Merry Christmas

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at my parents house this year and we really enjoyed spending so much time with family. Christmas morning last year I went into early labor and Tyler and I ended up spending Christmas day along with many weeks to come in the hospital till the babies came, so this year was much more enjoyable although not exactly relaxing. The twins still have a hard time sleeping anywhere but home and Zoe had an ear infection that was making her pretty upset. I still managed to get some cute pics (with the help of Adam) of the kids. Ezra and Zoe didn't have a clue what was going on Christmas morning but it was still fun to pretend they did. They ended up liking ribbons and ornaments on my moms tree much more than any of the presents. We also spent time at Tyler's grandparents and his parents house on Christmas, so we had quite an eventful day and by the time we got home we all crashed and the kids (thankfully) slept great!

My brother Adam came home to visit and it's been three years since we've seen him, so it's been so nice to catch up and show off his new niece and nephew. He treated all the siblings and spouses to a 3D movie (Tron) and dinner last night. I just wish he could stay longer!

We also got to talk to Alex on Christmas morning! It made me miss him! I can't believe it's already been a year though. Just one more to go before he gets home and meets the newest members of the family.

The holidays have been great this year and we've so grateful to have wonderful family to spend them with. It's been quite a year for Tyler and I, so many changes but so many blessings. I'm so thankful our babies made it here safely, they are the best thing that's ever happened to us!

Ezra trying to make a big decision

I love his winter sweater, he looks

so plump and cute!

This girl is either WAY happy or WAY sad.

Christmas Eve she was mostly sad because of an

ear infection. We'll just pretend she was this happy all night.

Grandma Bobbie gave them these super cute little walker/bikes

Despite Tyler's best efforts to keep them out of these costume

I managed to get a few more pictures of them. (Ezra grew quite a

bit since Halloween and didn't fit in the red and white undershirt:)

Merry Christmas to you all!

Halloween

The Putnam families going for movie themes this year.

Poor Zoe wasn't loving her costume.

My fam just missing Adam and Alex.

Buddy the Elf, Jovi Elf and their little baby elves.

Our Halloween party was a success this year. We had yummy soup and all sorts of good eats and enjoyed hanging out with family. We're going to try to expand this party next year and invite more people and have more activities. Thanks to my mom for bringing all sorts of good stuff and helping out with the kiddos ALL night. Thanks mom. I guess it's time to get ready for the next holiday... CHIRSTMAS! oh wait I forgot about THANKSGIVING!! Poor Thanksgiving gets overshadowed by Christmas. Hooray for Thanksgiving coming up soon!!

Fall

I love this picture. The kids were not happy this day and

my mom was trying to help out while I took senior pics of my sister.

Playing in grandmas pretty yard.

Fall is the perfect season. Not too hot, not too cold (except recently in Utah), the colors make it beautiful, you can start wearing cozy sweaters and jackets, it smells good outside especially on Halloween, and you can buy candy in very large bags at the store! I just wish it lasted till the end of November and then winter can start December 1st and only last till February 1st. I am looking forward to this Christmas season, though, it will be the first Christmas that Tyler and I aren't working at the Post Office, which is very nice. Although there are a few things that I actually will miss about that. The extra money for starters, beautiful Park City and of course shopping at the Outlets. Oh well this year I want to spend as much time with family as possible and perhaps make some new traditions with our two new additions this year. It will be the first Christmas for the twins, and even though they won't remember it or even be able to get excited about much of it I still can't wait. I'm not going to say what our family is going to be for Halloween this year but I will post pictures soon. A little hint though we'll be able to use them again for Christmas! We are having a little costume party this Friday with mostly family (although any friends who read this you are welcome to come). We had a little one last year and ate soup and bread bowls so we are keeping up the tradition this year.

The babies are sick right now and it's been a struggle for everyone. I hate when something like this is out of my control and my babies are just miserable. I took them to the doctor yesterday and no ear infections, or anything too serious but the doctor still wrote a prescription for antibiotics. Am I weird for not wanting to give them those unless we know for sure there is an infection?? I think docs over do it with just giving those out. Hopefully I'm not being a bad momma, but I'm going to give them a couple more days and see if they improve before I resort to that. They are both crawling now although in very different ways. Ezra is an Army crawler and I don't think he's ever going to figure out the faster way to get around, and Zoe is the traditional knee crawler. They switched places recently and Ezra is now the harder of the two. He is so needy (wonder who he got that from), he starts crying when I hold Zoe, or even change her diaper. At first it was sort of cute but now it's just annoying and exhausting for me. Zoe is pretty content to just play on her own and she's it a little more easily entertained. They both really want to explore every corner of the house and get into everything, which I know is a good thing developmentally but it becomes a lot more work for me. Don't get me wrong though these two bring me so much joy and fun and I feel so much more fulfilled now, but there are definitely days where I really sleeping in, or just relaxing when I'm not feeling good.

