Hard for us to believe our babies have babies.
Twenty-eight years ago today The Deer Hunter and I were sitting in a Gainesville GA hospital awaiting the arrival of our daughters.
Every time I see the photo above I remember how scared we were.
Not that we weren’t happy to be expecting parents, but twins? We didn’t even know if we were ready for one child and somehow we were about to have two.
Even though we were unsure about twins, they turned out to be the greatest blessing of our lives.
The girls certainly didn’t plan to have children at the same time, but they have really enjoyed it. From being pregnant together to being new mothers they’ve loved every minute of…well except for those middle of the night feedings 🙂
The Deer Hunter and I have really enjoyed being grandparents. We love the boys so much!
Seeing them together reminds us of the girls being babies and makes us wonder how in the world we handled two babies.
Last night’s video: Trips to Town & Appalachia is a Family Centered Culture.
Tipper
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Catching up reading. Happy belated birthday to the girls! My baby just had a baby a few weeks ago and it is blowing my mind!
Happy belated birthday to Katie and Corie. What a joy they are to you and Matt and what a joy they are to all of us. I was busy celebrating my Corey’s (a boy) birthday. Yes, Tipper, it is hard to believe when our babies have babies. Corey is my baby and the father of four. He has an 18 year old and we thought that was it. But 15 years later he blessed us with three in one year! He had the first girl in five generations in my family in January of 2019, then twins (boy and girl) in December of the same year. That first year with three babies in diapers and bottles was pretty hectic but it was wonderful. I have an older son who has a son also. All five are the blessings of my life. What did I ever do before I had them. Fortunately, I am retired now and can really enjoy the babies even more than I did the older two. God is good to us!!!
Happy Birthday, Corie and Katie! I hope you two have had the best day ever. Much love, best wishes, and blessings to you both!
Happy birthday to two wonderful young ladies.
Happy Birthday to two beautiful ladies.
So precious!!! Happy Birthday to Katie & Corie !!!
Happy Birthday, Sweet Corie & Katy! Hope your day is extra special & how could it not be with those precious little babies & your loving family. Sending you both a birthday
hug!
I sent you a good soaking! It should be there any time now.
Ed-it made it 🙂 Thank you!
I got 1½ inches from the thunderstorm yesterday. Looks like there will be plenty more.
Happy Birthday Katie and Corie!
I would love to hear more about your pregnancy with the twins, Tipper.
Teresa-you can hear the story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tdOb2JAxZ4 🙂
Happy Birthday to your beautiful girls❣️
Children are a blessing from the Lord. You’ve been blessed many times over.
Such a sweet picture of the two ladies and their precious boys. So happy for them all and of course Austin. Happiest birthday wishes Katie and to Corie too. Y’all are and will always be great momma’s, because of the good parents and their teaching you how to be. Blessings to this beautiful family.
Happy Birthday Ladies. At 71 it’s hard to remember being 28.
I was 24 years old when my daughter was born. She was the first baby I ever held and my wife didn’t have much more experience, yeah we were scared but we figured it out.
I am also the mother of twins and I don’t know how I did it either! I had a 3-yr old as well at the time. The twins just turned 35, and I sit here amazed at how the time has flown by. I have 5 grandchildren now! In my family genealogy I can go back and see we have twins in every generation and it flips from fraternal to identical twins. Back in the early 1800’s there was a couple that had 3 sets of twins and they all died because infant mortality was so high. I can’t imagine that! God bless your precious family Tipper!
My mother had 4 children under 10 when she was 31 . . . ages 9, 7, 5, and 3. Then, she had twins and 18 months later had another. She went on to have 2 more. Now, you tell me how she managed with 6 kids under the age of 10? Just twins would have seemed like a leisurely stroll in the park to her.
Happy Birthday Katie and Corie!! What a blessing that you girls will get to raise your boys together. God’s perfect timing. Tipper, you and Matt raised some wonderful girls, who are outstanding mothers and Ira and Woody are also very blessed to have grandparents like you. Hope this day is special for the girls and all of your sweet family!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE & CORIE!!! And the story continues that began before the Deer Hunter & Tipper began adding their chapters, and now the twins with their own chapters, bringing in sweet little additions of their own! Such a beautiful story it is. Keep writing sweet family. You bless us with each page you share.
Happy Birthday Katie and Corie
Great post and great pics! Happy B-day, ladies. As for the babies, we can relate big time. We just met our great-grandson last week. What blessings these little ones are! And, yes, time flies as we age, but new life along the way makes our lives more worthwhile.
Happy birthday Katie and Corie!!
Happy Birthday Katie & Corie.
Happy Birthday girls, ladies, moms! However you say it, you have many gifts already! Love the pictures. So many things can be interpreted from looking at the subjects in the pictures. You are all definitely blessed and you all deserve those blessings.
Such a lovely post today, Tipper. Thank you.
Sending birthday wishes to Katie and Corie!! May the good Lord continue to bless you!!
Happy Birthday Chitter and Chatter! I hope the handsome boys will grow up to be as close as you girls have always been.
What a blessing! What a heritage! Thank you all for sharing your life stories. I know you’re helping a lot of people just by showing how normal, God fearing people go about life.
