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Lynn
02-11-2013, 12:41 PM
New additions to the family, twin boys, Brian and Cade.

Born early yesterday morning.

Everyone is doing well.

mockingbird812
02-11-2013, 12:45 PM
<span style="font-size: 14pt">Congrats Lynn. You must be <span style="font-style: italic">very</span> happy! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif</span>

Postsedan
02-11-2013, 12:46 PM
Lynn,

Congrats! Double the Fun <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

Dan

396L35
02-11-2013, 12:49 PM
Congrats Lynn... Twin boys are great and you will enjoy every minute of their life.

PeteLeathersac
02-11-2013, 01:02 PM
Double congrats to your whole family Lynn!!!
These two are the best matching #'s seen here yet!
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~ Pete

VintageMusclecar
02-11-2013, 01:52 PM
HUGE congrats to you &amp; the family!!!

x Baldwin Motion
02-11-2013, 03:05 PM
wow, how cool is that!! I have twins and one of the twins has got a pair in the chute now!!

congrats Enjoy, have fun <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

WILMASBOYL78
02-11-2013, 03:22 PM
Great...now you get to &quot;spoil&quot; two instead of one...congrats <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif

MrsBillyBobcat
02-11-2013, 03:30 PM
<span style="font-size: 14pt">Congratulations Lynn! </span> <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif (X2 <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif )

Dog427435
02-11-2013, 08:20 PM
<span style="font-size: 17pt"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-weight: bold">Congrats Lynn – Nothing beats the Grandkids!!!</span></span></span>

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Verne_Frantz
02-11-2013, 09:20 PM
WoW Lynn, Congrats! I sense that your hobby will take a back seat because now you're into Double Spoilage!!

Verne <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

SS427
02-11-2013, 09:39 PM
Congrats Lynn! What's it feel like? I got a few years before I find out.....

Lynn
02-11-2013, 09:52 PM
Verne:

Actually, the hobby is going to pick up. We just got two new helpers. In fact, I already purchsed their first &quot;car&quot;.

Rick:

Feels a lot like when I became a Dad. I just don't have to change the poopy diapers, and can leave any time I want.

Actually, things are way diff than when my oldest boy was born in 1977. No fathers in the delivery room back then. My grandsons were born in the same hospital as my two boys. Back then, there wasn't even a TV in the father's waiting room. I went home and got a 13 incher. I was up on night, while my ex wife was so drugged up, she slept through most of it. Went in at 11 pm and he wasn't born until 11 am.

This will be fun.

elonblock
02-12-2013, 02:32 PM
Congrats! Let the fun begin.

Elon

Jonesy
02-13-2013, 10:37 PM
Congrats to you Lynn!!!

WILMASBOYL78
02-13-2013, 11:37 PM
Did you start the college fund yet <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif should be about $250,000/year when those guys are ready <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

Hope you are enjoying them...all the best!

Lynn
04-27-2013, 04:37 PM
Well, the little scooters spent the night with us last night. Gave my son and his wife a night out.

10 weeks. They have more than doubled in size. No doubt now; they are definitely numbers matching, and getting harder and harder to tell apart. Sherri is really loving this. Have I told you my wife is an angel?

First pic is day one at the hospital.

Second pic is this morning.

Xplantdad
04-27-2013, 08:25 PM
Awesome Lynn...thanks for sharing!

x Baldwin Motion
04-28-2013, 11:37 AM
oh yeah!! dual exhaust, can't wait!! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif

Lynn
04-28-2013, 02:45 PM
We are having so much fun.

parkbrau
04-28-2013, 04:03 PM
Good lookin boys. Congrats.

Lynn
05-31-2013, 03:36 AM
First driving lesson. After all, they are almost 4 mos old.

x Baldwin Motion
05-31-2013, 01:47 PM
very cool!! details on car?

Lynn
10-26-2013, 01:48 AM
OK, these little guys are a blast. 8.5 months old.

Crawling, pulling up and getting into everything.

Pic from last week, one from today, and Brian in the race car yesterday. I did not put his hands on the wheel. He always grabs it and gets this serious look on his face. Of course, then he tries to eat the steering wheel.

Xplantdad
10-26-2013, 04:16 AM
That...is awesome! Thanks for sharing Lynn! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif

Postsedan
10-26-2013, 11:07 AM
What fun <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/youguysrock.gif

Thanks for these great pictures.

Dan

earntaz
10-26-2013, 02:29 PM
The AWESOME thing about GRANDCHILDREN is you can spoil the heck out of them -- and hand them back!!

ENJOY!!!

The TAZ

Lynn
10-26-2013, 03:01 PM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: x Baldwin Motion</div><div class="ubbcode-body">very cool!! details on car? </div></div>

Guess I never saw this post.

Car is called an american retro red racer. It is loosely based on early 50's Ferrari race cars. I even got a real Ferrari chrome hinged gas cap set up as well as Ferrari decals with it. Just haven't put them on. The car is more for looks than function. Pretty crappy pedal and steering mechanism. Paint finish is top quality though.

