Some of our Favorite Things

Since the addition of our two newest members, getting our of the house isn't so common, so we now have found some new favorite things.

For the twiners they do very little so it seems that their favorite things do do are sleep (as Josh is reverently demonstrating) and play. Both of the wee ones now hold and shake their rattles very well, much better than Phoebe ever did.

As for Phoebe she spends her days waiting for the garbage truck to pass and playing dress-ups. Every truck that Phoebe now hears pass our house she announces to us that it's a Garbage Truck. I usually correct her by saying that is only only a normal truck, except on Wednesdays when the Garbage Truck really does come by.

Traumtic FHE Lesson

Since the twins have been around and Phoebe has entered the terrible 2s, we have notice she does not share well with others. To try and improve her sharing skills we thought we would try and take a whack at giving a sharing lesson for FHE. It did not turn out so well and was the most traumatic lesson Phoebe had ever been subjected to, although Cory and I thought it was a bit funny.

Sew Determined

This year Cory and I set a few new New Years Resolutions besides the general I will work out more & read my scriptures more kind that are the standards for every new years. We are so far on track for our new goals which are to have one date a month, to attend the temple once a month, and for me, to sew one new project a month. This year one of my biggest goals is to learn how to sew. I can do the basics of a "straight" line seam, well mine aren't always straight, but I would like to sew better. So I have scoured the internet and found several projects and free patterns I plan on making this year...I'm very excited to work on this goal. For January I started on something very simple, a burp cloth. Mainly because I had a baby shower to go to and I needed a gift and I found this very cute idea. You can see how mine turned out. Up close they are not perfect seems but this luckily is a very forgiving pattern.

Below you can see I used three different colors, I made 6 burp cloths in all.

I am currently sewing together 12 little boy burp cloths out of receiving blankets we never used, because of their small size, so if you are having a boy soon you know what you will be receiving from me.  On a side note I also made a new style of binki clip.  I don't think it is as cute as the other I use to make, but they are a lot more durable!

Here are a few of the ideas I have for furture projects/months:

Diaper/Wipes Case

Car Seat Cover

10 minute dish towel dress

Beach party dress & top

Re-purposing: Sweater to Sweater Dress

Girls dress from a mans shirt

Authentic Toddler Wear

Bubble Skirt

The Market Skirt

Little Girls Patchwork Skirt

Twirly Skirt Tutorial

Lil' Britches

I am still looking for other great ideas so if you know of one please pass it on to me either by leaving it in a comment or email me. I am looking for ANY kind of project! 

Thirty, Flirty & Thriving

Last week (Jan 26th) was my 30th B-day. You remember when you were little 30 seemed to be so old? Well I'm there now and I am pretty sure I am not on deaths door quite yet. In fact, I don't plan to have my midlife's crisis for another 10-20 years still.

I had wanted a larger George Forman grill, because on our old one I could only cook one hamburger paddies at a time so we would have to eat in shifts. This new grill is the largest one they make (144sq in), outside of the outdoor BBQ grill. I broke it in on Sat. night by making Elk Burgers (the Elk was a gift from Cory's boss, not like I normally have that on hand).

This is Phoebe desperately trying to rewrap my gift up. She was so distraught that I took the princess wrapping apart.

After I took Phoebs to the Dr. for her H1N1 shot (we also weighed her there and she was 19.12 lbs with 2 shirts and a diaper still on) we stopped and grabbed McD's for dinner. I had been craving their $0.89 hamburgers for over a week.

For my "cake" Cory got Cold Stone Ice cream cupcakes. Look, one cupcake for every decade of my life. By the way they were excellent cupcakes! I had been dreading this birthday for awhile, but I just have to remind myself I guess its better to be starting up the hill instead of under it.

3 Months Old

As of last friday, (Jan 22nd) the twins are now three months old. Here are their growing pictures:

Here are some other cute pics from throughout their second month.

Get Me to the Church on Time

On Saturday January 9 Cory's sister Ashley took the plunge, into holy matrimony that is. She and Luis Moreno got married in the SL Temple at 9am, so it was rather frigid outside when it came to pictures afterward, very much like my wedding day.

THE TEMPLE

These were a few pictures taken at the temple.

THE LUNCH IN

If you wondering yes those are gummy bears on Phoebs' plate. This was the lunch in at Golden Corral and that was the only thing she would eat...I know horrible mom, but hey she still hasn't reached 20 lbs yet.

