21 weeks and Big Bear

(21 weeks with Twins)

(30 weeks with Dallin)

21 weeks pregnant and growing, growing, growing. I think my belly grew exponentially overnight. I seriously feel 7 and 1/2 months pregnant now. I am uncomfortable when I sleep now and most of my maternity clothes are getting tight across the belly. I have no idea what I will be wearing in two months. None whatsoever. I have asked several people how far along they think I look and I have gotten answers ranging from 5 months to 8 months. I think it depends on how they carried, how their wives carried, etc and what their answer was. I think personally I look about 7 or 8 months. As you can see in my second photo, when I was pregnant with Dallin at 7 1/2 months, I look about the same size. I carried much higher with Dallin, but over all I think my belly is the size of a 30 week pregnancy.

Things are great though, I am still able to workout everyday and I am trying to stay healthy and active. I notice the more active I am, the better I feel during the rest of the day and the better I sleep at night. The days I can't make it to the gym are the days I feel sluggish and don't sleep well. The babies are super healthy though and kick all the time.

Dallin is growing and learning so much. He loves to wrestle and play. I caught him wrestling with his big big bear yesterday. He was talking with and playing pretend with the bear. It was so cute and so hilarious.

Here he was saying "no camera mommy, no camera!" He doesn't like to get his picture taken about as much as his daddy doesn't. Oh well, maybe the twins won't mind:) I can only hope.

20 weeks and babies faces

(20 weeks pregnant with twins)

20 weeks pregnant and getting uncomfortable. I can still sleep okay, but I can not, I repeat, cannot bend down to pick things up very easily. I had my 20 week ultrasound today, I am just two days shy of being 21 weeks, so I though I better post this picture today. The ultrasound went great. Both boys were doing so great and baby B was very active. He did two flips while we were watching him. It was so wonderful to see them again.

My pregnancy is going great, I am just having lots and lots of Braxton Hick's contractions already. My doctors said this is super normal with twins, since I am measuring 27 weeks now, which is close to 7 months, I would be getting the symptoms most women start to experience around the 7 month mark. My baby boys are already up in my rib cage now and head down so their little feet like to jab at my ribs, it's awesome.

We moved this last week, hence why I missed a picture of my 19 week belly. Things were hectic. We had lived in our Provo home for almost 4 years, so we had accrued a lot of stuff. But we got moved in and that was when I experienced some pretty intense Braxton Hick's contractions. I got pretty scared, and called my sister (the doctor.:)) and she said if they got more intense to go to the ER. They settled down pretty quickly, but I was wary of something being wrong. The next day was my doctor's appointment and he told me everything was fine. Until he told me, I had no idea that Braxton Hick's contractions were perfectly normal and that it meant little to nothing when you have them. I didn't even know you have them when you are not pregnant!!! Go figure! Needless to say I was much relieved and much more ready to take on this pregnancy. Now when I get them I know I just need to take it easy, or I will start to worry myself too much.

So things are great, the boys are healthy and strong and I am sitting pretty at a 15 pound weight gain. I hope that I can stay healthy and fit, as my Maternal Perinatal doc told me to be extra careful with my weight also. I guess gestational diabetes is really common in multiples pregnancy's hence the strong warnings and urges from my OB to stay at a healthy weight. I think I am doing pretty good so far:)

Here are a couple pics of the babies, just profile shots. I will post more from the ultrasound tomorrow:)

Baby B

Baby A

18 Weeks with twins and Daddy Love

18 weeks pregnant and poking out more and more everyday. I am starting to get a lot of comments like, "Are you around 6 months pregnant?" or even, " You look like your almost done, huh?". Oh dear dear dear. I can only imagine the comments I will get when I actually am almost done, or when I actually am 6 months pregnant. I will probably look 8 months I am sure of it. This pregnancy is definitely going by slower for me than Dallin's did, maybe because I am so uncomfortable already. Things are great though and the babies are constantly moving. I get to see them again this week on ultrasound and I can hardly wait.


On a side note, Dallin woke up the other morning to his daddy cuddling up next to him. They just giggled and giggled together. I hurried and snapped a shot of the two of them. The are such good buddies. It warms my heart to see how much Joe loves Dallin and how much Dallin loves his Dad. Such a sweet thing to behold. I love these guys so much and I can't wait to get two more boys to love and squeeze. Life is good.

New York Part 3....the end.

Okay, last post about New York. After our conference was done on Thursday, we spent one extra day, Friday, to do some site-seeing and just relax. We went to Central park and walked around New York in upper Manhattan. It was a lot cleaner up there and the park was nice. Joe and I thought it so funny that there is such a rave about Central Park, because it is pretty, but still just a park. I guess when all you have is city, cement and metal buildings surrounding you all day, this park seems like quite the oasis.

