So Much To Be Thankful For

We just got back from the babies 2nd trip to Charleston and it was another success. I am SO THANKFUL that they are such good travelers. Except the one time we have to feed them, we pretty much do not hear from them all the way to Charleston! So nice.

Our camera has now officially died. We started having problems with it the day the babies were born but it has finally stopped working. Pretty much the worse time to have your camera break is the holidays with your new babies SO we bought a new one! I am pretty excited because I had wanted a nice camera to have to take pics of the boys but couldn't get myself to really consider it since we already had a camera but since ours broke... what better time to get another one?!?

With that said, I have no pictures from this past holiday weekend but I do have some pics that Clay's sister took the day we took the pumpkin pics... here they are!

And my favorite...

So sweet...

Happy Birthday to ME!

Yep! Today I am... 26 years old! And a mother of two! Wow. Crazy. Those two boys are so special. I woke up to them today and they had made me a surprise...

They must have been up all night thinking of what to do for me. Cool shoes, even cooler shirts, AND a birthday sign and card... these boys are good. They take after their Daddy :) Thank you SONS (and thank you Daddy) for making this day special!

Our Pumpkins Runneth Over

I was waiting to put these up because I was considering doing a "Thanksgiving" card but I realized that was going to be too much work especially since I would have to turn around and send out Christmas cards shortly after... Have you ever seen anything cuter than this?

We are so thankful for these blessings from the Lord!

8 Weeks Old

Just a few days ago I realized that I hadn't been taking "weekly" pictures of the boys. You know the kind? Where you take a picture in the same place every week of a baby to see how much they grow? Well anyways, I had always wanted to do this but it just totally slipped my mind so better a late start on it then never at all.

Clay and I don't have a fancy camera so these pictures are just normal pictures taken from a normal little camera :( Maybe one day we can afford to get a really nice one. I LOVE how pictures taken with nice cameras look, don't you? It makes the same picture just look so good.

Well, here are the boys at 8 weeks!

C-L-E-M-S-OOOOO-N!!!

Yep! We got to go to Clemson this weekend?!? And yes, we brought the boys! We didn't quite know how we were going to pull it off but we knew we wanted to do it. The boys are great in their Baby Bjourns and so we knew that if we could figure out the feeding schedule then they would do just fine.

My friend Josh got us his cousins parking space at the condos behind the Esso so we were able to feed the babes upstairs there ( in an awesome room with a huge tv, ect. ) before heading out. We stopped by the Young Life tailgate and hung out before the game and then got in the game right before the Tigers ran down the hill! We stayed in the game through half time and the boys didnt open their eyes the WHOLE game. They love being held so being in those Baby Bjourns is like heaven to them!

After that we headed back to the condo to feed them and got to see the last half of the game. We had a HORRIBLE win, but it was a WIN, so we were of course thrilled. We then hoped in our car and headed downtown for some food. After that we got back in the car and headed to the Grinstead's tailgate because.... Lindsay got ENGAGED! We are sooooooo excited for her. The ring is beautiful and we were so happy to be able to be there to celebrate with them.

At this point the babes needed to be fed again so we headed to Caleb's friends house to feed the boys. It was a great time hanging out there because in a house of 7 girls, there was plenty of excitement about having a baby around. (It was cute... they called the babies "Caleb's babies"). Well, we left there and got home at 9:30. We fed the boys again and we ALL went to bed. It was a very very exhausting BUT fun day. (By the way, the boys didn't wake until 4:30 am ... 7 hours!.. woo woo!)

Here are a bunch of pictures from our fun filled day...

Yesterday was a fun filled day as well... we had church (still on the computer at home at this point) and then I got to work outside. If you haven't been to our house, you dont know that we have a LOT of trees. And when you have a LOT of trees, you have a LOT of leaves in the fall. I like to call it LEAF WORLD right now. It took me at least 3 or 4 hours to blow them all up yesterday! YIKES. And the depressing thing is that if you look up into the trees, it doesn't even look as if any leaves have fallen yet! (and I did this just two weeks ago). THANKS to Clay for having Daddy Day Care inside with the boys so I was able to clean it all up. He did however have a few seconds to pop his head out and snap these "great" pics...

Church

BEFORE

AFTER

Halloween!

We had a wonderful fall weekend with the boys. The football was disappointing to say the least (Clemson AND Georgia lost), but we had a family football team that was the cutest! This year for Halloween, it was football theme costumes! Our niece Georgia was a cheerleader, our nephews Jack, Ty and Davis were football players, our nephew Noah (Kemp) was the Georgia bulldog and our boys were the FOOTBALLS! I wish I had a picture of the whole group but with 7 babies 4 and under, it is a hard task.

Saturday was a long day but fun. We went to Clay's grandaddy's house, then to his Aunt Susie's house, then stopped by the Grinstead's to say hi and then ended up finally at Jimmy and Lisa's for dinner! Then on our way home we went back by the Grinstead's to pick up my phone and ended up not getting home until 12 oclock at night. It was tiring but worth it because we enjoyed just getting to hang out and enjoy all of our family and friends. PLUS, we fed the boys at 12:30 at night and they slept until 6:45 in the morning!!!! Clay and I felt great! We have not had that much continuous sleep in forever.

Here are some pics from the weekend (there aren't too many)...

Forgot to mention their Daddy made their costume... a man

of many skills.

Soon I will post some new pics of the boys that Clay's sister Jennifer took for us last week... They were so cute!

One Week Later...

It has been a WHOLE week since my mom has been gone and the verdict is... We will survive! Thank goodness. We weren't sure how we would do (or let's say I didn't know how we would do) but we have done all right.

Clay has been amazing. I was a little worried how the night feedings might wear on him, but he has blown away my expectations. We are definitely both very tired each and every feeding but we manage to get the job done and get back to bed in pretty good timing.

Not only have we managed to get through a whole week of night feedings on our own, we have also been pretty busy with other fun activities. We went out to eat with the twins on Tuesday night with a gift card Clay got for his birthday, on Friday night we strapped the boys into the Baby Bjorn's and took them to the Gainesville High School homecoming football game, on Saturday we had friends over to watch the Clemson/Ga Tech game, Sunday we went to Walmart, out to eat and to Uncle Joe's little league team's baseball games, and tonight we carved Miller and Charlie's first jack-o-lantern!

We have vowed to try to get out as much as possible with the twins. It IS a lot work getting them out the door but we think it is important to not stay in the house all of the time. Now granted, it is still early and we might quickly get over the idea of having them out and about, but for now we are going to try to do it as much as possible.

Here are some pics from our funtivities...

GHS football game. We got there a little later but stayed the

whole game!

Lauren Brock came to visit the boys to see how life was done

around the Kimsey house now. She was very very cautious with

them but by time she left she was a pro :) We had a lot fun!

At Uncle Joe's baseball game.

Our first pumpkin... a baby (with a real life paci).

Our Dad is so creative!

Here is some of his work from years past...

(Yep... that is Clay's face)

There is another great one of the cat off of Cinderella but I can't find it at the moment... But when I do, I will post it.

Alright, time for another feeding!