The twins baptism.

The girls got baptized yesterday. It was a LOVELY day, and a great day had by all. We kept it all low key, and as my family were here we just went out for a meal with them. I loved the day and hope everyone else did too! Everyone made such lovely comments at church and the girls did look angelic in their dresses! They were on their super best behaviour and neither of them cried at all during the service, though stayed wide awake for most of it! They certainly enjoyed dressing up like princesses and getting all the attention!

I will either edit this later and add pictures or post a new entry with pictures as the darn picture uploader thingy isn't working right now ;-(

Mom, Dad and the 3 muskateers (Sam just LOVES me saying this... loveee you sis :P) left today. I miss them already. We took them to the airport this morning and said bye... I miss them all. I can't wait to get down to see you all down there in the dirty south in MARCH... I will DEFINITELY be down then I just haven't decided how long for yet!

Chase and I had a good talk in the car on the way home from the airport today and I can happily say everything is great between us again. It has been while my parents have been here but we have just put to the side talking about "the argument". I hope he has learnt his lesson!

Amy x

My Mommmy is here ;D

I am so excited my family are here! 3 months without seeing them for me is a LONG time. Especially living away in a new place, not knowing many people.

I guess it just brings it back how much I really do miss them. Family mean so much to me, I don't care if it means we are squashed in our little house right now, I would happily sleep on the floor for the rest of my life to have my parents here! Also Samantha, Jessica and Michaela are here.. my LITTLE sisters. I love these guys, even if their reason for coming was to get a week off school!

Here are my two little sisters with my two little babies! :


For you guys down in Texas who I miss SO much, I'm just letting you know I am planning to come down in March sometime, not long how long I will be staying for just yet, but I will be travelling alone with two babies. Yeah I'm brave!

Also the girls are getting baptized tomorrow. I can't wait, hopefully the Lord will bless us with a wonderful day!

Just letting you all know, I have changed my blog so you don't need to have a blogger account to leave me a comment... I love comments so come out and leave me a comment ;-)

Amy xo

Getting so big!

aren't they just the cutest things EVER?!?!??!

I love this pic... its like two old men sitting looking at each other, LOL! They love their bebe pods, best things ever!

They are so different though, its amazing how two babies who can be so alike in ways can be so different in others.

Corah is the quieter, easier to cope with baby! She SLEEPS and loves the swinging chair. She is like her Mommy although she is a total Daddys girl!

Madeleine is just my little wild child... I know she will be already. She loves babbling away and jumping in the jumperoo... with her boundless energy!

I am just so lucky!

At their 6 month appt. Madeleine was 14lb even and Corah is 13lb 10oz.... pretty good I think! For being so tiny at birth... neither Chase or I are "big" people anyway so I don't expect them to be massive...

My Mommy is coming tomorrow.... ooh yeah! I am so excited!

Amy xo

Vent.... gah.

Ok... as I know only people who are silly enough with no life (Claireeeeee) read this... I am just so fed up right now.. and I actually couldn't care less who reads this but anyway.

Chase is taking me to NY in Feb..... for Valentines and wedding anni treat... and I am soo excited seriously... he is such a caring guy when he wants to be. He is getting deployed March time and I know how hard that is for him to be away from the girls and stuff... so I don't like giving him a hard time but sometimes I just feel like he doesn't care anymore.

I have ASKED him not to smoke in front of the kids.... he knows how much I hate smoking and I didnt like him doing it in the house before they arrived and especially not now. I understand it is cold outside but I don't want passive smoking getting involved with the babies. He will not effing smoke outside... ugh.

He went out last night over to his friends (no names being mentioned)... to play the xbox, as usual. Leaves me with the girls.. which I am fine with I love spending time with my babies I gues... its just hard when its just me and them.. I miss my friends and I miss my family... I miss being able to just pop round to see them all.. I still call lots but its not the same I wish they were just here..

So anyway he goes out to play the xbox I asked him to be back by 10 because that meant the girls would be sleeping, and I would have maybe 30mins or so to myself to have a bath and stuff and hopefully we could have some us time when he got home ;)

But nooooo... 10.30 comes and I ring his cell... he doesn't answer. Ugh. I think he might be driving or something so to leave it... then 15 mins later I know he couldn't have been driving so I ring the house.. well anyway his wife answers and I feel like a right tool having to ring to check up on my husband. I ask to speak to him and she says fine... well he gets on the phone and it has been damn obvious he has been drinking...

