Thankful.

We had a really great Thanksgiving this year. I love being able to spend time with family and friends. The break from school was so nice and much needed. We stayed up way too late just about every single night and now I'm hoping I can do some catching up on my sleep.

Over Thanksgiving weekend I finally saw The Help with some girlfriends. (I forced myself to hold off on seeing it until I finished the book. The books are always better.) Dave played football with his pals. We spent Thanksgiving with my family. I went Black Friday shopping for the first time ever, and we got some pretty cool stuff. We hung out with friends who were in town from out of state. And Dave and I hosted our first ever Thanksgiving potluck with friends. Great times!



I'm extremely thankful for many things in my life, but this year I am specifically thankful that Dave and I have a sweet, sweet, little family. And that we are always blessed with the things that are most important and that we need, not only so we can just make it through everyday life, but so we can enjoy it as well :) I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend!

First things first.

Blogging hasn't been on my list of priorities lately, so here's my attempt at bringing us back up to date! Halloween. We had an awesome Halloween this year. Dave and I attended our 4th annual Halloween party with friends. Always a good time. This year we did a Halloween picture scavenger hunt. And of course, our bobbing for apples contest......





I'm all about family themed costumes. Tacky, I know, but you can only do it for so long before your kids don't care to participate. This year Dave was a bee catcher. I was the Queen Bee. And Trey and Easton were our little bees. So much fun. We all experienced our first Trunk-or-treat which was fun, although, I still think trick-or-treating is way better.



Other than Halloween, we are just living the dream as of late. Busy with babies, school, and work. We are anticipating Thanksgiving, especially because after that Holiday, there are only 2 more weeks of school left! This is my last fall semester ever and I am beyond excited for it to be over. I registered for spring semester, my second to last semester, and it feels so good to almost be done! I don't think I've ever anticipated something as much as I am anticipating graduation. For both me AND Dave! We've been going to school since we've been married. I feel like this chapter of school is about to come to a close, and we're on the verge of a new chapter, which I'm very excited for.

As for Trey and Easton, there are as great as ever. Busy busy toddlers always getting into things, climbing on to things, and keeping me on my toes! My patience has been tested a lot lately, but I suppose it just goes along with the age. Every day they seem to learn something new which is so much fun to witness. They are truly the sweetest most loving little toddlers ever. They give me hugs and kisses all day long and it makes me so happy, and makes the few not so fun things about parenting totally worth it :)

My Pinterest addiction.

I am obsessed. I love logging into Pinterest so I can pin away. My board filled with the most stuff... is junk food. Sadly. But with the holidays here and parties to attend left and right who isn't making treats every other day? I have used several Pinterest ideas in the last month and they are all awesome. Compliments are handed out way too graciously and I have to remind everyone that I'm really not that cool or crafty, I simply copied someone else's idea. So... here are the things I have done...

The first thing I did was a kit-kat cake for my step-dad. He loves kit-kats so when I saw this cake I knew I had to make it for him.
After my step-dad's Birthday my family voted me in as the Birthday cake maker. My mom's Birthday was coming up so I asked her what she wanted. She said, red velvet, elegant, and delicate. So I found a red velvet trifle cake. So good.


I then came upon the "Green Monster" smoothie, which I had heard about but never really looked into. I made the smoothie I found and I've made it almost every day since. Awesome.


We had some new neighbors move in right next door. So I made them the chocolate chip cookie/oreo/brownie treat. I'll admit... this one didn't turn out to be the best, only because I didn't do it properly. Still super yummy. I can only imagine what it's like when it's done correctly. Hopefully our neighbors liked it.


And lastly.. our apartment complex had a Halloween party for all the little kids. Everyone was asked to bring a treat so I did the spider-web cupcakes. So much fun.




Pinterest is the best. I love being able to take things to parties now. It's so much fun to look up anything for a party and be able to find something that will meet your needs. Love love love it. If you aren't on Pinterest already, you should jump on the bandwagon :)

Easton sleeps...

... so funny. When we check on the boys as they sleep we usually always get a good laugh thanks to Easton. He is such a silly sleeper :)

Sweet sixteen!!!

Sixteen months that is. And I think it's more bitter-sweet than just sweet. These two children of mine have got me on my toes constantly. The only free time I ever have is nap time, and even then it's hardly free because I do homework. I dont' know about anyone else... but I've found this age to be extremely challenging. I'm approached by moms of twins all the time and they ask me how old the boys are, etc... and then I swear every single one of them (mostly moms of twin boys) has said something along these lines as our conversation ends... "It only gets worse!" And they smile at me and tell me how cute my kids are, and wander off, as if their comment hasn't just made me seriously question our future and what's in store for us. At first I laughed it off, but now I'm wondering if they were all right. Trey and Easton are just as sweet as can be. They really are. But we've hit this stage where they cry over every little thing. They steal toys from each other. They bite each other. They even hit now. Even though it's crazy frustrating at times, and there are days when Dave and I tell each other this is it, no more kids (which we both know isn't true) we put them down for bed at the end of the day and all we can do is talk about how cute they are and how much we love them. It's the awesomeness of children I guess! So now let's get to the good stuff!

They both have a serious obsession with shoes. I don't know what it is... but they want their shoes on, always.

They loooooove being outside, even in the freezing cold rain.

They are finally off the bottle. Which is an interesting thing to me how so many moms want their kids off the bottle asap. What is the big deal?

They have started signing, and I have no idea how because I gave up on teaching baby sign a long time ago. But they both sign "more" and "milk" now. Baby sign is the cutest thing ever.

They say a few words here and there but as for talking... they are not doing much of it for now. Which is totally fine.

They love giving hugs and kisses.

They are difficult to feed sometimes.

They love jumping on the couch or in their cribs.

And even though we are going through a difficult stage... they are loved and loved by mom and dad.