A few more FIRSTS!!!

Summer!  I LOVE IT!  For those of you that continue to be a part of our every day life... thank you!!! Life with TWINS is always interesting... at the moment you think you have it figured out, it changes... just when you think that sleep is within your reach, it isn't... Just when you think you are finally caught up, you think of 12 more thing...oh and then I'm sure it is time to pump!  I'm less productive, less organized (somewhat due to the 5 interrupted hours of sleep I have gotten each night for the last 6 months)... I forget birthdays, miss appointments, am slow to return calls and emails, spend 1/2 as much time with my friends, family and husband.. my house has finger/nose prints on the window, baby bottles in the sink, unmade beds, laundry, and I'm sure my floors are due for a date with the Dyson vacuum!  As many parents would attest to at some point all of that becomes "the small stuff" and you realize that while life feels out of control and crazy some how the most important things have become the short little bald men in my life... and it all seems worth it!
I finally caved and the boys tasted their first rice cereal!  They both love it... they take turns eating it well though, Nathan seems to have Mon, Wed, Fri and Ben seems to have taken the opposite!:)  We also made our first voyage to Walker and Steamboat LAke.  We were able to bring the boys on a pontoon ride, put their toes in the lake, walk with Grandma at Relay for Life, visit the headwaters on the Mississippi, go fishing with Grumpy, play in the crab pool, swing from the swing that Grandpa hung, have a bonfire and most importantly spend time with both sets of Grandparents.  We had a wonderful 5 days!!!  The boys also spent their first night at home alone with just daddy!  Brent and I also spent our first night away from the boys for a wedding... Congrats Katie and Brian Leonard!  Both boys now put their toes in their mouths, sit and play with toys and are rolling over... all the time!!!  My favorite are the belly laughs that are often heard from one boy or another!  When we get frustrated, tired, stressed and are pushed to our limits we try and remind each other that we are lucky, that this too shall pass and that some day (not to far in the future) we will look back at these times and think... "man, remember when the boys couldn't move... life sure was easier then."
Love Always.
The Utechs
I will work on getting the next round of photos on Shutterfly sometime this week!!!