Happy 28 BIRTHDAY TO CORIE AND KATIE!!!! My how time flies, huh? You have been richly blessed so today I hope for you an easy day, good dinner, good cake and time with the family!!!! Love and blessings to you all!
Y’all are so blessed.
Happy Birthday to Katie and Corie!
Happy Birthday, Katie and Corrie!! Tipper, my husband and I were in Murphy many years ago probably before you started the blind pig and acorn. It is a very pretty area!
Our sons started me on the ordering groceries back in 2020 and I really did enjoy using it. I’m back to actually going in the stores now unless I order something through Amazon just because at my age it is good to get out and walk more:) Enjoyed going to town with you.
Happy birthday Katie & Corie! Tipper, thank you for posting that beautiful pictures of your two outstanding daughters & the precious grandsons. May the Lord shower your entire family with blessings of goodness and love.
Happy Birthday to two beautiful twins. KATIE and CORIE. GOD BLESS.
Happy Happy Birthday
As I sit here and read your post this Wednesday morning, my eyes are full of happy tears. Tipper, what a lovely post to cheer someone’s heart. The picture of you and Matt at the hospital is very touching, you could use the words of a well-known soap opera (The Days of our lives). God bless everyone this day the Lord hath made.
Happy Birthday Katie!! Happy Birthday Corie!! I pray you have a wonderful day! Being a grandparent is THE absolute best, I say this as I anxiously await the arrival of my first granddaughter…
Blessings from Ohio:)
Happy Birthday Katie and Corie!
You may have been unsure if you were ready to be parents. But you and Matt did an excellent job. You have two young women who are beautiful inside and out and are wonderful mommas themselves. I’d say that’s a job well done!
And your girl’s parents are now grandparents! We grandparents get a day to, they say. I’ve never known the date though. Happiest of happy birthdays to the twins. You told us once who is ‘oldest’ (by minutes) but I forget. Squeeze the girls and the grandbabies today. (We used to say, “I’m gonna squeeze the stuffins out of you.”)
Ron-Katie is 2 minutes older and she loves it 🙂
I really have no words other than Happy Birthday and God Bless you all…I am sure Granny is beaming. Hugs and Love to you guys.
Happy Birthday Katie and Corie.
Happy birthday, Chitter and Chatter. I also remember us also being afraid. Our daughter, April would now be 44 years old if she had not died 12 years ago in an accident and my son will be 39 in about 3 weeks. Maybe I should not write this, but I will anyway, we were told that we should think about aborting our son, something was going to be wrong with him. That was not an option for us because of our faith and trust in God. Our son, James is perfectly normal and has been a blessing to us and is a mighty big blessing to me now that my wife and his mother has died. I have often thought “what if” we had listen to the doctors. Our daughter left us two grandsons, Brandon is now 24 years old has his own home and Dylan will be 19 on Oct. 23rd. Both are as good as they can be and will also help me out. These three boys are the reason I keep trying to go on with my life after my wife’s death when I so often feel like giving up and dying. Everyday I pray for them and will call or text them and tell them I love them. Yes, I look back and think “where did the time go?” Tipper and Matt, being a grandparent only gets better and better. I laugh and say “don’t blame me if my grandsons were not spoiled, I have tried my best to spoil them!”
Happy Birthday to Katie and to Corie!
As in Psalm 118:24, this is the day that the LORD hath made and we do rejoice in it with you all.
Happy Birthday Corrie and Katie! Congratulations on Woodrow and Ira! Children and grandchildren are blessings from our Lord Jesus Christ! You all remind me each day to be thankful and grateful! Gods bless each of you!
Such a beautiful photograph of Chitter and Chatter and their boys, but I must say the picture of Matt and you is profound, showing a critical moment in marriage. Your faces, both looking for strength in each other, show the true depth of what marriage is meant to be. Whoever took that photo captured wholehearted the truth of those moments in time.
Happy Birthday to the girls and Happy Grandparents to you and Matt. God Bless you all.
Happy Birthday Katie! Happy Birthday Corie!
I hope I have that in the right order.
Happy birthday to your daughters!!! Having grandchildren and being grandparents is the best!!!
Happy birthday girls, God bless you and your children
Happy Birthday!!!
Children are a blessing!!
Happy Happy Birthday Corie and Katie! You are both beautiful mothers and have beautiful babies. May your day and year ahead be filled with much joy and many blessings.
Happy birthday girls!!! Tipper, you and Matt raised beautiful, inside and out girls! They are great Moms! Thank you! God bless you and yours!❤❤
I forgot to say, “Happy Birthday” to Chitter and Chatter!
my heart over flows and my eyes fill with tears of joy for you as I look at the pictures and read your words–the feeling both pictures and words give me I know is not even a thimble full of the love, the gratefulness and the blessedness you feel from your girls and your boys….Happy Birthday girls–and happy birth day Tipper and Mat, you may have been scared and had many many pregnancy issues but you two raised a couple of awesome girls.
Tipper, you and the Deer Hunter truly are blessed! You both have done an amazing job raising your girls. Now your blessings continue on as you both get to see your grandsons grow. Life just doesn’t get any better than that on this earth.
Happy Birthday girls! Two beautiful girls and grandsons.
God is great!
The years do fly by Happy Birthday to Chitter and and Chatter 🙂