We all love Grandma!

Grandma Sue was our first official visitor to Missouri! We loved having her here so much! She took such great care of all of us. She was a good sport because she rode the tiniest little airplane into the Kirksville Regional Airport. There were two passengers on it only! She got here on my birthday so we all went out to eat together. The rest of the week we ran errands and pretty much held the babies. She did our laundry, cooked our meals, did our grocery shopping, and rocked babies to sleep all week. How are we going to survive without her? We love you Grandma and miss you already! 

More pictures of the girls! We just think they are so adorable that we can't help but take pictures all the time!

Scott's latest trick to calm a crying baby is to go for a ride on the eliptical! It is working so far! 

White Coat Ceremony

Won't Scott make the most handsome doctor? This is after his white coat ceremony yesterday. They have a ceremony to give the new students their white coat and pin them as they begin their journey in the medical world. IWe have been going to orientation events and yesterday was the ceremony. There were a few speakers and they have the students recite an oath. Each student goes on stage and gets coated and pinned. The girls did great through it all. They were little angels!
It is amazing because there are about 170 students in Scott's class and 30 of them are LDS! (This doesn't include the LDS families from the other classes) Utah is the state with the most students, and BYU the school with the most (16 I think). There are some from BYU Idaho, the Uof U, Utah State, Weber State. Our ward feels like a Provo ward a little bit with so many new young families. It will be great! We have met so many wonderful people already, and have gotten together with new friends a couple of times. Scott will do great in his classes, and is excited to get going. It will be an adventure, but a good one! We are happy about the opportunities here in Kirksville. We love our condo, and everyone we have met have been so sweet to us. Everyone has already heard about us coming with brand new twins, and it is amazing how many people have been offering to help with anything we need! We feel so blessed to be here and getting settled in to life at Med school. 

One month old!

Here I am with the girls on their one month old birthday! I can't believe how fast the time has gone and they we have had them for a month. It has truly been a busy month with the move and medical school, but I've never had more fun with these new little babies in our lives. I've decided that being a mom is the greatest thing in the world! I just look at them all day and think, "How am I so blessed?" They keep me busy which is nice (especially now that Scott is in school). They each have such fun personalities and darling mannerisms. They make the cutest faces too! They both know what they want, and when they get hungry, the whole town of Kirksville can probably hear the cry! (That is why Bella looks a little distraught here!) Anyway, they are getting so big already! They are almost 8 lbs each! I don't know how I'll carry them around when they get bigger, but for now we have having a blast, getting strong arms, and loving every second with our precious angels! 

Kirksville or Bust!

Well, we made it to Kirksville, Missouri! This is our new home for the next couple of years. We had quite the experience getting here. It started with our moving day when our boxes and furniture got poured on (during the small "hurricane" that hit Provo) and we had to re pack everything and dry out all our furniture. I was sure the truck we had rented was too small, but somehow everything got in! Scott and his dad drove out to Kirksville and unloaded and set up most of our new place. They did so much work and everything looks great! I had no idea I married such a handy man... he's been building shelves, putting in blinds, making cribs etc. We have a great 3 bedroom condo (plenty of room for visitors!) Then Scott came back to Utah to fly out with the girls and me. Of course the day of our flight was the day of the terrorist threat on the flights from the UK to the US so no liquids were allowed in carry on bags. This added lots of extra security and lines, but we somehow made our flights. We were quite the spectacle hurrying through the airports with our 3 week old twins in baby bjorns on our chests and 4 bags and 2 car seats! We were interviewed by the news when we made it to Missouri (The girls first TV appearance) and we were also on the news in SLC. What a day! Then we had to drive to Kirksville which should have been about a 2 1/2 hour drive, but turned into a 5 hour drive by the time we stopped to feed the babies every 2 hours! WE MADE IT THOUGH! Our place is great, the ward will be wonderful, we have very sweet and helpful neighbors, and so far we are just trying to settle in with the girls. We are happy to be here and excited for Scott to start school!

Out of this world...

Here are our darling little babies... they do look a little bit like aliens in this picture though don't they? We love them! 

Grandparents!

Our girls are so blessed to have the wonderful grandparents that they do! We are so grateful for each of you and look to you as our examples to raise these babies!


Grandma Sue and Grandpa Larry

Grandma Rynearson

















Grandma and Grandpa Hammond








Grandma Melanie and
Grandpa Randy 

So long P-town!

Before we moved away from Provo we had to get a picture in our BYU attire with the cougar! Our Provo days were wonderful and we will miss them! BYU was so good to us... of course because we found each other there, but also for many other reasons. We loved the wards we were in, the friends we made, the classes we took, the fun restaurants and dates we went to, etc. We'll always have a special place in our hearts for Provo! Scott is teaching our girls already to be BYU sports fans! 

Blessing!

Here we are with the girls and our families on their blessing day. Scott gave them the most beautiful blessings and they were darling. It was great to have so much of our family there! Scott's entire extended family on his mom's side was there. We all took a group photo which was quite an event! We miss all our family already!





 

From truck driver to med student...

This is in remembrance of Scott's days as a driver for Sunroc! Someday we might look back on these hours of driving and lifting with fondness, but for now, he is excited to be starting school. On to bigger and better things! Scott worked at Sunroc for about a year, and did learn a lot. He met some good people, and we loved having his work so close to home. He got to come home and meet me for lunch every day and I loved it!