Finally an update!

There really is light at the end of the tunnel!

Life's been busy, duh, and really good for me. The twins are almost 9 months now and Shane and I are finally starting to have time to ourselves in the evenings these days. I'm enjoying my husband again, haha, and actually feel like we're getting to know each other all over again. I'm really enjoying motherhood especially these last few months. The girls are getting easier for me to handle on my own and they love playing with me. We do alot of chasing each other around, going on walks, and singing, and dancing together. I kiss their chubby cheeks and foreheads so much they sometimes wave their hands back and forth like 'mommy, I've had enough!' At the end of the day I feel like my arms are going to fall off. Like I said, life is BUSY but soooo good!

...This little stinker above is ALL OVER THE PLACE!! No, Really she is and I don't know what to do about it. Yesterday I ran upstairs to go the bathroom real quick and when I got done I turned around and there was Lindsey standing in my bedroom. How'd she get up all those stairs so fast! The other night she fell out of her crib. Seriously. She launched herself right over the top. She is not hurt; just determined as hell and I know she'll do it again. I don't understand! Her crib is on the lowest setting and we've taken her bumper out because she was using it as a stepping stool. She can barely see over when she stands up for crying out loud! She's sooo strong. Scary strong and just lifted herself right over. Of course she screamed and cried for a few minutes- and Ashton was oblivious from the whole thing, sound asleep. I think it's time for a crib net already. Lindsey is only an 8 month old who weighs barely 14 pounds and has 4 teeth already! What am I going to do about this little firecracker! Thank goodness (for my sake) our little Ashton is still content as can be.

Despite the twins happy faces they have been sick... for a month! I had this flue/cold thing and I'm certain I gave it to them, and then they gave it to Shane. After 3 Doctor visits they are finally on an antibiotic. This middle picture was last nights reminants. Yes this is from only ONE night...one long, strenuous sleepless night!

Finding time to blog is ridiculous. I've been working on new posts for the longest time. The problem with going so long without updating is all the great pictures end up looking like one big blurr.  'cest la vie'      I have uploaded 1500 pictures from the last 4 months. The next 5 posts below are my fav photos from

1)Lake Powell,

2)Aunt Toni who desereves her very own post,

3)Random everyday-life moments (funny pics),

4)my sisiters wedding,

5)Arizona vacations!

Yes! grandma Stauffer you finally get new pictures to look at!

ENJOY!

Kisses for everyone!

Lake Powell!

 Really fun but much much harder with two busy little ones than I thought. Really, it was alot of work and the girls never got proper naps because it's nearly impossible to keep the boat on a down low volume during the day. However this year we had the best spot we've ever had in 20 years. The sun hit at 8:30am and we got shade by 3pm. Our canyon was AMAZING!! I posted a picture of Shane with the canyon in the background below. I think Lindsey woke up the whole lake during her nighttime fits. I loved getting to know Allen and he was so cute with Rachel- carrying her on the hike because I wouldn't let her get her shoes in the babies room while they were sleeping. Vander was pretty much perfect, what a good baby! I was a total stress case; and by day 3 I think my family was planning to drown me so I eased up a bit. We had a dress up night (Shane and I dressed up as my mom and dad- it was so funny we were crying!), bingo night of course, spiritual night, kyaking, wyoming fireworks, mentos & diet coke explosions, water weenie, birthday celebrations, tubing, wakeboarding, found pirate tressure!, crafts, cliff jumping, water olympics, dancing, professional chef- JON!, hiking, dry ice bombs, mud fights, bonfires, bottle rockets, jet skiing, golf, movies, skinny dipping, you name it... we had it or did it!

This bottom middle picture I must explain. This ledge is a bit higher than it looks and Lindz can barely reach it with her finger tips. However, this little stinker of mine would grip it so tightly and then scale the wall with her feet like spiderman and get herself all the way in there. Then yell for us to get her out. I've never seen anything like her. There are no handles or anything sticking out for her to grab ahold of. She literally walks up the wall. And yes that is Shane sleeping with his Paula Abdul book he won during bingo.