This is not an Easter Post

So time to get up some videos Wesley and I have created a while back! This one was originally created in August of last year (2011). It's still pretty cool though.

And here is this years creation made in March!

I hope you all enjoyed your movies! See you again sometime soon since we really need to update this, but I ran out of time again.... Bye.

How Sweet It Is....

...to have walking kids! I just absolutely love it! Granted the twins are stuck in the stroller still when we go places, but they can now get out and explore with the big kids and are loving the fact that they can see more of the world at their own pace and level. (Side note, these two are climbers!) I love it too since I don't feel as tied down to sit in one place anymore all the time. Ah it's nice to stretch ones legs. Consequently, I am just now starting to feel as though I am getting some sort of a life back, and I'm ready to go! I no longer only feed and diaper kids every half hour all day long which is great. But on the down side I still hold on to some of my previous "make it to another month" mentality. When I should be enjoying a moment, I'm thinking way too far into the future when my kids will be old enough to do... blah blah blah. I'm working on toning that down but if anyone has any suggestions for new winter related activities to do with kids that are just barely walking that would be nice. :)

Okay enough of this journal type stuff. Let's put up some pictures in the most random order and see if you can make it through the rest of the post.

So this is the age where things like trying on bracelets and hats and necklaces is super fun and exciting. Okay some people still find that fun, but this is the age where it all starts; one year old. One of Kate's favorite things to do is walk around with anklets. She and her sister love their feet. They ask to put their shoes on at least once a day when we we're not going out. The other day they were piling pebbles into their shoes. Aren't shoes fun?

You can't really tell, but this is a ball pit full of balls. Well you know full of kids. It was one of the girls' birthday presents. (Kate is standing).

 Here was another birthday present. Yah I know I got great expressions here. This was first thing that they played with out of Grandma Heits box. Sorry I didn't get a picture of Grandma Morses' gift since the kids picked out their favorite snack treats and have eaten through it already. Thanks for the presents guys!

I made a cake and cupcakes for the twins' first birthday. The kids had the cupcakes and Chris Man and I had the cake. It was a wonderful idea!

Here is a shot of the girls in their new birthday/Sunday dresses. They had white tights on before church, but alas this is an after church after nap shot. (Kairi, Wesley, Katelyn).

Look everyone I kept a hair tie in for a few hours! Too bad ties and clips get yanked out. Kate's hair is always in her face. She doesn't seem to mind so much anymore, but it bugs me.

For their birthday party we went to the Madison Children's Museum. This is a section there were you can build really big things like our brand new home! (Kairi is in the front).

Here is Wesley and Kate at the museum enjoying a block, truck, car town world.

 We've had one big-ish snow fall this year and since Wesley likes the Dinosaur Train all the kids made a snow dinosaur!

Here we are trying to have fun with the snow. Wesley is bored because he's ready to go, but he was the one who had the most fun in the end. (Kate in gray, Kairi in black putting on shoes.)

Wesley made this all by himself! It's an airplane that seats three. He's quite the builder for a two year old. Okay he's almost three now huh?

Here's a video of a birthday celebration for those of you who are into those kinds of things.

Here is a good movie showing what the twins can do these days. They both can climb up onto Wesley's riding toy. They do sit forwards too, and when they do Kairi can walk herself around forwards and backwards. In this video Kate pushes Kairi. Be prepared it is awefully exciting stuff.

Christmas Time

We thought we'd destroy the competition by being the first to post this year. Take that guys!


Early in the month the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train was cruising through the country, and we couldn't pass up that opportunity. Wesley loved it after we were back in the warm van watching videos of it coming up. It was cold that day even though the rest of the month was like summer. It also passed through Minot.


Legos are a very popular toy around this place. Sometimes one of the kids disappears during the day, which is suspicious since they are usually climbing and clinging all over her and whining. This is where Amanda finds them when they sneak off, where they can pull off all the hats and hair.


Amanda found a neato use for the boxes our Christmas presents came in.


It must get boring sitting around the house all day long all week long.


Wesley is very good at making faces.


There was some thingie where a couple dudes with model trains set them up at the garden so they could charge kids to watch them drive around. Wesley loved that too, if you can believe it.


Amanda organized a big gingerbread house extravaganza and even made the houses herself. It was lots of work and then only one person showed up. Oh well. Wesley said he had fun.


Here are the stockings all ready for Christmas courtesy of Grandma Heit.


This is how we spent Christmas Eve: at the office! How sad is that?


We also smidged over to the lights in the park. Wesley spotted this one before we were even in the park.


Christmas morning after Santa's visit! Too bad everyone was sick so they just sat there until 3 PM. That's even later than when we were growing up and our parents just hid in their bedroom for ages.


Eventually some stockings got opened. Look at all the Christmas excitement going on.


Mommy got lots of presents! She wasn't very excited either. In fact, she didn't even seem to have a clue what her presents were until after nearly all of them were opened. She still managed to build it all by herself though, so now she's excited. One of the first things going on was Railworks 3, courtesy of Uncle Randy. It's the best game ever!


Here is something for Reed to watch.


Wesley got a train table just like at the library! Hi wow and sto mon hun!


This picture pretty much sums up the Christmas prezzies. Be grateful kids because you're not getting another one like this, heh heh heh.


Too flesh out our Lego city, Amanda made a McDonald's.


And a library. Isn't it awesome?


This is what things quickly devolved to.


Here's Kate showing off her Christmas present for Mommy. Kairi can do it too but only Kate prefers it over crawling these days.

The End