Posting videos help

Does anybody have any helpful hints for posting videos? It takes either FOREVER or it won't let me load them AT ALL! I have some really cute videos of the kids that I have wanted to post for a while, but it doesn't work. Help!?!?

Road trip and Hearts Day

We went to Midland this past weekend and had such a good time! Friday night after we put the babies to bed, I went out to dinner with my friend, Stori, and my sister-in-law Nikki. It was much needed girl time! We talked about everything under the sun, and were at the restaurant for about two hours. Good food, good friends, and good wine! Saturday the weather was gorgeous! The twins played outside with Aunt Nikki and Uncle David's dogs, Lola and Schultz. Presley just laughs hysterically at them, but it took Marshall a little bit to warm up. Nikki, David, and I took the babies and the dogs across the street to the park. M and P love to swing! I took Marshall down the slide and almost busted my behind getting into the slide (it was enclosed) and then getting up at the end (due to the enclosure I had to lay down with him)! We all met Aunt Alli, Uncle Casey, and Grayson for a late lunch. I was so proud of the twins...it was way passed their lunch time (we fed them there)and nap time but they were still so well behaved. Later that night we all had a big Greek dinner prepared by Carl, my mother in law's boyfriend. We had gyros (with goat shot at Kyle's family ranch) and Greek salad. Yummy! For dessert we had peanut butter brownie goodness that was made by my step daughter, Carter. I've mentioned it before, but she is seriously such a good baker! She is 11 and does everything herself! She wants to open a sweets shop some day and I have no doubt it will be a hit. Those brownies were seriously like heaven in my mouth! They were good for breakfast the next day too. :) Sunday afternoon we came home, sad to have to leave. The visits are always too short!

For Valentine's Day, Kyle took the twins and I on a date to Wasabi, our favorite sushi restaurant, which is conveniently right by our house. Of course we went at 5:00 so the babies wouldn't ruin anyone's V-Day dinner. Everything went well, and we even got two compliments on how well behaved they were!!! It's so nice to hear that because in your mind they might be behaving well, but to other people they might be acting like little hellions! We gave them some brown rice towards the end because they were getting fussy and we had already fed them the food I brought for their dinner. Let me tell you...sticky brown rice + Presley = a very funny sight! It was stuck to her hands and she would rub her head so of course it got all in her hair and everywhere else. I stopped trying to get it out because I knew it was a lost cause. Needless to say, we were THAT family that looked like a food bomb had exploded underneath our table. :)

Yesterday and today I took the babies on a walk, the weather is gorgeous!!! I can't wait till it's dresses and flip flops season!!!

Nine months (repost with Presley's correct length)

Can you believe Marshall and Presley and nine months old? I can't! They are both thriving and we are really having fun with them now. They both army crawl everywhere, even though both of them have crawled before. I guess for now they just like scooting on their stomachs better. :) They walk around the furniture constantly. Marshall will try to pull Presley down if she is in his way. Basically they are both constantly moving!

We have stated giving them some finger foods: peas, bananas, carrots, blueberries, broccoli (not huge fans), and sweet potatoes. I'm going to start moving into the stage 3 foods with them. My friend, Sarah, gave me a bunch of frozen home made baby food and the twins love it! Beef with parsnips, chicken/sweet potato/grape, butternut squash (love), cherries (not sure about yet), peaches, cheese, and black beans. Presley has two bottom teeth (they are sharp!) and I think she's working on her top. Marshall has two top teeth and a bottom one coming in. They are still having four 7.5 oz bottles a day, and three meals. Since they have been sick they are still on three naps a day, but I'm hoping that we will be moving to the two naps a day now that they feel better. Still going to bed between 6:30-7 and sleeping till 6:30 or so in the morning. Here are their 9 month stats:

Marshall: 21 lbs, 2 oz (55%) 28.75 inches (75%)

Presley: 20 lbs, 10 oz (75%) 28.50 inches (80%) (not 25 inches...was a typo)








I just had to include this out take. This is just a peek into how hard it is to get their picture! They didn't sit for very long, and notice my hand in the picture trying to get Presley before she falls over!

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

That actually spells out Marshall and Presley, it's a new spelling. They are every where people! Yesterday their exploring really took off and I realized that I need to make another trip to BRU to get more baby proofing items. What's funny is that Marshall is the sneaky one, off exploring new things. You'd think with Presley's personality that it would be the other way around. The super baby gate my parents gave us for Christmas is going to be put up today after they go to bed. They also have started (just today) pulling up in their cribs (not quite to standing though) so we will be lowering them again tonight. Look out world, here come M and P!!!


Angel Faces


These look interesting


Marshall saw her do this the day before so he thought he'd give it a try (they have since been moved)


I haven't been in this thing in a long time!


Where's Presley?


We love books!

Weekend

Since it snowed last week, I didn't leave the house AT ALL until Wednesday evening, because I absolutely had to go to the grocery store. So Saturday Kyle watched the twins while I ran a bunch of errands. Granted, they were almost all for the twins, but who cares...I got out of the house! I tried to sell some of the twins' clothes to Kid To Kid, but they barely took anything! I guess that is what I get for buying my kids cheap clothes!

