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My two are 2.5 years apart and my big girl goes to bed first otherwise the wee guy is too easily distracted!

They both go in the bath or shower together then my girl (3.5) gets herself dressed while I dress Felix (12 months old today!), I then do teeth before reading my girl her stories while Felix hangs around trying to steal all her things! Once Miss A is in bed I nurse Felix to sleep.

My girls are 28 m apart and dd2 goes to bed first and (still) nurses to sleep.
On solo nights we eat dinner at 6pm. If it's a bath night we immediately do dual bath after dinner. I like to get both dressed in the bathroom where it's nice and warm and I can kee an eye on both. I just bring their jammies in. Then around 6:45, we FaceTime daddy, chat with him, read a story together. We say good night to him by 7. Dd1 will either get a show in my room or she can play with her dollhouse in the office or read in her room. I prefer this because I can lock all the doors to the house, she has to go past dd2's room to get to the bathroom or go downstairs. I put dd2 down first then come grab dd1 and put her to bed.

On an ideal night, DD2 is in her crib by 7:45 and DD1 by 8pm.

Give bath together around 645-7p.
Go to bedroom, get them dressed, lotion, brush teeth, etc, finish by 715-720.
Books 720-740
Goal is asleep by 8.
Lately I've been achieving that for DD but DS hasn't been going to bed until 9 or so.

@Foodnerd81: we just do things together until it is time to nurse. LOs are now 4 (DD) and 8 months (DS) but we have had regular solo bedtimes since about 2 months. We alternate bath nights for my sanity. So it goes like this:
6:30 bath for one (DD "helps" with the baby or he hangs out with me and we sit in the floor while she bathes)
6:45 DD in pjs
6:55 Everyine brush teeth
7:00 go upstairs. DD watches a show on the iPad, DS into pjs, nurse, bed
7:30 back downstairs with DD, read stories, say good night

If we are running late sometimes I will wait and do teeth brushing with DD after DS is asleep. If she did not listen and lost her show then she plays in her room and I watch her on the monitor.

You will find a routine! Good luck!

@Foodnerd81: yes my two share a room. I rock dd until she falls asleep while my 3 year old either has DH read to him if he is home or reads to himself if he isn't home until I can put dd in crib and lay with him and read for a little bit. That is until the past week or so where he is bouncing off the walls at bedtime and takes like an hour to wind down!

@Foodnerd81: we only do baths every other because of eczema! That might change when warmer weather comes, if it ever does, since my girls are heavy sweaters!

Xander is 3 and Logan is 16 months. This is our routine:

6:00 - bath (not every day)
6:30 - play
7:15 - brush teeth, inhaler for Xander, diaper change & pjs for Logan
7:20 - stories in Logan's room, songs, Logan in bed by 7:30
7:30 - stories with Xander, potty, overnight diaper & pjs
7:50 - Xander's in bed, songs, 5 minutes with lights on by himself
8:00 - lights out in Xander's room

When my kids were the age of yours, I just stuck to LO1's normal bedtime routine, and did DD2's routine very late, usually after DH's and my dinner (always after DD1was asleep).

When DD2 could sit reliably in a bath sling seat, I started bathing the two of them together - actually, that may have been around 5-6 months. It was tough at first but eventually I got the hang of it. I'd pull DD2 out and lay her on a towel/pad on the bathroom floor to dress her while DD1 got to do some more wild play in the bath. Then I read to both, breastfed DD2 during story if needed, and put them to bed (sometimes DD2 stayed up a bit). Now at almost 2 and 4, it's easy (though chaotic) to do everything together. I dread the day when they don't want to do it together!