Crazy

I am such a crazy blogger and always doing these catch up posts. You can always tell when work and home are busy because of the lack of posts. Today at school we're chilling out a little so I have a chance to catch up a bit! I also have a huge stack of tests to grade but I'm putting that off until Monday :)

We've had some fun things happening lately! First up, the kids:
Emma Cate is officially a roller over. I have yet to see this but she has done it for my mom. The first time she rolled over was because she heard the big wheel on the price is right and wanted to see what was going on. My Grandmother and I used to watch the price is right together (and supermarket sweep (anyone remember that?)) and I thought it was fitting for Emma Cate to roll over to watch the show :). Holden is a wild man! He still isn't crawling but prefers to roll EVERYWHERE. I find that kid under furniture all the time. His onesies are becoming my swiffer mop :)

The weather has been great and the twins are loving being outside. They went in the swings for the first time and loved it! I am loving this age and how much they are enjoying new things.

How we spend our Saturday mornings

I tried the outfit of the day thing. It didn't stick but I'm loving this necklace my mother in law got it.

We spent Sunday afternoon at the park with Aunt Bo. So fun to have her in town to hang out with us. The babies have started separation anxiety recently and I always feel terrible that they cry when other people hold them :(

If you look closely you can see people dressed up at mid evil characters. They were performing? a (what I now have learned) live action role play or larp. I think this is hilarious and made my sister stand in front of me so I could take pictures. Seriously, they were jousting and sword fighting in the middle of the park...

This little stinker will roll on her side, smile at me, then flip onto her back! Can't wait to see her roll all the way!

Holden is into planking. He does this all the time. I think he's going to bear crawl instead of regular crawl. He is so funny!

Both of my babies LOVE paper. They love to chew on it and make noise with it!

One of the 5 (I know, I'm crazy) bathing suits I ordered for the babies came in this week! No, I'm most likely not going to let my little girl run around in a bikini (I'm planing to use the bottoms and put her in rash guard tops to protect her from the sun) BUT how freaking adorable is she! Ah! I cannot wait for summer. We are headed to Florida for a few days over spring break and hopefully we'll get a chance to play in the gulf and use our new suits!

on our way home from church. too cute in their bunny bibs!

Playing in the front yard with Daddy and Big Poppy who surprised us with a visit on Sunday afternoon.

this is how I find Emma Cate in the morning. Baby HATES when I turn on the lights. She hides her face.

first time on the swings with Gigi. They LOVED it!

Someone LOVES his Daddy (or just his hat). Jay normally gets home from coaching baseball AFTER the kids have gone to bed so daylight savings time allowed them to stay up a bit later and he got to see Holden for a few minutes!

Holden LOVES hats!

just a boy and his bottle and his dog. I LOVE how the pups keep the kids company! And yes, Holden is wearing christmas jammies. These Hannah Andersson jammies are my favorites and we're not packing them away until they outgrow them. Zippers are WAY better than snaps!

A few weeks ago our washer broke and we ALMOST bought a new one. Luckily a friend recommended a repair guy and now its good as new! We were excited to save a few hundred bucks! The same night the washer broke, our disposal broke too and leaked everywhere. It was a really fun evening. My husband installed a new one we had laying around the garage (our garage is a PIT of stuff!) and my Dad helped him get it working. 

Last week I got the stomach bug and it was not fun! I went to the doctor and after some blood work they thought that I may have appendicitis so they sent me to the hospital for a CT scan. It was a big waste of my time (I just knew I didn't have appendicitis) and I froze to death in the waiting room for an two hours by myself waiting for the test and then for the results. My mom kept the babies and I didn't interact with them (or her) for an entire day to avoid getting them sick. It worked and now we are all healthy!

We spend last weekend in Asheboro for my husband's birthday. We had a fun time celebrating him! It's a good thing our families still celebrate us because Jay and I are both not really birthday people. We laughed because we just don't have time to buy each other gifts or cards unless we buy it online. The only time we are by ourselves is when we are on the way home from work and neither one of us wants to waste time shopping, we'd rather be at home with each other and the kids. My gift from Jay was a trip (which we still have to take) and my gift to him is that I'm going to not spend a lot of money this month. Ha!


We also celebrated Daddy's birthday in Charlotte with an individual sized key lime pie that Gigi bought for him.

We also did a little redecorating in our family room. I got some new bright pillows and some art from Ikea. I am working on finding a new cheap rug and bought 20 some frames to create a huge gallery wall of pictures of the kids. My goal is to get the gallery wall done this weekend. I'm pretty pleased with how it all turned out :)