Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from the Rynearson fam. Here are our darling little pumpkins (compliments of Grandma Sue)! We are off to a ward trunk or treat tonight so we'll get to show these girls off. The adults can dress up too I guess. Scott doesn't love to dress up too much... he says all he used to dress up as was a doctor because he could just throw on scrubs. Well, that won't really work around here. They all wear scrubs regularly so it isn't much of a costume. We'll see what we can do. Hopefully we can get some candy! I have such a sweet tooth! I'm not really into the whole ghosts/witches thing about Halloween, but any day I can get yummy candy is a plus for me! Of course I had to buy some candy for the trick-or-treaters! (Truthfully, I'll be shocked if we get even one little kid! We live down at the very end of this country road and no one is going to come all the way down here. More for us!) I love the fall season though. The leaves around us are changing and are beautiful. It is starting to be pretty cold around here, but no snow yet. My favorite things about this season are: 1. Getting out warm, cute sweaters that you haven't seen for a while
2. Cooking with pumpkin! Aunt Joan gave us the yummiest pumpkin cake recipe that has become one of Scott's all time favorites! We've made it twice already! I also just learned the EASIEST treat ever. You mix a can of pumpkin with a package of spice cake and add some chocolate chips. Cook about 15 minutes at 350. Only 3 ingredients and they are so yummy!
3. Caramel apples
4. Fall colors and changing leaves
5. burning autumn candles
6. The holidays that are on the way... Thanksgiving and Christmas! (which means lots of great traditions and family time)

Happy Halloween and Happy Autumn!

3 months old today!

We finally captured their adorable smiles! We have yet to get them both smiling in the same picture, but it will come. Here is Madelyn.

















Here is Bella.



















We can't believe that they are 3 months. They have grown so fast and are so big. They have been the greatest blessing in our life and I don't know if it would be possible to love them any more than we do. Madelyn is a pound bigger than Bella at 11 lbs 8 oz and 10 lbs 8 oz. respectively. They both smile and giggle a ton, and they have started noticing each other. It is so cute because they'll just stare at each other and smile! I love having twins. It is so worth the extra work because it is such fun! 

TV already?

Both the girls totally love to watch Baby Einstein. They will sit and watch the video for like 15 minutes. I push them up in front of the TV and they are happy! Their favorite part is this black and white metronome with a little colored animal attached that goes back and forth. It mesmerizes them! 

Twin Fun!

"Hmm, I think I see a nice fist to suck on!"














"I better open really wide so I can catch it!"














"Got it! Yum!"
 

It is hard not to be a little camera crazy with these girls... here is the test, can you tell who is who yet?





























This is a little stroller I push the girls around the house in. Here they are watching me cook dinner!



















My pink ballerinas! 

lots of pictures

This picture was during the sustainings on the saturday session of conference. The girls didn't last long...both asleep, but they did have an hand out in the affirmative!















We had to have a family picture while Sarah was around to take it for us. It took a lot of work to get both girls looking!















This is out at the state park right by us. The leaves are starting to change and it is gorgeous. 

We love Family Visits!!

We had the best time having Sarah, Jacob, and Andrew come visit us! It was so nice of them to make the 7 hour journey to Kirksville! We loved having them see our apartment and where welive, and of course meeting the girls for the first time. The boys were so cute with them. They were great helpers! Sarah gave me all sorts of tips and help and we miss them already!














Because it was conference weekend of course we had to make conference soup. If you've never heard about it, this is a Lunt family tradition that we've been doing for years. It started when we were all young and mom had us help make the conference soup to keep us occupied and quiet during conference. Since then, we have all grown to love it, and crave it 2 times a year! Basically, you just take chicken broth and go buffet style to make a soup. You fill it up with all sorts of ingredients... hence the many bowls lined along the bar. There is everything from vegetables, to meats, to crunched up doritos! There are always tons of leftovers to have more soup or throw into all sorts of other recipies the following week. Thanks Mom for this wonderfu tradition!





Maddie and the boys!

Sisters are the greatest! Come visit us again soon!! 

Our Update!

It is amazing... the girls are both asleep at the same time, and neither one is in my arms! Naturally I started running around the house thinking what should I do first... the laundry, the dishes, etc etc. Then I decided... the BLOG! It is great, I got to luxuriously check my email, read my friends blogs, and even chat for a second with Heidi and Tar. The girls are starting to sleep more at the same time every now and then, so I'm starting to have a few minutes a day to actually get something done. It is a novel idea really! I don't quite know where to begin!

We are doing great. Happy and healthy (minus the colds that we are recovering from) and hanging out in Missouri. Scott is doing so well in school. He does great on all his tests, so I'm thinking that maybe he is spending too much time studying and needs to start relaxing at home a bit more! No, but he really is liking school and doing great. He's the best dad too. The girls love him.

They are getting bigger and bigger. They had their 2 month apointment last week and weighed in at 9 lbs 14 oz and 10 lbs 5 oz. They are in the 10-25 % in everything. They had to get 3 shots, so naturally Dad took care of this. I could not have handled it. The whole rest of the day they were so sad and would cry in pain, and it made me want to cry too!

We just got back from institute which is held on campus every thursday. All the med students and the wives and kids go during lunch for an hour. The teacher is the Stake President in Columbia and is great! It is a fun outing, and nice to have a spiritual boost during the week.

I started a little lunch group with the other LDS girls and it has been fun. I like sharing baby stories and learning new sleeping tips etc. There are a lot of really great people. One girl has twins that are a couple months older than mine, so she tells me what is ahead. She said that it is getting easier and easier, and that is how I feel too.

We got to go do sealings at the Nauvoo temple last weekend and it was great. The temple is gorgeous. I love being out in this historical area. Scott got to clean temple and got a tour through all the rooms and stuff. He even cleaned up in the bell tower right under angel Moroni!

This weekend my sister Sarah and her two boys, Jacob and Andrew, are coming for a visit! We are sooo excited. We are going to make conference soup of course, so I'm glad she will be here to carry on the tradition with me. They are coming from Indiana, so hopefully the drive will be okay! I'm gearing up to take the girls on an adventure to Indianapolis one of these days.

Also of note is that one of our friends, Alice Feathers, from our old apartments in Provo passed away a couple of weeks ago. We wished we could have been there. She had lived at Suncrest for many years and had a lot of health problems. I was assigned as her visiting teacher when we first moved in, and we really became close with her. She suffered a lot physically and emotionally, so we know that she is much happier now. It makes you reflect on what is most important in life. Family, Friends and the Gospel!

Well, I hear some stirring... it is feeding time. One of these days I'll have to post a picture of me and the girls on the pink nursing pillow. It is how we spend a lot of our days, (and nights too) so it needs to be recorded...

We miss our friends and family that are scattered all over the place, but know that we think of you often and love you. We are blessed with so many wonderful people in our lives and we are grateful for you all!

Our Sweeties!

Bella!



















Maddie! 

Thanks Alex!

These darling outfits are compliments of Alex! They were a hit at church last week. They are definitely the cutest babies around! 

Hammonds in Kirksville!

Last week we were so lucky to have the Hammond family come visit us for a night! Scott's uncle Todd is doing research on church history stuff and we live right in the middle of it all. He was driving through with his darling wife and six kids, so we loved having them stay. They loved seeing the babies too! Hope the rest of your road trip is a success! We love you! 

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