Tiny little peanuts

Last week I had to take the girls to the Dr because they were both sick. While we were there they checked their weight. So at 6 months and 2 days Makayla weighed 13lb 1oz which puts her in the 8th percentile and Makenzie weighed 12lb 1 oz putting her in the whopping .9 percentile...yes I said POINT 9 so not even a whole 1 yet! I could not believe how tiny they are!!! Tomorrow we go for their 6 month appointment (although they turned 6 months back on December 28) so I am interested to talk to the Dr about this and see where they are at. He did not seem concerned at all last week though and in fact was happy because Makayla went from 1.2 percentile 5 weeks ago to the eighth and Makenzie actually moved up from .2 to .9. However I am NOT looking forward to their shots! Praying everything goes great tomorrow!

They sure are cute little peanuts!!!!!!
 

Our Christmas

Our Christmas went a little something like this...

Christmas Eve Church service with family to celebrate the real reason for the season

Makenzie lasted long enough to open her first gift which she loved!

Annual Turner family cousin photo to end a great Christmas Eve of family, food,  and celebrations at Pop-Poo's House

Good morning and Merry Christmas Makenzie Grace!

Good morning and Merry Christmas Makayla Faith

M and M opening their firstChristmas gift at home together Christmas morning!

Christmas Morning family PJ photo after watching the girls little faces light up with wonder from all their gifts!

The BEST things come in small packages

To Grandmothers house we go ;)

Makayla the Candy Cane Princess with daddy at my parents Christmas morning had so much fun seeing all her new toys!

Makenzie excited after opening her gifts at my parents where they were very spoiled!

Christmas afternoon and evening was spent with cousins and more family, food, tons of gifts, and celebrations!

All ready for bed after being spoiled by Carls family

The girls happy as can be with all their gifts!!!

And when I said spoiled by their loved ones...I meant SPOILED!!!

This first Christmas with our sweet girls here was more special than I could have ever imagined! We are so thankful for our many blessings and to all our family we love you and thank you for everything!!! And to all those we could not be with, we missed you!

Christmas Family Photos

It was so incredibly special to have our very first family photo shoot for Christmas and something I always dreamed of (if you know me well you know I am obsessed with pictures so any excuse for a photo shoot and I am in). So here are the rest of my favorites from our Christmas Family pictures by our friend and wonderful photographer Tonya Mae Photography

Daddy with his girls

Makayla Faith

Makenzie Grace

Huffman Family of Four

Sweet little Makenzie

Wild child Makayla

The BEST Christmas gifts EVER!!!!!!!!!

This face?!?!

A true very special delivery and blessing from God!

Sweet little Angels

ALWAYS holding hands...so sweet!

Makayla LOVES her feet!

Get me out of here Mom!!!

Only stocking stuffers I need!!! (Yes they are still holding hands :)

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year and may we all remember the REAL reason for the Season!!!

XO, Traci

Truly Blessed

It is so incredible to look at these pictures above and see how truly blessed we are. It's so hard to believe that two Christmas's ago we were having our first miscarriage. Then last year at Christmas we were pregnant with twins in our first trimester but still scared/nervous as can be. Now this Christmas we have these two precious little girls to love, cherish, and spoil. It may not always happen according to our plans, but it always happens according to HIS plans. God is so good and we are truly thankful for our many blessings!





Wishing you all a blessed and Merry Christmas!


Pictures taken by Tonya Mae Photography at our Christmas Photo Shoot. Will share more wonderful pictures soon!

What's been going on

Here is a recap of life lately for us in pictures and in no particular order...

We celebrated our very first Thanksgiving together as a family of four and what a great day it was. We have so much to be thankful for and praise God for especially this year.

It was a day full of family, fellowship, great food, full belly's, cute kids, a family softball game, football, relaxing, and most importantly giving thanks! 

We had our first official playdate with the sweetest baby and friend in the world, and what a precious time it was! I could go on forever about how much I love this girl and her family, but lets just say I have been dying to see them. Plus I now know why all of you love playdates so much...the babies have fun and are completely worn out afterwards and the moms get real adult social time! I can't wait to be brave enough for the next playdate!

The girls turned 5 months old (too bad they are almost 6 months in like 12 days and that is how far behind I am)!!! The girls are growing, changing, and learning daily. Both are trying to crawl although they still cannot sit on their own 100%. They are still tiny little peanuts and in 0-3 months clothes, but getting closer to moving up very soon.

We enjoyed the annual Turner Bake Day. Always a great time of family, decorating, and yummy food and the girls just added to the day and made it that much more special this year!

Look at all those cookies!!!

The girls and Carl attended their first Apex Christmas parade to see the best Santa Clause in the world ;)

As you can see from this pathetic pouty face Makayla was not a fan of the loud noises, but did enjoy the lights.

Makenzie sat with our Aunt T and loved it and was even waving :)

Makenzie hung her first ornaments

Makayla hung her first ornaments as well

We took a road trip to Wilmington to spend time with our best friends, celebrate a birthday at a fun (much needed) girls night out fondue dinner, and to celebrate a baby shower for the newest addition on his way Cayden who we cannot wait to meet!

So that is some of what's been going on in our lives lately. Hope that everyone is enjoying the holiday season and doing well!

**Please keep my mom in your thoughts and prayers as she just had a partial knee replacement surgery this week and is on the road to recovery...thank you friends!!!

MIA

I know I have not been blogging lately and have been a bit MIA, but I assure you we are here and ok. The truth is I don't have time to go into detail, but I am just Exhausted and even a bit overwhelmed and stressed. When I am not feeding or holding/consoling one baby than I am feeding or holding the other. Sleep is non-existent for me and if when I do have a free few moments to myself there is other things that take priority. On one hand I am disappointed that I don't have more time to blog because a huge part of doing a blog for me is documenting the memories...this has been my online scrapbook that I look forward to sharing with the girls one day, but at the same time me giving all of my attention to the girls is way more important than any online scrapbook of memories. The good news for me is that I take a bazillion pictures and videos so I will always have those to share the memories and look back on.  

So for now I will be blogging occasionally and randomly, but not stressing if I cannot. In the meantime I will try and at least share some pictures and videos so you can continue to see our cuties and know that we are ok. 

And so it begins...

It's official Makayla Faith through her first little temper tantrum throwing her paci and all. If she is already doing this at 5 months old I can only imagine what is to come. Love you my sassy little girl!

Who me?!