Family Pictures

We scheduled some pictures with our sweet friend Maegan for our Christmas cards. I discovered that we had matching dresses for the girls thanks to my brother & sister-in-law! My nieces are 2.5 years apart, so we have a couple of sets of matching smocked dressed passed down from them. Be-yond cute!!! I planned our attire around their dresses and scheduled the pictures. I have to say I do NOT enjoy trying to coordinate the outfits of 5 people!

I was super anxious heading into pictures. Maddex is a typical two year old and rarely cooperates when we want to take her picture! Thankfully Maegan brought silly props and several bribes for Maddex! For the most part, they worked!! My goal was to get even just one good picture of our family, one of all three kids, and one of each kid. As you can see below, Maegan was able to capture each of my requests plus MORE! We have a precious picture of the twins, an awesome shot of the girls, and some pictures of my two favorite men that will melt my heart forever.

This is not an easy task to capture a two year old and almost one year old twins! AND we did all of this in thirty minutes!!! Maegan is awesome!!!!!!! She is talented and very reasonable! If you're looking to get pictures taken, please check her out at http://www.maegancoxphotography.com.

Enjoy our amazing pictures!

Twins' first birthday party

Sunday was a perfect day for the twins' first birthday party! We planned it for a Sunday evening which definitely had benefits and drawbacks! The biggest benefit was we had all weekend to prepare for the party! My sweet husband worked all day Saturday to get the yard and outside of the house ready (he even worked all day on his birthday!). I did a bit of prep Saturday night then worked all through nap time on Sunday to set up for the party. The weather was perfect! We had the party on the carport so that kids could play. Even though we did not have a huge guest list, our house is not huge and I start to feel claustrophobic with that many people in our home! I also LOVED not having to get the inside of my house spotless ;) We had such a great time with our family and a few of the twins' friends. They loooooved their cupcakes and made a sweet mess. I really loved their party…it was simple, sweet, and we got to spend time with people we love. Maddex played and had a great time and I'm sure the babies loved all of the attention! We are so blessed with precious people in our family that love us and our babies so much. This blessing is certainly NOT lost on me!

One benefit to having twins is two birthdays in one party! I enjoy prepping for birthday parties, but I'm not sure I'd want to do it three times a year! Two is just right :) But double the kids means double the toys! I did not consider how much STUFF these sweet babies would get. We opened up a few of the toys already and they (and big sis) are loving them. I plan to open a few toys at a time. I also need to go through what we have and get rid of some stuff. Three kids means LOTS of stuff coming into our home!

Ok, enough with the typing…here are some pictures of the party!

Maddex and her cousin Keaten

Y'all. Melt my heart!

Buddy is ready for some presents!

Asa James

The twins' famous friend Espyn!!!! Who knew a celebrity would show up at the party!

Harpy opening some presents

Can't believe it's been a year since we had these babies!

We love you Audra (and baby Garrison in the background)!!!!

Sweet Brandt Slack - the twins were born on Brandt's due date! He decided to come 6 weeks early…so thankful for this healthy boy!

Oh my heavens. I have not put bows on this girl nearly enough.

Big sis dressed in her pink & blue!

Beautiful

My little stud :)

decor/food

Sweet Major man!

This was above Major's gift table/high chair

Above Harpy's gift table/high chair

playing

Favors thanks to the talented Kerri Blount! Y'all need to book her for birthday cookies. For real.

So I know this post is about the twin's party, but this might be one of my favorite pictures from the party! Love, love, love this picture. I am beyond blessed that my closest friends have girls exactly Maddex's age. We pray they will be best friends for life. The Lord has blessed our friendship so much with these girls and now with sweet baby boys!

11 Months

We are one month away from the twin's first birthday. It's truly hard to believe this year has gone by so quickly! I am really LOVING this age right now! Most days the babies are happy and easy. They're beginning to feed themselves, so I can just put some food on their trays and let them go at it. They are beginning to learn and do more each day, and it's just so fun!

They are both crawling like champs, pulling up all the time, and walking just a bit on furniture. Major sometimes ventures and lets go of furniture to stand by himself. I am sure they'll be walking soon! Both babies are proving to be great eaters! Neither seemed to be a big fan of avocado, but they seem to enjoy every other thing they've eaten.

Here's the monthly rundown:

Major

-has 5 teeth (two on top, three on bottom)
-wearing 12 month clothes (but can still fit in smaller - I just bought him a 3-6 month shirt for pictures that fits great!)
-likes to be fed
-still waking 1-2 times per night :(
-BEYOND sweet. I just love this sweet boy! He often reaches out for me to hold him. Melts my heart!
-likes to squeal
-Maj is beginning to grow some hair & it's crazy after his bath!
-Likes eating dirt and pom poms


Harper

-has 6 teeth (four on top, two on bottom)
-very comfortably in 12 month clothes. She can even wear some smaller 18 month stuff
-star eater
-Harp is the better sleeper - sleeps until at least 4:30 each night & goes back down pretty easily
-my giggly, giggly girl. I love her grin/squint face!
-I swear Harper was saying "all through the town" today after the song. So smart!
-Likes eating the end of the iphone charger
-Makes kissy faces/sounds

I took some pictures for the twins' birthday invitation the other day. These will have to suffice as their 11 month pictures bc I just don't feel like taking more :) It was an interesting feat to attempt to get both babies to sit still, look at the camera, and smile! I ended up with a few decent shots. They loved being outside and so did big sis!

Perfect girl

Sweet, sweet babies

goofy picture of my buddy

this one was a winner

Harper is taking after her Nana in this picture

On the move

Look at those faces! They're done!

Eating a leaf

Oh my word...my big, beautiful girl

my crew

Jumping :)

On another note, I'd like to give a big Happy Birthday shout out to one of my nearest and dearest friends!!! I still remember the first time I met Carrie in her "Cats" t-shirt our freshman year of college :) Over our 4 years of school we became so close and served as one another's maid/matron of honor. A few years down the road, Carrie got pregnant & I was so thrilled for her. Weeks later, we found out we were expecting. Our girls are one month apart and it's been SO fun sharing motherhood joys and struggles together!!! When I announced to Carrie, and our other close friend Jennifer, that I was pregnant again, Carrie made her announcement, too! Our second pregnancies were due just weeks apart again! Sweet Brandt was born 6 weeks early after Carrie spent weeks upon weeks on strict bedrest. The twins were born 6 weeks later on Brandt's due date :) This sweet friend of mine is one of the strongest, yet most humble people that I know. I am beyond thankful that the Lord brought us together as friends and has allowed us to share our the journey of motherhood, and life, together! 

Happy, happy birthday my sweet friend!!!!

LSU Graduation

Our girls :)

With our girls @ Maddex's first birthday

Our boys :)