(I do realize these babies are 2, but they're my babies and they don't care yet that I call them babies so I'm gonna! )
As a Mother I find myself reflective on birthdays. It's such a fun time to think about the birth and subsequent birthdays of your kids, but for me having a rough start with these two I do it even more. I've thought about all the help we had during that time and how many people it took to get us through it. Thank you so much for all your love and support, we couldn't have done it without you!! I had to put these pics together to show y'all, or remind y'all how far we've come!!
Here is where we started with our sweet babies.....
And here is where we're at now!
I'm so excited to be on this end of it all. Don't get me wrong, twin toddlers is a handful, but SO, SO much fun at the same time. They're saying new words every day, doing new things and loving the amazing world around them. If you've lost that feeling of wonder, come spend the day with us. Avery is loving bugs and animals and brings me an occasional ant or worm from the backyard. Brecken is fascinated with cars and trucks. We have a home being built behind us and he's spent countless minutes just watching them and the kid won't sleep a wink in the car afraid he'll miss a big truck or tractor on the side of the road. They're totally different personalities that compliment each other perfectly.
Avery is the bossy, spunky and adventurous.
Breck is cuddly, shy and a bit introverted.
They're such a joy to have in our family!! Happy 2nd Birthday babies! We love you both so so much!!!
Every other year for Christmas Corey's parents give us a family trip. It's always so fun to see where we're going and anticipate the fun we'll have together. This year we went to Hatch......Utah. You may not have heard about Hatch but I'm willing to bet you've heard of Zion National Park & Bryce Canyon National Park, both a quick drive from, you guessed it....Hatch. One thing you should know about a Larrabee family trip is that it's a trip, not a vacation. We try to cram in all the fun possible and I think we did a pretty good job this year. We went to Navajo Lake and had a picnic lunch and caught bunches of frogs in every type of container we could find, bread bags, alfalfa sprout boxes, etc. 
Tate really got into the toenail painting. I let him do mine and I wish I would have thought to take a picture. It took Kari more than a second to fix them! 
Zion was amazing as usual. When Corey and I were going to school in Cedar we had a year pass because it was so close, but I don't think we've been down since and it's just breathtaking. So fun to hike around with the kids and be amazed at all they do. 
