Snow Fun at the Cabin

Snow Day at the Cabin

We went to my parents cabin over Presiden't Day weekend and had lots of fun tubing and snowmobiling. Kaitlin cried when we had to go home and kept saying "Don't go home go to cabin!"
Cadence had so much fun she fell asleep on our snowmobile ride for about 45 minutes!

"Tutu" Cute

Aunt Carrie gave the girls tutu's for Christmas, and they are a big hit. Whenever the girls want to play ballerina or princess the tutu's have to come out.

This picture of Cadence makes me laugh just because she looks so determined.


Kaitlin likes the tutu's so much sometimes she wears both of them.

The Nightmare on Christmas Eve

These are pictures of their first and second Christmas's. They pretty much explain why the following happened:
So the girls have been pretty scared of Santa, but they seemed to be getting better about it, because they learned that Santa brought presents. That all changed at bedtime on Christmas Eve. Cadence started getting quiet and subdued a few minutes before we put them in their crib. I thought it was kinda wierd, but maybe she was just tired, but when I layed her down she quietly said "don't wanna see Santa". I said okay you don't have to. Then we tried to shut their door, and cries of panic and distress rang out loud and clear. We had to reassure them for about 20 minutes that they wouldn't see Santa. We had to call Santa and tell him to leave our presents on the porch, and that he couldn't come in. We had to look out the window to make sure he wasn't there, and finally we had to leave their door open all night. It took them about an hour to finally get to sleep. I guess we have sufficiently traumatized them for life.

Picture tag

The instructions on this tag is to find your sixth picture folder and post your sixth picture with a description of what is happening in the picture

This is a picture of me doing Candace's hair for her bridal's. I was about 4 months pregnant with the girls and surprisingly small. I only remember being huge then enormous. I can't believe my babies are 2 1/2 now. I've been reminiscing lately as I box up their stuff, and it makes me sad that they are growing up so fast.

I wonder what the food in my hand is? I probably can't remember because all I did was eat, but I think that's why I had such healthy babies. It's probably also why I gained 60+ lbs!


.

I want to tag everyone in my family to do this also, and anyone else who might have fun with it.

Surgery time

The girls both had their tonsils and adnoids removed this month, and Kaitlin got tubes in her ears.

It was quite the experience. When the girls were given their first sedative they acted so goofy. Kaitlin just laughed at everything and couldn't even sit up. When they took her away in her wagon she just layed down and laughed. She didn't care one bit.

Cadence wanted to push a toy stroller around even though she couldn't walk, and she thought it was funny. She had a little more time in the waiting room than Kaitlin so she got tired and layed in her wagon until it was her time to go back. We got to follow her a little further than we did with Kaitlin, so Cadence went one way down the hallway while Steve and I went the other way. She cried "I want my mamma!" and I had to hold back the tears cause I was so nervous and felt so bad.

Kaitlin had to have her anesthesia reversed because she kept holding her breath and wouldn't breath. She ended up being on oxygen for most of the day. Steve got to be with her when she woke up and he said she just kept crying, but wouldn't breath in.

I got to be with Cadence when she woke up, and she was upset and crying so hard. Once again I had to hold back the tears. I don't like to see my girls upset. It was also hard that they weren't next to each other, & I couldn't see Kaitlin. Steve brought her over once she was calmed down though and they put us next to each other in the second recovery room. Cadence ended up being on oxygen for several hours also. It ended up being a long day, but all is well once again and they can breathe so much better. Their room is so quiet at night without all the snoring and gasping.

Halloween

I got ambitious and made the girls halloween costumes this year. Mainly I did it because I couldn't find any I thought were cute, and we were stuck with the cow and lamb idea. (which the girls thought up all by themselves, I was suprised when they came up with coordinating costumes.) My mom helped me a ton, so thanks mom! I think they turned out really cute, and the girls had fun trick-or-treating; even in the rain. Kaitlin did get mad every time we stopped at a house and they didn't answer the door. She would start yelling "they are home, they are home" when I told her no one was home.