Outdoors...

The sun came out for about 20 minutes yesterday and so we took the babies out in the wagon.  They love to ride in the wagon and it was nice to get some fresh air.  This first picture is the view as we started down the street toward the trail.  Pretty incredible, don't you think?  

More Cake, More Cake, More Cake.....

I made a yellow cake with chocolate icing yesterday and I wasn't sure if the babies would eat any of it.  Boy was I wrong!  They love cake.  It's like they can smell it coming.  Tonight after dinner we let them play for a little while then we got cake for everyone.  Averie sat in my lap and ate the piece that I cut for her and Bruce was feeding Andrew a piece.  After they both ate their own piece of cake, they crawled over to Bruce and demanded that he feed them his piece of cake.  When all the cake was gone they started screaming for more.  It is really funny!

Just playing around....

We have stairs in our house.  I really didn't want to buy a house that has stairs, but in Alaska, we had no choice.  All houses have stairs in this town.  Therefore, one of the first things we did was install baby gates.  They work great.  I can let the babies down so that they can crawl and walk around without me having to chase them.  The gates make life much easier.  They love to stand at the gates and it is funny because they look like they are in jail.  

This is Averie being cute.  Her outfit is new and her hair bow and her shoes make it the perfect ensemble.  She knows when she it cute.  She has major diva attitude!!

We love pizza!!

Averie and Andrew eat only table food now.  They will pretty much eat ANYTHING!!!  For twins that had severe eating problems, you could not tell it now.  Yesterday I made the pizza for supper.  They LOVED it!  They really love it when I make them food that they can feed themselves.  

Proud of our Dad!

The gift given to all graduating surgery residents is an academic chair.  The surgery department at Erlanger mailed the chairs out after graduation.  Anyway, Bruce's chair arrived a couple of days ago.  For those of you that don't know, Bruce completed a six year surgery residency last month.  It was a grueling six years of work.  Most of the time he worked over 100 hours a week. The babies have spent more time with their Dad in the last two months then they did the entire first year of their lives.  We have really enjoyed him being with us.  I think that this picture is very sweet and I hope you like it.  Just ignore the fact that his degree is from the University of Tennessee.  

More wildlife......

These are some pictures of my wild monkeys.  These were taken before our household goods were delivered.  We were living with the bare minimum.  However, the babies loved having the space to run around.  They have adjusted beautifully to there new home.  

Moments...

During our trip we would often stop at a rest area to feed Andrew and Averie their snack.  I would always feed Andrew and Bruce was in charge of feeding Averie.  This particular day we were in Northern Idaho about to cross into Washington State. Averie was not able to settle down in the car because she wanted to drive (see earlier post).  Therefore, Bruce took her out onto the grass to feed her. I just thought that this picture was sweet so I thought I would blog about it.  Also, at this rest stop, there were tons on chipmunks.  There were some kids feeding them bread and Andrew just laughed and carried on about the chipmunks.  Very Cute!!!

Wildlife along the way....

As we drove through Canada we saw some wildlife that I thought I would share with you all.  This is a heard of buffalo that was right along side the road in the Yukon Territory.  We saw some that were traveling alone, but this was a really big group.  

In northern British Columbia there is an area called Muncho Lake.  The road in this area was particularly rough.  Lots of parts that were not paved and it was very windy.  The road also seemed to be really narrow.  These are a couple of Big Horned Sheep that we literally almost ran into.  I took this photo from my seat in the car.  They were really close.  
We saw several black bears, antelope, mule deer, and moose.  We would still be traveling if we had stopped to try and photograph all of the animals that we saw.  It was pretty cool!

Mt. Rushmore

The babies were asleep when we drove up to Mt. Rushmore.  Threrefore, we did not get out and go to the museum.  It was really cool though.  We snapped a few photos then went on our way.  

North to Alaska....

I did not take that many pictures on our trip.  It was a very hard trip, but I am glad that we chose to drive.  These first two pictures are in some hotel, somewhere.  The babies did really great on the trip.  They slept relatively well and ate good the entire trip.  

At some point, Jazz has decided that she likes Averie.  I randomly turned around in the car and found her up in the carseat with Averie. She sat there most of the trip.  Averie would just crack up laughing when Jazz liked her and she was very gentle with Jazz.  She would pat her on the back and love on her.  It was VERY cute!

To North Alabama we go.....

We spent two nights at my sister's house in Town Creek, AL before we started toward Alaska.  This first picture is of Averie driving!  No, seriously, we stopped to feed them some yogurt and she decided that she would rather put on a show than eat.  It was pretty cute.

Jill and Jeremiah fed the babies for me the morning that we left.  I was packing and helping Bruce load the car so it worked out great.  

Check out Jeremiah feeding Averie.  It was really sweet and he did a great job!

Time spent in Mobile.....

Me and the babies spent nine days in Mobile while Bruce finished up with work.  We swam a couple of times with Lori and Maddox, but we mostly played on the floor at Nanny's house.  Sorry this picture is sideways.  Just turn your head!

Quick visit with the Dunn's

While we resided in Chattanooga, the deal has always been that whenever Jen, Mike and the fam were in Atlanta that we would meet either in Chattanooga while they were on their way to Mikes parents, or we would come to Jen's parents house.  This time they were coming back from Kingsport, TN and we met up at McDonald's for a quick visit.  I was sooooo excited to meet baby Emily and I wanted to see them before we headed off to Alaska.  

It was bright in the restaurant so she could only open one eye.  Haha!!

That is quite a lap full, don't you think.

Great friends and sweet babies!!!

Goodbye to Good Friends

These are pictures from our goodbye party that was hosted by our Sunday School class from church.  We have so many good friends and good memories from our time in Chattanooga that we were really sad to leave.  However, the party was really fun.  They had all kinds of baby pools and slip and slides for the kids to play and the food was really good.  They gave us a Kodak Digital Frame that was loaded with pictures of all of them.  I have it plugged in all the time so that I can remember how great our time with all of them was.  

Andrew did NOT like swimming in the pool but he LOVES to swing.  He was hilarious trying to get out of the pool.  I have never seen him be scared of something like he was of that water.  






Averie was not sure about the water to begin with, but she ended up loving to play in the water.

This is Averie sitting on the blanket with Judah. 

Our good friend Ryan Beavers with Andrew.  

This is a good view of the entire party.  They really went all out to give us a memorable send-off.