VIDEO FOR FATHER'S DAY

I know with absolute certainty that I physically and emotionally could not handle raising twins if it weren't for Brian. He is the most incredible father. In fact, I'm sure that's why Heavenly Father sent them to us. He's so fun, so patient, so loving, so involved. He is my rock and their hero. As soon as he's around it's like - Mom who? I hope as they get older they try to be like him in every way.

Happy Father's Day love.

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VIDEO OF BRODY & MASON

Dear Brody & Mason,
You have the best dad in the world. Every day he comes home from work and he can't wait to come see you and make you laugh. You save all your best giggles for when he's around. He doesn't even mind if it's time to change diapers. Not even the really stinky ones. Is that love or what? Every day he calls to hear how our day is going and he always tells me how much he misses you. Every single day. He loves you so much and I know that you love him. Be good boys and you will always make him proud.
Love, Mom

BEST FRIENDS

Seems like no matter where I put the boys on the floor to play, they always end up tangled up and usually just smiling at each other. Sometimes they love each other a little too much...

FISH HOOK

But I still think they will be best friends.

LA to DALLAS

Goodbye Santa Monica! We will miss you!!!

Thank you for being so good to us.
We will never forget you.

So we packed our bags and with the help of a lot of friends, we emptied our apartment.
I want to go on the record and say Brian swore this would be the last move we do on our own - gathering friends to help load the truck. Please bless he was telling the truth.

LA has been such a great place for Brian and I that even though I have been ready for more space, seeing our apartment like this had me in full meltdown. I have never been so attached to a place. LA as a city will have a warm fuzzy place in my heart forever.

Brian and I both moved to LA single, ready to start our careers. We both had planned on being other places after graduating but felt strongly that we should be in LA.

Best decision ever.

After almost 6 years, it's the longest I've lived anywhere since leaving Batesville, Indiana when I was 14. I was excited when I moved to LA but I was scared. Ash drove me down and we hit rush hour traffic and I remember thinking - WHAT HAVE I DONE and wanting to run back to anywhere that felt more comfortable.

Luckily LA is easy to fall in love with.

I played at the beach, landed my dream job, made amazing friends, found Brian, got married, had 2 babies and we outgrew our apartment.

So here we are:Texans. =)

We live in a neighborhood called Turtle Cove and we're a block from the lake. Look how pretty!
We moved to Rockwall - a lake community northeast of Dallas. Brian's working downtown which is a half hour commute but it beats the LA hour long bus ride any day. Less Asian women to hit on him, but with every move comes sacrifices right?
We had Brian's parents and my best friend help us get out here (yes it took FIVE people to get all our stuff, cars, + 2 babies to texas) and it was awesome because we ended up being super productive and got the house in good shape. I have no idea how we would have done it all on our own. After a million and 1 trips to Lowe's and all our Saturdays looking like this, we're getting closer.

Thanks to our ward (church group), our next door neighbors and the friendliest strangers I've ever met welcoming us to town - we are quickly feeling right at home.

INTERNET + IMAC = MAGIC

Ok so a lot of things have gone on for us in the past month. I quit my job at Chiat, we packed our bags and boys for Texas, bought a home... lots of exciting things. But today, the most exciting news is that I have a computer again!!! See, apparently when you quit work they make you give your laptop back. Shocking, I know. So I've been without for months now and my blog and my knowledge of all things outside my 4 walls have suffered because of it. So with my new found power (aka iMac and internet) here are a couple pictures and a promise to be back on here more often now.

Here are the boys in their Sunday best

(Cheat Sheet: Brody in green, Mason in red)

Playing Footsie in the Bumbo

Brody smiles at Mason

Mason smiles at Brody

Both looking exhausted.

This sitting business is hard work!!

IT'S A TWIN THING

What are you looking at?
The toys are up here!

Oh there you are, brother!

It's a twin thing.

BRODY'S TRICKS

Sure Mason does great tummy time and he can roll over and sure, maybe we've been a little concerned that Brody would never move and that he'd be 15 and wanting to hang out under his little jungle gym thing. But Brody's got tricks too. Here are some of his best moves:

He gives lots of smiles.

He sucks his thumb.

He's super good at looking cute.

He can bounce himself out of his bouncer.
(I was giving Mason a bath and found him like this. Not crying. Just hanging out.)

He can rotate a quarter turn to his right. Even managed to straddle his jungle gym on this one. Impressive.

And with Daddy's help, he's even been working on tummy time.

Brother has been less helpful in this area.

3 MONTHS

Brody "tummy time is for suckers" Babcock

Mason "fight the system" BabcockAlways has his fists at the ready Brothers!

Bonus Pic:
I think somewhere in the fine print it says you're supposed to wear the sling... but this worked just as well.