Just Bragging

Today Gaite took his first unaided step. Yea! We are one step closer to us all walking to the car instead of making 10 trips. So Excited.

New and Improved

Gaite and Paige enjoying their hot wheels at Grandma's. They love this wagon and so do I. I mean it even has seat belts. Crazy.

Here is Gaite after eating oreo's. By the way oreo's actually stain some fabrics. Who knew?

He is absolutely so gorgeous. He gives great hugs and will even give you a pat on the back when you need it.

Paige is my diaper maiden. I love it, Paige usually doesn't but she looks so cute I can't help it.

She is the cutest vampire baby I've ever seen. Edward and Bella Cullen have nothing on me.

As usual partners in crime. Don't ever turn your back and don't let them smell your fear.

I have to brag...

Tonight Paige took her first unaided step. The first time she took one step right into her daddy's arms. By the end of the night she was up to 3 consecutive steps. It won't be long and she will be running me in circles. I am so proud of her, she is such an angel. Hopefully I can catch it on camera tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Paige & Gaite

We had an awesome first birthday with family and friends. The babies were happy and seemed to have a good time. I was worried about how it would go considering the babies have been sick but it all went great. (Minus the horrid sunken cake that was one gender short.)

Paige was cruising around on her car waiting for the fun to begin. She looked so precious in her little sailor dress. I absolutely love her arm rolls. Reminds me of my pregnancy.

Here is Gaite chilling with Uncle Mike. He looked so sweet and handsome in his little sweater vest.

When it came time to eat cake, Paige jumped right in, Gaite however needed to poke it first.

Gaite is such a ham. As soon as he saw that people were laughing at how he was eating his cupcake he put on quite a show. Paige, once again was all business.

Yikes. I left the clean up of Gaite to Beau while I attempted to clean up Paige. I don't know which is worse. She really hates to get cleaned up.

Better Late Than Never

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything. I find myself very busy, but I will try my hardest to keep you all updated with my beautiful babies.

THANKSGIVING DAY

Here are a few pictures of the babies on T-day. I love when they hold hands. They usually hold hands or try to feed each other at every meal. They are so sweet.

Here we all are at Laura and Tommy's Christmas Party. I think this picture speaks for the babies personalities itself.

CHRISTMAS DAY

After telling the babies no for two weeks about getting into the presents they were a little apprehensive about opening up all of their goodies. They had a good time though, there was just so much paper to eat.

NEW YEARS DAY

I love these pictures. My thanks to Aunt Jen for the awesome pictures with her fabulous camera. I will be posting more from their 1st birthday party later.

Griswalds in Chicago

This was at the Navy Pier. It was alright, especially after we figured out we could walk inside. Andrew just had to be in this picture.

Here is my Sailor in our room at the Navy Lodge. He is so handsome in his dress blues. He looked so proud and grown up.

Here is all of us kids in the hall at the Navy Lodge. There were lots of pictures taken this weekend. Poor Andrew.

I love this picture and had to wait for two months for this.

This is the graduation ceremony. It was really nice and would have been nicer had my camera taken better pictures. Andrew is in the row with the two flags (below). I wish I had been able to get a decent picture of him up close.

It was very hard to leave Andrew again. Just as hard as meps was. But I got to talk to him twice after I left Chicago so that was very nice. I am hoping that I will be able to hear from him at least a couple of times a week now. I doubt I will but it would be super cool.

The Howell Clan

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family. Gatherings with the Howell's are always so much fun, with never a dull moment. Between Tom and Tim there is no telling what will happen.

The babies love their cobbler.

I love this picture.