Happy 1st Birthday A&Z!

Avery and Zoey, you are some very spoiled 1 year old babies!

One year Ago by Daddy

Tuesday, September 14th seemed fairly normal. I drove into work because we had a team meeting. I remember it was the day I told my co-workers I was going to go part-time because we were having twins. After work, I drove to practice to get the team prepared to play game #3 against Rocky Mountain HS in Fort Collins. After practice and talking to Matt Loyd about the week's plan, I got in the car to head off to get dinner and then home. It was normal operating procedures to call and make sure your mom was OK and to see if she wanted a snack or dessert. So just about 8pm I called home and was shocked when she said she hadn't even had dinner. So I got her order and called California Pizza Kitchen. Just short of 9pm I got home with pasta for me and pizza for your mom. This was when everything began. . .

A year of memories

. . .game day lunches with Myers at the hospital cafeteria after seeing you. . .I wish my head was "Rooooowwwwnnnd". . . the #@*#$ oxygen meter and it's ^>%#@ beeping. . . rocking sweet jaundice glasses . . .driving your Flintstones cars everywhere, til you were exhausted . . . You don't know it yet, but you love sports. . .Mom getting to hold both of you for the first time and dad simply melting. . .Shawna getting a lesson from Zoey on how to properly put a diaper on. . .Addison renaming Avery, VeVe. . .Dad saying "We're not having babies tonight" on September 14th . . . Zoey singing Michael Jackson songs (with a little help from Dad). . . Dad watching lots of bowl games with you as his Paternity leave was during the college bowl season. . .Getting your ears pierced at a Tattoo shop by this dude . . .Spending your first couple of months living in vibrating Bouncy chairs. . . the perfect army crawl by Zoey. . .Photo Shoots. . . Playing dress-up with Avery and Zoey . . . milk management. . . IVs in arms and heads. . . Daddy learning the proper massage technique from the "Massage Specialist" in the NICU, then over-doing the Spa by giving the girls the massages and then painting their tiny finger nails with a Sharpie. . .Easter Dresses . . ."Where's VeVe?" - "There she is!" . . . Bozy, ZoBo, Big Z, Bozy Bozied, OhhE and her sister AJ, V, VeVe, Vree . . .The DirecTV guy meeting Zoey and asking her age, then later when introduced to her twin sister, asking "How old is this one" . . . Happy Hour Sonic Slushies during nap time . . . Avery's low raspy giggle that lasted only a couple of weeks . . .Meeting a completely different person when the oxygen came off . . .Acid freaking Reflux is terrible. . . Working behind the scenes to get good photos. . . Aunt Stacey completely taking care of the girls' reading needs . . . Swimming lessons and Zoey kicking and propelling and surpassing the rest of her class to beyond exhaustion . . . Dancing, lots and lots of dancing that Avery nearly falls over her hips are moving so fast . . . couch time between dinner and bed time . . . Puma driving shoes compliments of Memaw and Papa . . . Kangaroo care . . . the whole family contracting MRSA, yuck! . . . first Christmas presents, the rocking horse and Fritz, the rocking frog . . . Avery's serious case of Man anxiety . . .