The Wilson Avenue Adventures

We have talked about it for quite some time, and we finally did it! Here is the Twin Tube video. The Eat it or Wear it Challenge.  Subscribe to keep up to date on the most recent videos! Twin Tube - Eat It or Wear It Challenge

New Video Posted!! Here is Twin Tube with their newest video.  Toilet Busting!

                                         And there it is. We still believe in the American Dream. Both Darlene and I have owned a house before, but for both of us this feels like our first time. We have been looking forward to this for a few years now. Our hard work is paying off and we will have our own place again. The kids will no longer be sharing a room and we will have plenty of room for our families and friends to visit us. Our closing date is next week. The house needs a bit of work. It is dirty and needs a little bit of new paint, but we are excited to start working on it. My goal is to use this blog as a way of sharing our adventures. To show before and after photos on our work and possibly some videos to go along with them. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel

Came across this post and needed to share it on mine. About Michael  Michael Mitchell is an (almost) thirty-something dad who blogs daily tips and life lessons for dads of daughters at  lifetoheryears.com . He spends his days practicing the arts of fatherhood and husbandry, while attempting to be a man of God and a professional raiser of philanthropic funds. On the rare occasion he’s not tied up with the aforementioned and other pursuits of awesomeness, he enjoys fighting street gangs for local charities and drinking from a cup that’s half full. Bookmark  Life To Her Years , follow Michael on  Twitter , and “like” him on  Facebook  for more “rules”. 1. Love her mom. Treat her mother with respect, honor, and a big heaping spoonful of public displays of affection. When she grows up, the odds are good she’ll fall in love with and marry someone who treats her much like you treated her mother. Good or bad, that’s just the way it is. I’d prefer good. ...

By now many of our family and friends are probably sick of me spamming their Facebook walls and inbox's with requests to vote for our sons video.  I submitted this video last month for the chance at being a finalist and for our family to win a vacation.  I honestly did NOT think that we would actually be chosen!  Ryan's video "GigglePants" was 1 of 5 videos chosen in the "Laughing" category.  I could not believe it when I got the email saying that we were picked.  So now I have been begging family and friends to go to the Nuk Facebook page and vote for our video.  It doesn't take much time, and just think, your one vote a day could land us in the Bahamas at the Atlantis resort!  Ryan and Violet would love it! Here are the details.... Please help us win a trip to the Bahamas for our family. You can vote once a day per Facebook account! Thank you to everyone w ho has voted and continues to vote! Make sure to "like" the Nuk page and then you w...

First of all thank you to everyone that prayed for us last week while Darlene had her surgery.  Everything went great.  Darlene is doing well.  Still a little sore sometimes, but hopefully on the fast track of recovering!  Last time it was arthroscopic procedure.  This time it was actually an incision.  So there is more healing time needed now. The hardest thing now is Darlene being around the kids when she can't pick them up for a few weeks yet.  It is killing her that she can't pick up an hold her babies.  She does as much as she can, bathing, changing, feeding.  So she is at least getting some good time with them.  But it isn't the same.  She plans on being able to persuade the Dr. when she goes in for her check up to ease up on the lifting restrictions.  Nothing over 10lbs currently.  Violet is at 15lbs and Ryan at 18lbs!  They get so big, so fast.

I have been using some vacation time and such the last few weeks to stay home on the weekends to help out with the kids and whatnot.  I gotta say, it has been pretty nice.  The Sunday after Thanksgiving we went out to  Hess Tree Farm .  We got a perfect little tree to put on a small table in the office area.   Here is a video of us decorating it!  It is amazing the things you can do while holding a baby! It smells so good in the front room now.  The twins love looking at the lights on the tree. I think I have everyone's Christmas gift taken care of.  Looking forward to everyone opening their gifts now. Lots of things coming up as well.  December 15th is a big day.  I graduate!  Time to start applying more for other jobs!  Darlene is also going in for her hernia surgery that day.  Hopefully that goes well.  She won't be able to lift the kids for 6 weeks.  That is going to be interesting.....  Going...