I mean I drink too its not like since we've had the children I've just lost my ways.. I'm just a bit more mature about the things I do and I wish he would be too. He didn't even think of anything because now he has been drinking he has the car over there so he CANT drive home... ugh they only live 5 mins away so he could have walked... but no he didnt walk because "its too cold".. and then i say well can you walk home now and he says he doesn't have a jacket, I mean by this stage I just wanted him to freeze to death...

I didn't even have the car to go over and get him.... there was NO way I was either leaving the girls to walk over and drive him home or getting them up to walk over... noooo way.. so then ugh I am so fed up with him... tell him to stuff it.

So last night he slept over at their house on the sofa while I was over here with the girls because "they offered him beer" and he didn't want to say no.. what a complete and utter crap excuse. He knew he had the car with him anyway it wasn't hard... and I'm sorry but in the state he was in I wasn't letting him drive home either even if it wasnt far.

I am just so fed up it has come to things like this. I want him to be the loving guy I know he is all the time..... I guess all people have problems sometimes but I hate the way I know the loving guy he can be and how I am so much in love with him but sometimes he doesn't seem to care..

and oh yeah I hate the way that now I feel I'm being too harsh on him because "he is a man" and "he is getting deployed for 3 months"... oh what the hero. ugh.

OK to cheer me up here are a few new pictures of my babies




Amy xx

6 MONTHS...

have passed since we welcomed our two little princesses in the world.. tomorrow.

So weird they will be 6 months old, it still feels like yesterday I found out I was pregnant! I am kinda sad they are growing up so quickly, but it is all so excited they are starting out on a new chapter of their lives!

So funny to think they were so tiny with problems at birth and now they are just like any other 5 month olds, a LITTLE below average, but definitely still Mommys chunky monkeys! I have taken a good few pictures and I will post them tomorrow!

We are not celebrating tomorrow but will celebrate when Mom, Dad and Sam, Jessica and Michaela come down to see us at the end of Jan! We will hopefully go out for a nice meal.. yum!

So just a little intro before tomorrow, it's a big day! Amy

Saying goodbye to 07, and hello to 08!

Happy New Year from Chase, Amy, Corah and Madeleine (who has gotten the marine face down to a tee!!)

Ok, so it's a new year. Just thought I'd reflect back on the year that's already been. Probably the best year of my life, though it could so easily have gone other ways. This time last year we were still oblivious to the fact there were 2 babies inside me - and also coming to terms with the fact Chase would be on a 6 month deployment, unsure of whether he would make it home for the birth. I then found out I had two babies... twins. I was scared and unsure of everything, how I would manage a twin pregnancy without him here.

But we did it, we managed it. Chase came home on 6th July, and came straight to me in hospital (they ended up discharing me within two more days anyway!)... and was with me when Corah and Madeleine were delivered on the 17th. I thank God everyday for giving me two such beautiful and angelic children, who were patient enough to wait inside Mommy until 37w 2d (pretty darn good for twins!!). They are coming along so well, due to their problems at the start. 4lb 8oz Corah spent 3 weeks in the NICU and now has to attend physio for problems in her neck - she has IUGR, I had a partial placenta abruption and she was born with the cord in tangles round her neck. Madeleine was 4lb 10oz, also IUGR, she was small, but healthy. They amazed me from day one, and now I have two chunky monkeys to contend with! They really are the most adorable children.

I cannot wait until late January my Mommy and other members of the family are coming up for the girls' baptism! I am so excited to see them all again and also to get the girls baptised :D

Ok, here are some prof. pictures we done on the 27th, I think they turned out pretty well, and I added on a darling siggy my friend Sarah (thank you sweetie!), made at the end. Isn't it amazing?





I can't wait until this new year! I feel like I can now take on any challenge. People said I wasn't ready for 1 baby, and I hope I have proved them wrong! God has given us the strength to perhaps overcome the immature ways we once had, and being a Mom has been the best thing that has ever happened to me.

I cannot wait for a new year with my beautiful family. Seeing my girls attempt new things, hopefully learn to walk, say Momma for the first time.... seeing them smile and hearing their laugh ever day, makes my life worthwhile.

Amy x