Soggy Diaper

Lucy's diaper was on a little too long, as you can see from these pictures. Cute, though!

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

My how time flies (kind of, not really)! Exactly one year ago today, I went up for a routine non-stress test for the twins when I was almost 32 weeks along. The non-stress test indicated that Baby B's (Lucy) heart rate was decelerating periodically. They did not want to send me home, but were not alarmed either. They sent me to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center for 24 hour monitoring. That turned into 2 1/2 weeks of me hooked up to two fetal monitors while Shane kept everything under control at home. Lucy's heart rate continued to dip a little here and a little there, enough to make the perinatologist think it best that I stay in the hospital. It was a rough 2 1/2 weeks and felt like two months.

Funny, I look back on it now as a beautiful time and wish I could visit the hospital again just to reminisce and remember that special time right before the twins were born.

JUST CHILLIN'

ENJOYING A PILLOW...

LIKE, GRANDMOTHER, LIKE GRANDAUGHTER...

Lucy is not really drinking a Diet Coke in this picture. That happens to be an empty can that her mother polished off.

RANDOM PHOTOS

AUNT HOLLIE'S REQUEST...

LUCY LOVES A WIPE!

CLOSE UP OF LUCY

HAZEL'S SCRUNCHED UP NOSE

SUZY, TIM, BONNIE, VARD

KENT, IRIS, VARD, TIM, BONNIE, SUZY

HAZEL FOUND THE FOOD COLORING

HAZEL'S BLUE FACE

Bonnie went to church a couple of weeks ago and left Shane in charge of the twins. When she got home, Shane mentioned to Bonnie that Hazel found a tube of blue food coloring and it popped in her mouth. These pictures don't really do justice to her blue face. She almost looked like she wasn't breathing because of her blue face.

MORE PICTURES

Dayne, Mattie, and Ladd

Dayne and Ladd ice fishing

Emily cuddling the new puppy Moses

Shane

ASPEN'S PROM

Dancing with Grandpa Vern after the floorshow. With her double date group.

A beautiful and sweet girl.

Josh Rasmussen picking her up. He forgot her corsage, so they picked it up on the way to the dance.

Emily took some lovely pictures of her and then did her special effects on the computer.

Trying to get a bunch of pictures posted for those picture-hungry grandmas!

Today the twins are 11 months old. They are sharing this milestone with their Great-Grandpa Simpson whose birthday it is.

Come join our family!

While going through the pains of downloading pictures to the computer, uploading them into an email message to send to family, and waiting for literally hours only to find that it didn't work, I have come to the conclusion that a blog would be a great alternative to getting those pictures out to family. So we've joined the blogging revolution! For the time being, I will only download some recent pictures of cute kids and reserve any monologues for a later date!