It's beginnning...

Yesterday I woke up to look outside and see this...

So I cancelled my errands because it was way too slippery and still really snowing and I went home and cleaned, and made cards, and even did some Christmas shopping online. All inside in the warm house.


When I picked Jacob up from school he was bursting with excitement to get home and shovel the driveway and chip the ice. Yes, you read that right. My son spends hours outside on my steep driveway shoveling and chipping away. It all started here.
When I got home he spent two hours outside working with small amounts of play. When we went to his parent conference at school it was so icey I still could not get up the driveway so he hopped outside of the car and began chipping more ice away.



I guess winter arrived with a bang. Last week we were at the pumpkin patch and it was too warm for sweaters.

Photo story Friday- Scrapbooking weekend

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

A few weeks ago I spent the weekend at my Neighbors cabin. I began scrap booking as soon as I got there and stayed up till nearly 3am scrap booking. Even then I did not actually fall asleep till 5:20am. It was so much fun. We visited, snacked, worked and shared stuff. I love scrap booking but have felt bad that I had not been able to do it for almost a year. So I was a year and a half behind. I was able to get 11 pages done so that was a good jump start (some are pictured below-some are still unfinished).

Happy Birthday...

Happy Birthday Jacob!
For my Boy! Today is your 6th birthday! This year has been a BIG year for you.
You have learned to swim.
Learned to ride a bike.
Learned to read, write and many other skills.
Started school.
Lost your first tooth and have two more on the way out.
Learned to play the computer.
and many more exciting things!

I hope you never forget how loved you are. Your kind heart has brought so much joy to our lives.

A day to Remember...

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March 11th 2004 was surely a day to remember in our lives. I went to my first doctor appointment, 8 weeks pregnant with what we thought was our third child. Everything about the appointment was routine, until I asked for an ultrasound (not normal practice that early for my doc). A nurse took care of the ultrasound and confirmed a healthy heartbeat, suddenly without warning she announces she thinks she sees two babies! She is not sure and calls the doctor to confirm. So.... I wait for 20 minutes alone, millions of thoughts are racing in my mind. Two cribs, two babies, I am not sure I could ever be a mother of twins which equaled four children 5 and under. The doctor strolls in and confirms he sees two babies! I am in the most shock, alone and emotional. Twins are not in my family, and were not anything I would have expected to happen to me. The doctor mentions in passing that he doesn't see a membrane between the babies but explains nothing. I question if most babies need membranes and he says very seriously yes. Don't worry he tells me he hasn't had a patient in 20 yrs of practice without one, and its like 1% of pregnancies. I forget about all that for now, I am just in total shock. I leave the office and call Alan. I can hardly talk through my tears, he assumes the worst, a miscarriage, when I explain the twins news he is shocked but very excited. This day will remain a big day in my memory, it was truly the day my life changed forever! Here is my scrapbook page of the day, the first ultrasound photo on the page is of the girls who would someday mean everything to all us. The trials, worries and struggles of their pregnancy have made them so much more precious to all of us, they are miracles.

Scrapbooking..........

So I have been feeling inefficient lately. I just can't seem to get the laundry and house caught up enough to do anything else. So to make myself feel better I went back and took a few pictures of the twins scrapbook pages. All pages are from Hailey's book but Sydney's are mostly the same just different pictures. This is only a few of their pages but many of my favorites. By the way Heather, it did make me feel better looking at all the stuff I had done. I am just going to have to get going and my kids will have no clean laundry (well I will have to find balance with that). I did make my cards for a card group I joined. I will take a pic of that one later. Oh by the way if you click on the pictures they will be larger and you can see a lot more. Some pics reflected better than others...