Friday night Kyle and I ordered sushi from our favorite sushi restaurant, Wasabi, and we watched The Social Network. Awesome movie! If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it! Saturday night we made spaghetti with turkey meatballs that was delicious! We decided to watch another movie, and as we were looking through them I saw "The Back Up Plan" with Jennifer Lopez. I'm not a huge fan of hers, but I remembered hearing that it was about getting pregnant the unconventional way, but I couldn't remember if it was surrogacy or what. So without reading the info about it, we rented it. Worst.movie.ever. Seriously! We watched the first ten minutes and every one of those was painful. Usually I will still watch a movie all the way through, even if I don't really love it, but not this one! So we went through the movies again and Kyle chose "The Town" with Ben Affleck. It was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time, and is probably up there in my top ten all time. Not only did he star in it, but Ben Affleck directed it too and he was fantastic. Awesome, awesome, awesome, it totally made up for the waste of ten minutes we spent on J. Lo! Okay so we spent $18 on movies this weekend and $12 of that was worth it, I guess that's not too bad!

Sunday I made Taco Soup and of course we watched the Superbowl. I guess because of the snow, it didn't really hit me that the Superbowl was being played here and how HUGE that is! I'm glad Green Bay won, I didn't want that dirty quarterback, Ben really-long-last-name, to win again. :)

Nine month post coming later this week!

I wish...

-that Marshall and Presley knew how to blow their own noses. I'm up to my ears in snot and every time I try to wipe their nose you'd think I was beating them with the screams they let out.

-that every time I changed their diaper they wouldn't scream like CPS needed to be called.

-that they wouldn't test their vocal chords to see how shrill and loud their voices can go.

-that they made "selective hearing" ear plugs so that I couldn't hear the screaming.

-that I was on the patio at Uncle Julio's with a big ole margarita in my hand...oh yeah and that it was 85 degrees!


Notice a pattern here? Well, all except #5 of course. We are in a screaming stage and it is driving me to drink...hence #5! Presley and Marshall can be on the floor, playing nicely with their OWN toys (rare) when all of a sudden a shriek so loud it pierces your ear drum will come out of their mouth. That shriek will then turn into a very odd, low sound that I don't have words to describe but I can't help but think their vocal chords are being damaged based on these lovely noises. :)

On the plus side, ever since my "imperfections" post, I've actually been cooking more. I looked at my "Five Ingredients or Less" from Cooking Light, which is pretty much the only cookbook I use because the recipes are easy, and I got necessary items at the grocery store. So we've been eating together as a couple more instead of every man for himself.

What we've been up to...

Warning...long post, but with lots of pictures!

Last Sunday we all went to my friend Shelley's son, Guy, third birthday party at The Little Gym. There was a wide age range of kids, but since Marshall had just started army crawling, and P hadn't yet, there wasn't much activity from the twins. They played with Ella (10 days older) and Adelaide (2 months older), and of course Marshall flirted with both of them.

Playing with Adelaide


Marshall showing off his parallel bars skills


Sugar bubbles are so neat!


I'm having so much fun!


Playing with Ella



Last week we enjoyed the beautiful weather. It was so nice to be able to sit on a quilt in the backyard and watch the babies observe everything. Marshall wanted to pull up and eat the grass, so our time was cut short. :)





Looking at the airplane


Going for the grass


This past weekend, one of my best friends from high school, Andrea, came to visit. She likes us so much she came all the way from Little Rock! Kyle decided to let us have a girls weekend, so he went to visit his brother in Mason for the weekend. Saturday was gorgeous again so we hung out in the backyard for a while (much easier with another set of hands!). Saturday night we went out to eat with another of my best friends, Lauren (who is a twin herself). The babies did really well at dinner and we only had one incident. Marshall some how grabbed a small piece of lettuce that had fallen on the table from my plate and stuck it in his mouth. The next handful, however, I saw and took it away. I noticed his eyes were watering and he looked like he was fixing to spit up, so I instantly knew he had probably snuck some food in his mouth when I wasn't looking. I put my finger in his mouth and out came a dark green piece of lettuce, and a whole lot of spit up. He wasn't choking, thank goodness, but I think he was trying to figure out if he should swallow it or spit it out. Needless to say, my heart stopped beating for a few seconds because choking is my one of my biggest fears when it comes to the babies. Everyone was okay though! Sunday we went to see our friend Shelley's new house in Keller. We had a great weekend and I am so happy I was able to see her.

who knew a Diet Dr. Pepper bottle could be so neat




The snail distracted him from the grass for a while


Andrea, let me show you how I can stand up!


See?!


As all of you know, this week has been FREEZING cold in Fort Worth and we even got some snow! Kyle didn't go to work yesterday, and of course I had to get a picture of the twins in the snow, so we bundled them up and put them on a towel in the backyard. We were out there all of two minutes. It was frigid and Presley picked up some snow...you can guess what happened. She did NOT like the temperature of the white stuff that looked cool and started crying.

What the heck is all this?


Really, Mom? I'm cold!


I'm so over this, mom


Okay you have your picture, now let's go inside!