Smiles




Kaitlin's signature closed mouth smile!



Samantha's signature open mouth smile!

Mat Time and Samantha Laughing....sort of :-)

Update

Needless to say we have had a really busy couple of months. February and March have flown by. There are so many things that have happened I will give you the highlights.

  • Julie came to visit the beginning of February. We loved getting to see her and really appreciated her help with the babies. We miss you Julie and Andy.
  • We blessed Kaitlin and Samantha and enjoyed having both grandparents and lots of Aunts and Uncles. Benj did a wonderful job and have beautiful blessings and the girls where both very quiet through the whole things.
  • Samantha and Kaitlin started to smile and make all sorts of cute noises.
  • Samantha is super strong and is usually stiff and likes to stands straight up.
  • Kaitlin likes to cuddle and bat away at her toys.
  • Kaitlin is getting longer and longer with very expressive big blue eyes. Samantha has the cutest baby rolls all over and will give you the biggest open mouth smile.
  • Both girls are sleeping 8 to 9 hours straight and then another couple of hours a night!
  • The girls are getting close to 4 months old!
  • Jason took a gymnastics class and a music class at the rec. center. He loved ever second of them and now knows how to walk across the balance beam, do tricks on the bars, do somersaults, and has the best dance moves around. He just started a sports adventure class. Every week he learns how to do a different sport. So far he has learned how to play soccer, basketball and t-ball. He loves it!
  • Jason is mastering the the sounds of letters and loves to pick apart words and tell you the letters he hears.He also loves to rhyme and to tell us how to drive around town. He has a great sense of direction and can tell you if you need to go straight, left, or right. He is usually right.
  • The beginning of March Benj took his big cumulative test for his masters program. He needed to pass this test in order to graduate. After two days of grueling testing he passed with flying colors. He now has a couple more weeks left and he will graduate with his masters! Too bad we do not live closer to Boise State so he could walk! Good job honey!!!
  • Benj is also in his last trimester at work and is already looking forward to summer break. He has been teaching an after school web design club for some students and is also working hard at his last class at Boise state where he has to make an educational video game.
  • As for me I have been mastering the art of feeding two babies at a time, one nursing and one eating from a bottle, or both nursing or both with a bottle. I am getting really strong arms from carrying two car seats around. I am also getting really good at changing lots and lots of diapers fast. I have learned that if I go out in public I have to cover the girls up with a blanket or else I get stopped every 5 minutes by someone who wants to stare at them and tell me about some distant relative or friend of a friend who has twins too. It is nice to have such admired babies though. I sure love all of my children.
  • We got to spend spring break in Washington enjoying family. We loved staying out in the Lloyd's new "cottage" and Jason especially loved seeing all his grandparents. The girls did wonderful on their road trip and slept the whole way there and back. We even got to see my grandparents who came up from Utah to see the babies. It was nice to visit with them and have them meet the girls.
  • We also got the spend a week with Bryan, Ily and the cousins the last week of March. It was so fun to see them. We spent Easter with them too and got to dye eggs. Jason sure misses his cousins.
  • On top of all of these things we have been doing we bought a house! We officially closed on the house last week, but it has been a busy couple of months making it actually happen. We found an older farm house in Hillsboro. It is a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom home with lots of room for us to spread out. We are so excited for more space and for our own place. We have grand plans of all sorts of fun things we are going to do to it this summer when we have more time. For now we are very busy painting, cleaning, packing, and buying appliances.

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