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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!

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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! 

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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 :)

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Two Years

Happy Birthday Quinn and Riley!
I can't believe my babies are two years old today!  How time really does fly!  I wanted to look back at where we were two years ago, with babies born at 34 weeks, healthy but in the NICU to grow and get stronger.  What a blessing these last two year have been.

Here they are in their first picture together!

Getting to hold my tiny baby girl for the 1st time!

Can you believe this was Quinn?  Has has put on about 30 lbs in the 2 years since that day!

Holding my two babies for the first time!

Love their size difference :)  Not much has changed!

Precious baby girl!

Sweet baby boy!

Here they are about 6 months :)

Love the happiness!

1 year old!

A year and a half and two cute little patients!
Can I just say getting tubes has changed their lives, no more ear infections and weekly trips to the doctor:)

Here is the recent pictures from the past few weeks.  We celebrated Valentine's with them on the 13th because daddy had to be out of town on the 14th.  The loved getting cards, candy, bubble guns, and a big ball!

Quinn and his card.

Riley loved her card, they kept calling them books, and wanting to read them again:)

Eating M&M's! Yum!

They both so love their M&M's!

Quinn had been eyeing this big ball every time we were at the store. 
He would point and say "ball, ball" so he was very excited to get it!

Playing with their ball while daddy is making bubbles with the new guns!

Riley also got her toenails painted for the 1st time on Valentine's.
I painted my toes and hers at the same time.  She just loves them and wants to show everyone her toes!
Last night she said to Grammie and Pop's dog "Heidi, toes" as she put her foot out for the dog to see:)

Sweet girl! (Unless she's throwing a tantrum, but we'll save those pictures for another day!)

This is so funny.  I found that Riley had passed her bowl of applesauce to her brother and he was trying to feed her from another chair, and was too far away.  I offered to help her and she said "No, brother!" So I had Quinn come stand next to her and he fed her the applesauce!  These are some of the adorable things that twins come up with :)

Playing at Jace's house!
He comes to our house a few days a week so the kids loved going to see Jace at his house!

She was loving this ride and smiled and giggled the whole time!

Quinn thought it was pretty cool too!

Looking like such a big girl!

My little man!

Riley loves her Aunt Jana, and those two fingers!

Evan, my sister's youngest, turned 2 last weekend!
Happy Birthday Evan!

They loved jumping on the trampoline with daddy!

This past week I found them doing this. Quinn would push Riley up over the arm of the chair...

Then he would pull himself up and they would sit together.  For just a second as they would get down, go around and do it all over again!

Eventually they tried to reverse things, I'm not sure she was helping him much!

Making a mess!

I can tell they are growing up in lots of ways.  One of them is that they have been a little more adventuresome and willing to "leave" mommy to go play.  One day they went up the stairs and closed themselves in the nursery.  The room is safe so I just let them be for about 20 minutes.  They weren't making much noise so I got curious and went to see what they were up too.  They had gotten almost everything out of the dresser and had it all over the floor!  It was really pretty adorable and we all worked together to clean up the mess!

I can also tell they are growing up because we are dealing with more and more behaviors!  You know the not so pleasant ones, that's when having twins is hard for sure!  However, the joy they bring far outweighs the difficulties!  I am so excited to celebrate my precious children turning 2 today and praising the Lord for the gift of being their mommy!

Oh and if you ask them how old they are, they will tell you "two"!  But don't ask them to show you with their fingers because we don't quite have that down yet :)

I am posting this at 7:19 am, the time that Quinn was born 2 years ago, Riley was just after him at 7:20!