One Month

These cool cats are one month old! Oh how the time flies!

Jameson Matthew Kirk
Born May 3, 2014 at 12:56 am
Weighed 5lbs 12 oz and 18.5 inches long

Carter David Kirk
Born May 3, 2014 at 1:06am
Weighed 6 lbs 1 oz and 19 inches long

We've had a great month! It has been an adventure with the boys.

 The boys love eating, sleeping during the day, pooping, going on long walks, riding in the car, reading stories and pooping.

They hate diaper changes, waiting to eat, and sleeping through the night.

They have been such good babies! And we feel really blessed to have such an amazing little boys!

 Here are a few pictures from their first month!

Going home from the hospital outfits.  The newborn clothes were huge on them then, and now a month later they are starting to actually fit them! Carter was the bigger twin at birth, but now Jameson has almost a pound on Carter.

Trying to get a good picture of one baby is hard, trying to get a good picture of twins is impossible. This is the best we're going to get.

We went on our first family hike up to the grotto! The boys loved it... aka they slept the whole time. Everyone that passed us had to check out the boys. We had a lot of fun!

 

Nothing is cuter than a shirtless sleeping baby.

Matt is a proud Papa and loves to cuddle with the boys.

 We do lots of "twin time" aka I make them lay next to each other and get to know each other.

Going on walks to Grandma and Grandpa Kirk's house.

Mastering the skill of carrying both twins.

The looks on their faces pretty much sums up our lives right now. It's a little bit crazy, but awesome!

Brazil

So we took a little trip to Brazil. And it was the coolest thing we've ever done. 

THE FOOD

One of my favorite things from the trip was the food. Everything was AMAZING!! I tried everything and loved almost everything. 

This is from a market in the shopping district in Campinas. We bought some super yummy mangos there. 

We stopped for lunch after a ton of shopping and ate these bread and chicken and cheese things. They have a name in Portuguese, but all I remembered about it was that it was delicious! 

Brazilians love their cookies. They are all similar to Oreo's, but like 100 times better with 100 different flavors. Every night we would go to the grocery store and stock up on our cookies. We bought flocco cookies in the first city we stayed in, right as we were leaving to another part of Brazil. Floccos are like sprinkles on steriods, and I freakin loved those flocco cookies. Like the best cookie ever and maybe it was because we hadn't eaten anything all day, but I loved those flocco cookies.  And then it was like Brazil was torturing me because we could never find the flocco cookies again. And we searched and searched EVERY single grocery store we found and never found them. I miss flocco cookies. 

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Darn Nectarines!

WARNING: Some of the content may gross you out. I'm sorry in advance for being one of those people that post gross pictures. I gotta prove myself to my Dad and brothers that I am hardcore tough too.

 I had a mishap at work with a knife and a nectarine. I just wanted nectarine slices and I ended up with stitches. It's such a lame story I'm debating making up a lie about a knife fight or getting attacked by some ravenous animal.

The knife slipped when cutting the nectarine and I got this big gash. I may have even seen bone, or maybe it was me hallucinating from all the blood loss.

 This is the culprit!

The aftermath, 5 stitches. I was having a mini anxiety attack when Matt and I went to the instacare. Luckily the doctor could tell I was freaking out and treated me like he treats his child patients. It worked like a charm!

I'm just hoping scar looks cool!

Speedos, Neck Pillows and Sour Skittles

What do speedos, neck pillows and sour skittles have in common??  Those are just a few of the random items we've packed for our trip to BRAZIL!

Matt says the Brazilians loved sour skittles, but they don't have them there. He used to play "Don't eat Pete!" with all the kids, but they called it " Nao come Toni". We bought a bunch of candy that Matt didn't think they had in Brazil to take with us, we are going to try and bribe people to take us in for lunch.

Our flight is a 12 hour flight from Dallas to Brazil, in the middle of the night. So I am hoping to still be able to get my 8 hours of beauty sleep with a handy neck pillow!

As for the speedo Matt just wants to fit in while in Brazil. Since everyone wears speedos! Just kidding, a direct quote from Matt "There is no way I am going to wear a speedo, even if I am the only person at the ENTIRE beach not in a speedo."

 mmmmmm... love speedos!

Pergola

Last weekend we built a pergola! When I say "we" I mean Matt built it and I stood around and acted like I was helping, until I got bored and just went inside.

It all started with an idea. We have a grape vine in the backyard that needs a place to grow on. So Scotty gave us the idea of building a pergola to let the grapes grow on.