Planning on a photo shoot with the twins and the car to use for advertising. Then I can pay them each $1000. Because they will have earned income, we can do tax returns and they can each contribut the entire $1000 to a Roth IRA. Assuming the US economy doesn't implode, based on just a modest rate of return, each IRA should be worth about $360,0000 in TODAY'S dollars (adjusted for inflation) at age 65 (i.e. if it takes $2m in 2078 to purchase what $360,000 would purchase today, they would each have about $2m. We will decide over the next few years whether to add to that. Nice head start on retirement.

Lynn
04-19-2014, 04:20 AM
These little guys are just more fun than you can imagine.

They love the outdoors. Soon as we go out, they are running.

And they love hamming it up for the camera.

Xplantdad
04-19-2014, 04:24 AM
Great pics. You must be a proud granddad!

GaryC
04-19-2014, 05:54 AM
Lynn, only 2 grand children? My oldest son is dating these 2 girls, each with triplets. At any time we can go from 7 grandkids to 10 in the blink of an eye. 16 to 6 years old. Keeps me busy. It's almost 2 AM now and the 6 year old is on line playing games.

Lynn
04-19-2014, 01:37 PM
Yeah, Gary, just the two. I don't believe my oldest boy will ever have kiddos. My daughter may, but who knows?

Here are a couple more of them hamming for the camera:

bbbentley
04-19-2014, 09:20 PM
You, my friend, are a blessed man! Enjoy those little buggers all you can. Congrats, Lynn.

Lynn
06-29-2014, 01:48 PM
Seems like just yesterday I posted that I was a grand dad.

They are 16 mos old.

I think both will be swimming by the end of summer.

Lynn
02-18-2016, 02:39 AM
Hard to believe it, but they just turned 3!!!!!!!
Holy Crap.

Xplantdad
02-18-2016, 11:57 AM
Wow...congrats grand dad!

PeteLeathersac
02-18-2016, 12:10 PM
Congrats again Gramps, you've been having more fun than any of us!
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~ Pete

earntaz
02-18-2016, 12:58 PM
A number of good things concerning Grandkids -- you can spoil the heck out of em' and then hand em' back!! Enjoy!!! TAZ

Steve Shauger
02-18-2016, 01:23 PM
It's an amazing feeling. Our first just turned 10 months.

mockingbird812
02-18-2016, 02:10 PM
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earntaz
02-18-2016, 03:22 PM
Look at her eyes -- is she ready to go or what!!

Steve Shauger
02-18-2016, 03:54 PM
Speaking of her eyes, this her at 6 months old

Lynn
02-18-2016, 04:48 PM
Steve: She is a beauty. May have to introduce her to the twins in a few years and let them duke it out.

Pete said: &quot;you've been having more fun than any of us!&quot;

You have no idea. I am truly the luckiest man alive. I am married to an angel. We have 5 great kids ranging from 38 down to 22. All five kids come over every other Thurs. nite for family night. We usually get the grandsons at noon and have the whole afternoon with them before all the kids get there. We are blessed way more than I deserve. The only thing left to do on the home property is get the small building rehabbed into a good workshop. I have lots of room downstairs, but hate working down there and raising up dust getting all the cars dirty. It is great having 4000 ft of living space and 3000 ft of garage work space.

Steve Shauger
02-18-2016, 05:13 PM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lynn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Steve: She is a beauty. May have to introduce her to the twins in a few years and let them duke it out.

Pete said: &quot;you've been having more fun than any of us!&quot;

You have no idea. I am truly the luckiest man alive. I am married to an angel. We have 5 great kids ranging from 38 down to 22. All five kids come over every other Thurs. nite for family night. We usually get the grandsons at noon and have the whole afternoon with them before all the kids get there. We are blessed way more than I deserve. The only thing left to do on the home property is get the small building rehabbed into a good workshop. I have lots of room downstairs, but hate working down there and raising up dust getting all the cars dirty. It is great having 4000 ft of living space and 3000 ft of garage work space. </div></div>

I couldn't agree more Lynn. It sounds like we have similar families.

earntaz
02-18-2016, 06:18 PM
Daddy may need a shotgun -- set it by the front door when the young guys show up to date his daughter ... LOL

Steve Shauger
02-18-2016, 06:31 PM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: earntaz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Daddy may need a shotgun -- set it by the front door when the young guys show up to date his daughter ... LOL </div></div>

If my granddaughter is like her mother, she'll be able to defend herself. My daughter is a tough NYer and I never had to worry <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif and my son in law is an avid hunter.

Lynn
06-08-2016, 02:33 AM
These guys are just growing up too fast.

SS427
06-08-2016, 12:56 PM
Too cute!

Steve Shauger
06-08-2016, 03:23 PM
Definite babe magnets...:)

scuncio
06-08-2016, 04:31 PM
Handsome dudes there!

Xplantdad
06-08-2016, 08:15 PM
When do they get the keys to grandpas cars? <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif