{"id":108021,"date":"2026-01-02T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:09:09","slug":"north-texas-welcomes-first-2026-babies-as-residents-share-new-years-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108021\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas welcomes first 2026 babies as residents share New Year&#8217;s goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/epdpg3wym4c10pye.jpg\" alt=\"North Texans welcome first 2026 babies and share goals\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; To welcome 2026 to North Texas, there&#8217;s nothing like the new year for inspiring people to make a change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">FOX 4 talked with some North Texans who are doing just that.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/p-dionne-ringing-in-the-new-year-530p_00.00.54.28.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   First arrivals of 2026 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">North Texas\u2019 firstborn babies of the new year were a set of twin boys for Elizabeth and Ed Evans.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/p-dionne-ringing-in-the-new-year-530p_00.00.12.00.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;We welcomed our twins, identical twins, William and Elliott,&#8221; said Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;After Elizabeth came to the recovery room, told us the news. I think confirmed with a few other hospitals, that we\u2019re the first, yeah yeah yeah,&#8221; said Ed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The twin baby boys, born 2 minutes apart, timed their own 2026 debut for a place in North Texas history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/p-dionne-ringing-in-the-new-year-530p_00.00.20.20.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Our original due date was March 4th,&#8221; said Elizabeth. &#8220;They are a little bit early, but they\u2019re doing fantastic. We are very happy about their progress. They\u2019re little warriors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> North Texas looks ahead <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Noting \u2018first\u2019 new year milestones and the tradition of setting personal goals have long been a key part of the New Year\u2019s holiday observance, some things are quite familiar. These familiar resolutions come from North Texans who are now turning the page on the calendar year.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;To stay healthy and be able to run five days a week and be happy,&#8221; said one North Texan.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;In the past, I\u2019ve made many resolutions. I would say this year it would be to travel more,&#8221; said another North Texas resident.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;I still want to do the workout and all that, I just want to do less. I want my life to be less pressure,&#8221; said one North Texas resident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided from interviews conducted by FOX 4&#8217;s Dionne Anglin.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/holidays\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holidays<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; To welcome 2026 to North Texas, there&#8217;s nothing like the new year for inspiring people to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102,581,1972,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-108021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-county","10":"tag-holidays","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}