It is that time of the year again.  The time of Thanksgiving.  A time where many of us sit and think of all of the things to be thankful for.  I always have so much to be thankful for. Family and friends, you guys are the main ones.  I am so blessed to have each and everyone of you in my life.  Thank you for all of the help and support you have given me.  I know it is somewhat vague, but you know in your own hearts if you have been there and helped or not. My wife  Darlene .  She is absolutely the best thing that has ever happened in my life.  I know I can always count on her.  She is my best friend.  An awesome mother, kick ass wife, and sexy ass biatch.  And she has given me a couple of great things to be thankful for. The twins: Violet and Ryan have turned our lives upside down.  And its been great.  Sure you have your bad days, but the next time they smile or give you a giggle, or even look into your eyes as...

Just wanted to share the link of Darlene's blog. Check it out! http://twicethediapers.blogspot.com/

So the twins have been sleeping through the night for some time now.  Darlene and I enjoy it a great deal, but this morning.....   Ryan decided to roll over at 4am.  And then proceeded to cry.  Darlene got up with him, rolled him back over and he went back to sleep for an hour.  I got up with him at 5 and there was no way he was going back to sleep.  I really hope this isn't a pattern starting! What can we do about it?? Any ideas?

Wow, I can not believe that it is November already.  Tomorrow it is supposed to be a dreary rainy day.  Good thing I got all of the yard work done this last weekend.  Erin and Sarah took the kids with them to their parents house.  It was a great chance for Darlene and I to get a good amount of things done around the house.  Always a great feeling. The twins will be 16 weeks old this week.  Can't believe how fast time flies.  They are starting to be a little more "fun" now.  Talking more, laughing more, crying less.  Their moves are not so crazy, yet they still are. Love this little graphic. Ryan has rolled over once in his crib.  I have seen it almost happen one other time as well.  I know Violet is right behind him.  Both have had small moments of them holding their own bottles. I am excited...  Darlene is going to be writing a blog also.  Mainly about the twins.  We came across a very funny blog and deci...

Taking care of the twins is no job for one single person.  It is hard enough with just Darlene and I together.  If you are a parents of twins and took care of them all by yourself for the first two months then you are a ROCKSTAR . Violet is pretty laid back and doesn't fuss much unless she is hungry or needs to be changed.  Now Ryan on the other hand is one fussy baby.  I thought that we might have made some improvements yesterday, but now I am not so sure.  We are using gas drops, feeding him more upright and burping after every ounce.  It has helped a lot.  Now he was only fussing in the evening instead of ALL DAY .  He was OK in his swing for about 25 mins, which is a huge improvement.  The other issue is that he won't nap during the day.  And the only way that he will stay down for any period of time when he does is on his stomach.  ( I know we are terrible parents ) If both of our kids were like Violet then things would be m...

So due to some staffing issues the twins will be here no later than July 14th now.  Apparently the doctors schedules were off so now it is all figured out. A c-section is surgery.  I don't think that many people realize that fact.  It can be serious.  I know Darlene is pretty nervous.  I get nervous also.  Since we have been together I have seen her go through 4 surgical procedures.  It doesn't get easier at all.  This time she will be awake, but I will be there right next to her.  I hope that I can keep her comforted with all of the stuff going on.  And of course we will be meeting our twins for the first time. I am excited to just spend time with them and bond.  Looking forward to see what features they got from which parent.  Very nervous but excited at the same time.  I will have the camera there with us and documenting things as they happen.  I just pray that everything goes well and Darlene and the babies are...

The twins are coming soon!  As of right now Ju ly 15th is going to be their birthday.  We have scheduled the C-section.  Darlene is still really hoping that they will get head down and that she can experience labor.  She is a little bummed about the idea of a "scheduled" delivery.  I think it is just that part of us that wants to be able to tell out kids and others the story.  (So we were sitting around watching tv or at 3am I woke up and my water had broke so I told Jason to get ready and he stubbed his toe.... something like that I assume.)  I had read that sometimes when you play babies music in the womb is makes them move around and they end up with their head down.  So we have making play lists and Darlene has been laying down with headphones on her belly.  The twins tend to move quite a bit!  The other night one of them punched or kicked so hard the remote flew away!  It was amazing!  The twins actually have moved a li...