Many Visitors! Many new Developments.

Since the kids were born a little over three months go, we have had many visitors.

When Dillon and Jonathan were about a three weeks old, we had Lupe, their grandfather (Mia's Dad) visit us. I was able to chuckle a little bit when I saw him with the kids. The man had once been a high ranking government employee, and to me had always seemed to be stern and stoic, but once the kids were in his arms, cooing and goo-gooing enused.

About a week later we drove up to Denver, a drive that normally took Mia and I twelve hours, and stopping only for gas became a two-day sixteen hour drive. We were able to stay with some friends in Albequerque and get a good nights (I think we can call it that) sleep.

We were in Denver for the boys baptism, which was done by my Dad, Deacon Ed, and took place on June 5th, 2005. Lindsey Brunkhardt and Steven Voss were made the godparents of our two kids, and after seeing the kids in their arms, we knew we had made the right choice. We had many family and friends come to the baptism and the open house at my parent place afterwards. It was a good time and it was fun to see all our friends from Denver.

We made it back to Sierra Vista a few days later and soon enough, as it happens because time flies, Mia had to go back to work.

After the first trying week of taking care of the kids alone, Linda, the kids grandmother (Mia's mom) came down to visit. So far after the first day I am enjoying this quite a bit. I have learned something about grandparents, they love to take the kids off my hands!!! It is nice, but a bit wierd. Mia told her mom that I needed a break, and to let me sleep in. This mornig, when I woke up at night, I was scared to say the least. The firts thing I did was to dash in the nursery and find that Linda had put the kids down for their morning naps!

So, with plans to come down in October-ish, hopefully, my parents will be visiting the kids as well, and I can't wait.

The kids have changed a lot in the past two months, and this is especially seen when we visit Doug and Julie and see heir new addition to their family, Katie. She was born almost a week ago, and I can not believe that at one point our kids were like that, she is so tiny and all she does is look at us with expressionless look. That is what infants do, but she is still a beautiful baby!

I am awestruck when I see the way our kids have changed, they are now smiling at us, trying to bat their rattles that hang down on their exercise mats, and staring, almost trying to suck in everything. They are (knock on wood) sleeping through the night, and ths is due in no small part to Mia being an amazing mother. She researched and re-researched, and reverified many different ways of getting kids to sleep. The first couple of days were rough, and I thought I couldn't take it, but now after about a month, we bathe the kids, feed them in their nursery and then lie them in their cribs (still awake mind you), and they fall asleep on their own after we leave the room. To top that off, they are sleeping thourhout the night, somewhere between eight and ten hours a night!

Things have changed, and are continuing to change in Mia and my lives, and we could not feel more blessed that they are.