Thank YOU Santa!

Everyone at our house must have been really good this year, especially Connor! Santa left him just what he has always wanted... His sisters gave him a little something to add to his collection.

There is nothing like listening to your 3 year old rock out to Away in a Manger. We have a real one man band going on at our house!!

We've moved!!

Note: I started this Nov. 11 and just got back to it tonight...Dec. 7th : 0

Ahhh, my life has been crazy. We so happy to have the whole ordeal behind us! Here is our new happy home. In town, in a neighborhood, on a quiet street, with no one directly behind us : ) 3 minutes from Walmart, 5 minutes from Kroger and school. Could life get any better?

We were in contract for 6 weeks before we finally closed on our house. It was a mess. I would never recommend Chase Bank to anyone for anything. Sorry if you work at or love Chase.


Here is the (long) scoop, we got an offer, negotiated and accepted...yeah!! We looked and found a house, loved it, made an offer, negotiated, and they accepted. Easy right...not so much. Our buyers had not asked for any inspections and then got concerned, that was the first call. Then Chase waited to process their information and get the appraisal. It was done almost 3 weeks after we got the offer. Then that took forever. They had an FHA loan so we had to fix a few little things: our front door stuck, they thought that spray paint on insulation was mold so we had an inspector out, and we had to paint our out building. All done in 24 hours, phew. We thought we were moving along. Chase continued to drag their feet 'needing' a septic inspection. This was two weeks past our original closing and at the end of our contract. We decided to walk away from the buyers instead of going through 2 more weeks of the bank crap. We decided we'd still buy the house we found and hope (and pray) to rent the other house.

It was a miracle, Chase called Ken on Friday (the last day of the contract) at 5: 30 as he was sitting on a plane in Chicago. We were in complete shock that they had somehow worked it out.

We are slowly putting things together...not easy with 2 - 1 year olds!!

Sorry for being MIA for so long. I have lots more pictures to share...hopefully it will be sooner than later!

Birthday Fun!

We celebrated the girls birthday last Sunday (I know, I'm way behind. Welcome to my life right now!) I still can't believe that they are one. Connor seemed so much older at 1. Maybe that is an oldest child thing...or maybe that is just made up in my head!

We had a cupcake theme. They each had a cakes that they shared with everyone, and the girls got their own little cupcake. Molly really enjoyed hers, icing and all. Addy did picking at hers, she wasn't so sure about everyone watching her.

They got way too much. Ken would like to outlaw any more toys at our house : ) Mommy is pretty excited at Bitty Baby! I think Addy is too! I hope I have one girly girl!

Connor was just thrilled to have his cousins there to play with him. Time files, we are trying to enjoy the moment!

Birthday Eve

I cannot believe my babies will be one tomorrow. Last year this time I was freaking out because I was having 2 babies and I wasn't sure what to do with them. I think we did a pretty good job of figuring things out!

They are amazing and each a wonderful (but different) addition to our family. I look forward to the all the wonderful things they will bring to our life...

Check back soon for our weekend birthday fun!!

Rub-a-dub-dub

Check out these cuties in the tub!

They love bath time and you should have seen their excitement when they realized they could splash each other! This is a new adventure at our house, but one that seems to be going quite well!

11 months

A little late, daddy's birthday took precedence over the 11 month post. We took the pictures almost on time, it is the posting that I really procrastinated on. We are down to the final 1 year count down...I can't believe it! Last year this time, was giant and miserable. We'll scroll down memory lane before the big day!

The girls are so busy! We are still holding steady at 4 teeth (2 each) although Molly has one that is really close. They are loving people food especially pizza and gold fish! No walking yet, but I'm sure it will be soon, I can't wait!! They walk behind things and do a lot of standing (not holding on to anything) on their own.

Here the cuties are...Addy likes to get an up close picture to show off those blue eyes!

So sweet Molly, and her blue eyes too!I can't wait until next month ; )

Daddy is 30!

Ken celebrated his 30th birthday this week...in Chicago, for work : (

So we celebrated all weekend! Yesterday we went and rode trains with my parents (I forgot my camera!) and today we had a small cook-out with both of our parents. For the past month, I felt like I should be doing so much more for him, but the thought never turned into any more than that. We have so much going on right now! More later on that...We had a great time tonight, Nana even made him a hat cake!

He doesn't love the idea of being in his thirties, but he sure has accomplished a lot at his young age!!

We love you daddy!!