Thank You!

It has been a great last few days and SO busy!! It was the twins birthday celebration weekend. My mother in law was able to fly in from Kentucky on Friday morning. Eric and I picked out our favorite dresses for the twins and we were off for the airport! Then around dinnertime, Eric's sister and her 5 daughters made it into town from El Paso. We ordered pizza and just hung out. The girls actually went right to sleep without a sound. While all of us girls did some shopping at WalMart, my little brother Nathan made it into town and hung out at the house with Eric.

The twins First birthday party was yesterday and it was busy, fun, and very entertaining...to say the least!! I will download all my pictures soon, but Eric and I didn't take a whole lot since we were busy helping the girls open their presents and smear icing on their faces and tummies!!

I know my friends and family took a lot, so maybe they can send me some? :) :) What if I say please? Then I will post a whole entry of party pics!

After the party, we had lots of people hang out at the house. The girls were on attention overload and eventually wanted nothing more than mommy and daddy to hold them!! So after a while, most people left and Eric and his sister took the nieces to a movie. It was just my AWESOME mother in law, myself, and one niece (Brianna) with the twins. We put them to bed an hour early since they were wiped out. About 20 minutes later, I had to go comfort a fussy and not-wanting to sleep Lexi. I get Lexi to sleep and Lilly wakes up thinking it's morning, since it was still light out. She figured since she had taken a 30 minute nap that she could now get up and play. So I brought her into the living room and her Nana held her for a while. Then as I was putting Lilly back to bed, Lexi woke up and started SCREAMING!! Turns out that she is getting tooth #3 now and was in some pain. SO...we give her some baby tylenol and hold her until she calms down. At this point Lilly is awake and making silly noises at me from her crib. When Lexi started laughing at her sister, I figured it was time to leave the room. So for the 5th time that night and 2 hours later, I tucked them in and told them to get some sleep. They went right to sleep, thank goodness!!

I about died when Eric and the kids arrived 5 minutes later and one of my nieces rang the doorbell and made the dogs bark! But, those babies were so exhausted that they slept all the way until 8 am this morning!

Now everyone has gone home and it is the 4 of us again. Everyone but me is sleeping and I have done 3 loads of laundry!! Yea! Now I am trying to figure out where to put all of the babies new stuff and thanking God that they are so loved by all!

Thank you to everyone who came to their party or sent gifts! The girls adore everything and don't know what to play with, wear, or read first...and I guess that is a super fun problem to have!! I'll post pictures soon!