Wrap it up Alyssa....Hope you all have a Happy Halloween!!

Teeth!!!

These two rascals are keeping us awake again! They are both getting their two bottom teeth and it's been a struggle the past few weeks. Just when I thought we had figured out the whole sleeping through the night thing this completely ruined our little schedule. Perhaps someday I'll be able to sleep through the night with no interruptions. That is for sure the thing I miss the most since having these two.

They are both so close to crawling, but haven't quite figured it out yet. They will get up on their hands and knees and rock but they don't move forward. I know they will figure it out soon enough, I just get a little annoyed when people ask me if they are crawling yet and seem surprised that they aren't. Technically they aren't 8 months if you take into account they were more than a month early. A lot of people tell me that my life will never be the same once they start crawling because they will be getting into EVERYTHING! I like keeping my house fairly clean so I'm going to have a hard time letting them discover and make big messes.

I talk so much about the babies lately just because it's taken over my entire life, but there is also someone else in my life that I enjoy talking about. THE HUBBY! Tyler turned 30 on the 26th of September! I feel bad we didn't really celebrate as much as I wanted to because we were out of money and we were on a diet, but I'm still planning on throwing a celebration in the form of a birthday/Halloween party near the end of October! If anyone has any fun ideas for things to do or eat I'd love to hear them. I'm not to good at throwing parties so we shall see. I'm going to try to put up a video of Ty making the twins giggle. He is so good with them. They both light up when he walks in the door after work. I know he is going to be the favorite:) Especially with Ezra. Doesn't seem fair...I carried them for 8 months, had contractions for 3 weeks straight in the hospital, got about a billion stretch marks, and I'm up with them all night, and they love him more:) Oh well I'm glad that he is such a good daddy.

See there I go somehow I got back to the subject of the kiddos. I think I need a night out without the kids. It's just not as fun to go on a date since we started this diet. Eating was always central to our dates. I guess that's why we had to go on a diet though. I never realized how much I love carbs. Forget about meat, give me carbs any day! Lately I watch all the cooking shows on the food network because just looking at all the good food sometimes is enough for me. I don't know why, it's weird. Food and babies that is what occupies my thoughts these days.

photoshop fun

Cheese ball!

Don't you love how cheesy these grins are? It cracks me up, especially since their eyes disappear. Love it!

Little Models

I just had to post these pictures. They give me great glazed over model looks when they are really tired. What beautiful babies I have!!

Drool Babies

This summer is coming to a close and it's actually been a pretty enjoyable, relaxing one for Tyler and I. Tyler was able to go to Morocco and southern Utah with the Army Band and he had a great time. We've gotten quite a few projects done around the house, except for the yard of course but hopefully next summer or spring we'll finally attack that project. I finally bought the camera I've been dreaming of the past few years and I've been having lots of fun with it although I have a lot to learn still. I've even had the time finally to catch up on some of the movies that I didn't have a chance to see after the babies arrived. Ezra and Zoe are getting big and I have to say, more enjoyable. Don't get me wrong I love the tiny baby stage but I really didn't like not getting any sleep, it makes me really ornery. I'm finally getting some sleep again although we haven't perfect the sleeping though the night thing, we're getting there.

Ezra and Zoe are drool babies right now especially Ezra. He can soak the entire front of his onesie in less than an hour. He learned how to roll on his tummy and almost never stays on his back anymore. He even prefers sleeping on his tummy and I've given up rolling him over because he never stays hopefully that's okay by six months??? Zoe is our little drama queen and gets mad if she can't reach a toy or get something she wants. She's so demanding, it worries me for those teenage years. I forgive her pretty quickly though as soon as she grins at me because you can't help it, it's so stinkin sweet when she smiles cause she smiles with her entire face. I hope she doesn't use this knowledge against me someday:) I end up going on and on about my kids about details I'm sure only I care about in these posts. Perhaps the next post I try to come up with something other than them. (You can't blame me though when you look at the pictures above.)

My blue eyed babes!

It's been awhile since I've posted, I know, I know how annoying, but I bought a new laptop so it won't take three hours to upload pictures anymore so I'm going to be better at this. Plus I had to post some of my most recent favorite pictures of my sweeties. I love how they look in just their white onesies. They are getting more and more fun everyday, and getting so big so fast. It actually scares me sometimes how quickly these months are going by. I want to be better at writing down some of the things they are doing.

