Alaina turns 21. VEGAS BABY!

Alaina hit a major milestone this year with her August Birthday- the big 2-1!!!
We set off for Vegas mid August and thanks to our Uncle Chuck we got to enjoy the luxury of a timeshare suite on the strip! The hotel was awesome! We felt like celebrities.

The highlight of the trip was the Cirque du Soleil Beatles "LOVE" show that we attended at the Mirage on saturday. The show was amazing! So beautiful! Alaina was completely satisfied cause she's the die-hard Beatle fan.

After the show, we took some more crazy pics, mom played the slots, and we walked around Vegas til the early morning. Weekend in Vegas complete!

David and Elias

So yes, it's been a while. The babies are almost three months old, and I have yet to post

an official picture on this blog. Some of you may wonder, "what's he been doing this whole time? How lazy can you get? Where are the pictures, already?" I assume those of you wondering these things have never taken care of twins.

This summer I have discovered two things: 1) taking care of two babies at the same time is more than twice as hard as taking care of one; and 2) the Octomom is without a doubt, hands-down the most insane person in the history of mankind. In fact, I'm pretty sure my top three would be something like this:

MOST INSANE PEOPLE OF ALL TIME

1. The Octomom
2. Jack Nicholson in "The Shining"
3. Anyone who appears in a Jackass movie
   

Little-known fact: you can train kids to reproduce like amoebas. Here, David is just about done forming from the top of Hanna's head. It sure beats labor!


David and Elias begin their training for the 2028 U.S. Olympic Men's Synchoronized Diving Team. They're also learning pizzazz: David is dressed as some sort of elf with a stylish vomit stain, Elias is going as Rasputin.

This picture has to be one of my favorites. Neither of them looks like they particularly want to be there.

The obligatory first bath shot, with the added wrinkle that it's a picture of someone else taking a better picture of the same thing. Interesting fact: Hanna's camera is better than ours. She's packing six megapixels and has her name monogrammed right on the front.

Here, David and Elias take a well-deserved breather after a tough morning of sleeping, pooping, farting, and more sleeping.

The boys are very healthy and are growing at an amazing rate. They are both well over 10 pounds and starting to focus their eyes on us. Their eyes are still blue and their hair, eyebrows and eyelashes are all light-colored.

Meeting the Beck Twins!

Everyone has been excitedly talking about the recent birth of the Beck twins, David and Elias. They are the first set of twins to enter the family, and to top it off, they are boys (the female to male ratio is slowly evening out)!
Grandma and I drove up to Santa Barbara for the weekend to visit; she needed to go apartment hunting because she will be caring for the twins starting next month.

We also got to see Joe in a wonderful performance of Max in the play, Laughter on the 23rd floor.

Check out the pictures of the handsome twins, Hanna and me playing, and some stills from Joe's show! :)