{Twin Moments:2}

And then this just happened...

{Twin Moments That Melt Your Heart}

 I am sitting on the couch relaxing WITH kiddos around-I know crazy! Right?! Caroline helped daddy with making me a yummy cup of coffee, I just put a few loads of laundry away, our bellies are filled, grocery shopping done, and house is clean. I don't do all of those things alone. I am fortunate to be married to an awesome guy who always pitches in.

It definitely takes two when going to the Drs office for a well check-up. Landen and Caroline can be a handful with the anticipation of the shots. Today it began as soon as they were to stand on the big kid scale to get weighed and measured. Landen was okay after he saw it has some fun attachments to look at...but not still enough to get his heigh measurement. Caroline threw an absolute fit. We even tried the baby scale thinking she would sit...nope. Wasn't going to happen.

{Cake}

You can't have your cake and eat it too...isn't that what happened last night to me? I had the cake and then it was gone.  At work today I shared with my wonderful co-worker how my husband ate THE cake. She asked if he would go and replace it and I said nah..he won't. One he's extremely busy at work and I'm not sure he even knows where the Bonbonerie is. So that was that.

I got home today with the 'MOMMYON' van loaded down. I had my two and my little six-month-old niece in the third row. I decided why not bring her home with us since my sister and brother-in-law were coming over to our house for Halloween.   It was fun having a third with us. I'm certainly on the fence on having a third...that's another topic for another day. 

So as I was quickly sorting and putting away all the bags we had, Aaron walked in the door and don't you know he had a Bonbonerie box in his hand...seriously???!! I was completely surprised. Aaron is a total sweetheart but this was out of character-this was to me above and beyond.  He's amazing....I wonder how much he's already eaten since he's downstairs and I'm up with the kids
right now! 

Tonight was the first Halloween my kiddos have went out. Last year it was raining so they dressed up and helped man the door for the brave souls that fought the weather. The year before they were just too little.  This year was amazing! They actually understood what Halloween was all about. Landen ran from door to door saying trick-or-treat. It was so cute!! The kids in our neighborhood were so sweet saying, "Hi Thomas, Hi Jake!" A couple kids even gave candy out of their bags to our kids small buckets. My heart melted-there are good kids still left in this world! 

We partied back at our house and had pizza with my parents, sis and brother-in-law. We watched Charlie Brown and just played and counted candy.  It's a night of memories I'm so thankful for. I love being around family as well as my neighbors. I love the connection I feel. We are certainly not alone in this world and its so nice to have one another. 

It's way past bedtime and Landen and Caroline are certainly fighting it! With the sounds of trains blowing their horns and a glass of red wine with cider spice (you have to try it!) And a hubby and cake waiting for me downstairs, I couldn't ask for a better way for my Friday night and evening to end. 

I hope you all had a wonderful evening of trick-or-treating with your children. I am so thankful the weather held off in our part of town or there would have been some bummed little ones.  I'm off to check out  all of the adorable Halloween pics on social media-cheers!

Keep Calm and Mommy On!

Xoxoxoxo

Danielle 

{Ohana}

I don't know about you, but I'm a little protective of my 'treats.' Especially good treats.  So the teacher I work with is amazing and so kind. She was generous in bringing in some of her anniversary cake to share  with me because I was practically drooling over the thought of it on the playground-I told you she is AWESOME! Chocolate, peanutbutter-topped with a buckeye. Can you say Delish?!!!

{In This Skin}

Do you ever think back B.K? What did you do with all that free time? What did you talk to your spouse about? What were your weekends like?  What was I like? Who was I?

{Being Grateful}

It's so easy to get caught up in our every day Mommy lives. I make it a point to be grateful-especially when the going is getting tough. Landen and Caroline were a wish come true and an absolute success story that I think about nearly every day. Their journey into this world was not easy and there were many close calls (foulkbabies.blogspot.com).  How could a Mommy not be so thankful for such wonderful, healthy children?

{Eating Out With Twin Two-Year-Olds }

I had a message last night asking how we take our two-year-old twins to a restaurant.  Instantly I was taken back to June of this year. School let out and we took off the next day for our big family vacation. Now it had been almost a year since we traveled long distance with the kids. We usually travel through the night but this year we decided not to.  I had not done my 'homework' for traveling with two-year-olds. I didn't know a thing about busy bags or that I should pack play dough for playing with at the table. Trying to stick to the no electronics at the table was enforced but boy did I want to whip them out!  There was no fun being had at our table unless of course they were eating.