Have we really had these wonderful, darling, growing babies for a whole year?! I think A&A turning one is kind of like the rapture. You know it's coming, but you're not entirely sure it'll happen during your lifetime. What a year! During these natural breaks in life (a birthday, a new year, an anniversary, and new semester) I love taking some time to reflect, set goals, plan, and dream. Honestly, I haven’t had time to do that yet, but I am trying to get this one birthday blog post done tonight.
We had two small birthdays for Audrey and Aaron. On their actual birthday they each invited one friend over for dinner and cupcakes. They invited Abby and Alana. We had ravioli lasagna which Aaron loves, and a monkey theme since Audrey loves her monkey doll so much. We love their green outfits, new books, and homemade pigs!
On Saturday Grandma and Grandpa Tolbert and Aunt Jenn, Uncle Jake and cousin Jonah came over. We had another round of food, and babies getting to eat cupcakes any way they please. Grandma got a super fun present she described as "the craziest gift I've ever given." It has balls and music and a twirly slide. I’m so glad some family could come. I remember my mom telling me stories about our neighbor Doris making me my first birthday cake and look forward to telling Aaron and Audrey about theirs.
It was fun getting things in the mail. Grandpa and Grandma Becky sent a package and cards came from Uncle Donald and Aunt Jackie, The Tolberts, The Bodishbaughs, and the incredible-at-remembering JoAnne Gay (soon to be JoAnne Jessee!). Thanks Everyone!
More than anything, we feel so blessed to be right where we are in our lives. We thank God literally every day for our family and pray for wisdom to guide our children well.
- - 1 2 Exercise!
- - Decatur Zoo
- - First Campout
- - Where We've Been 1
- - Where We've Been 2
- - Where We've Been 3
- - "Real" Timeout
- - Growing and Talking
- - Aaron napping
- - 2 years old!
- - Fun Things To Do Indoors With Friends
- - Fun things to do indoors
- - Starbucks Fail or What I Learned in ther Year 2009
- - Bye Bye Ms Rachel
- - Winter Activities
- - Christmas 09
- - Audrey's Stocking
- - Santa
- - Aaron Driving
- - New Cousin!
- - St Louis Again
- - My thumbs
- - Taking Turns and Carving a Pumpkin
- - Pumpkins and Sentences
- - Outside
- - Fun things to do!
- - Regressing in sleep?
- - Audrey loves her name
- - Blog Cramming
- - Sad Baby
- - Being silly
- - Arkansas Tourists
- - Vacation in Arkansas
- - Cinncinnati
- - July pictures
- - Aaron and the Fountain
- - Aunt Margo
- - 16 months
- - Summer Fun
- - Baby Leno
- - Playing with the stroller
- - What we're up to
- - Back in the Classroom (for a day)
- - Audrey at the zoo
- - Mini Vacation in St Louis
- - Mother's Day
- - Raiding the bib drawer
- - Easter Day
- - Family
- - Spring Fun
- - April in the Park
- - Find the Hidden Object
- - Audrey's Hair
- - More words and the magic poop
- - Taking a Walk
- - How to Call Poison Control
- - I took my first step (again!)
- - Look what I can do!
- - Welcome Spring (sort of)
- - Birthday Details
- - Birthday Teaser
- - Brushing my teeth
- - Cool shirts
- - Audrey
- - What's going on
- - My First Fad
- - Teeth
- - Christmas in Arkansas Pictures
- - Christmas Part 2 - Arkansas
- - Christmas Travels Part 1
- - Teeth, fevers, and modern medicine
- - Happy Twins
- - A double banana!
- - Where's that cheerio?
- - Funny antlers
- - Great Job, Nathan!
