Sweet Caroline

WHEW!   So hubs left Sunday for a full week of banker’s school….meaning it was just the kiddos and me all week.  Banker’s school is only about an hour and 15 min drive from our house but they spend the night in dorms and have lots of different activities all day and night…. My mom was at the beach too, so I had no back up!  ** I fully realize stay at home  mom’s and single mom’s do this all the time…I can totally handle the kids alone, I just don’t like being alone….I am not one of those that needs “me” time…so for me, it was more about being by myself when the kids went to bed and having no one to talk to at night that sucked**   Anyways, point is….it was a LOT of work but we survived!! BUT, last night may have been the WORST.  I came home from work to our upstairs AC being out.  WTF!  It just went out a month ago and was fixed.  It was 90 degrees upstairs!!!! HOLY!  I had to pack a family of five for a week at the beach in this hotness...

Another fun summer weekend in the books.  We went over to a friend's house Friday night with some couples and the kiddos enjoyed hanging out as well:-) I took Collins to a birthday party Saturday morning before we spent ALL day on the lake.  Sweet daddy painting toes ;-) We had the best time on Sandy "beach" Saturday. We brought a pool for the babies and it was perfect!! The boys stayed in here forever and we didn't have to worry about them crawling into the water! Definitely bringing this to the beach with us next week.  We took the kids home at 5:30 and my friend haven's sister kept them for us so we could go back out for a couple hours without the kids. It's nice to be able to relax for just a bit sans kids after a wild day! On Sunday, Mikey took off for the week to bankers school... So it's just the kiddos and me all week long! Sunday we went to Zoe's and target and then came home and enjoyed some outdoor time. Poor Thomas had an ear infection and ...

We had the BEST Independence Day weekend!!   Friday night we went to my in laws and enjoyed spending time with family. My sister in law and her fam are in town so it was fun for all the kids to get together.  We started off bright and early Saturday morning with the neighborhood parade. It's a little something fun that the kids enjoy:-) After naps for the boys, we headed out to Sandy beach for a few hours. We went with friends and we had quite the set up. Lots of fun:-) We all dropped the kids off with a sitter around 4 and headed back out for a little adult only time on the lake. Very necessary every once in a while. We had so much fun!!!  It was an early night since we were out and about all day long. Which was good for us since we had the boys' FIRST bday party the next day. Full recap to come!

My dear, sweet, precious boys:   In a matter of seconds (or so it seems) you two have gone from my teeny tiny newborns to ONE year olds.  This has been, without a doubt, the fastest, craziest, busiest, but absolute BEST year of my life.  We really had no clue what we were in for or what to expect with twins…but you boys have far exceeded my expectations in the BEST way possible.  Everyone warned us, “you are going to have your hands full, the first six months are awful/hard, you’ll never leave the house”….the list goes on,  BUT I don’t feel like that was true with us at all.  You boys have been amazing from the start and made our transition from a family of three to a family of five go MUCH better than we could have ever imagined. Now, don’t get me wrong…we all had our moments.  Everything wasn’t always rainbows and butterflies and I would never want anyone to think so….but it wasn’t nearly as hard or crazy as we thought it was going to be…and that was...