Girls night out

While my sisters were in town before Thanksgiving all my sisters, sister in law and mom, decided to have a girls night out and go see the last Twilight film.  We all met at Olive Garden beforehand and then went and saw Breaking Dawn Part 2.  By far I think this was my favorite Twilight film out of all of them.  It was such a fun night out with my family.

Shane got invited to a Jazz game last minute that same night so we had to scramble and get a babysitter.  Luckily, Shane's cousin came to the rescue and watched the girls for us.  The girls were good and I was able to sneak out so they didn't cry when I left.  They went right down to bed for her like they do every night for us and so it was a great night out for both of us.

Taggart

Look at this cute little thing with all his dark hair!  This is the girls newest boyfriend.  They're going to have to fight over him though.  Little Taggart Pace was born the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  It was fun visiting Brigitte and meeting and holding him the next day.  He was born at the same hospital the girls were born at so it was fun being back at the same hospital and being happy I didn't have to go into the NICU.

Welcome Taggart!  I can't wait to hold you again.

Business Suits

I have a lot of blogging to catch up on, you have been warned.

Just a cute picture I didn't want to forget to post.  Before the girls were born we bought these jogging suits for the girls.  If you know Shane you know he owns and wears a lot of jogging suits.  He calls them his business suits as this is what he 'wears to work'  He kept telling me when I was pregnant that the girls were going to wear these every day in the winter time.  They've worn them a few times but plan to get plenty more use as it starts snowing more.

Aria is walking....yay!

Aria has finally started taking some steps.  She isn't doing it on her own yet but we are so proud of her.  She is pretty cautious and will only do this a couple times for us but I can tell her confidence is building.  She's going to be running around with Siena before we know it.

I had to remove the videos as I'm running out of room.  Hope everyone was able to watch them!

Then I had to add this video.  Siena has learned to fake cry and it's so funny.  You'll see just how fake it is when you watch this.  Then the end of the video is trying to get Aria to walk again and you can see just how hard it is to get her to try and want to walk when she doesn't want to.  She almost thinks its a game to flop down on the floor.

Morning Routine

I wanted to post our morning routine we go through each day so I don't forget.  On weekdays we have only about 30-35 mins. from when we get the girls up to when I need to leave for work.  So we have our routine down pretty good.

We get them up at 7:00am, I've already filled their sippy cups with milk.  They sit in their highchairs and drink milk while I make their breakfast.  Right now their breakfast is consisting of oatmeal cereal and applesauce mixed together.  We've tried other things but this the fastest and what they like the most.  In fact they always start kicking their legs with huge smiles on their faces when they start eating it.  Why change something that works so well.  We feed them their cereal and then immediately they know they get their yogurt bites (which they LOVE) and some plain cheerios to eat while we eat our breakfast.  After we finish, I do their hair while they are still in their high chair.  They don't fight me and try to get away while they're still trapped.  Then we change their diapers and get them dressed.  After that it's off to the bathroom where we brush our teeth.  The girls love their little toothbrushes and although they aren't great at it,) they mostly suck and chew on them), they do like to try to imitate me brushing my teeth so it's pretty cute.

After that comes the hard part, saying good bye to mom.  Up until recently they didn't really get what this part meant and then all of the sudden it has clicked that I leave every day at this time and they hate it.  And so I hate it again.  They cry, cling to me, will not let me put them down.  Many mornings I shut the door to sounds of 1 or 2 crying girls...which ends up with 3 crying girls sometimes as well.  They do recover pretty quickly, at least that is what Shane tells me.  And now I feel like I've scarred them for life because on weekend mornings they won't let me out of their site.  If I walk into the kitchen they're right behind me crying, probably thinking that I'm leaving.  Ugh...

It's a fast 35 minutes of our day but we get a lot done and I like the rountine we have.  I also love that I get to spend a short amount of time with the girls before I leave for work each morning.

Aquarium

We are officially season pass holders at the Aquarium. A couple weeks ago we decided to go check out the aquarium.  To get in is $10 and a year long pass is $20 and the girls are free.  So we decided it would be a good winter activity to go do on the cold snowy days that lay ahead of us (like today for instance)

Their favorite exhibit was the Penguins.  They were swimming and running around all over the place so it was easy for them to watch and follow.  I think it will be a fun activity in the coming months.

Snowbird

In October Snowbird put on a customer appreciation weekend.  If you donated cans to the Food Shelter, then you got a free ride up the tram.  I've always wanted to up the tram but never had.  It also happened to be Shane's sister's birthday.  So we all decided to go.  We went to lunch first and then headed up.  I was nervous it was going to be way crowded but it wasn't too bad at all.

I wasn't sure how the girls would react but they didn't seem to mind at all.  And in fact on the way down Aria and I stood right by the front of the glass looking out loving the view. 

It was pretty cold and very windy but the views up at the top were so pretty.  It was such a fun afternoon and we had a great time.