THE RECEPTION

Here is cute BFFs/cousins Cami & Afton in their adorable dresses. They were part of the too cute for words table displays...well at our table anyway.

Ashley and Luis with the 11 Fergy Nieces & Nephews and 1 Moreno nephew. I think it looks like they inherited an instant family.

Their cake was beautiful and tasted really good too and that's saying a lot, I am not even really a cake enthusiast.

SUNDAY CHURCH

Here are our wee ones dressed in the same cute wedding reception outfits ready to go to church.

The twiners are dressed to the nines and ready to sleep through all of church yet again.

PRESENT OPENING

On the Monday following the wedding we all packed up and headed to mom for the present openings. We made them this FHE board in Spanish. I am personally really proud of this board. I think it turned out great and I want to make us a matching one, but in English.

While we were enjoying seeing all the gifts Ashley and Luis got Phoebe was downstairs showing cousin Lily how to raid grandmas flour storage. I wish I had a picture of the two of them covered, but this was the only picture I got before the two were vacuumed off. That's 3 times Phoebe has had a flour party in grandma Fergy's storage room. Poor grandma had to call the next day asking to borrow flour from us. Oh Phoebe!

Baby Blessings

Well it's been a while ago now, but on January 3rd the twins were blessed. Josh & Cami must be two very special wee ones, because we even had friends from Oregon come and participate in their blessings.

It is nearly impossible to get two happy babies in a picture.

Here is Josh with his two namesakes Josh & David.

Here is evidence despite how the first picture portrays Josh he is normally a very jolly fellow.

Thanks to everyone who came and shared in the blessing of our cutest twiners!

FOUR Years Already!

Four years and one week ago Cory and I got married in the SL Temple.

Four years later and look how our little family has changed!

This year to celebrate our anniversary Cory and I went to Famous Dave's restaurant, I have always wanted to try it. I enjoyed the food immensely,but what I enjoyed even more was the speedy service. We placed our order and 5 minutes later we had our food. I guess there is something to having the food slow cooked all day...it is then ready when RIGHT when I order it. Perfect for impatient me! As a rule for our anniversary Cory and I don't buy gifts, however, I tend to find a loophole for this rule, this year included. This year I MADE Cory's gift, no purchase necessary. He was enrolled in the Date of the Month Club. (It looked similar to this picture, but with my own personalization of course! It was an idea I got from the Love, Actually Website.) This will insure I get more than 2 dates a year, which was the true total of our dates in 2009.

After dinner Cory and I went to see Sherlock Homes, I admit I am a bit of a Robert Downy Jr fan and he didn't disappoint in this film. I would highly recommend it, a must watch. Overall, besides the horrible snowy conditions outside this was a pretty great anniversary date for us, it way beat the hamburger and fries anniversary the year before!

Fergy Festivus 2009

Our Festivus began on Christmas Eve where we opened our traditional present of homemade pjs.

We then put treats out for Santa on our new special Cookies for Santa plate while the twins sat out on the couch livid they could not partake of the treats that everyone else were enjoying.

Sometime in the night Santa came to visit and this is what he left behind, a mini kitchen.

Below is Daddy coming down in the morning with his two girls, brother already came down with mommy who is obviously taking the picture. Phoebs got more into the presents this year which was a fun experience. When she opened her presents she exclaimed, "Wow!" Then she had to play with that present right then. This slowed the present opening experience WAY down. Below you can see her most beloved gift which came uncle Rob & aunt Lucy...a princess tea set. The twins also enjoyed all the Festivus presents, as you can obviously tell in Cami's picture as she is playing with her new giraffe blanket.

In the afternoon we enjoyed our delicious Christmas prepared by no other than my blessed hands. Phoebe turned out to LOVE the pork shoulder roast and still asks for, "Hamma" everyday at lunch. Also pictured is Phoebe's new princess cup which is a must have item for every drink.

After lunch everyone in the Fergy home enjoyed a good ole' fashion Christmas nap followed by a run by grandma/pa Fergy's home to wish everyone a very merry Christmas. We then returned home to put kids to bed and watch our new movies.

Where's your Smile?

In the last couple of weeks we have begun to discover smiling. As you can see Josh is better at it than Cami, but then again she is a tougher audience and it is harder to catch her rarer smiles.

This is just a crazy picture of Josh and if it doesn't make you chuckle then you are made of stone.