Family Lifestyle Pictures

We knew we wanted to do something a little different for newborn photos this year. We decided to tackle taking some ourselves (blog post to come!), but also wanted to get ones as a family of five, which Jason obviously can't take! We used our friend Aleksandra for Madi's first birthday and enlisted her services again for some family pictures when the girls were one week old.

Normally newborns sleep lots... except ours apparently! We struggled getting Madi to sleep for her newborn pictures when she was born and Evelyn and Olivia seem to have inherited that same trait for new born photography. However, Aleksandra still captured some beautiful pictures of the girls and of the five of us!

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Twin Tuesday: Evelyn and Olivia's Nursery!

After Madi was moved to her big girl room downstairs, we got to working on the girls' nursery. We didn't do a theme or anything, but chose to keep it simple and use the colors lavendar and light pink (one for each twin). I love that I was able to get the same name hangings from my good friend Emily's mom Darlene (she's so talented!).

Here is Evelyn and Olivia's room! :-)

We purchased a cutter while we were in the States in March and got to work making a lot of the decorations ourselves. Our friend Dan cut us the blocks we used in the girls' names and Jason sanded, painted, and cut the letters for them with the new cutter. He also designed and made the monogram initials, the flags in the picture frame above the changing table, and the vinyl letters on the weekly/monthly age blocks. Lots of DIY love!

  

I love how the room turned out and all of the personal touches that we were able to incorporate! I think Evelyn and Olivia love it too. :-)

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Soma Gard Saturday!

Soma Gard is another favorite place of ours to visit here in Norway. We wanted to take my mom while she was here and they are only open on weekends (we found that out the hard way...). Since this is the last weekend my mom is here ( :-( ) we headed there Saturday while the weather was overcast, but not rainy.

This "farm" has animals you can pet...

Tractors you can climb and play on...

Sandpits where you can go digging...

Regular playground equipment like swings and slides...

And of course Madi's favorite... trampolines! Girl loves to jump!!

We brought our lunch with us and enjoyed the morning as a family running around while baby sisters took a long nap. :-)

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