3 years ago

Does anyone want to guess what happened to us on June 22, 2009?  BIG day--one I will always remember. But a few months before that day I had been talking with my good friend Ruth (who has two boys, twin girls & a boy, all spaced 2 years a part, well except the twins) & I was telling her how I wanted to have twins but I didn't think I would be able to handle it.  She said she was able to handle it because her husband Lee was such a great help & family man & that she thought Jeremy was similar.  I knew Jeremy was a great help so that was the day I started to think maybe I could handle twins.  I started really hoping & praying for it.  Then we got pregnant.  THEN June 22 rolled around.

Jeremy had two external rotations for two weeks for school 5 hours north of us in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan.  His Mom Susan had flown up to take care of the boys so I could throw up & sleep to my hearts content.  I did a lot of both.  That morning I had my first doctors appointment.  Susan dropped me off then went to the mall across the parking lot to let the boys play.  I met my doctor & found out I was only 9 weeks instead of the 12 I was hoping for.  I swear that has happened to me every time!  I was telling him how I was really hoping for twins so that I wouldn't have to be pregnant as many times.  He then proceeded to tell me how I didn't want twins because they were trouble.  Well that statement has been proven to be true!  :-)  Then he plugged me up to the ancient ultrasound machine just to make sure & there sure enough were two tiny little babies swimming around in there.  Even though I saw them as plain as plain I didn't believe it for about 5 minutes.  I was so excited!

I ran across the parking lot to the mall & exploded the news to Susan & we jumped around squealing & yelling.  I'm so glad she was there to share it with!  I called Jeremy about a dozen times until he finally called me back on his lunch break.  He wouldn't believe me.  Probably because I had been talking about having twins for a few months prior to that.  My favorite thing he said was 'Megs, what are we going to do???'

Twins are so hard.  In some ways they are trickier more now than ever but in other ways they are easier.  I can understand why people say it gets easier when they're 5.  I used to think surely not that long but I'm starting to believe it.  Maybe that's because it's the age they go off to school?  I dunno.  I don't know if Hyrum & Hunter are just milder or if the twins are just crazier or maybe a little of both but they do things our other kids have never dreamed of.  Like Emma eating through the paint & plaster all the way to the metal reinforcer things on the corner of our walls?  Who does that?  They just get going & egg each other on to all sorts of mischief.

But I tell you what there is nothing sweeter than when they do get along.  And when I hear down the hallway Justin saying 'Emma where are you?  Come play Emma' or Emma saying 'Justin bye!  I love you!'  It's an adventure & one that is hard but one I wouldn't trade for the world.  If I could go back & have them one at a time with a 2 year space it would be tempting some days but I would never do it.  I'm so grateful we could have twins!

 

  

It is hard to get a good shot of the two of them together nowadays!  Always on the move

Oh, Hyrum

 

Father's Day '12

First photo with Daddy & all the kids

I love this man

Hunter asked me one day why Daddy wasn't part of our family on the shelf above the fireplace (I just had a woman holding a baby) so I finally added him.  What every man hopes for for a present, right guys? :)

We did our traditional bowling!  None of us broke 100 (as usual) but I actually got really close.  Hunter bowled a 73 & Hyrum bowled a 66-pretty darn good!  I love watching them throw the balls.

Dallen & I won the best glowing outfits award.  There was a family next to us with teenage boys & one brought a girlfriend.  Jeremy & I kept thinking it will be no time at all when we're in that stage.  Yikes!  Actually I'm excited, I think teenagers are going to be a blast.

 

 

 

The boys worked hard on their cards.  We went out to eat at Arris pizza for dinner which the local Springfielders claim is Brad Pitt's favorite pizza in the world so we had to see what all the hulabaloo was about.  Pretty good but the kids prefer Pizza Hut & I think I prefer their prices!

 

Some other photos of the last week or so

 

 

 

With all that running around in the humidity outside SOMEONE had to take a bath.  Thank goodness Dallen was willing!

Memorial Week

I love this picture of the older kids!  They are so cute.  On Memorial Day we had fun running through the new sprinkler.  After two years of enjoying brown grass we thought we'd try for a green shade-we'll see if it works.  I just don't want a 300 dollar water bill to get it.

In the morning we drug all our bikes to Hyrum's school & rode them around the track.

We ran into Mrs. Fisher in the school's garden & she invited us to help her water the plants & we even cut some lettuce to take home for a salad for dinner.  Yum!

Best of friends.  I love the picture on the right.

 

Some other things we've been up to this week.  A good book is good wherever you may be.

Jeremy says that Hunter's obsession with all things cars will die down but there's no sign of it yet.  I like his obsession.  It wouldn't quite be the same around here without it.

Hyrum drew this picture & then cut it up into 27 very un-puzzle-like puzzle pieces for me to put together.  That was one of the trickiest puzzles ever.

We made 30 containers of strawberry freezer jam one day.  I want to try raspberry & blackberry soon too. And someday we'll have our own strawberry plants hopefully.

There was never such a loved baby around here!  He makes the perfect 5th kid because he is so chill.  It takes a lot for Dallen to get tired of all the love & noise.

 

  

We have been waiting for that perfect Saturday morning in the 60's to go to the zoo & we got it last Saturday.  It was a beautiful day.

Justin is obsessed with bugs.  He was more interested in the fly's buzzing around the garbage than in the exotic African animals although he liked those as well.  So I had to get his picture with those giant, nasty cockroaches.  I'm so glad they were behind glass or he would've had them crawling all over his arms & loving every minute of it.

 

I have been loving the summertime so far.  We are in a great groove.  I am loving Hyrum being home.  He is such a great kid.  I am already getting sad at the thought of him going back to school in like 10 weeks.  I briefly thought about home school just so he could be home with us but then I quickly came to my senses :)