A year ago today, a Wednesday, Rebekah and I talked about the arrival of our girls and how we still had so many items on our 'lists' to complete. We had a conversation about how she was going to use the three to four weeks of time off of work to get things ready for Sydney and Abigail's arrival--since we planned for her to work only through the end of that week. We coordinated my work schedule so that I could participate in the next day's [June 30] ultrasound and discussed how I needed to figure out how to install those car seats so that I wouldn't be wrestling with them the night before our [supposed] scheduled C-section in a few weeks. Our friends, the Blackstons, came to visit that afternoon--Stacey helped Rebekah make sense of all of the shower gifts that filled our nursery and Drew [Stacey's, then, 2 year old] helped stack the gifts into neat little piles. Our favorite eatery, Casa Fiesta, was packed on the porch that night, as usual, but we snagged the table next to the kitchen door and devoured our Nachos Supreme meal, as usual. Little did we know that in a few hours our lives would change forever...

(Back to the present) Last weekend we celebrated with family. We celebrated Sydney and Abigail's first year of life and the importance of family. The girls had mixed reactions to their first taste of pure sugar, but enjoyed every bow, scrap of wrapping paper, and [sometimes] the gift inside the package. They made such a mess. Both Sydney and Abigail were able to showcase their new skills of cruising and unassisted standing to their aunts, grandparents, and great grandparents. And the family was enthralled. Be sure to check out more pictures on flickr.com