Road trip to Michigan 7/2 - 7/6

Pictures from Lily and Rose's first road trip.....

LnR eating Cheerios at our first stop somewhere in California

LnR in our hotel room in Cedar City, Utah

LnR with Bekki & Jason Dubord, our hosts in Dever, Colorado

LnR with Andy & Shawna Dwyer, who were also staying with the Dubords


LnR refueling while at a rest area somewhere in Nebraska

LnR with Alex Kohls, our host in Omaha, Nebraska - Lily is very tired and trying to take a dive!

LnR with Dad at a rest area somewhere in Iowa

Lily at a rest area in Michigan - our last stop before getting to Grandma Rahl's house!

Lily and Rose playing at Great-Grandma's house

Lily and Rose making their own fun!

Hijinks 6-16-09

Pool Party...

We had a wonderful Pool Party with all our LOCAL loved ones, and sure enough...I was too busy to take any pictures!
So sad!
We had a blast eating dogs, swimming with the babies, play'n some pool volleyball, and hot tub'n. BUT...no pictures!

I do have some pics of the new place though...here they are...

Our New Home

EntrywayKitchenLiving RoomBackyard with our Grapefruit TreeMac reaching for his stick

Mac's Private Pool/Spa/Yard
Hallway leading to the bedrooms
Master Bedroom

Sarah's GIANT Walk-in Closet

Shawn's Walk-in Closet

Master Bath

Lily n Rosie's RoomLily n Rosie's RoomGuest BathGuest Room

New Place...

We have been very busy moving into our new place. I am very sorry I haven't been keeping up on the blog. My father came down for 2 weeks and helped us move into our new place. We are about 25 minutes East of Palm Springs in Palm Desert. We are so happy with 800 more square feet since the babies are all over the place now. They are really crawling everywhere now at a very fast pace. Mac turned 4 last week and we are finally getting settled. The girls are now starting to sleep through most nights now that they aren't sleeping in our room anymore. I think they really enjoy having their own Winnie-the-Pooh room!

We had people over last weekend for some hot digs and pool volleyball, we had a blast. We now have a private yard, pool, and hot tub! Mac loves the yard and he REALLY LOVES THE POOL! The girls enjoy the water on the weekends with Shawn and I as well. We hope to see many of you this summer. Book your flights to come visit now...first come first served...

Lily swinging in a park across the street from our new place.

Rose swinging

Rose & Lily

Rose & Lily in their new play room (before the toys entered it)

Lily exploring the changing table as Rose eggs her on

Lily, Grandpa Bill, and Rose

Mac, Grandpa Bill, Rose, & Lily (and the new house)

Rose & Lily in their new high chairs - they had their first cheerios today (6/15)

Lily & Rose in the kitchen

Rose & Lily cruising under the table

Mom & Rose

Lily assisting Rose with their new around-we-go

Rose checking the bath temp

Lily in the sink

Mac getting a hamburger for his birthday

New Address

We moved to a new place this past weekend! We're very lucky to have Sarah's dad Bill and friends here to help us. Now the long unpacking process has begun.
Give Sarah a call or email if you need our new address. We will hopefully have time to send out some new address postcards sometime soon as well.

We have a crawler!

To start off Memorial Day weekend, Lily showed off some crawling skills, and Rose and Lily both rode the bouncer with Mom's help!

First Overnite Adventure

THE BABIES PLAYED IN THE TENT OUT ON THE OCEAN!
WE ALSO STOPPED IN VISTA TO VISIT THE SAMSON COY POND!








We took the babies to Mission Beach to meet up with Auntie Audra and her boyfriend Tim this past weekend. We survived the trip and learned a lot about what we need and don't need on a road trip with Lily and Rose...

Tim worked the camera for us as we let Rose and Lily dip their toes in the mighty Pacific Ocean for the 1st time...

Gigglefest May 2009

Mother's Day Video

I had this video thing figured out last September. Then twins happened, and all my non-essential memory was blown out by things like how much do babies eat, why do babies have green poops, why don't babies enjoy just hanging out, etc....

So after much trial and error, I finally broke down and read the video software manual. Turns out it's pretty easy. So hopefully you'll be seeing more Norton Productions in the near future!

Here's the video I slowly and painstakingly made for Sarah for Mother's Day:



If the embedded video doesn't work, here's the youtube link directly to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj153z8wXN8

Playing with each other!

Lily and Rose are starting to interact more, which is really fun for us to watch! Above is a short clip I took today with my phone.

We are almost 7 months old!

We are moving soon to a bigger house so Mommy has been too busy looking for a place and is very sorry that she is behind on posting pictures on the blog.

We had a great time playing with Gpa Norton who came to visit us for 2 weeks! He taught us how to sit up all by ourselves! Mom will be adding pics later this week of all the fun we had with Gpa Norton, but here is a preview so you can get an idea of what we have been up to!LILY

ROSE

LILY 'n POOHGPA 'n DADDY TAKING US SWIMMING

OUR NEW FAVORITE TOY