Happy Fourth of July!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

We started our holiday weekend with several friends by going to eat at Majestic and see Wicked on at the Orpheum. I am not really a big play/opera person but the last two i have seen i have really enjoyed. I saw Lion King in LA and when it came to the orpheum last year. Both plays are really good!! The costumes and singing were incredible. Very talented people!

My mom and Amber kept the girls. We are so thankful for them:) They said they girls went down around 10pm and lucky us didn't get woken up until 9:30 am!!! The girls have really been spoiling us lately by sleeping 8-10 hours for the past 2 weeks and thursday was almost 12! I guess they are going through a big growth spurt or something. It would be nice if it will last, but i am sure it won't.

Friday, Jonathan ran in the Firecracker 5k for St. Jude. Last year several of us ran/walked it for Catherine Grace. This year it snuck up on us. I didn't want to walk by myself so we waited for daddy at the finish line. He did a great job and ran in 29 minutes.

The pink armband is for CG :)

Saturday, we dropped the girls off with my mom. Several of my aunts and uncles were coming to spend the 4th at my parents so they were all excited about seeing the girls.
We headed to pickwick to our friend Robs lakehouse for the "Deep South Red Carpet Event", every year there is a theme. Robs birthday is on the fourth and he turned the big 3 0 this year. It is always so much fun and just a crazy wkd. 

a little sample of what you might find at the DSRCE

john deer is the sponsor

and notice the "red carpet"

A little Red Carpet interview

We hung out on the lake all day saturday and had great weather. We had a fun weekend with great friends and several we hadn't seen in a long time! We miss the Harts and Skintas :(
Now we are getting ready for our trip to Orlando, we leave Thursday!!

rollin with my hommies

3 months!

Our little girls are already 3 months old! 

I am thinking they probably weigh around 8 1/2-9 pds. We don't go to the doctor again for a few more weeks. They are still wearing some 5-8 pds gerber onesies, but mostly in newborn or 0-3 month clothes.

I thought we would move up to 1 diapers by now but they still go up to their chests. They were out of pamper newborns the other day so i got huggies and i noticed that they seem a little bigger than pampers and they fit great so i am going to use those for a little while. 

They are both starting to laugh, smile and "talk" alot which has been so much fun. 

They watch me when i walk around and follow toys really well. They look around at everything and think the fans are funny.

Ramsey is holding her head up really well but Evie still doesn't have it down yet. They kick their legs all the time and when i lay them over their boppies they push up off the floor and almost go over the side. I really have to be paying attention! :)

Ramsey rolled over the other day, I am sure on accident but her reaction was priceless, she looked at me like i did it to her. haha I am sure i will be getting that look from her alot.

They are sleeping 8 hours most nights. The other day they went down at 10 and  i had to wake them up at 8:30! I feed them and they go back down for about 4 hours depending on what time they woke up and what time we need to leave to go workout.

They have moved up to 5 ozs every 4 hours

They ladies that keep them when i workout told me that the girls love when all the older boys and girls talk to them, they stare at them and smile. They are so sweet there and i am so glad i have the opportunity to do that. When i walk in the gym the little girls say " the twins are here, the twins are here" too cute. I have to watch out though because when i picked them up on Tuesday there were 2 year old adorable twin boys with them. uhoh.... dont tell jonathan ;)

Until about a month ago all they did was eat, sleep every four hours but now that they stay awake a lot longer, i have been trying to figure out some sort of routine. Obviously every day is different and with two i really have to be flexible. I have to remember that they are two different babies and what one wants to do the other might not. One morning Ramsey didn't sleep at all in between a feeding, she just sat in her swing and wanted to play, Evie slept the whole time in hers

Our mornings are usually crazy because when they get up we head to the gym. Sometimes i feed them before we leave, they feed them there also if need be. We come home and they usually sleep or play in their  bouncy seats until it is time to eat again. We eat, play on the floor do a little tummy time and when they start getting tired or fussy i put them in their beds for their afternoon nap around 1-2 and sleep until their next feeding. They have been really good about going down without fussing. I am not doing anything thing specific like baby wise or anything but i love taking opinions and ideas from all over and seeing what works. If they do get fussy i go in their pat them and give them their pacifier if they want it and then walk out. Somedays i have to do this one or two times and others i don't at all. One day its one baby, one day its another and sometimes it is both.

