I know I am bad!!!

Rylee, Mackenzie and I on St. Patrick's Day

At the mall visiting the Easter Bunny

Emma

Rylee

I actually got a cute picture of them all there, just not on my camera

Rylee

My girls

Emma

Rylee

Mackenzie playing with Emma

All ready for summer

Emma at the zoo for the first time

Zoo fun, this is where Kenzie sits when we go running, what a trooper

Emma and Kenzie cuddling

Crazy Mackenzie and Rylee

Emma

I know I am bad at blogging, but I am a little busy, I know no excuse. Anyways finally the baby announcements are going out tomorrow, only 3 months late, but at least they are going out. The babies are doing awesome, smiling and moving around like crazy. They are both sleeping through the night, down by 8 and then up at 7, so this makes for a very happy mommy and daddy. Emma is our sweetheart, she is huge, but is so calm, and just loves to smile at you. Rylee on the other hand is a handful, she is awesome during the day, but come 5 o'clock she can be evil, with me she is ok, just needs to be held, but with anyone else she screams and screams and screams. Her face gets bright red and then she'll hold her breath and she won't stop.

Me and my three girls travel all over the place together. Every morning we go running, the twins in the double jogger and Mackenzie sits on the very front, let me tell you it is very heavy with her in the front. But I am not complaining because I am lucky that I still get to get my run in. I am training for a half marathon, which is on May 2nd. Mackenzie is so awesome, because it can't be comfortable, but she never complains, bless her heart!!!

Then we do stroller strides from 9:30-10:30 and then play in the park. Our afternoons then consist of going out to lunch, shopping at the mall, running errands or going home for a nap!! Last week we went and saw the Easter Bunny, which was fun. All of the girls have been sick a lot this winter so we have also been to the dr. quite a bit. The most fun was when I had to take all 3 of them to the twins 2 month check-up and shots, this was an ordeal, but we made it through it!! It is a lot easier now with the carriers, but once they are out of them it will be alot more difficult, I am sure.

Bret and I went to La Costa Resort and Spa this past weekend for 2 days of a break while my mom and sister watched all the kiddos. They are amazing and am so appreciate because it was so nice not to have to hear mom, mom, mom, mom and then crying all at the same time for 2 days. Now we are back and refreshed and ready to get back to the real world. I posted just random pictures for you to see the girls!!

My girls are amazing

I absolutely love being a mommy, my three girls are amazing. Last night I actually got a lot of sleep, Mackenzie went to bed at 7 and the twins at 9. In the morning I woke up before all of the kiddos, they all woke up at 7:15. I woke up at 7, looked at the clock and freaked out because I hadn't gotten up in the middle of the night with the babies. I couldn't believe that they slept through the entire night. I am such a better mommy when I get sleep:)

San Diego Trip

Nana and Ken with Rylee
Nana and Emma

Aunt Carla, Aunt Jacque and Rylee

All four cousins

All of the cousins

Great Grandma, Rylee and Emma

Family of 5

All of us girls at Por Favor

Auntie Lisa and Rylee

The whole group

Uncle James with Emma

This past weekend we loaded up the car and headed to San Diego. On the way there we only had to stop once for a half hour to feed and change the babies, and then on the way home we drove straight through, way to go babies!!! We visited with Nana (Bret's mom) and then headed to Bret's grandma's house to visit the whole family. The babies and Mackenzie were great and loved seeing everyone. We then saw James and Lisa and the girls on Saturday for dinner and on Sunday we headed to Carlsbad to see Brandon, Bret's best friend run a 1/2 marathon. We fit in a ton of events just in three days, but had a great time!!! Here are a few pictures from all of our fun.

My Dad's Visit

Eating lunch

Dad putting bunny ears on the girls, you can't take him anywhere

GP stood like this for 45 min keeping Rylee warm while waiting for the Dr. , his poor back!!

The girls waiting for the doctor

My dad came to AZ last week for a visit to help me out. At first I gave him a hard time because he doesn't change diapers, gives the baby back the second they get fussy etc. so I told him he wouldn't be of much help, but I was wrong. My dad helped a ton and I was so thankful. I am getting ready to have another grand opening for stroller strides, so I had to advertise, which is hard with three kiddos so he rode in the car and waited with all of them as I ran into different stores, this was a four hour process.... thanks so much dad. He also helped me because it was their first month check-up, which would have been hard taking them by myself. We went out to eat a lot, and I never had to pick up the bill:) It was a great trip to be able to spend time with my dad and in the end he was a HUGE help!!!

Routines are the BEST

Emma all ready for her bath
Emma's first big girl bath

Emma loved the water

Emma all done

Mackenzie and Emma

Emma ready for bed

Rylee's big girl bath

Rylee loved the water too

Not a happy Rylee

Rylee

Two clean babies

Proud big sister

Emma in her jammies

Rylee in her jammies

Rylee all swaddled

Emma swaddled

All ready for bed

sweet dreams Emma

Sweet dreams Rylee

As many of you know, I am a very structured person, I love schedules and routines so I knew when we were having twins that they would have to get on a schedule early on. I did this with Mackenzie and she was sleeping through the night in her own crib at 7 weeks. I know this won't take place with the twins because they are still so little in weight, but we are getting closer. Emma and Rylee are no longer sleeping in our room, they are in bassinets in their own rooms. They are such loud sleepers that Bret and I weren't getting any sleep, so with the help of video monitors they are now on their own in their rooms and are doing great.

For our night time routine I have been doing sponge baths, but tonight was their very first big tub bath and they did great. So we start with a bath, they get lotioned up, get their jammies on, they get swaddled and then eat and then it is off to bed. We start the routine at 8 and by 9-9:15 they are sound asleep in their beds. As they get older I will move their routine up. Rylee is my good sleeper she is asleep by 9:15, wakes up at 4:15 eats and then goes back to sleep and wakes at 7:15, Emma is a little more high maintenance and is asleep by 9:15, up at 1:15 eats goes back to sleep, up at 4:15 and then up at 7:15. Not too bad for twins, but hopefully they will be sleeping more, especially Emma in the next few weeks. Here are some pics of their routine from tonight!!