Even though it was completely opposite of how I had imagined it... looking back now, I can't see it going any other way. It was great. Challenging. Hard. Stressful. Exciting. Happy. And a million other things. I really feel like our first year made us stronger. I always tell Dave that if we got through our first year... there is no way we can't handle anything else that comes our way!!! I'm really looking forward for all the years to come and everything those years will bring. Both of us finishing school. (Yes. I'm going back eventually.) Dave applying for Dental school. Buying our first home. DOGS!!! More babies. Traveling. And so much more :)

Dave was sweet and got me a teeny tiny white gold band. I've been wanting one forever because I'm not one to take my ring with me everywhere. I don't like to take it on vacation, or swimming, or hiking, or to the gym, etc... I just have this fear of something happening to it. So I've been wanting one I can wear at events like that. I absolutely love the ring he got! It's so dang cute. And I stuck with the first year theme of paper. I got us tickets to The Parade of Homes. And tickets to see Brad Paisley in September.

In celebration... we took things easy! It's a little hard when you have two babies to go spend the night at some nice hotel or take a weekend vacation. On August 8th we celebrated by going to The Original Pancake house with my family. And then we saw some houses in The Parade of Homes. Later that evening my mom watched the babes while we went to dinner at Market Street and saw Dinner for schmucks. It was a perfect first year outing together :)

At The Parade of Homes and out to dinner and a movie

This is my life.

I usually don't wake up until noon. I get about 7-9 hours of sleep each night but when it's all broken up thanks to babies it's just not the same... even at 10:00 in the morning if I get the babies back down I will go back to bed!

Sometimes I don't find the time to brush my teeth until 4:00 in the afternoon. Sick. I know.

Laundry. Laundry. Laundry. And more laundry. It's never ending. I swear I could spend all day doing loads and loads of laundry and there would still be more to do!

Our apartment is a mess. And when I have a spare minute cleaning is the last thing I want to do. (Obviously. I'm blogging) When we do clean it, we enjoy it for a day and then it's just right back to it's messy self. And sadly, I'm starting to not even care how gross it gets.

Some days I don't walk out of our apartment until 7:00 in the evening. Some days I don't walk out of our apartment at all.

Some days I can hardly find the time to eat :(

It seems that all I do these days is breath, sleep, think, and live babies! It's hard and amazing all at the same time. They are already growing so fast so I'm really trying to enjoy this stage. I'll admit though... I'm looking forward to when I'll have just a little more time to myself, and to get back to doing the things that I love doing.

Things I'm looking foward to... Dustee and Andy's wedding weekend! Our one year wedding anniversary! Derby. Mandy and Josh's going away party. Parade of Homes. Nichelle's baby shower. My 23rd Birthday! And Bear Lake with the Dent family. August should be a good month! :)

Pictures worth sharing

This is me rambling.

I had my 6 week appointment on Tuesday. Everything is going very well regarding my pregnancy recovery. I decided since I had such an easy pregnancy, an easy delivery, and an easy recovery I should become one of those surrogate mothers. Not really. But it might be kinda cool.

After 6 weeks I've decided to start supplementing along with breast feeding. People think I'm crazy for trying to only breast feed. But "breast is best" right? I think so. Especially since we have given Easton several different kinds of formulas and he throws up his entire bottle after drinking it. That's enough proof for me.

Easton had an appointment today for his head. It is healing well. We no longer have to put his medication on it and change his dressings twice a day. Now we just have to put Neosporin on it. No beanie! No dressing! No tape ripping his hair out! Yay!

So now that Easton's head is better we're pretty sure he has a hernia. Which is corrected by surgery :(

Trey rolled over from his belly to his back at 3 weeks. Freak accident? I don't think so. He has done this a total of 3 times now.

My sister-in-law who had twins told me when we went out and about with the babes we would get lots and lots of attention from perfect strangers. So true. I feel like a celebrity we get so much attention. Everyone wants to get a look at our little twinners.

I took some clothes of mine to Plato's Closet. They took 4 items and offered me $8. And I took it! That money was like gold to me. It's the first amount of money I could call mine since March. I was planning on using it on something wonderful, like going to lunch with a girlfriend or something. The most exciting part would have been not having to ask Dave for money. And then I had to use that $8 on gas :(

I have two ingrown toenails right now. Last time I had to deal with this was in 8th grade and they were so bad I had to have them surgically removed. Let's hope this isn't the case this time around.

I got sick of Wii fit sighing and telling me how overweight I am every time I step on the board. I finally started going back to the gym. My legs kill. And I'm going to Zumba tonight for the very first time :)

I'm caving in after 6 months of attempting to go back to my natural hair color. It's just too hard. I don't have the patience to deal with orange hair as my dirty blonde/brownish hair grows back in. I've scheduled my appointment! I will be a brunette once again.

For the first time since I've been married I went grocery shopping by myself. How nice of Dave to always come with me.

I'm on this heath kick right now and attempting to not eat anything with high fructose corn syrup in it. Which pretty much means I can't eat anything unless it's all natural. This makes grocery shopping expensive. Dave will most likely come grocery shopping with me next time to make sure things don't get too out of hand ;)

My mom has been amazing with helping me out with the babies. She's done so much for us, and ME! Like buying me a cute yellow swim suit from Victorias Secret, and I'm so very grateful.

Dave's parents moved last November and I miss their old house. It takes me back to the exciting days of dating Dave. Although, I thoroughly enjoy their condo due to the pool I can go to any day... for free.

This summer should be considered the "summer of love" due to two of my best friends getting married and one who is getting married in a couple of weeks. Attending showers and receptions has been lots of fun. I love seeing my girlfriends happy and in love :)

I have a new obsession with strawberries. I could eat them all day every day. But I don't. Citrus fruits tend to disagree with babies bellies. Lame.

I'm really looking forward to college football right now. Mostly so we can dress Trey and Easton up in cute U of U attire. Yes. We are raising our children right.

And lastly... Katy Perry's song California girls is my new favorite song. It really makes me wish I was a California girl so I could have sun kissed skin so hot I'd melt your popsicle ;)