Christmas Fun

Here are more pictures of Christmas fun at Grandma's and Grandpa's house.

Melissa and Annika

Bella and Lisa on the snowmobile pulling Annika, Richard and Melissa in the backyard. It was fun to have so much snow this year.

Claire and Calli visiting with Polo

Annika, Kayson and Melissa with the gingerbread house we decorated.

Two Sets of Twins!

We don't really have two sets of twins in the family, but Calli and Claire were born in Jan. and Nicole's baby Katelyn and Lisa's baby Lily were born in July two days apart.

We had fun dressing them all alike and even more fun trying to take pictures of all of them!

Katelynn and Lily

Claire

Callista

Claire, Calli, Katelyn and Lily

More Christmas dresses

More pictures of the gold dresses. After we got home we finally got Annika to join the twins in the photo shoot. There was just too much going on at Christmastime to stop for pictures. In these pictures you can see the little pearl bracelets Lisa made for all of the girls. Callista and Claire always wear bracelets to help Kent (and others) tell them apart. Calli on the right and Claire on the left.

Annika

Calli, Annika & Claire

Calli & Claire playing "ball" with an ornament from the tree

Claire & Calli

Christmas Dresses 2009

We spent Christmas at Grandma's and Grandpa's house. Everyone was home for Christmas, 15 adults and 11 children in one house! Grandma and Grandpa bought matching gold dresses for all of the granddaughters. Here is our attempt to get pictures of Callista and Claire in their gold dresses.

Calllista

Claire & Calli

Claire

Saved Annie voicemail from way back in the day.

We have had many discussions with Annie about band-aids. Their ability to soothe all manner of ailments is unrivaled, yet the removal process has been fairly traumatic for her. Annie's voicemail confessional and personal triumph was a cute end to what I'm sure was 40-60 minutes of toddler wrangling by EB.

vermont bike trip

Claire & Callista

I know it is not much, but here is at least a look at how the twins have grown. This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago, Claire on the left and Calli on the right.

Stolen photos from the Greek Festival

I have been a little preoccupied with the twins lately (they are almost 4 months old) and have not posted anything for quite awhile. Since I can't even find time to download my pictures, I stole this collage from Tiana's blog. This is at the Greek Festival last week. The pictures of Annika, Ches and Ellie are so funny I wanted it on my blog!

Julie's mission call!

Photos by Jenny

Jenny flew out this past weekend and brought her magic camera. Check out her blog for more pics of the twins:

http://whenwilltheyeverhavekids.blogspot.com/

More pics

I'll decode the twins for the first pic and let you decide who is who for the rest.

The kook crowed and the crew grew by two.

The twins are here and two weeks before the expected 38 week due date! Here are the stats, EB can make a warm and fuzzy post later if she ever has free time in the next 2 years:
Baby A is Callista Marie. (5 lbs 9 oz, 19"). Born at 3:23 a.m.
Baby B is Claire Elizabeth. (5 lbs 4 oz, 19"). Born at 5:45 a.m.

Annie calls Baby A, Calli, but refuses to acknowledge that baby B has a name.