Abs does a little directing...

Watch out BB. Abs is out gunning for your job. We have a little director in the making. (this is actually her version of dancing! ha!)


Abs does a little directing from Matt on Vimeo.

Ice Storm Jan 2009

This is what a day and a half of 16 1/2 month old twins being locked in your house (due to an ice storm) will do..... heh, heh. Poor Louise.
Rocking Louise from Matt on Vimeo.


Also, enjoy these cute pics! G&A were having fun being race cars. The others were dusk pics from the first ice storm of this winter. We haven't ventured outside with the twins yet as it didn't get above 19 degrees today.

Monumental Change in our midst...

Whatever your political view, it is absolutely amazing to be a part of American history today with the inauguration of President Obama. As a social worker, as a woman, as an Oklahoman, as one who interfaces daily with older Americans who never dreamed this would be possible in their lifetimes....it is absolutely remarkable for our diverse country to elect an American of African decent.

I was listening to NPR today and one woman who was interviewed made such a great comment. She was referring to her 7 year old biracial child who responded non-chalantly to his mother's tearful response to the new milestone for our country and said "he will never know any different than acceptance and inclusiveness". That is a good reminder to me that G&A will never know life without an emphasis on equality and may never know that diversity was not a normal way of life. Sure this is an elementary viewpoint...things are much more complex and we have a long way to go to reach true equality and justice, but it is nice to see that America is on its way.

May God bless America and give our new leaders the wisdom and courage to lead our country!

Happy Saturday!

New Years in Colorado

We had a blast in Colorado to celebrate the new year!! We drove 12 hours through the night with partially awake babies to visit Robert, Renee, Reba Grace, Wally and Darrel (Renee's parents) for the first part of the trip. The second part was spent with Colleen, Drew, George and Madeline. Thanks to Elmo and Baby Einstein (and the Lanes for lending us their DVD player), we survived!

As you can see from the pics, RG, G&A picked up where they left off, though they are much busier now. We loved being out in the country at Wally and Darrel's and had beautiful weather, which allowed for our test-driving the Cobra and Matt's flight with Darrel to view elk. We feasted many times, but most especially with Crab Fest, our annual tradition. We had a great relaxing time shopping, hanging out, and laughing!

We spent time at the Denver Children's Museum --fabulous if you are ever in the Denver area--highly recommend it! We went from there to Coll & Drew's and loved loved loved being with them and spending time with M&G. We had a great evening and morning catching up with them and adoring those precious little ones! Also a bonus, got to see their new house which may be remodeled soon. Drew, we made purple pancakes this past Sat in your honor!!
It was wonderful to be with friends whom we consider as family! Love you all!!!

Christmas Day '08

Sorry for the extra long slideshow, but I couldn't figure out how to delete the other pics we already posted. Guess you have to look at more pics of our adorable kiddos. ;)

Christmas this year was really wonderful. Matt's parents were up and we enjoyed wonderful times with them. We attended the family service at our church Christmas eve (no nursery so picture lots of crying and talking babies and a sweet little children's skit), came home and after the twins went to sleep, we enjoyed a cheese and chocolate fondue dinner.

George and Abigail awoke to find lots of new toys and their favorite, the Radio Flyer wagon from the Morris clan. I think we wore down a path on the carpet that morning with the wagon rides around the house!! It was a gorgeous day, so we were able to spend time outside. The kiddos loved opening all of their presents from friends and family, and we were thrilled to see the magic of Christmas through their eyes. The simple things they were amazed with....good reminder that it is not about quantity.

We had a feast for late lunch by Chef Matt and his sous chefs. Afterwards, we stuffed ourselves even more with homemade eggnog cake and Matt held his first violin recital for our neighbors. He played several Christmas songs he has been learning and it was beautiful! We had a relaxing and exciting day being home with family and celebrating the birth of Christ.

Welcome 2009!

A was staring out the window at Boomer and Tori (my parents' dog) who were in the backyard.
G in his big boy train sweater--thanx Uncle Kendal and Aunt Lauren for the adorable togs!

I had great intentions of uploading the pics from Xmas, but it just did not happen. So here are two shots I took this weekend of my twin toddlers, yes, I am growing to accept that term. I will give the Christmas synopsis when I upload the pics...hopefully tomorrow.