Thursday, October 18

September Instagrams


"Cheese!"

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The girls love to go to Maggie's soccer games! Any time they see a soccer ball now they yell, "Maggie! Go go!" :)

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Playing some Xbox with her uncles.

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 Apparently the girls were tired of riding their little bikes so they were carrying them down the street.


Jeff wasn't home for a horsey ride so they had to improvise.


Wrigley & her binks....

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Oreos to celebrate being 18 months old!

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One of the last days that it was warm enough to play in the water. 

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They've learned about dipping their food in sauce. 

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This was after our family pictures. We were waiting to see them and the girls couldn't keep their hands off all the breakable things so I told them to lay on the floor.

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Until next year, Utah Lake.



My birthday dessert that I forgot to take a picture of before I started eating it. 


I have the best brother in law! He gave me a Nordstrom gift card for my birthday!


Another birthday present! :) Love Toms!


These two are goofs.
But this didn't end well. Morley started crying & I asked what happened. Wrigley said, "I bite." 
At least she tells me, right?.....

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We had a sleepover at Grandpa & Grandma's while daddy was out of town. 
Grandma bought Danimals for them. 

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 Bath in Grandma's big tub!

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I told Wrigley to stand by Morley so I could take a picture....


That's better ;)
This was their first official day of Nursery!

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Monday, October 15

Park City Weekend



My parents rented a condo in Park City over my siblings' fall break. Jeff was going to Chicago for work so my family invited the girls & I to go with them.
It was a cold & rainy weekend so we weren't able to do all the things we planned but we had fun anyway.
We did some shopping, swimming, sitting in the hot tub, playing games and just relaxing!

Morley loved the balcony.



This was mine & the girls' room. 




Part of this pool was only a foot deep. Perfect for the girls! They thought it was pretty great.






We had a hot tub on our balcony and sat in it at night after the girls were in bed. 







The girls love to watch Maggie play the IPad. 


This tub was so deep! The girls couldn't even see over the top.



We drove up to the Utah Olympic Park, wanting to ride the zipline but it was closed because of the rain.



So mostly we just did lots of shopping.  :)


Wednesday, October 10

Puppies


My parents' dog had 4 puppies on October 1st. 
I'm pretty sure Wrigley & Morley think the puppies were born just for their enjoyment. 






 Wrigley is so good at holding still while holding the puppies and is very gentle with them. 
Morley is not so gentle. She wants to hug them and kiss them and pick them up & carry them around the house. 



Last Sunday we were at my parents' house for dinner. We were all playing a game and looked over and found both the girls in the cage with the puppies. 


They were mighty proud of themselves. 
I think they are going to be extremely heartbroken in a few weeks when the puppies are sold. 

Friday, October 5

My Little Sugar Baby

My sweet Morley loves sugar. She gets it from her mom I'm sure. I have a bit of a sweet tooth also. 
We decorated for Halloween this week. I put a jar of candy corns with a glittery black candle in the middle on our entertainment center as a decoration. 
The next morning I was in the girls' room putting clothes away and Morley came in with black glitter all over her face. :) She was trying to sneak candy corns when I left the room and ended up with glitter all over her hands and around her mouth. I laughed so hard! 


Thursday, September 27

My 26th Birthday

My birthday this year was pretty laid back and relaxing. 
The night before my birthday Jeff, the girls & I went to dinner at California Pizza Kitchen to celebrate.


On my birthday the girls & I spent the day with my mom. We had Cafe Rio for lunch and then spent most of the rest of the day making Halloween crafts.
What could be better than spending my birthday with my mom & these two little goofs? :)


When Jeff got off work he picked up some Papa Murphy's pizza and brought it over to my parents' for a little party. 


My mom made the most delicious raspberry pie for dessert. 


I'm a lucky girl! 
And just a little freaked out that I'm now closer to 30 than to 20. Yikes. 


Monday, September 24

18 months

I have the two cutest 18 month olds on the earth.
They are so much fun right now. I love this age. And I love hanging out with them all day everyday. It's the best.

Fun facts about the twins at 18 months:

~They say so so so many words. Too many to put all of them on here but here are some of my favorites.
*Binky-Wrigley says "binky". Morley says "binka binka binka binka".
*Horsey-Wrigley says "heesee".  Morley says, "Neigh!" 
*Shoes-They both say "oosh".
*Stuck-They both say "guck!". 
*Gabbie-Wrigley calls her "Babbie". Morley calls her "Abby".
*Noah-They both call him "Nona".
*Water-Wrigley says "bwa bwa". Morley says "otter".
*Pumpkin-They both say "punky".
*Morley-Wrigley says "Mo Mo". Morley says "Mo-wee".
*Wrigley-Wrigley says "Yiyi". Morley says "Iggy". 
*Snack-They both say "nack". 

They say new words every day and it is so funny! I can pretty much have little conversations with them now & they know what I'm saying & I know what they're saying (mostly).

~Morley loves hair. She plays with my hair all the time and she is actually very gentle. On their first day of nursery I sat in there with them for a little bit & Morley walked around the room touching all the kids' hair. Most of them didn't like it and looked at her like she was crazy but she just kept doing it.

