Idaho time!

Ryan and I took the boys for the first time to Idaho to meet all of the in-laws. It's fun they live in Rexburg, Idaho because I went to college there and now I have a reason to go back and see all the growth of this little college town which changes so much every year. 

We took the boys on their first flight from Oakland to Idaho Falls which was great.

My in-laws have an incredible garden with tons of raspberry bushes. 

I am pretty sure by the end of the trip Ryan and I had eaten about a gallon of them. We even went out with a flashlight and picked some as a midnight snack one night.

Yum! It's hard to eat the store bought kind now. They just don't taste as good.

My sister-in-law Maureen did all of our nails including Ryan's. He has the little black cat   >^..^<

One of my closest friends from college lives near my in-laws, so I get to see her at least once a year. Jazzy just had her second son and it's fun to see her and her family grow.

The Murdocks have an annual tradition of something called 'Cousins Camp' where they head up to my mother-in-law Beverly's and father-in-law Phil's land in Island Park for a day of fun. This was Reece and Liam's first year and though they couldn't really participate in the festivities I think they might have had the most peaceful naps ever. Notice the river in the background of the picture above? It was gorgeous.

Reece and Liam framed their cousin Owen for an undisclosed crime. I am pretty sure with his innocent face that he didn't do it. It's going to be fun seeing these three boys grow up since Owen is only about a month older than the twins. 

While Ryan and his sisters went river rafting the boys and I walked to Taco Time. It made me reminisce about my college days when my roommate and I would go there once a week for what we called Taco Time Tuesday. I wonder if the man in the background is reminiscing about earlier Taco Times, too…

Ryan's sister Maureen was nice enough to watch the twins so we could go on a date to my favorite restaurant 'Snake Bite'. Reece and Liam cried so much you'd think that THEY got a 'snake bite'! (Ryan made me write that joke). I love this place. They have well seasoned criss cross fries and I love me a good burger. Ryan loves the baked brie. Ryan even proposed to me by a river eating Snake Bite by candlelight... super romantic right?

Beverly owns a cute little scooter that she let me borrow and Ryan taught me how to use it. I felt pretty brave hitting 15 mph.

The flight back home is something we are trying to forget. It included one of my most embarrassing moments which I don't want to share with the internet, but in the end it was all worth it for the fun trip. See you next year Murdocks!

Blessing Time!

I am attempting to be better at journaling. This is a very belated post but the boys were blessed over memorial day and I just found this video of me getting them ready. I thought wikipedia had a pretty good explanation on what a blessing is here. Ryan and the boys did very good and they all looked pretty sharp.

 Liam on the Left Reece on the Right.

We were very lucky to have my parents, my sister Heather and her family, and Ryan's parents spend the weekend with us.

Hair

You have probably all seen these pictures but for my own personal documentation here they are: 

In case you are curious what I look like when I give Ryan sass. 

Also the weirdest thing but my hair totally changed color while I was pregnant. I guess it was growing in darker and now that it's been almost five months I have these light roots. Did not know that could happen but I am not surprised.

Four Months!

The boys are 4 months old and doing great my doctor said. 

Liam

height 24 1/2 inches 10th percentile

weight 15 pounds 8 ounces 40th percentile

Reece

height 25 3/4 inches 55th percentile

weight 17 pounds 11 ounces 80th percentile

  I love that they like to hold hands.

Wilson Week!

My sister in law Maureen and niece Kenzie came to visit last week. We had lots of fun going to the children's discovery museum, going to Great America, shopping, and eating lots of good meals out. Maureen even planted me a beautiful garden.

The children's discovery museum:

 Gnome homes at the museum. I am pretty sure the guy who was in charge of this area of the museum was related to Napoleon Dynamite because he looked and sounded just like him and he took his job REALLY seriously. He told me all about being a boy scout and how he knew how to collect things like this:

Kenzie on the walk to Great America:

Kenzie went on the chair lift by herself. She said it wasn't scary because she had been on a plane which goes way higher. She was even brave enough to go on her first roller coaster, however I think that it might also have been her last.

 You can barely see her car in this picture.

Orange loves our new garden. Thanks Maureen!

We decided to take a walk to the park the last day they were here. Ignore our very random clothes.  We had just gotten out of our church clothes and we hadn't planned on going anywhere or seeing anyone.

 We had some problems all looking at the camera.

Trip to Southern California

A few weeks ago the boys made their first trip to southern California to visit my family. They traveled over 1000 miles in one week and they were so good in the car. They had a hard time being away from home and daddy at first but they got better by the end of the week. 

I first visited my siblings and their families in Los Angeles.

Liam, their cousin Tommy, and Reece loving some cousin time!

They were due 2 days apart, however Tommy surprised us all and was born a month before the twins. These boys are going to have so much fun because they have two cousins, one on each side of the family, that are born within a month of them.

 What it would look like to have triplets in a minivan.

 My 3 year old niece Ella was a great babysitter for Reece.

 We then met my mom and drove down to visit my beautiful sister Kim and her boys in San Diego.

My nephew Jake and Reece. He is so good with kids. Jake's good with kids, too.

 

 Next we went to Ventura to visit my parents. Liam thought Grandpa was pretty funny.

My BFF Jennifer and my second family got to meet the boys.

 All together we had a fun happy trip!

Babies' first art museum!

I took the babies to their very first art museum. My friend Megan and I went to the Triton in Santa Clara which was having a printmaking exhibit. I was pretty excited since my emphasis in college was printmaking. 

 Liam's smug artist face.

 Liam 

 Reece takes art very seriously...

Not really.

I think the old lady sitting at the front dest didn't like the babies laughing so loud but oh well, the museum was pretty much empty. She followed us and gave us dirty looks.