9 months and the Denver Botanic Gardens

My babies are growing up!!! :( I can't believe that they are so close to a year now. Its mind blowing that they are 9 months old now. Its so fun to see them grow and develop every day. The growth is so fast that you can almost see it happening if you stare at them long enough. Its funny how quickly they learn things too. I feel like Noah picks up new 'tricks' in less than a day. He's such a quick learner! Elleanna loves to go at her own pace but once she gets something she goes crazy with it... you should see this girl roll!!

These are a few pics from their 9 month photoshoot:

Her new 'do is my favorite thing right now. Its so cute and it keeps here hair out of her eyes all day. Win win!

They are starting to stand up and noah is starting to cruise around holding on to things so I thought i'd try to capture this milestone during their photoshoot.

I can almost hear him laughing!

His smile makes me so happy!

Getting so big!

This girl and her smile! Melts me every time.

Almost crawling!

The other day the babies and I went to the Denver Botanic Gardens for Earth Day. It was a free day so it was pretty crowded but it was a beautiful day so it was worth it. 

The grass was so green for April! 

The best garden was the Tulip Garden! So many beautiful colors! I couldn't get the best picture because all Ellennna wanted to do was eat the little rocks in front of her. :/

Brian and Makenda Wedding Weekend

We were so lucky to be able to go to Brian and Makenda's wedding in April. We were there for 5 days but it went so quickly! We always have a jam packed schedule when we go to Utah because there are so many people that we want to see.

Our first stop was to see {Great} Grandpa Hank Bortolussi. Noah and Elleanna hadn't met him before so it was a special stop for us to make

Great Grandpa Hank and Noah 

4 Generations (if Grandpa Bortolussi was there)!!

The main reason we were in Utah was for Brian and Makenda's Wedding. It was an awesome couple of days being with family and celebrating the lovely couple. Its the last of the siblings to get married (until Kristen grows up... ) so it was an extra fun time.

Uncle Ben and Uncle Brian finally got to meet the twins and of course we had to snap a twin twin picture.

My two favorite sets of twins!!! Don't twinlo me, you're the twinlo. ;)

 The wedding day was perfect and beautiful. We are so happy for Brian and Makenda and are so excited that we get to have another awesome sister-in-law in the fam. We've really lucked out - all my siblings have married awesome people!!!! Can't wait for all of them to move to colorado... haha ;).

Brian and Makenda Rosell!

The day was full of fun and festivities and Noah and Elleanna did awesome. They had such a great trip even though there was a lot of driving (10 hours there, 10 hours home, plus all the driving around town for those 5 days). You can never predict how babies are going to handle being away from home for that long but they did really well. A large part of that was having a WONDERFUL hostess... THANK YOU RACHEL (and fam) for letting us crash with you! You made our trip so low stress!!

Wedding reception fun.

We had the chance to see so many more friends and family but sadly did not get pictures of them. It was fun to see all of you and we hope to get back to Utah again soon. Come visit us in Colorado anytime!!!!!!!! We'd love to have any and all of you. :)

8 Months Old! 2/3 of the way to a year

I feel so blessed to be able to stay home with these two cuties and take care of them. Its definitely not easy but I wouldn't have it any other way. It  can get overwhelming when I think of all the things that I'm responsible to teach them. I am grateful for the gospel and especially for prayer to help guide Cameron and I as parents with these precious spirits that Heavenly Father has entrusted to us. I'm glad that I get to take it one day at a time right now. All I can do is my best and ask the Lord to help me with the rest.

Mom, not ANOTHER photoshoot! 

Brother snuggles! I'm surprised he's not trying to lick her hair... that is almost a daily occurrence these days.

I said to Cameron "You can see my shadow in her eyes" and he just replied back "that should be a song lyric". HA!

The old man hair over his ears cracks me up.

I spy a little double chin... 

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Cute face! Just ignore the sopping wet shirt and pants. He's kind of a drool bug.

Modeling is exhausting!

7 Months Old

I realized the last post was supposed to include their 7 month photoshoot but I forgot to add them... Lets just blame it on my twin mommy brain. ;)

So here are some of their 7 month pictures:

I love how their little hands are on each others' knee. I didn't pose them or anything!

We're gonna be in big trouble later.... How are we going to say no to these big beautiful blue eyes??

Take a look at those cute baby toes scrunched together! :)

Love her smile!

Her cheeks! Her eyes! Whats not to love. 

She's growing so fast.

Handsome boy!

His dimples get me every time.

HA! Showing off his favorite 'word' nana.

Hiking the Hidden Mesa Trail

One thing we really love about Colorado is how outdoorsy it is! There are always things to do in any kind of weather and having kids has only slowed us down a little bit. ;)

There is a nice little trail called the Hidden Mesa Trail within walking distance from our house. We've hiked part of it a couple years ago but we wanted to try to do the whole loop. On Valentines day we thought it would be the perfect day to hike and we decided on the Hidden Mesa Trail loop. It was a gorgeous day for February and there were a lot of people out.

Sleepy girl!

Daddy and Elleanna

The twin-go is great for nursing on the go too! 

Happy Noah boy

Little girlie enjoying the view

I spy with my little eye... one happy little boy.

The top of the Hidden Mesa Trail. Mollie loves to hike too!

6 months and snowshoeing

I mentioned the Twin-go carrier in an earlier post and how awesome it is. Seriously, this thing is my #1 recommendation to any new twin mom. Such a life {and sanity} saver! Not only can I successfully grocery shop with it (ok, lets be honest - its great at Target too), we've gone on hikes and even snow shoed wearing the twins!

Our snowshoeing adventure was a lot of fun! You cant really tell where Noah is in the picture because he's so bundled up but he's right there on the front of me under the orange hood. We ended up going on two hikes - one by ourselves and one 'guided ranger tour'. I think I liked the ranger tour the best because we actually were snowshoeing between the trees in the forrest as opposed to a designated trail.

Momma and Noah

And there is little Elleanna's head poking out the top of the carrier that Cameron is wearing. They surprisingly did really well while we were hiking. The second hike was about 2.5 hours long and they slept most of the time.

Daddy and Elleanna

There is a lot more planning and effort involved when trying to do fun things with little babies but it is always worth to us. I can always usually put up with a little bit of hassle for great family memories.

On to their 6 month photo shoot! As they've gotten older their monthly photoshoots have been getting easier and more fun. I love trying to capture their little personalities.

One of my favorites!

Getting so big!

Check out that grin! Can he get any cuter?!

Sometimes taking pictures can get exhausting when you're 6 months old. :)