January

We have been keeping busy lately. We took Jack up to the Natural History Museum to see the dinosaur bones. He loved it!

Jack is stomping like a T-Rex

Sharks

Dave's mom and sister came out to help with the kids. We have done some touring around too. We did a White House tour last week. It was awesome, but they don't let any cameras in. We did manage to get a cell phone picture on our way out.

Kate has the best smiles!!! I even got a picture of one :). Yes, she does have weird white stuff on her tongue.

Sometimes the twins do little things that are exactly the same. It cracks me up when I see two little heads poke out over the couch and start dancing at the same time. I wish I could get a video of it, but you never know when they will do something like that. I did manage to get this one the other day :)

Do you think they are twins???

Randomness

Here are some random pictures of everyone

The White House

Boy Pile

Jack builds these crazy towers

Jack and his "noculars"

Tim :)

Chris is out

so sweet

Sarah and Chris with baby Kate

My 15 Minutes of Fame

Dave just found the episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway that I was on (12 years ago) at this website. Before you think I lost my mind, we wore the crazy pink dresses so we could see ourselves in the audience. I like that we are the icon for that episode :)

http://whoselineonline.org/nav/season-2/page/6/
Go to episode 27 and 4 minutes 50ish seconds in

Christmas and New Years

Our Christmas and New Years through pictures

Christmas Eve

Here we are at Christmas Eve mass with very sleepy kids

I was so excited about Kate's first Christmas dress =D

Christmas morning

Jack went straight for the bikes

Sadly, the twins were both sick for Christmas - as you can see they were not happy for picture time

Tim liked his duck

Chris also liked the ducks

sick but still SO adorable

Jack loved opening presents

Kate on Christmas morning :)

Here we are with the national tree

Our friends Jamie and Rob came to DC to visit Jamie's brother and we got to spend an entire day with them :)

My brother Chris and his fiance Sarah came for the weekend of New Years

New Year's Eve chocolate fondue mmmmm

We spent New Years Day walking around Annapolis and eating crab :)

She's Here!

Kathleen "Kate" Marie Boland decided to come on December 5th.  She was 8 lbs 12 oz and almost 21 inches. The whole experience was amazing. I got to see the same aweseome doctor the whole time. Dave made it to every appointment (which is difficult for an Army PT to do) and took off enough time to only work 5 days this month. My mom came out and took care of the kids so I could spend two days in the hospital recovering and focusing on the baby. I am so lucky.
Everything feels so magical right now. I get to sit and watch my kids play in front of a Christmas tree while I hold my brand new little girl (that for a while, I thought I would never have). Who could for a better Christmas gift?

This is my doctor and a med student who followed me

Baby Kate

First family picture

my mom with baby Kate

soooooooooo close to walking

Jack picked out a stork for her

Heading home

Ready!!

November was a much better month for my pregnancy. I had someone come a few times a week to help take care of the kids so I could take naps and get ready for the baby. I feel sooooooo much better. We have everything ready for the baby, did several projects around the house, and are set for Christmas.The presents are bought, wrapped, under the tree or mailed, and the house is decorated. My mom got here on Saturday to take care of the kids when I go to the hospital. I am officially ready to for this baby to come! My due date is Monday (Dec 5th). 

Some friends threw me a surprise tea party baby shower. It was a sweet surprise that was so girly and fun.

Such a cute set up :)

It wouldn't be a tea party without William and Kate

We did our first Thanksgiving "just us." Everything turned out awesome!

Ready to go and everyone even looked at the camera!

Dave carving the 13 pound turkey

Our friends Tim and Carly came to visit after dinner.

I leave you with a couple of pictures of the boys!

Tim waking Jack up from a nap

Jack has decided putting animals behind the gate means they are in the zoo