Angels and Sweethearts Photo Contest & Fundraiser

  Quinn and Riley are in a photo contest to be in the 2012 Angels and Sweethearts Calendar.  The best part is that the contest is a fundraiser for the March of Dimes.  The March of Dimes works to prevent premature birth and make sure those babies born premature get healthy.  Since Quinn and Riley were born at 34 weeks and spent time in the NICU this organization has become very important to us.  Geoff joined the Columbia March of Dimes Board a little over a year ago and we want to raise as much money for the March of Dimes as possible! 

Here is the website: http://www.cynthiapacephotography.com/vote/

Quinn and Riley are #12!

Each vote costs $1, you are literally buying the votes, for a very good cause!  Your votes are also tax deductable so please go cast some votes to support Quinn and Riley and the March of Dimes!

The contest will run until April 30th at 7pm, so vote before the end of April!

Thanks so much!

Isle of Palms

After the kids' birthday we headed down to the Isle of Palms for what has become our annual Clemson family weekend.  How blessed we are to have these wonderful friendships and amazing families in our lives!  A few families couldn't come this year (we missed you), but it was a great time and I always leave these friends so thankful for our time together!  

Our wonderful hosts, Jessica, Paul and their sweet daughter Ella!

Thanks so much for having us, we love you!

Love this huge table that seats us all and the amazing view!

Quinn loved rocking outside before bed!

Riley thought it was fun too!

Playing with our friends :)

We took the kids to this amazing park nearby...

Riley on the seesaw :)

Playing with daddy!

Scary slide, dads had to be on the side to make sure they didn't fall over the twisted part!

But they all had a blast :)

Catch me dad!

Riley had a great time with her daddy!

Quinn found the sand :)

A picture with all the kids! 

This is what a dance party on the kitchen island looks like!

Luke and Riley holding hands, such sweet friends!

Quinn and Madison, such cuteness! 

If you don't know, Luke and Madison are also twins, and will be 2 very soon! 

  So, at the end of the weekend we looked back and realized that we didn't get any family pictures here either!  I am going to have to write myself a note for us to take a family picture sometime.  We also didn't get any pictures of us in the pool!  Yes it was February and we were in the pool, it was heated, and we had some great weather to go along with it.  Quinn and Riley loved the pool! They were little fish and had such a blast swimming.  We also left all the dads and kids at home one night and got out for a girl's night.  Such a great time catching up, making memories, and lots of laughs!  We love you all! 

Birthday Party

It's been over a month, but here's the kids' 2nd Birthday Party...

They love suckers, so I got creative and made a sucker tree!

I made the kids cakes this year and loved doing it!  Quinn's blue monkey!

Riley's pink monkey!

Playing on Pop's golf green, such a hit with all the kids!

Quinn loving on his cousin Nick!

As usual, Riley with her big cousin Ford!  He is so good to her!

What other ways can I use a golf club?

Singing to Quinn!

He wasn't so sure about all the attention being on him.

Since Riley was born 2nd, she gets sung to after her brother.

She loved all the attention on her!  See that smile?!?

She also LOVED her cake and ice cream!

Huge difference from her 1st birthday!

Quinn loved it too!

And thank you Nana for the adorable shirts you made them :)

Fun with friends!

I love this picture of the chaos that is opening gifts! So fun!

The got these cute chairs that they love sitting in, along with lots of fun new toys!

   A few days after their birthday I looked back at the pictures and realized that we did not get any of Geoff and I with the kids, or really any posed pictures with anyone!  I guess that's how it is with two 2 year olds, they don't slow down long enough to pose so you just take what you can get!

   The night before the party we went to Grammie and Pop's house, Uncle Pete was there too so we decided to put Quinn and Riley in a room together to sleep and see what would happen.  They have not really been in a room to sleep together since they were 5 or 6 months old.  The week before was cousin Evan's birthday and the kids started calling it his "Happy Day" so we kept telling them it was going to be their "Happy Day".  They went to bed, a little late, and were quite for about the first 20 min.   We think they just didn't realize they were in there together because as soon as they did the talking and laughing began.  We have a video monitor so we could see and hear them and it was hilarious!  They kept telling each other "Happy Day" and then giggling, they would also pop their heads up to see each other and then lay back down and giggle.  It was so funny and we let them carry on for awhile, after all that's what having a sibling in the room is about right?  We eventually had to quiet them down, a few times, and they still didn't get to sleep until about 2 hours after their normal bedtime!  They were a little tired the next day, but no too tired to have lots of fun at their birthday so that was good :)