Rilyn's Cheer Competition

Its starting to get hot here in Arizona! 

The kids are coping by playing in the sprinklers in the backyard and wearing as little as possible.

Rilyn has been doing great at t-ball. She is even getting some hits without the tee!

She is such a stud! Casen loves watching his sissy.

He spent most of the last game in the dugout sitting by her or waiting for her to come back in. On Saturday, Rilyn had her first cheerleading competition.

She did so well! We loved watching her! She looked so grown up with her hair done and makeup on. She was super excited about her big trophy and medal. She says she wants to do ballet next so thats what she is going to do next year. The twins had their 1 month doctors visits this week.

Brigg weighs 8lbs 4oz and Brooks weighs 7lbs 12oz. They are both doing great and growing fast! They are starting to be awake more and its so fun. They still love to cuddle with eachother. Brigg has become the more chill of the two lately. They have started nursing every 3 hours (which means we have more time to get stuff done arond here). They are still so sweet and their big brother and sister love them lots!

T-Ball and Pat's Run

Rilyn has been playing T-ball on an all girls team again this year. She is such a great little athlete.

 She loves to be running after the ball (every ball, even the ones hit on the other side of the field from her) and she is just an all around natural. She is way better than I ever was! Of course her favorite part of the game is the end when she gets a ticket for SNOW CONES!

Casen likes that part a lot too. Speaking of Casen, he and his little brothers keep me entertained (and busy) all day. Casen has had to become very independent since my hands are usually super full of baby. He cracks me up at the things he does. Some of my favorites are running around the house in his underwear (which he sometimes uses as not just underwear but as a place to put his toys and what not when he doesn't want to hold them. Hes a nut!).

He LOVES chocolate milk and if I'm in the middle of nursing he knows its going to be a little bit before he can get a refill (probably should mention that he is not very good at waiting) so now if he wants a refill and doesn't want to wait he will bring me the milk and chocolate syrup and his cup for me to take care of it where ever I am.

What a goof. He LOVES his brothers and wants to be by them all day. The other morning he decided that he wanted to sit by his babies (as he calls them) but he also wanted to watch Dora on the iPad so what did he do, he used one of his brothers as an iPad stand and got the best of both worlds.

 And moving onto the twins. Brigg and Brooks hit 4 weeks this week (holy crap time is flying!) and they are getting so big.

They are great babies and hardly ever cry. They are getting used to tummy time but its not their favorite.

They tend to take turns needing cuddles (Briggy needed some Mommy time while Brooks was plying with his Sissy)

and have been getting more alert everyday. One last highlight of the week was Pat's Run which I did on Saturday. It was a really cool race. There were so many American flags that people were holding while they ran, and lots of people in the service, and lots of vets. It meant a lot to see so many people (27000 people) there running to support our country and our military. It really meant a lot after the bombing that happened in Boston this week. There were a lot of Remember Boston and Running for Boston things that I saw out on the course. It was really cool to get to be a part of it. The best part may have been that my body finally got with the program and I ran the 4.2 miles in 41 minutes (41:28 to be exact) making this not only the longest distance I have run since having the boys but also my fastest pace. I didn't take any pictures of myself during the race but the Cardinals mascot and Sparky run with us and they started 15 minutes before I did but I was able to catch and pass Big Red the Cardinal around mile 3.

Rilyn's School Play and A Few of the Twin's Firsts

This week Rilyn's school had their kindergarten production. They did a cute little musical type play called Jack's Calendar. The kids were split into groups for each month of the year and they did a little song for each month. Rilyn was in December and she did a great job.

She knew all the moves to every song that every group sang and she looked so cute up on the stage. This week we also had some extra special visitors from California, Uncle Sam, Aunt Melissa, and Delaney.

Rilyn LOVED spending time with Delaney and drug her around the house to see every last little thing that Rilyn thought was important. The 3 boys and I went to the zoo this week. Casen was getting bored of being stuck in the house (and lets face it, I am too) so we decided to stop by the zoo for a quick trip.

The twins chilled out in their carrier and Casen was a big boy and walked the whole time. Casen and I spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa's house this week to help them out with some construction stuff. (Ok so maybe we were just there to keep the dogs out of the way and make sure the window washers got paid but still) To keep ourselves busy Case and I made up a game using my Grandmother's old door knob and marbles.

We spent like an hour putting marbles around the door knob and organizing the marbles and cleaning up the marbles after Casen dumped them. Fun times. Brigg and Brooks hit their 3 week mark this week. They are starting to fill out a little bit and are just so dang cute. They we're having some naked time before bed because it is already so freakin hot here in Arizona and I had to take this cute picture of Brooks trying to suck on Briggs hand.

They do it to each other all the time. I guess once you spend 9 months smashed up next to someone you get used to sharing everything, including body parts. The boys also got to finally have their first real bath this week (I had to wait for their cords to fall off and then their "procedures" to heal before they could be under water).

They loved it and their big brother and big sister loved getting to help them out. Casen put 3 rubber duckies in their little tub with them and Rilyn was a big help when it came to drying them off and getting them lotioned up. I also have to share how we go to the grocery store now.

I have to use 2 carts! You should have seen the looks I got going through the store. Oh well.

Matched

With all of the craziness of the last few weeks I totally forgot to share that Cody matched into a residency program.

This summer we are headed to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, IA for Cody to train to be an anesthesiologist.

We are super excited! The program is supposed to be awesome and the current residents have been so great to us introducing themselves and offering any help they can. We are really excited to get out there and start the next chapter of our lives.

Easter and Blessed

The kids got pretty spoiled for Easter this year. The kids woke up to their Easter Baskets

and then had to wait for everyone to be ready for them to get to find the eggs they had dyed with Grandma and Grandpa that the Bunny hid in the house.

Then they had to wait even longer for Grandma and Grandpa to come over for them to go find the eggs the Bunny hid outside. (If you can't tell from the kids serious faces, egg hunting is a serious business around here and Rilyn ROCKS at it!)

Torture! I think Brigg and Brooks were the only ones who we're dying to go hunt!

The Easter Bunny hid some special eggs that they got to trade for big prizes like Wreck it Ralph and squirt guns and books. We had a nice brunch with Grandma and Grandpa, Uncle Cody, Grandpa Billy, and Aunt Linda. Then that afternoon we went over to Uncle Frankie and Aunt Krista's for the Breinholt Easter party. The kids had so much fun running around with their cousins and Brigg and Brooks got lots of attention too. I didn't get any pictures of the egg hunt because I was feeding the babies but the kids got SO MANY EGGS!! I think we have enough candy to last us until Halloween now! We were so happy to get to spend another holiday with our families. We really missed getting to do that while we were in PA. We are happy that we get to make the most of our time while we are still in Arizona. The day after Easter we were able to bless the twins at our house with just about all of our families there. Cody did a great job and both of the boys slept through their blessings so it was perfect.

I have been really slacking on pictures lately but my sister in law took some of the boys so thank you Shelley at least I have a few pictures. And just for fun here are a couple more pictures of the babies. They went on their first stroller ride this week and loved it

and they still love to cuddle with eachother.

This is them all snuggled up in my lap.