What a month!

I keep wanting to do blog stuff, but we have been so busy here at the Souza house! Alberto is going non-stop between 2 jobs and school and I am obviously busy chasing after Allie and AJ, but have also started working as an online teacher. I thought it would be a breeze to work from home, but it has been much harder than I anticipated. Allie and AJ are busy as ever discovering new skills, crawling, babbling, learning about what is edible and what is not, playing copy cat and learning how to stand up without holding on! Seems like walking is just around the corner! They are changing so much right now! Last week I had to leave them all day for FOUR days to train for my job. I thought I'd die, but as you can tell, I am still here. I swear each day when I got home they looked taller and their hair was longer and AJ's teeth were even more crazy (He has been working on getting 4 top teeth all at once, poor baby!)Below are some recent pictures of the babies! The first two is our new favorite place to play: the shoe basket. My kids are obsessed with shoes! The rest are from the rodeo last Friday. It was the babies first time staying out way past bed time and they did great! We had so much fun with our friends and enjoying an evening away from work and school!

Applesauce!

Having twins is so fun and challenging. I guess it depends on the moment. Anyway, one of the best parts has been watching them each develop their own personalities. When it comes to eating, AJ wants to eat anything and everything all the time! I always wonder if he has the mechanism that tells the brain "I am full" because he is always in the mood to eat. I also wonder if even tastes food. He eats so fast, I doubt he even notices that one thing tastes different from another. Allie, on the other hand, could care less for eating most of the time. She loves her bottle, but is so picky about food. She takes forever to eat and plays around or sucks her thumb while you are trying to feed her. Sometimes I think her taste buds are overly sensitive because her reactions to some food are so dramatic. Hence, the video. This is a little video I took during snack time the other day. I was feeding them bananas and applesauce. They eat applesauce all the time, but for some reason Allie had a hard time with it. I thought it was pretty funny.

Mini Mission Reunion

While we were up north for the wedding, we got together with a couple of Alberto's mission buddies and their families. It was fun to see everyone and their kids. I am always impressed with the effort that Alberto puts in to staying in touch with people. He is a good friend. This is Dave, Nicole and Josh Gray; Us; and Erik, Diana, Hannah and Katherine Boyle.

Glauco and Camila's Wedding

As many of you already know, this weekend Alberto's brother, Glauco, got married to Camila. We were so happy to be able to travel up north and celebrate with them. The whole day was great! They were married in the Salt Lake Temple and had their reception at a home in Alpine, which was so beautiful. The reception was outside and the weather was perfect. Alberto was a groomsman and we dressed the babies up in the cutest outfits. They were ADORABLE! We wish we would have taken a nice picture of all of us, but you know how it goes. Here are some pictures from the big day. Congradulations to Glauco and Camila. We love you! If you want to see the pictures bigger, you can click where it says scrapblog and then you can put it on view full screen. Also, use the arrows to switch the pages. There are 4 of them. Tell me if it doesn't work!
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Playing with Mason

Today our friend Mason came over for a bit while his mom did some work. I was surprised that he was not shy to jump right in and play with Allie and AJ.

Marriage Tag

I read this on Angie and Jarred's and Dave and Nicole's Blogs. Nicole said "tag" to anyone who reads it, so here goes!

What is your husbands name? Alberto
•What is your full maiden name? Sara Whitehead
•How long have you been together? almost 5 years
•How long did you date? We dated about 2 months before getting engaged, but we were engaged for almost 8 months!
•How old is he? 26
•Who said I love you first? Alberto
•Who is taller? Alberto
•Who sings better? I would say we both sing pretty poorly, but I am way better at memorizing songs. I love to make fun of Alberto for making up words. However, singing in the car together is one of my favorite things. I know our kids will be mortified when they are old enough to understand how dorky their parents are.
•Who is smarter? I think we are about even. I think we are smart in different ways. I am definitely right more often. :)
•Whose temper is worse? Mine, sadly.
•Who does the laundry? I do
•Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Alberto. I have to sleep on the side closest to the door.
•Who pays the bills? Alberto
•Who mows the lawn? Alberto, but lucky dog only has to mow our tiny little patch in the front now!
•Who does the dishes? We used to do them together, but since I became a stay at home mom, its pretty much all me, although Alberto did help tonight.
•Who cooks dinner? I do.
•Who drives when you are together? Usually Alberto, but I drive a lot because I am usually dropping him off at work.
•Who is more stubborn? We are both pretty stubborn. I never knew how prideful I could be until I got married.
•Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? I think me, but I am rarely wrong so I don't have to admit it very often. haha. Actually, Alberto will admit his wrong if I cry :)
•Who kissed who first? Alberto kissed me first.
•Who proposed? He did.
•Who is more sensitive? Obviously me, but Alberto has his moments. When the babies were born, I saw a whole new side of him. It was so sweet. Once we found out I was in labor, he cried at the drop of a hat for the next week. My favorite was the day we were going home from the hospital and he was out loading the car and my mom and I were dressing the babies and when he came in, my mom said, "look at your little girl in pink," and he broke out into tears. He is the best daddy.
•Who has more friends? I have more friends that we actually associate with, but Alberto makes friends with everyone he even looks at. Literally, everytime we go somewhere he sees someone he knows. I grew up here and he is from Brazil and he knows way more people than me!
•Who wears the pants in the family? I try to share the pants, but I think I wear them more.
•How many kids do you want to have? We always say 4 and lucky for us we are half way there in one shot! I think we will just take it as it comes.
Now I tag you....Bria and Kristin

Say Cheese!

We finally took the babies in to get their pictures taken. It is sad to admit, but I haven't had professional photos done of them since they were a month old. Here are some of the pics. These ones don't have all the enhancements, but none-the-less, they are cute!

Samurai Babies!!

Alberto's sister, Daniella, lives in Japan with her husband and daughter, Sayuri. Many of you have seen our babies sporting the "Anpanman" bibs and toys from Japan. Here are the latest additions to their Japanese attire. They are cute little baby Kimonos.

Poor Allie

So this past week myself and the babies all got colds, we also gave it to gramma (again)! This cold has been no where near as bad as our first colds, but with two miserable infants it seems worse than it is at times. Anyhow, Allie gets much sicker than the rest of us. The poor girl gets so stuffed up and you can just see in her eyes that she feels terrible, but inspite of all that both babies manage to be playful and happy. Here are some pictures of Allie this last week after she just couldn't take anymore and crashed.

A Poem for all the Moms!

This year for my first official Mother's Day, my mom gave me a part of a poem she found about being a mom. I loved it so much because it is exactly how I feel and obviously how other moms feel too. Anyway, I have wanted to share it with my friends so here is some of it. If you are not a mom yet, once you are, I am sure you will agree. It is funny how at the end of a long day, I am so excited to put the babies to bed and have a nice quiet evening, but once they have been asleep for about an hour, I start to miss them and then can't wait for the next day to come! Sorry I don't know the author of the poem:

Before I was a mom- I slept as late as I wanted, I cleaned my house each day, I never tripped over toys...

Before I was a mom-I had never been puked on, pooped on, spit-up on, chewed on, or peed on... I had complete control of my mind and thoughts, I never looked into teary eyes and cried, I never got so gloriously happy over a simple grin...

Before I was a mom- I never sat up late hours watching sleeping babies, I never held a baby just because I didn't want to put it down, I never felt my heart break into a million pieces because I couldn't stop the hurt, I never knew something so small could affect my life so much...

Before I was a mom- I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby, I didn't know something so small could make me feel so important and so needed..

Before I was a mom- I never got up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes just to make sure all was okay (and everyone was breathing), I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a mom, I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much before I was a mom.