Does it just get harder from here?

It blows me away how much Hunter is like his daddy. He never fails to figure anything out.. even the things he shouldn't!!! I had no idea he was ON the oven until I heard a scraping sound and walked over to see that he was eating the burnt stuff off the bottom of the oven!!! BOYS!!


I do have to admit.. he is a VERY nice brother and loves to share all of his new finds with his sissy!

So.. Mommy got online and ordered an oven lock STAT!!! Isn't it so pretty?! Who would ever think you'd need an oven lock???!!!!

And.. Hunter was not happy with his mama after she put it on. He poked and poked at that lock trying to get it undone. Thankfully he didn't have any luck:-) This boy is into EVERYTHING! Things I wouldn't even think anyone would get into. He even pulled a heater vent out of my parent's floor the other night! So to answer my own question, it most likely does just get harder from here! But.. I wouldn't have it any other way:-)

Just some "days in the lives of the Edwards" pics

We all haven't had the best couple of weeks. Just before the first of the year I somehow came down with both strains of the flu. I was the first in the doctor's office this year to have both strains so I like to think I was pretty cool! Hey, you gotta find something positive in it, right? So I was literally knocked out for a week. My New Years Eve was spent in bed but I did get to listen to the neighbors light off fireworks at midnight. Then the twins got sick. Fevers that would not go away. Turns out they both had ear infections. I consider myself lucky that they didn't get their first ear infection until after they were 1. I just hear horror stories from moms about ear infections. They're recovering just fine but I will be very happy when the booger noses go away! And now, Ryan is sick!! Lovely!! I just wanted to post some random pics for you.

Enjoying a nice, warm day.Where's Hunter?? We couldn't find him and here he was behind the in-cupboard trash can. He LOVES to hide!I just love Hunter's Budha belly!!

Reagan helping Daddy with his homework.

These days, this chair is their favorite place to be. I think it's because they feel like "big" kids.

I hope everyone had a great New Year and 2009 brings you all the best!!

Christmas 2008

Here are some pictures of our Christmas over at Mom & Dad's house. We spent the day with Mom, Dad, my sister Ronda, Gary, Tyler, Trevor, my brother Danny, Kristi, Cody, & Caitlyn. We opened presents while Hunter & Reagan were sleeping. Bad timing on their part but I'm sure they didn't care. Dad smoked a prime rib and it was beyond delicious!!! Before dinner, we all (including Dad!) watched Mamma Mia in Mom & Dad's media room. It is truly like being at the movies, with the drop down screen & projector and all..except their reclining chairs are WAY more comfortable than any theater! I could watch that movie every day and still love it. Mom took all of the pictures so there aren't any of her in them. One of these days we'll remember to all slow down for 10 minutes and take one big picture together. One of these days...

We just walked in the door and Hunter was already ready for a nap. Can you tell??

I love, love, love her hat and jacket.

Dad getting the prime rib ready to go

Funniest part of the day-Trevor discovered the syrup bottle and this is how we found him on the floor. It was oozing out of his mouth!!

Tyler was very excited to get Sharpay's car from High School Musical

This actually was taken the day after Christmas but I wanted to show his new outfit from Grandma & Grandpa. It's from the Gymboree choo-choo line. My favorite store ever!!

Hunter can't get enough of his new Elmo Live that Santa brought him.

I have no idea why there is a picture of us with Tyler's new Barbies. Maybe I was jealous???

The lazy fam watching a movie. Good thing this room isn't in our house or we'd be in big trouble...and FAT!!

Christmas Eve 2008

Ryan and I had Christmas Eve dinner at our house this year with his Dad and Jan. I have to admit, I was quite stressed out because as you all know, I'm not a rockstar in the kitchen...at all! Fortunately, my sister clued me in to the Honeybaked Ham Store so my main course was covered, and it was SO good! I would highly recommend that place. I was a little bummed that I didn't have any pretty Christmas dinnerware to serve dinner on but my in-laws covered that by giving me Christmas china! It is so pretty. We had a really great time. The kids weren't all that into opening presents but they did like the end result of all the new toys! For some reason the pictures are all out of order but, at least they're on here:-)

We looked and looked for Hunter because he was way too quiet and this is where we found him... hiding in the corner with a box of Kleenex!

Hunter was so happy to get his Christmas clothes off

Grandpa & Grammy with the twins

She is such a Daddy's girl these days

I know the table doesn't look all that pretty in the pic but I promise it looked nice. Especially for my first dinner!!

Their favorite hiding spot

Guess what?? Hunter is walking! He seriously just stood up one day last week and started walking. I hadn't even bothered working with him because I thought it would be at least a couple months:-)

Here is proof that there are still people who love Lillie..us included:-)

Not sure why it's so dark but I'm just happy everyone was looking at the camera!

I think Reagan really liked her new shoes.

They LOVE the new horse toy that hooks up to the TV. Ride 'em cowboy (& cowgirl)!!

Hunter used his drumstick to beat Reagan's dolly in the head. It amazes me how boys & girls are just born that way:-)

Hunter was diggin' his new toolbench!

Since the twins were born, we forgot that we still should take pics of ourselves. Luckily Grammy & Grandpa reminded us of that.

Hunter & Reagan ready to open gifts (I told you the pics were out of order:-) )

I have to constantly remind him that he is, in fact, 34 years old!

Did I mention Daddy's girl???

Neil Diamond!!

Wednesday night, Ronda and I surprised Mom with her birthday present. Granted, her birthday was in October so it looked as if we were a bit late but Neil wasn't coming to town until December!! We showed up to Mom's house all dressed up and ready to go. We told her to get ready and we were taking her to dinner. She was a bit confused when we went downtown to a place called Braun's Bar & Grill. Out of all the places we could have taken her, she couldn't understand why we were going there. Of course we chose that because it's across the street from the Pepsi Center where the concert was being held. She still didn't think anything was up when we had to pay $20 to park and there were "Event Parking" signs all over the place. It was getting very hard to keep a straight face while we were in the restaurant and they were playing non-stop Neil Diamond!! At one point she even said "here's my man! Hey.. isn't he coming to Denver sometime soon?" We played that off but eventually just handed her her ticket because we couldn't explain the spontaneous laughing from us. We had such a great time and Mom loved it!!! Here are some pics from dinner. We obeyed the rule of "no cameras in the venue" but when we got in there flashes were going off everywhere so I guess we would have been fine. Such rule-keepers we are!!