Right now Ezra has such a sweet loving personality, his favorite person is for sure his dad. He lights up whenever Tyler walks into the room and smiles so enormous when he looks and plays with him. He loves splashing during bath time and he's so patient when Zoe is needy and waits his turn for most things. (Minus food). He loves his jumperoo and is starting to really get some air in that thing. It's hilarious! He is starting to get separation anxiety and doesn't like being put down into bed and then seeing us walk out of the room. It makes me so sad. He is such a loveable little boy.

Zoe is a little bit more demanding and LOVES attention. She gets pretty frustrated when she drops her toy or see's something that Ezra's holding that she wants. She's a little more timid about bath time and gets really nervous in the water. She has the highest pitch little squeal that sounds like she's trying to communicate with dolphins. It's especially loud in the early mornings but when I go in to get her she grins so big that I can't get upset with her even if I wanted to. She loves to play with my hair when it hangs down when I'm changing her, it's really sweet until she grabs it and pulls hard! She is very strong and tries to do little crunches when I lay her down and has a hard time sitting still. I think she is going to have a lot of energy when she grows up. I'm not a high energy person so I'm a little worried about it. She'll keep me active though so I don't ever become a lazy mama.

I'm so happy to be their mom, I feel so lucky everyday, even when i'm so exhausted at the end of the day, it's so worth having them look at me and smile and know that I'm their mommy!

All Smiles

My little ones just love hanging out on my bed

in the morning after they wake up. (Just before

they realize they're hungry) This is the time of

the day they just can't grin enough. I love it!

She got so excited, so couldn't wave her arms

fast enough. So cute! Her eyes usually disappear when

she smiles big. Mine do the same. Cute as a baby, not

so much when you're an adult:)

This is actually one of Ezra's half smiles.

He usually has an enormous grin from ear to ear.

Stressful day!

Today has been quite a challenge, so I thought I'd post a really cute picture of my babies so that it will remind me of how cute they are (most days!!!). Ezra has been pooping all day, I bathed him and he did great fell asleep on me after and then I put him down in his crib for a nap, so I could start Zoe's bath. She loved her bath too, but hated getting out and being cold for a minute. She screamed (you know the ones where they turn purple from screaming) meanwhile Ezra woke up and started screaming himself. So I put a onesie on Zoe grabbed Ezra and set them both on my bed so I could go get some milk (even though they had only eaten maybe two hours ago) I came back into the room to, two purple screaming babies that wouldn't calm down for anything. Don't even think about insulting them with a pacifier or then you'll really be sorry! I put the milk into bottles and put them in hot water (babies still screaming bloody murder) put them both into their boppies and said screw it and started feeding them really cold milk. Of course they calmed down immediately but then I was stupid enough to take the bottle out of Ezra's mouth to get myself situated and immediately the screaming resumed. I quickly put it back in his mouth and still screaming. I couldn't get him to realize that it was back in his mouth. Oh and both babies only ate about half of what they normally eat. Maybe they are both sick or something. Regardless I felt like I was going to collapse after this experience. They are both asleep right now but I know I only have about 20 minutes before they both wake up again. I have so many things I should be doing during this 20 minutes but I just can't muster the energy. Just needed to vent!

Baby Feet

I love my babies feet! I have to kiss them all the time, so I thought I'd post one of the sweetest pictures of them. My best friend from High School Kimberlie was sooooo stinkin' nice to come to my parents' house and take all of the photos that I've been posting recently. She did such a wonderful job and I can't thank her enough!! I'll probably post more soon.

Little Zoe girl!

This is one of my favorites of her.

Showing off her pretty eyes!

Don't you want to just kiss those cheeks!?

I probably kiss them a hundred times a day:)

Love my little Zoe girl!!

She's discovered her little hands. She's kind of doing

the pirate look that she does so well in this picture. I'll have to

post another picture of her doing her famous look.

Starting to get tired on mom after a long day.

I love the look on her face in this one.

She's so darn pretty!

Ready for her nap.

Can't get enough of these little cuties!

The Ezra man!

Love this kid.

This is the face he's going to give me someday that he'll

know I won't be able to say no to.

Getting snuggles from mom.

Happy boy.

Trying to figure out why everyone is staring at him.

Puckering up with those scrumptious lips!

Thinking about giving a smile.

He calls this one blue steel!

Showing off those big eyes he got from dad.