Countdown to Easter: 2 days

So this is the post from yesterday! It was a great day in spite of our A/C deciding it would quit working. We were warm but I couldn't help but remember that today was Good Friday and for all of the suffering Christ did we should be able to handle a house that was not quite as cool as we like it. I met with a friend for coffee in the morning and to drop off a NICU gift bag that would go to a mom whose son was born very prematurely. She attended an event for The Children's Miracle Network where she met with the mom to deliver the bag. She also visited with other people about what we are doing at Preemie Prints. Later in the day I cleaned, SOME, and the girls and I iced the sugar cookies from yesterday. This was our 1st baking experience together where I actually let them eat a cookie with me and have some icing. After they went down for bed Brian and I cooked the fish he caught the evening before. We had grilled fish and noodle soup. A perfect meal for Good Friday. This morning I've been cleaning a little more, our family will arrive today. Tonight we have dinner at Christopher's to celebrate our Anniversary, my sister and brother in laws anniversary, and of course Brian's confirmation at the Easter Mass Vigil.

Kisses & Caterpillars

Thank you Aunt Donna for such a sweet Easter surprise. The girls love them and haven't put them down since they got here today.

We Love You!!

Countdown to Easter: Day 3 (I missed one)

Okay so I missed a day, what can I say I'm a super busy lady lately. We started the day going to our stand and pray hour for the 40 days for life campaign that we've been participating in for the entire lenten season. After that, we headed over to Michael's to buy 1 canvas bag for a NICU mom gift bag & cookie cutters to make Easter cookies. When we got home the girls played and then took a nice long nap while I worked on some Easter cards for our NICU moms. Then it was dinner and bath time, followed by my girls reading to me and bed. Brian & I watched the news following that, which wasn't very good and we worked some more. Around 10:30 I decided to make my cookies so they'd be ready for the girls to "help" me ice tomorrow. I only managed to cut out two butterflies with my brand new cookie cutters. After that I decided to roll and cut, which ended up producing perfect egg shaped cookies. :) Easier, faster, and more fitting than butterflies. I also was very excited to find out one of my best friends will be able to stay with the twins on Saturday night while we attend Brian's festivities at the church.

A quote for Holy Thursday:

After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.
-- St. Ignatius of Loyola

So this should read..."Our 2nd Easter" but it was the template I used for all of my preemie moms today :)

Getting ready to go out this morning

One of 2 cut out cookies

Countdown To Easter: Day 5

Please join us on our countdown to Easter! Every day from now until Easter morning I will post something about how we, as a family, are getting ready to celebrate our Lord's Resurrection.

Today my mom drove down and we took a trip to the mall to take pix with the Easter bunny. After lunch at the mall we bought Easter shoes for the girls and a few other things for baskets. After the bunny got back from lunch we ventured over. I mentioned in a previous post that Pryscilla loves bunnies, I should have been more specific to say she loves SMALL STUFFED bunnies. She did not love the Easter bunny and neither did Eden. I've never seen my twins hold on so to me so tight in fact mom and I could not pry them off of us so we all ended up in the picture. HAH! It was a great memory that I wouldn't trade. Last April the girls were almost 5 months old and I was still too afraid of RSV to take them in public much. So this is their first picture with the bunny and I'm glad I have it even if I'm in it. Thanks mom for a fun family day at the mall. I've also added a few pictures looking back at last year.

Pryscilla 2010 Easter

Eden 2010 Easter

Water Fight & More Twins On The Way

So our friends Natalie and Michael are expecting twin girls. Natalie is around 20 weeks right now and they recently came to get "twinducated" for a weekend. We had a wonderful time and are all looking forward to crazy days with four little girls running around. One of the highlights of the weekend was the boys water ballon turned hose fight with the next door neighbor kids. It was pretty fun to watch!

Please

Just a few things I don't want to forget...

Pryscilla loves bunnies.
My sweet girls can be very wild. Today that both tackled each other, lol. 
Eden walk around swinging her arms and has an attitude! 
Eden likes to dance to rap and Pryscilla likes rock right now.
They both sign "please" all the time and have just recently started to sign thank you.
They say bye, momma, dadda, that, and are trying to say puppy. 
They bark whenever anyone says puppy.
They both love to show anyone anything. 
They think it is cute to put on a hat or sunglasses. 
Pryscilla likes to put on hats more than Eden.
They crawl ON TOP or IN everything now.
They don't crawl anymore at all.
When Eden was learning to walk she looked like Frakenstein.
Pryscilla is accident prone so we have to watch her extra close.
Pryscilla is very lovable right now, hugging and kissing all the time.
They like to kiss each other now and it is adorable.
They have the cutest laugh in the world.
They know when things are funny. 
Last night they had their bottle while watching cartoons (which we never do but did last night and yes they still get one bottle before they go to sleep). When they were done I said okay girls it is time to go night-night. They both stood up gave Brian a kiss good night and walked into their room held their arms up for me to pick them up and love them before I put them to sleep. It was such a grown up moment and oh so sweet.
They love to play in the dogs kennel.
They love Lola and Roxy (their dogs).
They help me put clothes in the dryer and enjoy it! 
The help me vacuum with their mini vacs. 
Eden is doing this funny thing with her lips trying to talk.
They love to eat, lol and they eat well. They like all kinds of foods but especially enjoy meat. 
They love babies.
Lately they haven't been enjoying their bath time like usual???? I think I need to get them some new bath toys. 
They will hold my hand when we walk and I love that.
They play games with each other. Tickling, Peek A Boo, and they steal each others toys.
Pryscilla can throw crazy fits! Eden can too but doesn't as often. She wines more though.
Eden is more social at parties. 
They both still love to sleep. They wake up around 8 am and go to sleep around 7:30. Those times can vary by 30 min depending on what we are doing. They still take 2 naps although they are a little shorter now. About an 1hr and 15 min each. I've tried to condense to one but they do better throughout the day if they take a nap around 10 am and 2 pm. 
They absolutely love to go outside. It doesn't matter what we do.. go for a walk, swing, just sit and watch the dogs, dig in the dirt, look at the flowers, look at the trees, watch Brian fish, they love it all if we are outside. 

Little Blue Dresses

One twin in a tutu!

Here is a funny little break we took outside. I received two tutus in the mail and decided to try them on the girls. The only problem was that they are for preemie photo shoots. So as you can imagine getting a tutu made for a preemie on my 16 month old was a tight fit. I did not attempt to try the other on Eden. So here is one twin in a tutu the other looking like a little rag doll and Brian's truck as our beautiful back drop.