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Back in line. Fall 2015 (October and November)

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     Started the month with work weekend at Grandma Flick's cabin.  We invited Mason and Kati Lyman down with us.  Lots of clean up and a couple sessions of conference later and we hit the trails.    Too much food for lunch, because Grandma.   Getting ready to head out, here's hoping for no truck accidents this year.   Erin and Lainey enjoyed the wild outdoors.     Dale and Helga brought their horse Valentine with them, she was a fun distraction.  Especially when she escaped and we had to go horse chasing.     Getting ready to roll out.  Clean up weekend is always too short!   The Lyman's had fun.   Goodbye Grandma/Great Grandma to that baby bump!   The first two steps to Melissa's costume.  Thing 1 and 2 in the belly, and the source of their naturally blue hair.  Pretty gorgeous blue haired lady, don't you think?     Spo...

Jump forward to March 2016 aka "Surprise, we're here!" - The twins

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Monday 3/21/16 we had a friend/contractor Michael Lee over to talk about a project.  We hoped he could help us redo a bit of the bathroom, water splashes out the door since our remodel last year and we wanted him to try to correct it.  Planning for the work we said, if we could do it in the next couple weeks we should be done before the kids came.  He told us that with one of his, his wife woke in the middle of the night complaining she'd wet the bed... and it was baby time. We all laughed and planned on getting the work done ASAP. I was off work and Melissa said we should learn how to install the car seats in the van, so that afternoon we tried it.   Fast forward to 4:10 AM 3/22/16. Melissa woke and went to the restroom.  She came back and told me that she had wet her underwear a little. It wasn't much, the bed was dry, could it actually be her water breaking?  We remembered from prenatal class that you go to the hospital when your contractions a...