- - Some Christmas Pictures
- - Nine Months Old
- - Stuck Inside
- - A message we received
- - Not a Normal Post
- - A New Season
- - Various & Sundry: Groceries, Fevers, and the Church Nursery
- - 8 months old! (and more Oct pictures)
- - Pumpkins and Photos
- - Downtime and Comcast
- - More October Pictures
- - Some October Pictures
- - Sitting
- - Birthdays
- - 7 months
- - More pictures, less words
- - Comments from Strangers
- - Congratulations Jessica
- - Goodbye Friends
- - Family Photo
- - Sleeping Babies & More
- - Proving Daddy wrong
- - 6 Months!
- - My take on the Olympics
- - We love the library
- - Both smiling and laughing
- - Anguna DS
- - Groovy Baby
- - Gumming
- - 5 Months!
- - Almost 5 Months
- - Cat noises from Audrey
- - How Facebook is like Harry Potter
- - Playing basketball
- - A yucky look at life with a twin brother
- - Cameras and Rolling
- - Meeting Great Grandpa
- - 4 months
- - First Overnighter
- - Twins, Babysitters, and Twin Babysitters
- - More about Anguna
- - Smiling Babies
- - Family Project: Garden
- - Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This
- - All night long
- - Trip to Indiana
- - Welcome You to America
- - 3 Months
- - Picture of Audrey
- - Happiest day ever
- - Funny Things People Say
- - The Best Advice
- - On Having Twins
- - Anguna
- - Play time and Smiles
- - State of the Tolberts Address
- - Family Photo
- - Free Stuff for Twins
- - 7 Weeks
- - Happy and Awake
- - 6 Weeks Old
- - Sleep and Schedules
- - Holy Cow
- - Grieving with Family
- - Family visits
- - Time to make the doughnuts
- - Blessed by others
- - Elf-Children
- - All grown up
- - Photo Shoot and Chubby Cheeks
- - Baby Anti-Monitor
- - Aren't they cute?
- - Shown Actual Size
- - Almost a week...
- - Back home & more
- - Hospital photos
- - Aaron and Audrey
- - Our babies are born!
- - Prego Line Up
- - Twin Practice
- - 7 Months
- - Classes and Piles of Babies
- - Ultimate Frisbee Guy
- - 6 Months Pregnant with Twins
- - Big Ole Belly
- - Family Cmas in Arkansas
- - Snow
- - Marshallese Blessing
- - Sights of China
- - 5 Months
- - 4 Months
- - Costume Party
- - Twins!
- - Baby Time!
- - The Weaving
- - Lack of Updates
- - Texas Wedding
- - Cambodia
- - We're Back!
- - China FAQs
- - Building a Salad
- - Wedding
- - Microwave Oven
- - Macau
- - School Lunch
- - Chinese Driving
- - Translation Game
- - Foot Massages
- - Hong Kong Retreat
- - Thailand Day Trip
- - Thailand Pictures
- - Grocery Store Tour
- - Donkey Sandwich
- - Hello, English?
- - Game Night
- - New Years Eve
- - Joy to the World
- - Starry Hingglory
- - Bad Hair
- - Lawsuit
- - Appointments
- - Bike part 2
- - The Tiny
- - The Social Event of the Season
- - Break-in?
- - Mister Uncle
- - Common Household Items
- - Xining Trip
- - Jamming
- - Mid-Autumn Festival
- - Chinese Fire Drill!
- - Missing Bicycle
- - Funny Quotes
- - Sleeping
- - Read-a-holic
- - Crime
- - Back from vacation
- - Public Service Announcements
- - Karaoke
- - That's Entertainment!
- - New Apartment
- - Test Time!
- - Rice
- - Daisy
- - People say the strangest things
- - When in China....
- - Video Games
- - Slideshow mode
- - Moving
- - Snakes?
- - Another foreigner....
- - Fido Dido
- - Crest Toothpaste
- - Family Adventures
- - My family is here!
- - Kung Fu Hustle
- - Rules of the Road
- - Bus Wreck
- - La and Ma
- - Happy Birthday!
- - Buying Shoes
- - More pictures
- - Indian Restaurant
- - Splendid China
- - Report Team Activity
- - Curly Fries
- - Every day is interesting
- - Doin' the pigeon
- - New Look!
- - Update about work