Hey, it’s me, Alex! Do you ever feel like a guest writer on your own family’s blog? Back in the day I was the only one who wrote here. Anyway, it’s time to get you all caught up.

You can probably tell that we’ve been up to no good. As some of you might know, we’re expecting twins at the end of June! That has meant that life has been super crazy. One of these days we’re going to catch up on this blog. Here are some of the exciting posts that you can look forward to:

• We took out our sauna to make a spot for our family room!
• We had a fun trip in December to Denver to see Beth & Nathan
• We all went to Annah & Richie’s wedding in Spokane right after Christmas
• We found out we were having twins!
• Emmy plays basketball!
• Everyone gets sick! No, I mean everyone! (We’ll save you from an actual post on this one)
• Beth and her kids came to visit us in New Mexico! (see Beth’s blog post for some great pictures)
• Spring Break!

Anyway, life has been busy, but we would regret it if we let everything pass by without writing it down so we can remember it better. There’s lots of fun coming up, too!

Each year we try to guess who the winners of each college bowl, and here are our picks for 2010. Last year Bruce was our winner, but Kaylee is off to a strong start after picking the first three correctly! Good luck to everyone!

In addition to the leaderboard above, you can also see our actual picks.

Hey everyone! Alex is writing a blog post… or more of an apology, actually. So we promised a post about Disneyland, but we’ve been distracted. Mostly it was me distracting Julia and taking over the computer.

You see, the new version of Picasa, Google’s free image organizing/editing software has something called face recognition. This basically means that you can organize all your photos according to the faces in the picture. For example, Emmy has something like two thousand pictures on our computer, and Kaylee has about a thousand (the second child is always overlooked, right Kaylee?). Anyway, it is somewhat addictive to organize your pictures this way, especially when there are tens of thousands of faces embedded in countless pictures. You see funny things, too: the software for some reason thinks that Emmy and Kaylee look just like their cousins Logan and Joshua, which is true if you look at them a certain way.

Anyway, what this means for all of you is that you can’t see all of our amazing Disneyland pictures. I left a few teasers on my Facebook page, but you have to be my friend (or Julia’s friend) on Facebook to see them. In the mean time we’re busy playing around with Picasa and looking at all the pictures of our beautiful girls. I imagine we’ll have our Disneyland pictures on here any day now… as soon as we’re done playing around in Picasa.

We need your help! Julia’s due date is less than a month away, and we haven’t thought of a name yet. OK, let me be more specific. We’ve had the baby’s name for a few months now (her name is Kaylee), but we don’t have a new name for our blog! You see, this blog was created just before Emmy was born, but “Julia and Alex plus one” only works for a family of three. So let’s hear it! What should our new blog name be?

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So it seems that Emmy has inherited some curly here from somewhere (her dad, obviously). She loves getting her hair done, though – especially for church. Maybe that’s because she’s making some good (boy) friends in her nursery class?

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