A Year and a Half and Two Hills Later...

Well, here I am again after a LONG hiatus from the blogging world. I have no real reason or excuse for my absence other than the fact that summer came and went...and then winter came and went...and now (hopefully) another summer is on it's way out. In the meantime, however, first grade was awesome and lots of end of the year awards were received by our sweet little Webb, from our sweet K-Kay. He loved being in her class and just could not understand why he couldn't just do 2nd grade in her classroom. He played baseball again this summer and was once again...A GATOR. Not the same team, but a Gator all the same. Our headcoach was Derick Biglane, a lifelong friend of mine. We had a busy, and super HOT summer. Oh, and I've failed to mention that we have two new additions to our Hill gang.

Let me just tell you what a shock this was as it flashed up on the big screen at the doctors office!

John Harper and William Turner Hill made their suprise arrival on June 29, 2011. Harper was born at 7:53 AM at 4lbs. 11oz. and Turner at 7:54 AM at 5lbs. 6oz.

Mimi came as soon as she got the call at 3:30 or so that morning and we had her here for about 6 weeks! Can you believe that? I sure can't! She is truly amazing and wish we all lived closer to one another. No worries really though...I've been to Natchez twice and she is coming back this way FRIDAY! Woo hoo!!

While I was recovering from my C-section and the boys were being taken SO well care of in Memphis we were reminded at what amazing people we have in our lives. So, many people brought food and happies I feel I will be writing thank you notes for a VERY long time. I took a picture of this particular meal from Keri Graves and Lindsay Jones, friends of ours as well as being in our supper club. (Which 'unoficially' kicks back off tonight with a meeting of the wives to plan our first meal back and our Celebrity Couples Halloween Party!!) Anyway, back to the meal at hand here. Keri and Lindsay brought EVERYTHING that you see here. EVERYTHING! All the way down to the placemats and flowers. I mean does it get any sweeter than that??? I venture to say NO WAY!

 Oh! Happy! Day! Our last visit to the NICU to pick up our little guys. I took this with my phone because it was one of the cutest things I've ever seen and couldn't get to my camera in time. John Allen couldn't get down that hall fast enough! After a visit everyday for 12 days...we were just about OVER Memphis! However, we were seriously short-termers compared to just about everyone else we met who had been or would be there for months! God is so good...my heart couldn't take it!

 One month old TODAY! They both fit in their nap nanny together...but not for too much longer after this!

While MiMi was here we did a LOT of walking and then strolling when the boys got home. They LOVE to be outside, like most babies. It was just so dang hot, sometimes I thought we might literally melt!

We are now in a 'groove'...well, sort of. I mean as much of a groove as you can be in with two new infant babies in your house and a super busy 7 year old and two parents with some serious sleep deprivation. But hey, it is what it is and I'm not the first person to ever have multiples. I will tell you this though...until you have them, you will NEVER KNOW. It is absolutely NUTS, but we love it.

Let's not leave out the Greatest Big Brother EVER! And I do mean that. He is absolutely wonderful with the boys and helps me SO MUCH. If he hears them crying, he will run in their room and give them their pacifiers and gently touch thier little heads just like they taught us in the NICU. If that doesn't work, then he can pick them safely out of their beds, and hold them. He can feed them a bottle like no other 7 year old you've ever seen! Not to mention, he is a FABULOUS little 'fetcher'. His last little task to learn is how to change a diaper...I'm going to start working on that soon:)

This picture is from our first road trip to the lake. It was great to get out of the house and not to mention, I could finally have a few cocktails with everyone. I mean if you're at the lake, right? It's just not the same without a little libation.

I am going to really try to be dilligent in posting to this from here on out as this will probably be the only way that I will remember anything about our lives at this moment. I seriously don't remember which one I feed during the night the next day and I can barely get myself together to be dressed before Webb gets home from school. Not sure where the time will come for this, but I hope I can stick to it so all of our boys know that we loved them with all of our hearts.