Two Year Pics!!

Oh how I will miss you, Emily Anderson! Emily has taken all our professional pics of the girls since we've been down here in Orlando. She is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. You can check out her website at olliewrenphoto.com. She has the amazing gift of capturing the girls unique personalities in each picture. I love it. I don't have to put captions on any of these pics. They speak for themselves :)

Jocelyn and Gran....precious!!

I hate good-bye's...

We had a going-away party for our friends, Josh and Stacey, this weekend. I hate good-bye's! Stacey has been such an awesome friend the past two years. I am SO very grateful that the Lord brought her into my life. I really don't know if I would have made it (atleast made it and still be sane) without her! :) I will miss her so much. They are moving up to D.C....actually she is going up there now and Josh is going to be living with us for the next few weeks so he can finish up his classes at RTS. He lived with us for the first few months he was here so we are so excited that he is gonna go out the way he came in!! Bless him. All the kiddos are WAY more loud (well...particularly mine) than they were last year when he lived with us. Hopefully he will survive! We love you both so much and treasure your friendships!!

Shane and Josh

Lisa, Heather, and Kim are all in Shane's class. I am in denial that we are going to be saying good-bye to them as well in a couple of months. Not fun. Not fun at all :(

She cracks me up...

We bought the girls some play high-heels a while back. They love them. Jocelyn especially loves hers. She wears them ALL the time....even with her footed polk-a-dot PJ's. If this is not a fashion statement, I don't know what is!!

Cute striped dress....check. Pink sparkly high-heels....check. Purple flowered purse....check. Sippy cup....check. Box of wipes....check. Ok, people...I'm ready.

I do believe that this is becoming her signature picture face. She absolutely cracks me up.

It's another world....

Every week when I go to our Thursday playgroup with my twinsie friends, I usually have a moment when I step back and look at the 8 little twins running or splashing or whatever and think to myself that I would never in a million years have imagined that I would have had twins and then be at someone's house with 3 other moms that have all twin girls the same age as mine. It really is another world. It's SO different from the world I used to live in prior to the girls being born. I mean...TOTALLY different. It's humorous for me to think about what a typical day used to look like for me and now what a typical day looks like. Another world. I'm so thankful that I got to live in my previous world. What amazing memories. And I am so thankful for my new world and the memories I already have from it...

Not sure what this face was all about...but it's precious...

All the girlies playing in the splashpad...

For YEARS, I would go to lunch with girls from campus...almost every single day....usually long talks about deep things of life. I loved those times. Now my "lunch dates" are watching my girls have "lunch dates" with other little girls and fighting over hotdogs and shredded cheese and goldfish. Too funny. Different worlds for sure. Love it.

Strawberry Patch!!

We took the girls to a strawberry patch last week. To say they loved it would be a major understatement :). It was so funny to watch their different personalities come out while we were there....this is obvious is the pics. Here they are heading out to pick....they were SO excited!

Jocelyn grabbing her first treasure...

Getting the hang of it.....

Shortly after they started to pick, Jocelyn realized that she could eat the strawberries...so from then on....that's mainly what she did! She always kept a few in her basket...but only a few. She ate the rest :)

She absolutely cracks me up...

Gabbie, on the other hand, carefully selected each strawberry she picked and gently placed it in her basket. She definitely didn't come close to eating one (she does not eat fruit...I know...what kid doesn't eat fruit?!?). She filled her basket until it was overflowing and then tried to steal Jocie's basket so she could fill it up as well...

Taking a break....

She had strawberries all over her face and shirt....

Going pay for our strawberries. Jocelyn had 3 left in her basket. Gabbie's was overflowing. Too funny!