December

December was busy, but we still filled it with fun Christmas festivities. At the beginning of the month was the UWS Gala, and the theme this year was a Masquerade ball. It was so nice to get out for a fancy dinner and spend time with friends. (I forgot my camera but hopefully with get some pictures soon).

We slowly started packing to move throughout the month and it felt weird knowing it was our last Christmas in our home. 

Here are a few random pictures from the month:

Olive fingers 

Three boys in a tub

Fun at the community center

Elliott is so funny. He likes to slump down and just hang out sometimes.

We had a morning of snow! It was a repeat of last year, when I looked outside to see the snow on the ground, and had to rush everyone to get dressed and ready so we could play in it before it melted. It was really cold though, so we didn't spend much time outside.

Truman didn't care for it very much.

Neither did Elliott.

With 11:00 church, the twins are usually ready for a nap by second hour. In Portland, I was in Primary, so Rob had both boys for most of church and he'd just let them play in the gym where class was held. Some days, they just wanted to sleep though.

Elliott taking a comfy nap

These babies also decided they don't need to sit down to eat. They refuse to sit down in their high chairs, and scream if we try to buckle them in. So instead we just have heart attacks every meal time when they try to get out, or carefully crawl from one high chair to the other, or when we turn around to find them hanging off the side of a high chair holding on tight.

One last library story time trip. It's definitely getting harder to go places with these boys. They only sit still for a few seconds, then try to run in opposite directions, pull books off shelves, locate every electrical outlet, or just scream at the top of their lungs any time I try redirecting them. They're sure cute though!

Also in December was Rob's graduation! It's still surreal that he is done. We've been a student family as long as we've been married so we're excited to be moving on. His parents and sisters came into town for it, and Laurel, Julia and Annika came to the ceremony as well. We're all so proud of this accomplishment!

A few pictures of the boys in their cute Christmas suits!

Truman

Elliott

Collin

At our ward Christmas party, we enjoyed a delicious dinner and the kids got to see Santa.

Collin LOVES Santa!

Truman and Elliott, not so much.

Family Santa pic

One of our Portland traditions has been walking down Peacock Lane at Christmas time. We'll miss this fun little street.

My favorite house is always the Grinch one.

Truman and Daddy

Happy Elliott

Christmas was happy and relaxing. Collin was so excited for everything and it just gets more fun watching him every year. The twins liked all the excitement and treats.

Christmas Eve sugar cookie making with my helper.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day!

Using his candy cane to walk like the old man from Up.

Fun new toys!

Santa brought the twins this wagon, which has been well used since.

Whenever we'd ask Collin what he wanted Santa to bring him, he'd say "A bike! A green one!" He was a happy boy.

My favorite gift for Collin was his own robe with slippers. His favorite thing lately was being wrapped inside my robe with me, and in the mornings he would tell me to put on my robe. He is so cute in his little dinosaur robe and shark slippers.

T, E

Daddy and Truman. One of my favorite gifts for the twins was the egg shaker sets they got in their stockings. They have these at the library story time, and they would both always cry when it was time to put them away. 

Snuggly Elliott

                                          

November

Finally catching up. November was so long ago! But here are some pictures:

We had the most beautiful Fall with so many leaves to play in!

Collin and his friend Alayna (Already missing all our friends in Portland!)

The twins have followed in Collin's love for SuperWhy. . . or at least the opening music. The boys know when it's about to come on, and wait excitedly, and as soon as the music starts, they bob up and down and go crazy dancing! We've gotten a few videos that we'll have to post.

 I celebrated my 27th birthday! We went to see Catching Fire in the afternoon, then came home and Rob made steaks. He also made me the most delicious lemon cream cheese cake!

Seriously, it was so good! I want another.

Birthday pic with my twins

My little boys

We stayed home for Thanksgiving, and it was the 2nd time we've done our own turkey dinner. We love having our own Thanksgiving! We lazily watched the parade all morning, made all our favorite foods, then had tons of leftovers.

Carving the turkey! Oh, and Rob grew a mustache all month for Movember. (We were all happy when December 1st came along.)

These boys loved the sweet potatoes and desserts. . . and not much else. 

Elliott

Truman

October

October photo dump

We started the month with a trip to the Children's Museum. I can't believe we've lived here so long and hadn't been there before. The boys loved it!

Truman

Elliott

Collin buying groceries in the little play store

 My parents came into town for a day after making a spontaneous trip to Yakima. We were so glad they were able to visit! We forgot to take more pictures though. (Truman was a sick boy that weekend. He started a recurring pattern of wheezing and difficulty breathing after getting a cold. After the most recent episode last weekend, it was determined he likely has Asthma, and is now taking daily medicine for it.)

Collin doing his puzzles with Grandpa.

His new favorite pastime. He asks to do puzzles every day, and puts together every puzzle we have. Then sometimes takes them apart and does them again.

Lincoln Log fun

Neon Run:

We ran in the Neon Run with my niece Annika and had a blast! It was a 5k at night time and everyone wore glowsticks and neon paint, and they threw glow in the dark stuff on us at stations during the run. Collin loved it! It was the perfect race to take him on with us. I think his favorite part was on the way to the race, we were inching along in traffic, and right after getting off the freeway, Collin started freaking out saying "Potty!" Traffic was completely stopped. I had no choice but to frantically get him out of his seat and run to the nearest tree. He thought it was pretty fun and later asked to do it again.

Under the blacklights

Katie and Scout's visit

Katie and Scout came for a week, and it was so much fun! We finally got to meet cute little Scout. She seemed so little next to my "babies"! Collin couldn't get enough of her and still talks about "baby Cout." While they were here, we did a little shopping, ate at food carts, went to Roloff Farms and Voodoo Donuts, and went to Laurel and Rob's house. 

Kiss for baby Scout

Cousins

She fit right in around here.

Story time

Truman and Scout

Roloff Farms

We wanted to make one last trip here before we move and it was fun to go with Katie and Scout. Collin loved the little "pumpkin house" display, and though we were excited to bring him to the petting zoo area, he wanted nothing to do with the animals this time. I tried to convince him to pet the sheep and told him, "It's nice and soft!" and he said, "No, it's mean. And dirty." I always love Pumpkin Patch pictures, and we took a lot!

Elliott

Sweet babies!

Truman

Halloween

We had a little skunk, frog, and dinosaur this year (or sometimes Collin would say his costume was a crocodile, but the "roar" was the same either way). Collin was really into it and loved getting dressed up and going to the church party and trick-or-treating. And the twins discovered candy, so they had a great time too. We went to the cutest neighborhood in Fairview that goes all out for Halloween. Tons of awesome decorations, and thousands of trick-or-treaters! (Side note, we didn't get a picture of our bat jack-o-lantern, but Collin had fun helping Rob carve it, and was mostly excited about watching it decay after Halloween. We had to accommodate his scientific interests of course, so we kept the moldy pumpkin on our doorstep until just today, after weeks of Collin asking if it had yet decayed.)

Babies at the ward Halloween party

Elliott cracks me up. He likes to just randomly lay down on the floor sometimes and thinks it's funny.

Gecko and froggy Truman

Pig and skunk Elliott

Trick-or-treating at UWS

Halloween lunch

These boys seemed to already know to try getting into the candy. They especially loved the Reese's.

Trick Or Treat!