~They go to nursery now & are doing so well. Morley doesn't care at all that we leave but Wrigley will usually cry when Jeff or I leave. The nursery leaders say she doesn't cry long at all and then is fine the rest of the time.

~They love love love to color! Whenever they are coloring they point the crayon at me and say their name, meaning they want me to help them write their name. And then they repeat the letters after me. Sometimes I catch Wrigley trying to say the letters on her own while she's drawing but it's usually just, "i.....i....i....i". 

~Wrigley is obsessed with babies. We go to a little music class once a week and one of the kids has a little baby brother who Wrigley just can't get enough of. She would rather play with him than participate in the class.

~Morley still loves to sing. If I turn music on or if I start singing a song, she will sing right along. (Not the actual words.)

~Both girls are super clingy to my lately. I don't always love this. Especially when they both want me to hold them everywhere we are and won't even go to Jeff. They're getting too big for me to carry both of them around for long.

~Morley climbs out of her crib now. First she would just climb from her crib into Wrigley's but now she climbs out and comes to find me.

~They are both getting really fast and pretty much run everywhere they go.

~They both still love books and we spend a lot of time reading every day. I took them to the library for the first time a couple weeks ago and let them pick out 10 books for us to check out. They basically thought it was the best thing that's ever happened.

~Their favorite foods right now are probably avocados, cucumber slices and cheese. They also really like cherry tomatoes and pizza. Oh, and pretzels.

~Morley has the biggest sweet tooth. She loves treats! Wrigley does occasionally but not like Morley.

~They both love the "Wheels on the Bus" song and can do all the actions.

~They are both great sleepers still. They have been sleeping until after 8:00 every morning for the past couple months and it is so nice! :)

~Morley has an obsession with shoes. She is basically a pro at putting her shoes on by herself and has different ones on all the time. There are shoes all over our house all the time, no matter how many times a day I put them away.

~Wrigley is such an obedient little girl. She listens so well most of the time and is such a big helper. Morley.....oh Morley.....she does not listen and is not obedient. She will look me in the eyes and do whatever I just told her not to do. I don't know what to do with her sometimes.

~Both girls have 12 teeth and 2 more coming through right now. It has been the worst few weeks. None of their other teeth have been this bad. I am just praying they cut through soon.

~They still don't really like to watch TV. We had an obsession with Lion King for a while but not so much anymore. They still would never really sit down and watch it for more than maybe 5 minutes.

~They are both so attached to their binks. I don't think we'll ever be able to get rid of them. I need them as much as they do ;)

~Morley is absolutely terrified of the vacuum. All I have to do is say that I'm going to vacuum and she completely freaks out.

~Wrigley thinks everything is pink or blue. So funny. I try to teach them colors but pink and blue are the only ones she has picked up. She can repeat the other ones after I say them but never says them on her own. Except pink and blue :)

~The girls both love to find the moon whenever we are outside. Day or night. They say, "Moon! Sky!" 
They also love to look for airplanes. They yell, "Pane!" whenever they hear one and look up until they see it. Or if we're inside when they hear it, they run to the window.

~Morley is a little confused about her identity. She chases Wrigley around saying, "Mo-wee, Mo-wee!" I don't blame her. It would be totally weird having someone else around who looks exactly like you! ;)

~They are both little sweethearts most of the time and get very worried if someone is hurt or crying. Today I told them my tummy was hurting and Wrigley came up and kissed my stomach. 

We sure love these two and can't imagine our life without them. It's so sad that they are growing up so fast but we are trying to enjoy every second of it. And we're sure having a blast watching them learn new things every day. 



Friday, September 21

State Fair

We went to the State Fair up in Salt Lake with Mike last week. It was a blast! I'm so glad we decided to go.  I love seeing the girls so happy and excited! 
I was going to say their favorite part was seeing all the animals, but they really loved going on the rides too. I think they just loved the whole night. 
We were all hungry when we first got there so we found some food before we did anything else. 
These girls love their corn on the cob.


We walked around looking at all the animals next. 
This white goat at the top of this picture was chewing on that lady's bag. It was kinda funny.


Morley wasn't scared at all of any of the animals, sticking her hands in all of the cages to pet them, while Wrigley was a little more nervous. Especially when we got to the sheep, who were making a lot of noise. There wasn't a chance she was going anywhere near those things. 








We took the girls on some rides after that. And Mike paid for them to go on a pony ride. I thought they would love that because they love the horse down the street so so much. Morley thought it was pretty great but Wrigley wanted to get off as soon as I put her on. I had to hold her on the pony the whole time. Morley sat on there all by herself (with Jeff walking next to her) the whole time and smiled and waved at everyone :) 

We didn't get many good pictures of the girls on any of the rides but they had so much fun. It's really the first time they have been on "rides" that they are old enough to enjoy and it was so fun to see how much they did enjoy it. It was hard to get them off some of the rides.


Jeff & I also took them down the big slide and as soon as we got to the bottom they wanted to go again. So we went down a few times.


 They also got to jump in the little kids jump house. Didn't think we were ever going to be able to get them out of that!
What a fun night!