May 3rd -- Twin's First Birthday!!!

It's a "puppy party!" I made the girls their own cakes with paw prints on them and wrote their names on the cakes with frosting. They turned out cute and tasted pretty good too. Rhiannon helped me with the decorations and she picked out the dresses for the girls to wear. She is nine years old and is a big help to me with the girls. I take her with me when I go places. Nan can lift the babies out of the carseats and put them into the grocery carts. She also helps push a stroller at the stores and I can push the other one. When Barry is there he helps out but when he is at work, I try to take Nan with me. She is getting good practice at babysitting little girls.

Ryder is playing with some party favors while the girls were taking a nap in the afternoon.

Here is Racer with his parachute man.

And Rhiannon too.

The little parachute man kept getting tangled up in the string and Ryder was getting frustrated.

Look how long Nan's hair is getting. She wants to get it cut short, up to her shoulders, but her mom won't let her. I just got my hair cut shorter too. It is so much easier to take care of.A sleepy Brenna in her highchair wearing her new bib.
A more awake Chantrell wondering what all the excitement is for.

"What are these party favors for??" "I guess we should eat them."
Happy Birthday Brenna!!! She was looking up at her Aunt Tiffany when we were singing to her.

Yay!!! Happy Birthday Chantrell!!! She was clapping her hands as we sang to her."Yummmm. . . cake tastes good.""Yup, it sure does taste good."Rhiannon can't wait to taste the cake. . . she has her tongue out all ready to lick the frosting.Ryder is waiting patiently for his piece. Barry is standing next to him cutting the cake. I also made a pineapple upside down cake for the rest of the family.Racer shoved the whole piece of cake in his mouth at once. I bet him that he couldn't do it. I guess he showed me. : )Mommy and her girls.Daddy and his girls.Close up of Chantrell eating cake. Her hair keeps getting lighter. It's almost blond now. She is a very pretty girl.More cake in the face pictures. Pretty Brenna with the red hair and blue eyes.All cleaned up and ready for presents.Brenna stands up to the couches and walks around them. Chantrell is a pretty good walker all by herself.Nan gave the girls her stuffed dragon toys.All the kids opening presents and showing the babies what they picked for them.New sippie cups to drink from.

Turtle bath toys and new baby dolls.

New activity table with all kinds of sorting and stacking toys. They love this toy.A good picture of everything that they got. Toy vacuum cleaner, pelican toy, stacking cups, etc... They also received money, books, videos, and clothes. Thank you to everyone who sent gifts, checks and cards. We all enjoyed having the girl's first birthday party. Barry and I are so happy that they are healthy and growing and right on track developmentally. They are so fun to watch while they play with their toys. We love our girls!!!

Back on the computer again :)

OK, so I took a vacation from the computer and blogging. I got stuck reading the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. Those books were sooooo good. I can't wait for the next movie to come out. Then we had my sister Kay-Lynn and family come for a visit and then we had my sister Jennifer and her daughter Zoey stay for a couple of weeks. We played tourist all around Seaside and Astoria. I have also been watching movies...some good ones are Valkarie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, and Taken. In May we had the girl's first birthday...it was a puppy party. I made cakes with paw prints on them. They loved all the clothes and toys that they got. Barry and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on May 21st. We went to see the new Star Trek movie...it was pretty funny and action packed. We both loved it. I will try to get photos up of all the recent events. Who knows when I will get caught up...I take too many pics to get them all loaded on the page. In the month of April I took over 192 pics!!! Yikes!! I will not post all of them. Anyway, just thought I would give everyone an update as to what we are doing. Chantrell is walking so good now...she can even carry toys around in her hands and one in her mouth. She has four teeth on top and two on the bottom. Brenna is still crawling around after her sister, but she does walk with a toy walker and walks around the furniture. Hopefully, she will start to walk on her own in June. She has two top teeth and two bottom teeth. They have learned how to bite the nipples on their bottles so the milk comes out really fast. Sippie cups are coming next...bye bye bottles. Barry and I enjoy walking around town and looking at the beach and ocean on his days off. We love the summers here when the breeze is cool and the sun is warm. Everything is soooo green from all the rain.

Feb. 14th Valentine's Day Activities

Look Who's Walking Now!! Chantrell loves to push her walker toy around the house. It was Valentine's Day in the evening and we were playing photographer with the babies.

She has lots of determination to do what she wants.

This is what we do when I am left home to babysit five kids. We take photos and video clips of ourselves acting silly.

Chantrell is wearing the Pirate headband. "Ahoey Matey!!!"

Rhiannon trying to keep a straight face, in a clown outfit. She kept saying that she was a goth-vegetarian-clown-pirate.

Now she is acting like her normal self.

Brenna sitting quietly with the foam letters. She is probably wondering what all the fuss is about.

Chantrell is on my lap and we are playing with the scarf again.

Rhiannon is age 9.

Ryder is age 5.

Racer is age 4.

Random pics from Feb. cont.

Dishwashing Babies!!!

The twins love to "help" load and unload the dishwasher. This morning they were helping daddy. I think it is too cute that they come crawling when they hear dishes being loaded. They are fascinated by silverware and cups and plates.
"What are you doing babies?"

(Don't forget to pause the music below when you want to hear the video clips :)

Crawling away as fast as they can. They think it is great fun to crawl away when I am coming for them...especially if they are into trouble.
I think that Rhiannon had a sick day (but wasn't really sick) and I took a picture of her in grandma's room. She is giving me the "Oh, come on Aunt Shelly" look. Ryder and Racer also stayed home that day.

Look at that cute face. She has recently had her hair cut back into bangs and long layers. If I find a good pic of her haircut, I'll post it.

This video was taken by Rhiannon so it is a little shakey. I'm in the background yelling up to my mom about the home teachers coming for a visit. Another day the kids wanted to play with the foam letters and build little houses. The babies love to destroy the creations so they had to stay in the exersaucers for awhile.

Ryder and Racer just got haircuts too. Ryder is showing me his house that he made.

Chantrell is looking off into space. Her hand is down by her leg. She is probably wondering how much longer she will be stuck in there.

Brenna is waiting to be let out too. They don't like to be caged in their exersaucers...it's more fun to crawl around the house.