The Girls' 1 month birthday & mine

These are pictures of them their first week home and their second week home. What a difference a week makes!!! Here's Lia before and after.

Here's Kiri before and after. She's such a chunk!

So, my parents and brother and his family all came to visit the girls and celebrate my birthday. Here is a picture of the proud 'Gong-Gong." Kiri is on the right and Lia is on the left.

Since my birthday was on a Sunday I requested Thanksgiving dinner for my dinner. We had all of the fixings, including a 22lb turkey. MMMM!!!!! My brother got me so much baby stuff, clothes, a double stroller and a bouncer. Eric got me make-up and JUST DANCE 3 for our Wii...so, anyone feel the itch to dance, come on over (so long as you are not and have not been around anyone who has a cold or temperature in the last 5 days and are willing to get a retinal scan like I had to do at the airport in China during the Bird Flu scare.

Here's a picture of Max singing, "Happy Birthday" to me. I got the costume at Walmart the day after Halloween for $2.88. Best $2.88 I ever spent!! Much better than the money I spent on this new haircut Eric insisted on Max getting. The spiky look, we've decided, while cute...is trumped by his old baby Bieber sweep!!!

Here's a picture of my brother's adorable 7 month old, Parker. Parker is wearing Max's most recent hand me downs...and by that I mean his 18-24month clothes!!! He is so tall...and adorable!!!

I figured if I didn't post some better pictures, Kristina Hopper was going to have a cow. I took these just for you, Hopper!!!I like this picture of Lia and Kiri below because it shows their blue eyes. Neither Max or Parker had blue eyes to begin with. Here's hoping that they stay this color!

I love my girls. I also have to give a big shout out to my Kiri-girl. She was born with an umbilical cord half the size of her sister, and smaller in height and weight, but she just fights through, as of last week, they were both 6 lbs 6 oz. Then, a few days ago, Kiri had a temp of 100.3. I called our pediatrician and my cousin who is a Peds Dr in California. Both said that at 100.4 we'd have to go to the ER and get some blood work done and probably a spinal tap...but my Kiri girl just kept working through it and after two feedings, the fever broke and she never looked back. I could not ask for better babies than the three angels I have. Best birthday in years!!! :)

This is Halloween!!!

My family has been here helping us adjust to life with the twins and Max. My mother loves Dancing with the Stars and Max has learned to share his TV time. For their Halloween special they had all these children dancing to, "This is Halloween," and Max sang that song for the rest of the Halloween season!!! Here he is TrICk oR tReaTing!!! We live in a great neighborhood...we only hit up a few houses on each block and we got loaded with candy. We also realized that we are cheap-o's!!!

Here's Max before doing the downtown stroll on Halloween.

There was a haunted house in the fire station. Max was so brave and had so much fun!!

Max kept saying, "It's you, mummy."

At one of the local businesses, we ran into another Captain America...and Max kept inquiring as to who was the 'real' Captain America. Of course, Max is!

Soon, the other Captain America's siblings wanted in on the picture action! So cute!!!

We also had a super fun ward activity. Our new ward is so ridiculously fun and social...we haven't even hosted anything yet. It's awesome!!!

Our friends down the street put on their own scare house in their garage. They are so cool!!! We had such an amazingly fun Halloween and we are so grateful for family and fun!!!

Home, at last!!!!

I actually switched their names because the bow is bigger on the right side...but Lia is on the left and Kiri is on the right.

I love these pictures of them under the Billi-lights...sisters holding hands...

here they are sleeping...again, Kiri is on the right and Lia is on the left.

Yawning...here, Kiri is on the left and Lia is making some weird face on the right.

Max has been adjusting so well...he loves his "mei-mei's." That's little sister in Chinese. I think it helps that Eric and I, along with all the grandparents have been lavishly spoiling him with gifts...between all of us, I believe he has every mask they sell at Wal-Mart for Halloween. Here's his new Spiderman mask.

Halloween ribbons for the girls.

It breaks my heart that I don't get to spend as much one-on-one time with Max...but I do love that he has been exploring his independence. His imagination has always been so keen, but I love that he is crawling and spreading his wings to be Spiderman for himself...all the while admiring his reflection in his bedroom window. He is such a wonderful boy and Kiri & Lia could not ask for a better brother. Eric and I can not properly express our gratitude for these three amazing blessings in our family.

Pumpkin Painting

Carli came up with the idea to paint pumpkins this year instead of traditional caving. We were all supposed to smile as cheesy as possible...but Carli apparently did not get the message.

My Mom bought Max this Iron Man pumpkin set...and he L-O-V-E-S it!

Us showing off our pumkins.

Max decided he wanted to be the pumpkin...really, he just wanted to be Iron Man---pyooooo!!!

Proud Big Brother of Twins...

That's what Max's shirt said, when he visited the girls for the first time.

He has been obsessed with this house he refers to as the, "Halloween House." At first he was afraid of it...but now he wants to go visit it everyday!

I just thought this picture reminded me so much of Max after a good feeding.

THE TWINS ARE HERE

Yesterday was a calm and normal day. We took some pictures in our skeleton shirts. You'll notice Aimei had two skeleton babies in her belly. Not sure what Max is doing with his hand. We won't judge.

The twins were born the next day, October 10, 2011. Both Aimei and the twins are doing great. They came a week or so earlier than we were expecting but there are no problems to report.
I also got to dress up a bit early for Halloween. The only thing that ruined the Halloween dress-up party is everybody in the delivery room had on the same outfit.

Aimei did fantastic. She didn't have any contraction pains and didn't have any idea she was even in labor. The Doctor who delivered the twins said it was "smooth sailing."
This is Lia at about three minutes old. I'll be honest, she's cute but she looks like she has been through heck. I told Aimei the war-wound on the head would add character. She was the first born.
Kiri came about two minutes later. The Doctor told me it was normal for newborns to look like little old men. You've gotta love that blonde curly hair. Everybody seriously needs to see these two, they are adorable and absolutely beautiful.

We feel very blessed that they are here and healthy.

Boar's Tusk and the Sand Dunes

It was Conference weekend and we decided to drive to the Sand Dunes and Boar's Tusk.
Here's Eric in all of his Sand Dunes glory!!

Eric and Adam and their brotherly rivalry. We have a video of this that we will update later.

Max and Grady relaxing in their thrones.

Here's Julie trying to get Max to roll down the dunes...she was so nice as to show him and still, he was more content just playing with the sand.

Jim, triumphantly finishing an exhausting climb.

Max loved playing with "Grady Boy" as he called him.

We forgot his hat and sunglasses...so, he had to make due with wearing daddy's hat and mommy's glasses. Afterwards dinner, the boys went to the Priesthood session and Julie, Camille and I got to go shopping for a few hours. We were so happy to have visitors!!