mom and babies

I had this picture ready to post like a week ago but forgot to put words with it. Here I am with my precious babies. It is still amazing when I have them both in my arms.

Blessing Day

Yesterday our two beautiful girls were blessed. It was a very nice day and Jim did a wonderful job.
It is hard to say how much I appreciated that yesterday was able to happen. There were so many times on bedrest when thinking about their blessing day helped me plug along for another day. I knew if their blessing day happened then our two daughters were here and healthy enough to be introduced. Their was such a burden of worry on mine and Jim's shoulders before these babies were born.
To all of those who came- thank you. We wanted to have a celebration with family and friends.

Also we thank you for the sacrifice of time many of you made to help our family during this pregnancy. We thank you for your thoughts and prayers. We felt every thought and prayer towards our family. I would not have made it as far as I did in the pregnancy if we didn't have all the help we did. These babies are here and healthy with the help of the goodness of others. I am so humbled and tear up when I think of all that went into getting Afton and Lilly here. There are so many miracles in life and I am honored to add two more to my family.

Lilly Smiles

How cute are these pictures. Both babies have figured out smiling and it is the funnest thing. Afton does smile too, she just was not cooperating as well for the photo shoot. We can get them to smile pretty easily when they see our face expression smiling or of course making the silly noises that is only normal to do for babies :)

slowly coming together

So our house is slowly coming together. I know we have almost been here a year but right after we moved in we dealt with Lizzie's awful recovery from her surgery, then I got the worst morning sickness I have ever had, then bedrest. Thus, our house decorating has suffered a little.

Anyways, yesterday Jim and I actually went and bought a bed!!!!! Sadly, for the past ten years we have just had our mattress on either the floor or some metal bed rails. No real headboard, footboard, etc. We went to Ashley's furniture. I was really impressed with the store. Nice furniture at a good price. We also bought a matching armoire for our bedroom. It will all be delivered on the 20th or sooner. Yahoo!!! The bed has a cool metal design if you can see it. Obviously the picture is not of our bedroom (I wish) but at least it is a picture of our bed and armoire coming soon.

I also hung a picture in our downstairs bathroom yesterday (big moment) and have hung two whole pictures in our bedroom. I am deciding on a wall arrangement for our kitchen and hopefully will have that hung within the next week or so. Still nothing on the walls in either of the kid's rooms though :)

maiden voyage

Today I ran!!! It was the first time in probably about a year. I had missed it so much!! I am definitely out of shape though. I did a .65 mile today and although it felt really good to be outside with my music I struggled at the end. Amazing that a year ago I could do 10 miles easily and had finished up my second half marathon. Oh well. You have to start somewhere right?

Afton and Lilly

I don't really have anything exciting to report but it has been awhile since I put some pictures on. Aren't the babies getting chubby :)

Here is a run down of what Afton and Lilly are up to......

As of today (at 10 weeks) Lilly weighs 8 lbs 6 oz. Lilly is really good at keeping her head up. She is still the wiggler of the two and is always moving around. She also likes to grunt and we call her our grunter.

Afton weighs 9 lbs and 10 oz. Afton has learned to have a cry that Jim and I swear breaks the sound barrier. It is really high and shrill. Other than that, she is really cute!

Our babies are actually the size of normal babies now! Yahoo!

*Afton is in the purple and Lilly is in the pink. Of course Lizzie is in the green :)