Blessing Day

On Sunday we blessed the boys at home. It was such a sweet experience.

SNOW DAYS

Justin loves playing in the snow. Tyler taught Justin to scoop the snow with his skid steer. Hopefully, I can upload a cute video of him running the skid steer around.

Last week, I snuk out of the house while my mom watched the twins and me and Justin played in the snow. I had more fun than I was expecting.

Justin loved helping me shovel the drive way. I gave him the dust pan and he went to work! It was so much fun!

The snow on this day wasnt much for packing. This was the best snowman we could muster up. Justin was proud of it though. He set it on the porch step to "save it for Dad."

2 Month Check Up

We took Fisher and Hunter in for their two month check up this week. Fisher is 21 1/2 inches long and weighted 10 lbs 2 ozs, and Hunter is 21 1/2 inches and weighted 8 lbs 12 ozs. Both were tough for their shots.

Justin also went to the doctor to get an X-ray on his foot. He jumped off the couch and has been limping on it. The good news is that it is not broken, just a deep bruise.

A Reunion In Heaven

Grandma Helen passed away on Sunday, November 29th. Click here for the obituary.

What a reunion in heaven it must have been. It has been 52 years since her sweetheart (my mom's dad) tragically passed away, 52 years since her son (my mom's twin), Erik, died; and 6 years since her son, John, died. Oh what a happy day it must have been for sweet Grandma Helen!

I love you Grandma!

A few pictures

Who needs pie when you can just eat the cream?

Hunter and Fisher on Thanksgiving Day. They are 8 weeks old.

This is our best attempt at a picture with all 3 boys. Hunter, Justin, and Fisher.

Our first family outing. Its a tight squeeze in my car. We will be shopping for a new vehicle soon.

Grandma Helen

When I told Grandma Helen that I was having twins she was so happy and very excited. She also had twins. My mom has a twin brother, Eric. Eric died after a few short days because his lungs weren't fully developed. Grandma has always talked about someone in the family having twins and was so excited that they were finally coming.

The last little while Grandma has had a hard time remembering things but the other day when I went to see her she surprised me. I walked in the room and our conversation went like this:

Hill: "Hi Grandma."

Grandma: "Did you bring babies?"

Hill: "Yes."

Grandma: "Are they going to let you bring them in here to see me?"

Hill: "Yes, I can bring them in to see you."

Grandma: "Well, bring them to me."

Grandma hasn't had the chance to see the twins yet so it was exciting for me to take them to see her. I was surprised when she recognized who I was and all she was concerned about were the babies! She was so cute. I let her hold both of them together and she was so happy.

Grandma Helen is very close to Heaven. She is 86-years-old. She has always been such an example of strength to me. She has persevered through many many trials in her life.

I love you Grandma!

UPJ Blockage

UPJ stands for ureteropelvis junction. Hunter has a a ureteropelvis junction blockage. So what that means to us.... we have to go back to Primary Childrens Hospital in 6 months and do some testing. Most children with this problem grow out of it by 18-24 months of age. So we will watch it and re-test every 6 months. If he grows out of it then we do nothing but if he doesn't grow out of it then he will have a surgery that relocates the uretur tube in the kidney.

This is good news. And the even better news is that this problem doesn't cause him any pain. So all of his crying is not from his kidney but from his tummy. Yeah, he cries alot but we still love him!