Twins 18 Month Pictures!

A couple of weeks ago we had our good friend Kristina take pictures of the twins for their 18 month/Christmas pictures.  I had these ideas of Christmas pictures that involved cookies and pjs.  Needless to say they turned out WONDERFULLY! I am so happy with them, I always am when Kristina takes them.  Their personalities are so apparent in the pictures and I am so glad that we have them captured to look at down the road!

Here are some of my favorites.

The Family Pictures That Almost Weren't

A couple of weeks ago we had our wonderful photographer Kristina take our family photos.  I had the bright idea of having a beachy family picture, I always see them and LOVE them.  So I googled for the best location and finally settled on Fort Worden, just google it and you'll see why I chose it.  It had a lighthouse, a sandy beach and blue water.  It had been in the mid to high 80's inland so I figured at worst it would be 70-75 at the coast, boy I was SO wrong.  We got there and it was windy, SO WINDY and COLD! Kristina is a trooper and bless her heart was so patient with us trying to get the twins happy enough to get a few photos. 

So we went as fast as we could and got some family pictures and then a few of Ava and Landon.  They were so cold their teeth were chattering (cue mommy guilt).  I had such idealic thoughts of beautiful sandy beachy pictures and it was anything but.  We would put the twins in the car to warm up and then bribe them with animal crackers. 

Kristina ended up with some amazing shots as usually and it was not a total loss as I thought it was going to be.  This is why Kristina is and always will be our family photographer and good friend! We may try Fort Worden again some day you know when its actually warm and sunny and isn't windy.

Here are some of my favorite shots she got that day!

And I don't know if any of you live in the PNW but if you do go here and check out Kristina's work, she is pretty much A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

The Twins First Easter

We finally had some nice weather here in the PNW, on Saturday it reached...wait for it...69 degrees!! I know I know, thats hardly the lovely spring weather most get but right now we will take what we can get. 

I decided with the nice weather only predicted to last on Saturday I was going to dress the babies in their Easter outfits and take them outside for a little photoshoot! Good thing I did because it poured on Sunday!

Here are some pics from our day!

I have some very photo friendly children, they sat and played with all the plastic eggs while I shot dozens, ok ok, maybe hundreds of photos of them! So glad digital cameras were invented because I couldn't afford film for this many photos!

On Easter Sunday we got up to celebrate with the Twins, they both got some outfits and a couple of toys, we went simple this year...next year we will be doing Easter Egg hunts I'm sure.  They played for awhile, then napped while we prepped our meal.  My parents and Aunt all came over to join us and we all ate until we were STUFFED! Once everyone had left we changed the babies into their Easter clothes and headed to the in-laws for another dinner.  Luckily that dinner wasn't ready until 7 cause I would not have been able to stuff anymore food if it had been any earlier.  The twins got some outfits fro Grandma and Grandpa and played with everyone while we waited for dinner.  Once we had eaten we stayed around for awhile and then headed home to put the twins to bed. 
All in all it was a lovely Easter and a great first Easter for the twins. I hope all of you had a great Easter as well. 

Photo Post 6 months old!

We had our 6 month pictures taken last week by our friend Kristina who also did the twins newborn pics!

 We started out all giggles and smiles

 Then we started to get a little tired

 Then Landon fell asleep

 While Landon napped we got some cute pics of Ava's rufflebutt...Have I mentioned I love Etsy!!

 And slept

 O well if brother is going to sleep, I guess I'll be the star