Our Holidays 2011

Our Christmas was so much fun! The twins were so interactive and actually opened their presents this year! Kinsley loved her new dolly and stuffed animals. Kyson was excited about pretty much everything. Especially his golf clubs!
The day after Christmas we went to California to spend time with the Tibbitts side, we even took a trip to San Diego and played on the beach!
My Handsome Boys!
It's just sad we have to wait a whole year until it comes again. Let the countdown begin. :)

Christmas Pics

Every year we try to take family pictures for our Christmas cards, well we attempted to take them the day after Thanksgiving but as we were walking out the door I somehow sprained my ankle pretty badly and we weren't able to take any family pictures in time to send out Christmas cards this year. So for all of you who usually get cards but didn't this year, don't worry we didn't forget about you, we just didn't get the chance to send them out this year.

Here are a few we took today.

I love unusual pictures, so as odd as it may be this is one of my favorites! (below pic)



Merry Christmas!!!

Lil' Pirates

This year we decided to dress up the twins as pirates. They were so adorable! But of course, they wouldn't keep their pirate hats on for very long! Anyway, we had a fun Halloween, we went to the local halloween carnival then came home and had a little halloween party. I'm excited for actual trick-or-treating next year!

Busy Busy Graduate Student

I feel like I keep up with freinds blogs pretty well, but when it comes to updating my own its hard to find the time. I started the graduate program at USU about three weeks ago and even though its only part-time ( one night a week) I feel like it consumes any free time I get ( free time= when the twins are sleeping). I am going back to school to get my degree in family therapy so August of 2014 I hope to be a licensed family therapist. I'm excited about the degree, but not so excited about getting back into homework, lectures, and writing papers, but we felt inspired that now was the time to do it, three years just seems like such a long time!

Anyway, the twins are 15 months now and as busy as ever! When do they stop throwing everything out of the cabinets and trying to sit in kitchen drawers???!!!!!!!! I hope they lose interest soon, I can only duct tape cabinets so many times in a day :)

BYU football season has started and though Bryce and I aren't too much for football we love dressing the twins in BYU attire. As you can see Kinsley is wearing a UTAH jersey and we aren't fans of Utah but I am a big fan of pink, and BYU doesn't make pink jerseys for little girls so until they do Kins will be wearing this.....

Tibbitts Family Reunion

Last week was the Tibbitts Family Reunion, we traveled to Warm River Idaho and camped for 4 days with all of bryces siblings and their families. It was fun to see everyone and have a nice relaxing weekend. Our dirty little family, after 3 days without a shower! Yuck.
The Tibbitts Brothers, Bryce is so proud he is the youngest yet the tallest.
Kinsley warning me to stay back while she tries to dart for the river. She is so fiesty!

13 months

My twins are already 13 months ( almost 14). Time really goes by so fast, It seems like just yesterday I was taking pictures at 1 month! Twins can be such a handful and most days pretty hard, but with each month they grow up a little more, get a little easier and become more of kids rather than babies. Its bitter sweet.

Anyway Mom and I decided to take the kids out into the field and take some pictures. I get so frustrated when we are shooting because they do not cooperate at ALL! But we actually did get a few good ones, so it was worth it. :)

The difference between boys and girls

The other day I was asked which one of my twins is harder. .............
Enough said. :)

I love my little drama queen but I think life would be much harder with two Kinsleys!

The joy of twins

I often get asked "How do you do it?" Not that I really have a choice to do it or not, but my response is always the same, "I dont know any different." I am grateful that my twins came first, because taking care of 2 babies everyday is my "normal." Taking care of twins might be twice as hard but it's also twice as rewarding. With two:

You can watch them have bubble fights
Give each other kisses
Listen to them babble to each other and play with the blinds
Watch them play and laugh at each other.
We love our twins!

My new hobby...Cakes

My sister and sister in-law inspired me to start making fondant cakes. They still dont look too professional but it's so fun to make them and have them for special occasions. I have made a few more than these but these are my favorite, the latest were cakes for the twins birthdays, it was hard but so worth it (the tiara was alot of work, and took 4 days to dry).

It's so fun to have fancy cakes for birthdays and special occasions, and by the time the kids are 12 or 13 I might have practiced enough to make some really fancy ones, thats the hope anyway.

Kysons 1st birthday cake
Our Easter Cake
Cakes my sister and I made for my little brothers Jr. Prom.

Birthday Bash

It was a Fun few days! Thursday was Kinsleys birthday, Friday was Kysons Birthday and Saturday we had a big BBQ and birthday party. I cant believe my babies are already 1!
Kyson liked the balloons more than his presents, (thats a one year old for you)
Miss Kinsley playing in her birthday wrapping
The twins about to eat their birthday cakes!

Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate, it was a special couple of days. And I am now the mother of two 1 year olds!!