Tuesday, February 15

Birthday Weekend

On Sunday night, we had Grandma and Grandpa over for pre birthday celebrations. We had these amazing taquitos from this site. Please make them and LOVE them. Because we decided to have a Mexican fiesta, we had to have some Jarritos. Yum.

I found this AMAZING cake on I am Baker. I am not a baker, but I thought I would try it. It was the perfect birthday cake for the twins!

Tyson couldn't believe I was attempting this cake. He has lots of faith in my baking abilities! hehe. So he took a bunch of pictures of the process.



Surprise!! Can you tell that is a heart?

On the twins actual birthday, Valentine's Day, we had our usual birthday breakfast.

The menu included:
Spinach Smoothies
and heart eggs in toast!
YuM!

Then we opened presents! They got such fun things from eachother and from Grandma's and Grandpa's!

Tyson and I got the twins bikes!

How we acquired those bikes is a great story..
We had four grown up beach cruisers in our garage. Mine, Tyson's new one, and then his old one without a chain, and one we found by the dumpster.
We sold his old one (remember the one we got for $50) and the one we found by our dumpster for $50 on Craigslist. That sounds like it went smoothly, minus the two guys that came to see the bikes at the EXACT same time, and threw around the f bomb and almost some punches! Crazy.
Scary then, funny now.
Then we headed out to the swap meet to find some bikes for the kids. I ALWAYS wanted Berkleigh to have a beach cruiser, but new they are $200! We found one in great shape for $30!
We found Merrick's at Play it Again sports for $20!
Even Steven! Equal trade. We paid nothing for their bikes! I love that!

Anyways, we had a fun birthday picnic with friends in our complex, and passing out our Valentine's to our friends in our complex, and our preschool friends
. (Simplifying remember, simplifying)

This is what I came up with this year...
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Tyson came home early, so we took them on their first bike ride on the beach.





For Valentines Dinner, the tradition lives on to have TV dinners. We love this tradition. We get to stay home all comfy cozy, and eat food we never normally eat, and we miss the crowds!

I love my Hungry Man!

Monday, February 14

A Year in Photos

Berkleigh and Merrick
turn four today!
We have had a really special day so far...
that is for another post.
Today is just reminiscing about my Valentine babies with cute pictures of them from this past year!

February 2010

March 2010

April 2010

May 2010

June 2010

July 2010

August 2010

September 2010

October 2010


November 2010

December 2010


January 2011

February 2011

Friday, February 11

Our First Valentine!

Finger Lights!
Thanks Grandma Carol! We love them!