I had this bright idea that I’d share a few photos of how our family of five is doing but I just looked at the clock and I’ve been looking through photos for an hour and I think I’ve gathered around 50 photos to share. You can only imagine what my scrapbooks are like. I actually had to give up scrapbooking because it was so time consuming. I finally got smart and made these big books by my publisher. Molly loves grabbing them and flipping through her baby photos. The year Molly was born my Grandmother passed away and there are a few pages of just photos of her and my visit to California before she died. Molly loves to look at her photos and she is always asking me to tell me stories about Grandma Rosanna. You know its late in the evening when I start rambling on. If this was a maid of honor speech, Coty would be giving me the hand signal to wrap it up.

Its so hard to put into words how fast these last 8 months have gone with our new family of five! Its the first question some of my bride’s ask me when we talk before their wedding recently, “how are the twins?!” and its so sweet that they ask but its always the same answer, they’re great! What I want to say is, its amazing. What I’m thinking at the moment is, its really crazy right now! Having a baby is one of the most amazing miracles you can ever experience. I look back at photos of Molly and I wish someone would have told me to soak in those moments more because they are truly fleeting. It wasn’t until our first miscarriage did I really grasp the reality of how amazing bringing a life into this world truly is. You’d think Molly was enough right?! Well she is but you just learn so much through grief. Now having two babies, at the same time, its totally different world. I am so grateful that Coty and I work from home, we’ve truly become a team with Cohen & Colson in our family. Our families have stepped in to help us out too! We go through our list of family members to sit the kids for our shoots and I’m so thankful they live close by to see them all grow up. I won’t mention the long night we just had where I swear they were tag teaming us and we only got a few hours of broken sleep. Of course they are so cute so its hard to resist their sweet giggles. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned with multiples is the fact that you have to accept the crying. When there is just one of you and you’ve got one baby in the crib who just wakes up from a nap and you’ve got one in your arms that you’re feeding a bottle to and a 4 year old who’s pretending her baby has been burnt by a fire breathing dragon and needs medicine… you must accept the fact that you only have two arms and the baby upstairs is just fine and may have to cry a few minutes. This is where some serious planning, lots of communications, lots of prayer, maybe some wine and mandatory date nights come into play. The fact that Coty and I still go on dates once in a while is so amazing and SO essential for our sanity. Again… thank goodness for family!

Here are some photos from the last several months. The first couple are from my dear friend Rachel Jacobus. She’s amazing. I love taking her photos and she loves taking ours. So thankful she came to our home after the boys came home from the hospital.

One of my favorite photos with Cohen.

My sweet girl on film. Photos like this only come around a few times and I’m so happy Coty got this shot! Such a cutie!

I truly think my girl might become a nurse one day. If you look in her toy box right now, all her dolls have bandages on them. She’s so attentive to any kinds of injuries and such a sweetheart when it comes to that stuff. You should have seen her in the hospital with her brothers, it was like nothing was going on and she would just talk to them and laugh and wanted to know what every tube and button was for. 

Mother’s Day was extra special this year with my three beautiful kids. 

For some reason we keep going to the zoo when its really hot. I seriously don’t know what I’m thinking because we got there and its almost 100 degrees. So note to self, in order to get mom of the year award, stop taking your kids to the zoo at record temps. On a side note, look how funny molly looks! 

Coty and I were IN a wedding this year. Thats right my friends, we were not photographing it {okay we took a few photos} but we were in it. I do however plan the wedding, coordinate the wedding, cut and serve some pies when things got a little crowded, took a couple sunset shots, kept Molly from jumping into the fountain, made sure the boys WERE NOT held by every single guest at the wedding, made sure everything looked fabulous and I managed to get my hair and makeup done that morning. Boom. Do I think I deserve a big fat award? Yes I do. I’ll take a massage and pedicure please. Thank you. PS. Love tan towels! 

Our little family on the 4th! I am looking a little tired and coty’s got some baby drool on his shoulder but our cups are overflowing with blessings. 

I still have to look at every single photo of the boys. Look at how tiny they were! That one month photo is almost crazy to me, they were so tiny. Our family has changed so much over the last couple years and I wouldn’t change a thing because where we are today is better than I ever imagined. We’re still getting used to having 3 kids and now that they’re teething we’re thrown for some more loops but Coty and I have been through worse. Everyday we learn something new about this new adventure we’re one and everyday we grow more in love with this life God has blessed us with.

“Jesus replied, What is impossible with man is POSSIBLE with God.”. Luke 18:27