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Oliver and Emerson turned one!

On November 12th Oliver and Emerson turned one year old. We celebrated it on the Saturday before, November 8th. Uncles, Aunts, and Grandparents all were there to celebrate with us. Even Granny and Papa Frisbie joined us via the web cam. It was nice. Of course the boys received lots of toys, which with two birthdays on the same day is sure to happen.
After presents came the grand moment where the cakes were introducted to the boys. I ordered the cakes from Wal-Mart and each boy had their own, with individual ones for them to dig into, and dig in they did. They were a little hesitant at first, slowly picking away, but then Emerson head dived in with his mouth open wide, and Oliver soon followed brother's example. We started Oliver out with the vanilla one and Emerson got the Chocolate, then half way through we swapped. By the end both cakes were pretty much gone, but I think the Vanilla one was the favorite. Of course after all that sugar, the boys were pretty wired and decided that the second nap was not for them. Overall it was a great day and time!
For their actual birthday Grandma, Eli, and I took the boys to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point, right down the street from us. At first Eli was a little scared of the place, but soon we were all having a good time, looking at all the dinosaur displays and fossils. There was a small play area that had dinosaur shape sorter that Oliver and Emerson thought was a lot of fun. Eli really enjoyed digging for dinosaurs at a sand and water display, that teaches about erosion. I think the boys enjoyed getting out of the house. We all had a great time and decided we need to make trips to the museum a regular occurance.
And so my baby boys turned one, and are walking now. I am so happy that we were blessed with twins. I love having them, they have brought me tremendous joy. The past year went by way too fast, I kepy telling them to stop growing but they didn't listen. They are such happy little guys and I can't help but laugh and smile when I see them toddle toward me. I have said it many times, I NEVER thought that having twins could be so much fun!!! ( A LOT of work, but so fun).
Anyway here are some pictures from our grand party and adventure!

Discovering their new found freedom away from the downstairs. They are moving on up in the world.


The Rocking Party

Opening Presents



The Cakes from Wal-Mart. I was very impressed with how much like the invites the planes looked. They were very delicious too. We were eating cake for a couple days afterward though.


Hesitant at first, but soon were digging in with both hands.
( Still looking for an aftermath picture, will upload when I find it)

(On their birthday) We found this amazing toy at Ikea for a steal ( $8). Man I love that place

Grandpa and Eli helping Oliver with the wrapping paper on his Birthday.

Our Trip to the Museum

Ok, so the picture of the dinosaur has a small white dot on his hind leg, and upon closer examination I found a gnome residing there, I never thought of gnomes as prehistoric. Anyway I thought it was funny!


Playing with the dino shape sorter

I love the smiles here. Oliver ( green) found a mirror and thought the boy staring back at him was pretty funny.

The sand and water table, was lots of fun for Eli

My little man Emerson

Pictures

So my AWESOME friend Elena Camp graciously took some pictures of the twins for me. She posted a few of them on her blog, so if you want to see them the address is http://thecampgallery.blogspot.com/. I will probably post some more on my blog soon.
We took the pictures in Elena's backyard where she had a bunch of leaves. It was a beautiful day and the boys enjoyed playing with the leaves, and of course eating them.

Walking and Just too cute!

Here is the long promised video of Oliver walking. Emerson over the past day has started to get the walking thing down too, that video to come later. The second video is of Emerson. I caught him doing this today and thought it was hilarious. ( I think his goal was to try and pick the goldfish up with his mouth, but who knows. Enjoy!

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Halloween Fun

Pumpkins...we waited until the last week to go and get our pumpkins for Halloween. We had promised Eli we would go to a pumpkin patch and get one. Luckily there was one down the road about a mile. We found several cute pumpkins. Unfortunately it was not stroller friendly so we only got one quick picture. We got four pumpkins total and they were cute. Before trick-or-treating we quickly make two of them into jack-o-lanterns. Eli chose the designs and the
twins chewed on the tops. It was fun, no fights either. See I even took a picture with the pumpkins.

Costumes...so I ho and hummed over this topic forever it seems. I wanted there to be a theme but was unsure where to begin, so I went to my source for creative thinking ( aka friends, family and even posted the question on the twins discussion board.) I was only looking to dress up the boys and Isaac, but my dear sweet hubby insisted that I dress up. Finally, a friend ( thanks Heather W.) suggested the three little pigs, big bad wolf, and little red riding hood, and that is what we went with. So I found three pig hats and noses for the boys, tried to give Isaac ears ( he is growing his hair out again so it sort of worked) and made him a nose, and I made myself a red cape (I am pretty proud of how it turned out and it only took me half an hour). The twins hated their hats and noses and didn't wear them very long, but Eli didn't mind too much.
The boys, grandpa and I went to the ward party and had some fun (unfortunately I came down with a horrific headache and we had to leave early, but I was able to snap a few pictures before we left.)

This is one of Eli playing the doughnut game.

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On Halloween Isaac's work had trick-or-treating so off to Ultradent we went. It was a fun time ( we did have to try and figure out how to get the double stroller up a flight of stairs, but we made it!) It was nice to see where daddy worked and meet some of his co-workers.
Isaac was also able to go in early so that he was home when we went trick-or-treating. So the whole family went off to gather some loot. The twins and I headed home after about a block and a half, but Isaac and Eli stayed out for another hour. Overall it was a good day and we have a huge pumpkin full of candy to show for all out effort.

Not a political person

I am not a very political person. Politics for the most parts confuses me. To me all the promises that both parties make are interesting to listen to, but only time will show which will be made and which will be broken. Thankfully now the elections are over, and to be honest I was not happy with the outcome, but I think that what we as people as Americans need to remember is that we are all part of "one nation under God". Although we may have differing opinions as to the outcome, we need to be respectful of each other and continue to show others respect and love.
Our nation has a lot of big issues at the moment and I pity the leaders of our country. So I for one, although I did not want to see Obama in the White House, am going to put aside my feelings and pray that he will be led on the right path to help out country and democracy move out of the current crisis we are experiencing. I urge all of my friends and family to do the same thing.