Happy 1st Birthday Sweet Girls!!

Happy 1st Birthday to our precious girls! We can hardly believe it's been a year since we welcomed our twin girls into the world. What an exciting day to finally see their faces after 9 months! They were perfectly healthy & we were so thankful that they did not have any complications being born 4 weeks early. We spent 4 nights at the hospital and then we began our life with our new family.

What an exciting year it has been! It's been amazing for Ryan & I to experience parenthood firsthand & watch our girls learn new things & meet their milestones. It's wonderful to see things through a child's eyes & seeing that big smile on their faces everyday is just priceless!

We are having a small family birthday party for Kaelyn & Shae this weekend, but we had to celebrate today too! We blew up some balloons & the girls had a ball chasing them around!

The girls are getting so smart & we think they understand what we say 99% of the time. When we ask them where their caterpillar, dog, bear & books are, they walk/crawl right over to them! We are also working on learning our body parts like: nose, head, eyes, mouth & belly! They are getting very good at using their baby sign language & have become pros at "More" and "All Done" and "Drink" while eating.

We had our last bottle of formula last night & we are getting better every day at using our straw cups at mealtime. Shae LOVES her milk & drinks a ton! Kaelyn loves eating so much, we have to remind her to take breaks & get a drink of milk! We have to tell her to take a drink of milk so she can get more food! They absolutely LOVE apple juice at snack time!

We've always heard that it's hard to picture your life without your children once you have them. This could not be more true! We cannot imagine life without our girls! We feel truly blessed to be parents & look forward to what year 2 has in store for our family!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAE & KAELYN! WE LOVE YOU!

A Look Back...

Thought I would take a trip down memory lane to see just how big our girls have gotten over the past year! These boppy pillows have been through a lot!

3 weeks old

1 year old
Shae: 4 weeks old
Shae: 5 weeks old

1 year old

Kaelyn: 1 week old

Kaelyn: 5 weeks old

1 year old

3 Year Anniversary!

Ryan & I celebrated our 3-year anniversary today! We are so very thankful for our marriage and the life-long friendship God has blessed us with. He is such a wonderful husband & loving Daddy to our girls. Here's to the next 70+ years!

3 years & 2 kiddos later...

He surprised me with a beautiful bouquet of Gerber Daisies!

Such a sweetie!

June 26, 2004

Such a beautiful day!

Girls having fun!

Kaelyn & Shae have enough hair for real bows now!!

But the question is...how long will they leave it in??

Mama G & Papa G got the girls a new wagon!!

Kaelyn & Shae LOVE it & we even go for rides around the house!

Our crazy-haired girls having fun in their new wagon!

Daddy's Day!

Today was a special day for Daddy & his girls! It was their first time to celebrate Daddy's Day! We are so thankful for our Daddy! He works so hard for Mommy to stay home & take care of us. He makes us laugh like no one else & he loves us sooo very much! We love you Daddy, hope you had a great first Daddy's Day!

Daddy's Day: June 17, 2007

Daddy & Mommy

Proud Daddy of his twin girls: June 28, 2006
Daddy & Kaelyn: 1 month old

Daddy & Shae: 3.5 months old

Daddy & his Aggie girls: 3.5 months old

Christmas 2006: 6 months old

Daddy's girls: 10 months old

Lunch with friends!!

Kaelyn & Shae love going on lunch dates with friends. We try to meet up with Mommy's old work gang once a month & we have so much fun & gets lots of special attention! Here are some pics from our latest lunch at the Galleria!

Shae

Kaelyn & Ray
Shae & Michael
Kaelyn & Patty
Shae & Ray

Kaelyn & Justin

Weekend Fun!

We had a great weekend of fun at the Arrington house. On Saturday, the girls loved watching Daddy mow the lawn & had fun eating out at Saltgrass Steakhouse. They loved the bread & enjoyed getting special attention at the restaurant.

Kaelyn & Shae love having Daddy around all day on the weekends!

They like to attack him with hugs & kisses & never leave his side!

Rise & Shine!

This is how we find the girls when they wake up now. Both are standing up in their cribs with their crazy bed-head ready for us to get them up! Most of the time they are laughing at eachother or talking in their special "twin talk" that only they can understand. We had to take the mobiles down because they were ending up in the cribs--go figure!!

Dressed up for church!

The girls all dressed up!

Mommy & Daddy just had to snap a few pictures of us in our cute dresses before church!

Ready for dinner!

Kaelyn & Shae love eating & look forward to mealtimes! We always start off with Cheerio's or Puffs for an appetizer & then move on to our veggies & fruits. It's easier to strip them down before dinner & then they go straight to the bathtub. Here they are in all their glory!