The early evenings are usually the hardest, i am ready for jonathan to get home and they are usually experiencing the "witching" hour. We go for a walk sometimes, or drive around, you start they car and they go silent. Last night we went to oak court mall and walked around. It has been too hot outside. 

We started feeding them closer together at night and i think it has helped. When they start sleeping longer we will probably put them down earlier, but i don't want to get up at 3 or 4 and we are night owls anyway so they usually go to sleep around 10

We don't have a specific nighttime routine yet. We don't give them a bath every night yet. We do put their pjs on, feed them, rock and then put them down. They do better at night with going straight to sleep. I think they are starting to learn that it is nighttime when its dark. It also helps to have four hands :)

I think that is all that is new with they girls. The pictures on the previous post were taken yesterday so that is what they are looking like these days :) Everybody still say Ramsey looks just like me and Evie looks just like Jonathan. What do yall think?

9 years ago today...

Jonathan and i had our first date :) 

We met when we both were working at the Fed Ex St. Jude Golf tournament. I was "the talk of logistics" ( the guys that worked with him told me that to embarass him all week) The Wednesday of the tournament a bunch of us went bowling (everyone used to go on wednesdays throughout the summer) as we were leaving he walked me to the car and asked me out. We went the following Monday to Cooker and watched Office Space. He said he knew i was a keeper since i thought the movie was really funny :) 

The first pictures we took together

I was a young just graduated from highschool innocent 17 year old :)

Jonathan was a 20 year old fratboy at UT

I know my parents were scared :)

Ever since i can rememba.......

......I've been poppin my colla

pop poppin my colla

Ramsey's too cool for her bumbo look

so happy

showin off her Michael Jackson dance moves

don't they look too cute in their frat-tastic polos?!?!

HOT!

It has been a HOT summer in memphis and it has just begun!

Jonathan bought the girls a kiddy pool, we tried sitting them in their bumbos, but the bumpos float, haha. We will have to think of another way until they are big enough to sit in it themselves. We decided to go to Mrs. Beckys again on friday to swim instead. My mom took some pics so i will post them later. The water was much warmer this time so they liked it.

Friday night my friend Stephanie came in town for her baby shower and we went to her parents for some BBQ. Thanks to Mrs. White and Mrs. Lowe for loving on the girls all night while we visited! Saturday was another day of baby showers. We headed to Julie's shower first. We can't wait until the little "nugget " gets here, Julie is due the first of October!

Courtney, Julie and me

Julie and Ramsey

quit that yawning girls we have a long day ahead of us :)

After Julie's shower was Stephanie's shower. Jonathan came to get the girls before it started so i could enjoy myself :) We had a great time and Steph got some great gifts.

Me and Anna

Yummy cake and whoever did those flowers is amazing ;)

The Hostesses

Lauren, me, Amanda, Steph, Anna, Rachel and Ashley

Everyone was supposed to bring a book for Robbins and we put them in here

Ramsey smiling at Anna 

Sunday we celebrated Jonathans first Fathers day!! 

We went to church then ate at Garibaldis with Hayley, Keith and Charlie. Jonathan took Maddie to the dog park, then we went to see The Hangover. 

Another fun wkd!

quadskies

We had our second play group on Tuesday and all the girls were matching!!!

We tried several times to get a picture and this is what we ended up with. 

One day we will get a really cute one!!

All the ducks in a row!

Evie and Ramsey(3 mths), Addie(5 months),Ella(18 months)

Ella trying to escape from the babies :0)