The Twins Travel

I decided that every year on Christmas eve, I wanted to make handprint ornaments.  Well, this year, it's footprints.  We started off trying to get Declan's handprints & he kept grabbing onto the dough.  The footprints were a little iffy as well, since he kept digging his little monkey toes into the dough.  Cute little monkey toes.  But here is the finished product.  They're a little larger than I expected, so we might not be able to hang them on the tree next year, but the handprints should be ok. Merry Christmas!

Went back and read through my old posts & realized, I'm hilarious!!

I was posting all Declan & Harper's photos to FB when I remembered I had this blog.  I'm not planning on uploading ALL the pictures I have taken of them so far, but I figured this would be a much better venue for updating everyone rather than doing it on FB.   I wish I had kept the blog while I was going through the whole process of getting pregnant with them...it would have been great for them to look at when they get older.  So here's the short version: I decided in my mid-20s that if, by the time I reached 35, I was not married or in a long term relationship where that was the next logical step, I was going to have a family on my own.  There are a lot of reasons for my decision; (more than I'm willing to go into on a blog) the strongest reason being I wanted a family & it wasn't something I was willing to put off until I found "the one".   So when I got to Wright-Patterson, I asked about the possibility during my yearly exam & got a r