And when I get an idea planted in my head, I want it to happen now. But neither of us know the first thing about building a pergola.  And when Matt doesn't know how to build something he leaves it up to me to figure out. So that idea got canned until  I could convince Matt that he could figure it out on his own.

I knew we were meant to build a pergola when the first time I  looked on KSL at garage sales in Payson one of them was selling  pergola wood. It must have been my inner thrifty intuition! I probably inherited that from my G-ma Smith. She is awesome at finding sweet deals at yard sales!

So we bought the pergola wood, along with the screws and bolts and everything for a huge price tag of $7. Score!

 

And I can't write a post about the backyard without including a cute picture of Shaiya.  She loves to sit on us while we swing in the swing. She usually just ends up rooting around and rubbing her butt on us until we push her off.

Jumpin' June Jammers

Matt came up with the title, so blame him for it's awesomeness.

June has been an amazing start to the summer! We have already done so much and the summer isn't even half over!

We started off the summer with the Dirty Dash!  It was a very important event for Jen and I  because we were raising awareness about childhood obesity. JK, we just really like Fat Eric.

Whenever we thought the race was too tough and couldn't go on, we would just think of jolly ole Fat Eric and his spirit would keep us going.

The dirty dash was pretty much the best thing ever and I will definitely be doing it again!

The number one thing on our to do list was the backyard. We spent months working on it.

This is a picture of our backyard right after we moved in. Gross is an understatement.

It took us about 2 months to get our backyard looking decent. The reason it took us so long is because we had to till, trench, dig, put in sprinkler system, then sod. We also planted a garden that may already be half dead.  It was exhausting, but definitely paid off! 

 Shaiya and Matt just hangin' out! 

Then we headed off to California for a week with the Kirk Klan.

The first night we stayed in Reno with Matt's sister Alissa. It was awesome! We went and hung out at the marina across the street from her apartment. Matt and Ashton just kept trying to show each other up all night. Brit and Alissa had to give the long boards a try too.

After we spent some time at the marina we went to the hot tub. We were having a grand time until I spotted this gross, green, diarrhea bird poop on Matt's back, that's when the party started! I couldn't stop laughing for the life of me.  The best part was that Matt had no idea a bird used him as it's personal toilet. It was in a part on his back that he couldn't reach and we all thought it was too funny and too gross to help him out. I was given the bad wife of the year award when I wouldn't help out my poor husband. Eventually Matt's dad took pity on him and gave him some leaves to wipe off with. 

The next day we headed off to the beach house in Santa Cruz, CA! Here are the rest of the happenings while in California.

We spent the day at Hearst Castle. It was amazing! That Hearst guy was a champ and knew how to live in style!

The drive to Hearst Castle from Santa Cruz was about 3 hours, but it was along the coast. We had some amazing views! This is us at Julia Pfeiffer Burns park, it was absolutely gorgeous!

We went on a killer 15 mile bike ride all around San Francisco, we even crossed the bridge. It was so cool! Matt and I are biking pros and whizzed past all the dumb tourists that were walking their bikes up the hill. Then the dumb tourists had the last laugh when my bike tire popped.

We cruised around in style with our new cool sunglasses.  We tried to take a picture in the store, but the Asian lady yelled at us.

We enjoyed fried twinkies on the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. The man selling the fried twinkies assured me that it wouldn't give me a heart attack. 

Oh yeah baby! 

We went boogie boarding and skim boarding! I sucked at it, but Matt was super good and spent hours and hours riding those waves!

We saw tons of seal lions and elephant seals and we are even more in love with them than we were before. 

We spent an evening at the Mystery Spot. Look it up, its cool. I am totally a believer. 

We also went to the redwood forest. It was amazing! Those are some tall trees!!

We couldn't go to San Francisco and not go back to Ghriardelli Square. We may have gone into several different entrances so we could get multiple samples of the free chocolate. We also enjoyed the best sundae of my life!

The trip wasn't all just fun and games! I was determined to at least run every morning. And I did and ended up running 20 miles that week! I saw some amazing views while on my morning runs! 

 But my feet were not so happy about running every day! My shoes got messed up from the dirty dash and I was too dumb to replace them. I got some pretty mean blisters!

The last night in California we got some family photos taken! They turned out great!

On the way home our car broke down and we had to get it towed to the nearest auto repair shop, which was in Applegate, CA. It took 3 extra days and $900 to get us home!

But we got to hang out in Reno with Alissa! We all went to the Reno rodeo and the carnival. It was a blast! 

Well that's our summer so far! Hopefully July will be a little less busy! In August we're going to Brazil, we are super stoked!