The Hazard Chronicles: It's great to be eight!

Happy Birthday Addy and Jack!

A walk down memory lane...

A few weeks ago we found out that we will be adding a new member of the family. On Friday we had an ultrasound to find out an accurate due date.

We found out a lot more than that! It took me a while to process this image too. It looks like we have the joy of adding two more Hazards to our sweet family. That's right. Twins...Looking at this ultrasound gives me chills!

We are getting over the 'freaking out inside our heads' phase and we are into the extremely excited and a little bit daunted phase. We have successfully grown out of our car over this weekend (something Logan pointed out as soon as he saw the ultrasound), and our house is seeming a little bit cramped (It was so big when we moved in!). Everything will work out perfectly! We are ecstatic and Evelyn would be too if she knew what was going on. ;)
-THC: February 8, 2009

We arrived home on Wednesday night. Our big eighteen week ultrasound was scheduled for The next day. We were finally going to find out the genders of Noodle and Twitch!

We gave them nicknames a long time ago, and Twitch has always lived up to her name. She is the one that constantly feels like a centepede or small earthquake in the left side of my belly. Noodle is the calm and collected baby that wiggles and kicks just enough to know that he is OK. We are VERY excited for our little boy and our little girl.
-THC: May 3, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen- We are announcing to the world the birth of the two most beautiful twins ever born!

-THC: September 9, 2009

My, how our lifestyle has changed. I was looking through some pictures the other day and came across one of me and Rachel at Rock Canyon in Provo. I remember days when I would have a couple of hours between classes and I'd call Rachel up on the phone, and 15 minutes later we were walking up the trail to The Green Monster to go rock climbing. I remember when Rachel surprised me with a spontaneous 3 day trip to Vegas for our anniversary. Once, we drove up a canyon in the middle of winter and found some snow caves that were already made (probably scouts or something) and slept in them overnight. We used to keep camping and climbing stuff permanently in the trunk of our car for spontaneous outings like this.

Contrast that with now. As I was brainstorming what to write about in the blog I asked Rach what some of the highlights of the week were. After some thought she replied, "We spilled Cheerios." It's true. We have moved on to a new phase in our lives dominated by diapers and feeding schedules-short walks and trips to the zoo. Our energy is spent in short two-hour bursts because that is when the babies have to eat again. A trip to Walmart is a major accomplishment. We still do what we can to stay active- those who know us can certainly attest to that. But it is definitely different.

-THC: November 22, 2009

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Those years seem like they were yesterday! It was definitely a crazy time, and I remember that the sound of a baby crying was pretty much a constant fact of life. Since then, our family has grown up and we have figured out a pretty positive work-life balance that fits our family extremely well. They were good years though. Addy and Jack have definitely added to the overall flavor of our family- in really good ways. What a cool couple of kids.

Eight years. Wow. These guys are getting so big!

For their birthday party we put a lot of options on the table for them. Roller skating? Pool party? Beach? Climbing gym? Pizza parlor? Art place? The possibilities were endless. After talking it over, they decided they wanted the theme to be...

Wait for it...

Archery.

What?!

Yeah. Archery. And they wanted it to be at our house.

Well, that's a lot more work than what we were anticipating. Rachel came through though, and the party was full of creative activities, lots of friends, and lots of fun.

Here's some pictures.

Here's the cake that Rachel made. The top in M&Ms, and they make a target with arrows in it. She's so clever! You can also see the targets on the windows in the back of the next picture (for suction cup arrows). Besides this, there was a target shaped pinata, a javelin toss thing in the back yard, and homemade bow-and-arrow crafts...and lots of free time to just play. It was a good party.

Some people sent birthday money to them. Addy decided that with her newfound riches she would buy a compound bow (it matches the one that we gave Jack a few days ago for his birthday present).

Jack is really excited about his very own new fishing pole that his siblings picked out for him.