Twins take on the Gym!!

For the last 3 weeks I have been taking the girls to a little gym class twice a week at JW Tumbles. This is the first activity the girls and me have done on our own. It is hard getting all three of us out the door and on time but we do it! Our Monday class is really small and we are the only ones who attend, but on our Wednesday Class three other babies attend. The girls get to climb on all different slides, play with bubbles, learn new songs, push a big rolling mat across the room (aka- "the hotdog"), play in a ball pit, learn to go up/down inclines, swing, and play with lots of new toys. They do well and it's nice to see them enjoy themselves. Now the pictures I am posting are not all that great because it is hard to help the girls do the activites, keep you eye on both of them and take a picture all at the same time but they will give you some idea on what they are doing...

P.S. Swimming pictures comming soon!

Snow Day!!!

About 2 weeks ago we got about 5" of snow on the ground. So we put the girls in their little snow suits... the funny part is they felt like they couldn't walk so they would just lay on the floor and cry... it was really funny.

Grace would just sit in the snow and taste the snow and Kaylee was crawling through it:

Right now the girls have just started their first gym class that they go to twice and week and they are loving all the new activities they get to do like: walking up ramps, climbing up ladders, playing with bubbles, sliding down slides and lots of music. We are loving it and having a ton of fun together.

We also are on our search again for a new church and we went to one this weekend that could work, but we need to go a few more times just to make sure it's the one for us. The girls go into a daycare there and they seem to love it.

The girls also just went to the doctor for their 1 year appointment last week:

Kaylee: 22lb(55-60th percentile) and 32" tall(above 100th percentile)

Grace: 24lb(75th percentile) and 32"tall(above 100th percentile)

so yes the girls are little monsters and growing like weeds. They are starting to talk and they are saying small words like "up", "hi", "mama, dada", and "baba". They are really good with commands such as "come here", "can I have it", "stop"... but we are still working on the big one "NO"... they just smile and laugh at me when I say "no", I am in so much trouble. They are also starting to give out hugs and kisses when you ask them for one... of course the kisses are more like fully opened mouth/tongue facial assaults... but it's still wonderful to get them from the girls, slobber and all.

We are getting ready for spring and looking forward to all our activities we can do with better weather: swimming, visit more of downtown DC, and the other million historical sites here.

Oh, and there is also some talk of moving to Houston by next summer!!! Keep your fingers crossed. Lastly our camera is broken so there isn't going to be any pictures until they mail it back to us.... ugg...

Kaylee & Grace's First Birthday

Well their first birthday has come and gone but we had a lot of fun. It was just us on their birthday but we had a lot of fun. Reed and I decorated the house the night before and when the girls woke up that morning they were very surprised to see all the stuff hanging in the dinning room. After lunch I put them in their birthday girl shirts that their Gen-Gen had bought them and the tutu's way back in early October!

Dad came home early with some dinner from Chili's and I made the girls homemade cupcakes and ice cream! The girls had fun diving into the icing and smearing it everywhere. Kaylee loved it more than Grace, I think Grace reaches a point where she is to dirty and she doesn't like it. Both the girls loved the ice cream and enjoyed staying up an hour and a half past their bedtime (I think I didn't want the day to end, so I let them stay up late).

We spent the rest of the night taking pictures, dancing and eating food...

Becareful what you wish for: It just might come true...

Wow I can't believe it's been a year since my precious babies were born. I remember the day we found out we were pregnant! We were so excited and yet scared to death at the same time because we didn't want to miscarry this pregnancy like the two we suffered in the previous 8 months before that. On August 5th 2007 I thought I had lost the pregnancy and we went to the ER, only to find out the best news of our lives that not only was the pregnancy fine but we were also pregnant with twins!!! Over the next nine months Reed and I would pray and hope that those babies would say alive and well in my tummy. We were so thrilled and scared at the same time but more happy than scared. Then before I knew it at 38weeks and 3day my two babies were in my arms. I have never experienced this kind of love and joy in my life and I am so proud to call Kaylee and Grace mine. They are the most beautiful, smart, sweet, loving, carefree and perfect children I could of ever asked for. I love them and I am so proud to be their mom!


When I was a girl I used to dream (wish) that one day I would have twin girls, maybe because my mother was a twin, or maybe I just always knew that's what I was destine to do, but now I realize that dreams really do come true and I am truly blessed!!!

Valentines Kaylee & Grace Style

We all had a great family Valentines... Reed and I would of spent it alone but it was the girls first Valentine's Day so we wanted to be with them. Reed cooked dinner and me and the girls made cookies and decorated them. Well I decorated them and the girls ate them while decorating them...


Enjoy the girls decorating ("eating") their Valentine's cookies...

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!! XOXOX ALEX, REED, KAYLEE & GRACE

The Twins Slide...

Picture Fix!

Not to much to report here on the Murray home front. We finally had some warmer weather so we were able to take the girls out more comfortably to the park for some good play last weekend! The girls loved it. Kaylee love to play in and eat dirt and Grace is kinda scared of her own shadow but we had fun anyways...

On the corner of our house is a little play yard/tot-lot for the girls to play in and they learned to go up the stairs and down the slide all by themselves. They loved it!

Other than doing their baby things the girls are just eating, growing and getting more teeth to eat more with... We are doing great! Enjoy the photos.