Charlie and Miller's First Christmas!

There are SO many pictures of the boys from Christmas that it is hard to choose just a few to put on here. I would love to put up more but for some reason my computer will only let me upload a few at a time so it makes the task of putting up a lot of pictures VERY tedious.

Since we were going to be in Gainesville for Christmas Eve/Day, we were able to go to Clay's Aunt Kathy's for her Christmas Eve Party. Then we went to Jimmy and Lisa's to spend the night and have Christmas morning there.

Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve...

And Christmas morning...

Miller...

and Charlie.

We weren't really doing Christmas gifts and

Clay surprised me with some Ugg's!

If one baby gets a kiss...
the other baby has to get one too!

Getting ready to head out to Charleston because

we didn't want to get snowed in.

Snow on the boy's first Christmas!

Pictures from "Charleston" Christmas to come...

Clay's High School Christmas Party

I feel I have some catching up to do since I a lot went on that I never blogged about...

BUT I really really doubt I will be able to fully catch up on all those events because, I mean, I have twin babies, and what Mom with twin babies has time to sit around and blog about everything that goes on? So what I am thinking I will do is just post mostly pictures from over the holidays, that way you all get to see the babes and you won't have to do a lot of boring reading!

Every year Clay's high school class gets together for an annual Christmas party. I think they have had it every year since they graduated so this was the annual 8th annual Christmas party (I think). It was a late night out for us and so who kept the boys you may be wondering? We did! We brought them along. They had a good ole time hanging with the crew until about midnight when we got home. EXHAUSTING! But they were good little boys so I cannot complain. Plus, Clay really loved getting to show off his new additions to all of his friends.

Here are some pics from the event... (just realized there aren't any pics of the babes... they slept the majority of the time)

We Are Still Here

Sorry I have not posted in about a week or so... Of course we had our first Christmas with the boys so we have had a lot going on. We spent Christmas eve and morning with the Kimsey's and then traveled down to Charleston, where the boys and I stayed until New Year's Eve (Clay had to go back early to work).

The plan was to have my mom drive me and the boys to meet Clay half way and then we were going to Boone, NC to spend NYE with all of our friends. We were looking forward to seeing every one and excited about the time we were going to have...

PLANS CHANGE WHEN YOU HAVE BABIES...

LONG story short, we turned around the car on the way to Boone because we knew that the babes needed to see the doctor. We went to a clinic 8:30 pm NYE night and found out that Charlie had an ear infection, Miller had conjunctivitis as well as signs of early pneumonia that were confirmed by chest x ray, and of course both had bad colds. We left the clinic around 10 that night, picked up the prescriptions, medicated the babes and got in bed just in enough time to see the clock turn to the New Year! What a night...

So, I feel like I run a mini pharmacy right now. Amoxicillin twice a day, ear drops every 3 hours, eye ointment three times a day, Prilosec twice a day, and Tylenol every 4 hours when they had fevers!!! A lot to keep up with...

With all that said, I am not ready to take the time to put up Christmas pictures because I really do not have the energy, but I will put up their Santa picture (a little late I know) so there will be at least one picture this post.

I also want to say real quickly what an AMAZING year 2010 was and how thankful we are that the Lord has been so so so so so good to us. We do NOT deserve His love and grace. We fail Him yet He is still faithful to us. Everything we have been given is His and it is our personal goal in 2011 to bring Him glory in what we do and say, to trust Him in all situations, and be good stewards of everything we have been given! (Keep us accountable...)

Is Your Dad (or GRANDDAD) This Cool?

Yep, out of ALL the doctors in Charleston, MY dad was asked to be on the Roper Saint Francis Christmas float. They were looking for a doctor that had all of the following:

1. Cool

2. Could Entertain a Crowd

3. Funny

4. Liked by His Community

5. Surfer (a real surfer... one that can ACTUALLY surf, and surf quite well)

6. WOULD actually stand on a float for a couple of hours in a wet suit and wave to people in freezing weather

Here are some pics from his time in the spot light...

Let me know if you would like him to show up at your next event. He even does children's birthday parties (he is great with kids). He charges by the hour and will give surf lessons as well :) What a cool Dad/Granddad.

Season's Greetings

Here it is in all its glory... the boys' first Christmas card!

Then turn it over and...

Those cheeks are too cute... MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas at the Kimsey's

What a wonderful time of year! The boys had their first "Christmas" yesterday at the Kimsey's and it was such a great time. Every year Clay's Grandaddy Cliff has a Christmas party the Saturday before Christmas and then the last couple of years we have gone to Clay's mothers house afterwards and we all spend the night and have "Christmas" at the Kimsey's the next morning. It is truly like Santa has unloaded his sleigh there. Mrs. Lisa really goes all out at Christmas! Each grandchild has there own pile of presents that looks just like when Santa came when I was little. Not only does each grandchild get a bunch of presents, but so do the big "children" too...

I am very blessed to have such a great, great mother and father in law. They are not great because of the presents they give (though it is very nice of them and we enjoy them a lot!) but because they are so loving towards me and make me feel so special and loved. I hear horror stories about other peoples in laws and I feel so extremely blessed to have such great in laws that I love and love to be around. Thank you Mr. Jimmy and Mrs. Lisa for all you do for us and how you love us so much. We appreciate it!

Here are some pics from the weekend. Hope you enjoy...

Precious Charlie.

Waiting while Dad was making our bottles.

So sweet. I just love to squeeze them hard these days!

Georgia Bulldog jerseys from Uncle Ricky.

Grandaddy was proud of his gifts too!

Trying to get a picture of me and Clay "Christmas Eve".

It didn't go to well. This was the best one of about 5 pictures and

it is out of focus. And we did not fight after this picture was taken :)

Clay was more than willing to try to take it over and over for me :)

NOT!

Grandmommy putting boys to bed "Christmas Eve".

Miller and Daddy opening presents. He just kept

looking at his Dad and smiling so big.

Mommy and Miller with their big present... a wagon.

And they got many other presents like books, a DVD player,

a CD player for their room, toys, and many other things. I think Grandmommyclaus

brought way more than the real Santa Claus

is going to bring. I just have that feeling.

Grandaddy loving on us.

(I have tried for the last ten minutes to get this not to

underline and I can't figure out how to change it, so sorry.)

Charlie telling me how excited he was he got good formula for

Christmas.

Daddy taking care of the boys after a tiring morning.

I still haven't got the file from my Christmas card yet but I will get it soon and let everyone see what we did for it this year...

Things Are Looking Up...

I DO NOT want to get my hopes up, but the babes have had 36 hours of good (pain free) feedings! We started them on Prilosec Tuesday night and I can't say for sure that is what has done the trick, but something has! The reason I say I am not going to get my hopes up is because they have gone through streaks of several feedings in a row being good and then reverted back but I have a good feeling about this time!

Other good news, we got out our Christmas cards out today! For a little while there I thought it would be absolutely impossible to pull them off (getting the picture, ordering the cards, getting addresses, labeling them, stamping them... SO MUCH WORK) but we managed to do it and I am so glad we did. I think they are so cute and once people have received them I will post it on here for all to see.

For now, here are two pictures from the day we took Christmas card pics for Clay's mom...

Now to eat something for the first time today! When you are busy, it is the easiest thing to let go... I am STARVED!