a spring moment

It has been so rainy and yucky outside for what seems like months (but really only a week), and I've been so overwhelmingly busy with who knows what (lots of doctor and vet appointments for one...), I had to take a moment to share some of the beauty that grows in my yard...to remind myself that it truly is spring....







(I usually don't like to 'doctor' my photos in any way, but this tulip -- the purple one in the center -- seemed to call out, "Look at me!" and that shout-out wasn't as 'loud' in the photo, so I helped out a bit.)


(Can't you just smell these??)


These beauties are glorifying my yard because of this man...

...who works very hard to take care of it...


...and who is now planting for our summer and fall harvest....


We've already enjoyed some of the yummy asparagus.


Oh how I hope we will see the sun again soon so we can do more of this....

...and less of this....

(typical moment for my boys...Niels letting it all out and Anders just hangin' out)

...and please oh please MUCH more of this....

Sun...where did you go? We sure miss you. Not much sun outside makes for not as many sunny faces inside.

However, I do want to thank you rain for feeding those beautiful flowers and making a nice bath for my birds....

party #1 for 2

We had a wee party for our wee one year olds.


It was real casual...just the way I like my parties!


There was lotsa love to go around.


Daddy dressed up in his Packer best.


I made lotsa Oreo cupcakes (this is only half of them)....


There are half Oreo cookies on the bottom of each cupcake. YUM!!!!
(Remember I made Oreo cookies the day I went into the hospital to birth them boys...so that's why I made these kinda cupcakes.)


The boys devoured them (who wouldn't?).





A favorite funny face.


The "three-finger-suck"...his own little sign language to let me know when he is hungry or tired. He just finished dinner and a cupcake, so he is very tired.



My proud one year old boy.


Just a couple pics of me 'n my boys so you can see for yourself I survived my first year with twins...and I'm still smiling. This was a "grab-my-moment" photo at the end of a very long day, so we all look a bit tired...but that's not very unusual for the three of us......

We had ourselves one heckuva good first year together. I felt lucky every single day of it. The past year was so much easier than I imagined it would be...but that's not saying it wasn't as difficult as you know it was. I have a feeling the next two years are going to be much more difficult. They still are not walking...or even crawling, so they are still basically immobile. They are pretty mellow little dudes. I often wonder if this past year was the "calm before the storm"....

I'll keep you posted on that.

a year ago today...

...these boys entered my world.








And my entire world changed for the better.