Happy Half Birthday!

Today Tanner & Dylan are 6 months old! Wow, the time has really flown by! They are such fun babies right now. Smiling and laughing and wanting to explore the world on their own. They love playing with their toys, going for walks, and watching Maisy play fetch. We read books and they both just watch the pages turn to see each new picture. They sleep well during the day, but still not so great during the night. We have just started eating some cereal and we expect to move on to new and exciting foods very quickly.

Tanner is older (by 1 whole minute), but he is still the littler one. He weighs 13lbs which is still light for his age, but he has moved up to the 25th percentile in length. And his head is as big as his brother's! Tanner is so social! He will let anybody hold him and he just loves to look at people's faces. He smiles and laughs so easily. He can blow raspberries and really likes his cereal. And Tanner really loves his dad.

Dylan weighs 19lbs, six more than Tanner. He is in the 75th percentile in weight and length. Dylan is a little more shy than Tanner. It takes a bit to warm up to new people and seems like somewhat of a momma's boy right now. He can sit on his own and has two teeth already! Dylan really likes Maisy and will stop whatever he is doing when she comes in the room.

Happy half birthday sweet boys! We have loved every moment with you and cannot wait for our new adventures together.

Our First Christmas

Our first Christmas as a family of four was wonderful! We actually had three of them! First, we had a small celebration at our home with Grandma and the Taylor family.



We only put up our tiny tree; hopefully next year we'll have the time and energy to put up the big one!



The real gift for us this year was the gift of our beautiful babies and being able to share them with everyone. Grandma drove all the way from New Mexico after her knee surgery to be with us.




Samuel had fun with his new toys using his imagination. Wow, he is growing up so fast!



Erin and Merideth had fun being girlie with the Barbie.

The weather was so nice here in Texas that we got to go to the park and try out our new picnic blanket and show off our new tie-dye outfits. (Thank you Taylors!)

Our second Christmas was with the Whitlock family in Rockwall. Unfotunately, Tanner & Dylan were a little fussy, so we only got one picture. Cousin Alex really enjoys getting to know the little guys. We had such a fun time watching everyone open gifts and just being together.

Our third Christmas followed an 8 hour drive to Missouri. We got lots of stares whenever we stopped with our two tiny babies, car carrier on top (thank you Art!) and dog in the back! We made it though. We chose to leave at about 3am, so the boys didn't have to be awake during the whole trip. I see many car trips in our future!

The boys hung out with us while we opened gifts, but mostly just enjoyed the wrapping paper.

Heidi was looking snazzy in her leopard print Christmas pjs. She made the house so festive and we were able to just relax and share a lot of quality time.

Papa was a little ill, but still made plenty of time to hang out with his new grandbabies. Every morning at 5am, he was ready to relieve us and hold a baby or two.

Robert learned how to carve a turkey. Christmas dinner was absolutely delicious!!

Kristofer was with us when Tanner and Dylan were born, so he got to see them again as bigger, more fun babies.

Denny can always make us laugh! So much fun to hang out with him during his school breaks.

Tanner as our little penguin. He got a touch of the croup during our trip, but came through quickly.

Still smiling after 5 months!!!

We really enjoyed spending time with everyone this holiday season. It was so very special. The memories will be with us for a long, long time.

Thank you to everyone. We love you!

November 2010

Happy New Year! Ok, we are a little behind on our blog. But add the holidays on top of two five month olds and you get one really busy family! We received a new computer for Christmas (thank you Merideth family!) and we are still trying to figure it out, so we will just post some pictures from November right now and try to get to December very soon.

For Thanksgiving we went to Oklahoma City to be with the Taylors. Denny flew in from Colorado, Aunt Denise and Aunt Barbara drove in from Tennessee and Missouri, and Art drove up from Rockwall, so we had a houseful and a wonderful time!

The boys got to go to their first NBA game and watched the OKC Thunder battle it out against the Dallas Mavericks. They loved all the lights and noise.



They were very interested in everything and drew lots of attention themselves!



Dylan wore his basketball shoes in case they needed an extra player! Believe it or not they both took naps during the game!



That silly Uncle Denny! We had so much fun with him!



The boys love hanging out with their Grandpa. So glad he could join us.

It was quite cold, but we got a little outside play time in.

We attended a tree lighting ceremony to start the Christmas season.

Cold, but fun!

Look at that cutie!

Aunt Denise discovered that Tanner really likes secrets!

And Aunt Barbara is very cuddly!

Tanner and Dylan hanging out chatting. : ) They are more and more interested in each other all the time. They talk and steal each other's toys. And grandparents, yes, we were right there when Tanner was standing in his high chair!

Check back soon for December pictures!