Anniversary Dinner and 2 month olds

First, a public service announcement:

Don't let your kids watch "Charlie bit my finger - again!" too much.

Here's Katelyn trying out the playplace. I forget where it came from. Things just randomly appear around here that I've never seen:

And here's Wesley showing how it's done.


Here's Kairi with Wesley's favorite buddy Sackboy.


Wesley likes his sisters. He likes playing with them and helping his Mommy.


They're all a bunch of goofheads too.


There's a lot of work to do around this place, so Wesley does his best to help here. Here he is washing the dishes:


And here he is feeding his sister:


Yesterday was the company's 32nd Anniversary Celebration Dinner. Amanda and I made use of our slave--um, I mean our wonderful babysitter who we are very grateful for--to spend 4 whole hours together! That's more than in a normal week combined! First, since you can't be slobs all year long, we had to dress up.

Bow ties are cool.

There were stations all around the Learning Center for sampling food from various Madison restaurants. This one had sliders, macaroni and cheese, homemade pretzels and four types of mustard.


This one had either Korean or Thai food (they both had stations, but who knows which was which. They both had unpronounceable dishes. There was also a seafood place but we didn't get there in time. Not like we would've gone there anyway, but Amanda did have some catfish.

Oh, here's the menu:
Korean items from Jeongmee Park

• Jopt Che- sweet potato starch noodles stir fried with spinach, mushrooms, eggs, carrots and Korean soy sauce (vegetarian)
• Beef Bulgolgi lettuce wraps- marinated thin sliced grilled beef with Korean chili in lettuce leaves
• Thai Food from Kannika Assarattanakul
• Thai Chicken Croquettes- mildly spicy chicken ground with lemongrass, shallot, lime, cilantro, ginger, curry paste

Nostrano

• Farro Salad- smoked mushroom, pine nuts, caramelized onions (vegan)
• Seafood Brodetto- branzini, shellfish, tomato broth, white beans
• Pork Shoulder Agridolce- smoked pork shoulder, grilled ciabatta, Tuscan olive oil

Graze

• Macaroni and Cheese (vegetarian)
• Home made pretzels, mustards and local cheeses (vegetarian)
• Sliders with caramelized onions on brioche buns

Lao Laan Xang

• Squash Curry (vegetarian)
• Chicken Larp- ground seasoned chicken, lettuce, cilantro, cucumber wraps
• Kanap Pa Catfish roasted in banana leaves served with Jasmine Rice

Dessert served after the Innovations program

• Root Beer Floats using Sprecher Root Beer
• Chocolate Cherry Croissant Bread Pudding

There was also a silent auction where people brought in items and you could write down a bid. We saw a bead necklace that had a bid up to $100 and decided that next year Amanda could get rich quick with things like that going for so high. Then we noticed that all proceeds go to a local food bank and not to the contributer. Oh well.


Then after all that trash there was a little program about things going on around the country and other stuff that no one reading this would care about. Then we helped clean up because we're nice like that.

Laying Around

Another Post! This time there are some pictures...yeah.

Here is Wesley if you couldn't tell. He is being a goof face.

Here is me. Oh yes, I am finally doing a blog update, so it will be short since I'm always short on time. This was taken the day before I had two babies at once. I compared with a picture I found of when I had Wesley and yup, I was double wide, although I did not get that picture up here. Oh well.

I don't know when this was taken, but it was on my camera and is really cute!

We walked around CR's work place and here is Amy and her creepy friend.

Ride it cowboy!

The twins on their first stroller ride, inside that one work place.

Hug!!!
(Katelyn is in the pink, Kairi is in red)

Size comparison. I think this one is Katelyn but I can't see the face sorry.

Kairi with an almost smile face. Funny how they hide those smiles once the camera comes out.

I took a break from baby feeding and the like and went to a Relief Society night where I got to build a chair! Wesley loves it since it is his size and he uses it just like his slide to push his toys down on. Just so you know it's not finished in this picture. There is another slat on top.

Katelyn

and Kairi

Katelyn on the left and Kairi on the right.

Who said trying on shoes was only a girl thing?

Wesley is reliving old times of fitting into one of these.

Okay so funny story. We acquired an extra high chair and when I was moving it out of the way to reach some fabric that I sowed covers for the couch seat cushions for (sorry no picture), Wesley decided to eat in it. Here is the result.

For Valentines day it was my year to plan what we would do. I started out by gathering some secret materials, berries. Then I threw a hippo bath toy into Chris' work room that had a string attached to it. On the other side of the string, outside his door, was a can of BBQ Pringles. Then we rushed home to work on a secret surprise, this cake! It is a red velvet cake made from scratch, and I thought it was soo good I ate almost all of it! Later that night we went to a Mexican restaurant and then to a bowling place. That was plan A, we never got to bowl since some kid spent twenty minutes texting ignoring us, until the manager came out to tell us that all the lanes were full. So we left. Then we attempted a plan B. We looked for a red box movie, but didn't see any we would like. So we went to a plan C, where we rented "Letters to Juliet" and watched it on the compy in our bedroom. Chris was a good sport about it, but wondered why all girly movies have guys in them that are jerks.

Here Kairi is on the left and Katelyn on the right. It's their first time wearing head bands!

Here is Katelyn all ready to go to church today. However, the van died (what do you know) so we still have not gotten everyone in this house to church all in the same week. This week it was my time to stay home, so I took a picture and updated the blog for all of you!

Here is the van! It was running when this picture was taken. In case you can't read the fine print from far away it is a 2000 Toyota Sienna.

And the last picture is Amy.
The End.

It's the end of the world as we know it...

So the other day we decided to go to the hospital. Amanda was looking a little fat so we thought we'd find out a good diet for her. It turns out she had twins inside of her! What a surprise! They decided to slice her open with rusty pliers to get the babies out.

Here's the hospital. Amy claims it looks fancy, but I can't say I noticed. You don't notice these things after working a while where I do, if you catch my drift.


Here's the first baby to pop out, even though she was the higher up baby for most of the pregnancy. She just wanted to come first so she jammed her feet in Kairi's face to sneak into first place.


But look! They're not done coming out yet! Here's Kairi!


But wait! Here's another one! This one, unlike the others, was born with a non-CG diaper.
Oh wait, that was just Katelyn again.
And this is Kairi.

Here's mommy meeting Katelyn for the first time (at least the first time when Katelyn wasn't a bloody mess).

Kairi wasn't so happy about it.

Here's a baby with open eyes, Heit Girl Twin A.

The latest craze is for the father to do the operation, so here I am with kids after it.

Wesley liked seeing babies. He points at them and says, "Baby!"


He was more interested in eating Mommy's food, though. She could order whatever she wanted whenever she wanted. Good thing we have full coverage insurance.


His favorite part was tossing coins into the fountain. That's way more exciting than sisters.


In conclusion, here's five dude-os.