Events!

This last week I was preparing for two events, hence the reason why blog posts were a little scarce, I spent pretty much every moment the twins were asleep either cleaning or preparing for the parties.  First up I threw a baby shower for my good friend Laurel who is having a little girl in a few weeks!  We are so excited for them and excited for our kids to have play dates soon!   Unfortunately I only took pictures before the food and none at the party.  FAIL!!!

The second event was a YW Activity - Personal Progress Olympics!  It was this idea I had back several months ago and so glad we could make it work!  I hadn't really ever heard of a personal progress fair, but after googling around apparantly they aren't too uncommon, so I decided to go for it!  We made it Olympics themed because its almost the Olympics!  The girls got tickets for each of the 'events' they would complete or start at the activity.  Our events included having the missionaries teach them how to teach the Plan of Salvation, a mom's panel about divine qualities needed to be a mother, discussion on the holy ghost, and a lesson in conducting hymns.  The mom's were invited and we sent them home with a challenge to have the girls help plan and prepare meals for two weeks.   We also ended by giving them a "Go for the Gold" challenge and read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year.  I loved that Virtue is Gold and fit so perfectly for that challenge!  We also broke up the activity by having games in between (minute to win it games themed around personal progress values).  For never doing something like this before it turned out great and many of the girls expressed how much fun they had and we should do this all the time!  I took lots of pictures at the event, but I always feel funny showing pictures with other peoples kids in them, so I'm only going to share some of our decorations.

These were the tickets the girls got to remind them of the experiences we either started or completed that day.  I designed them somewhat off the Olympic tickets for this year.

Challenge!  We added a little gold satchel with hershey's gold nuggets as a take home reminder.

Becoming best friends

I can see it already happening, these two are going to be best friends!  They are starting to play together and no matter how much the roll across the room they somehow always end up right back together.   Adam was able to snap these super cute pics one morning of them playing right before breakfast.   

Of course once they saw Dad with the camera they were zoned in on him!

Entertaining Adella

Often Adella wakes up early from naps (well earlier than Charlie anyway) and I have to think of ways to entertain her that don't involve being in the room where Charlie is napping.  If I set her down she often screams and it will wake him up.  She doesn't like me to sit either so we take walks around the house and check stuff out.   Often we stop in front of this mirror and check it out.  She thinks it's pretty cool!

My kids are too cute

I had this epiphany today; My Kids are too cute.  It doesn't matter what they are wearing, what the background is, or what they are doing.  They. are. A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E!   Prideful much?  GUILTY!   But seriously, I do have a point.  You see on Saturday my adorable kids will hit 6 months, and my talented Sister in Law Rachel has agreed to snap a few pictures for me.  And that led me to panic here at less than a week away - what should they wear, what should we do for a background, props!  Should I make something?  Should I buy new outfits (I can see Adam cringe as he reads this)?  What do I do?   And then I realized, it does not matter!  My kids are stinking cute no matter what they are wearing or how cute the background is. So rather than stressing all week and trying to do the cutest thing ever that will cause scores of people to pin my image on pinterest, I am going to spend the week playing with my babies while they are still babies (PS they are napping as I write this so I am not ignoring them! HAHA!).   And IF I have time and IF I feel like it maybe there will be a cute outfit, or a cute backdrop (I actually already have a backdrop from a party last week I may just recycle).  And you know what my kids will be just as cute either way (oh please let them smile though!).    

And just to prove my point, here are a bunch of pictures of my adorable kids playing - I am even trying to get over the fact that my absolute favorite one is the first one I took while they were still wearing their bibs (YES THEY STILL SPIT!   It's much less, but I still would rather change bibs than outfits all day!).  And you know what?  It's OK because that's our real life, spit and all!!!   As a side note, we held a fun personal progress activity on Saturday for the YW; we had a mom's panel where the mom's talked about divine qualities that are needed for being a mother, things the YW could work on now.  I said that it was important to have a sense of humor and know how to have fun because there's a lot of spit and if you can't laugh at spit in your hair, on your face, on your clothes then you will not have fun being a mom!

OK, sorry for THAT tangent, as promised pictures!  A whole bunch for you grandparents out there!

BEST SMILES EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't know if you can tell, but this is an action shot of them rolling over at the same time - I guess they already know how to play follow the leader!

Back to our tummies!

Fun at bedtime

Lately these two have been so much fun at night.  They used to be just quite grumpy when it was time for bed, and they still have their moments, but they are starting to become so playful and giggly.   This night after baths they were rolling around on our bed playing and we just had to snap a few pictures!  Plus notice how its actually Charlie smiling in these ones!!!!