Showing off my belly. It was just starting to show....
I was sorta trying to jump for joy, didn't really work though.

And of course we had to try some New York hot dogs. The were so tiny!

My all time favorite thing we did in New York was see the musical "Wicked". We hoped on the subway and headed to 52nd street to catch the show. In the 20 minutes we were underground traveling, a huge New York storm hit. As we got off the tram and headed for the stairs, we realized it was pouring rain!! Rain was pouring down the stairwell and something like 50 New Yorkers were all huddled at the bottom of the stairs, waiting for the rain to stop. Joe ran over to a newspaper stand that was in the subway and tried to buy the last umbrella, but a mean old new yorker man, said he got dibs on it, and the teller sold it to him. Joe was so mad! So instead of standing around like everyone else, we made a run for it! We got soaked just in the few seconds it took to run up the stairs and into a nearby store. Lucky for us, this store sold huge umbrellas for the same price as the little rinky-dinky umbrellas that the subway had. Luck was on our side, as we only had a few minutes to reach Wicked before it started. We braved the rain, Joe made sure to cover me and sacrificed his entire right side. It was soaked through and through. What a gentleman right? But we made it safe and sound into the Broadway Theatre. It was by far the best thing for me. I had very high expectations going into this show and I was blown out of the water. It was better than I expected and I enjoyed it oh so much! The banter was so witty, the acting superb, and the singing was well, just absolutely amazing. It was such a treat to go.

Me with the stage in the background, it was pretty cool, of course the picture doesn't do it justice at all.

I was so happy afterward as you can see in my picture with the poster. Best show EVER.

We ate at a really nice restaurant that night called Tripoli. It was amazing. They had the best stuffed meatballs I have ever had. We ended the night with a nice clean air (because it had just rained the city smelled so clean!!) walk to our hotel. It was an amazing night.

We caught a plane home the next day and got to see our little guy! New York was a blast, but nothing beats seeing the eyes of your little boy lighten up when he sees you after being gone for 8 days. It was a heart melting experience. It is so good to be home.

17 weeks

17 weeks and feeling bigger. I have been feeling the babies move so much more. I felt them kick pretty hard last night, so hard that it startled me. I actually gasped and let out a loud yelp. Good thing I was home and not somewhere else, that would have been embarrassing:) I can only imagine how much stronger they will feel. I think I am in for a wild ride. I feel them so much more that when I don't feel them for for an extended period of time, I begin to worry. It is crazy how much earlier I have felt them move as compared to my pregnancy with Dallin. Maybe because there are two in there they are fighting for room and I am feeling them so much sooner.

Doing Zumba on Friday I started getting contractions and had to leave after only 30 minutes. My stomach turned rock hard and it didn't let up for about an hour. Needless to say, I was worried. No more high intensity workouts for me. I think the elliptical and I will be great friends in the coming months.

I feel great, besides the fact that I look and feel 6 months pregnant already. I am feeling the back aches already and the super tightness across my lower abdomen that prevents me from bending over too far. This pregnancy is getting harder a lot quicker than I anticipated, even with all that I was told by mothers of twins. I pray I will be able to stay active and do all the things I need to for Dallin in the coming months.

TWIN BOYS!!!!

This morning we saw our sweet little babies and they are TWIN BOYS!!!!!!

I am so excited for Dallin to have some little buddies. They boys will be best friends, I just know it. I am severely out numbered now, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love these little guys and I am so grateful to have them coming to us.

Our Boys!!

They were moving around a lot, but we finally got some good pictures of them. This one is of them together. Baby A is clearly right on top of Baby B. Let's hope they don't learn to fight too much before they even make it here:)

BOY!!!

Another BOY!!!

Sweet Baby boy B

Sweet Baby boy A


We can not wait to meet these little guys, see what their little faces look like and get to know them. I am so excited to be their mama!

16 weeks and still growing...

16 weeks pregnant and growing quickly. I think my belly grew overnight on Wednesday. I seriously woke up feeling so much more pregnant. I felt the babies move this week, which was very exciting for me. On Thursday I felt some little kicks and movement and I felt them again last night as I laid down to go to bed. The kicks are so faint that if I hadn't been pregnant before, I don't think I would have known that, that is what they were. I just love feeling them move. It isn't often yet, but it is a confirmation to me that they are still in there and alive.

I gained about another pound and a half this week. I don't know if I will keep within my doctor's goal of 30 pounds. I am already almost at a third of my weight gain and only about a third of the way done. We'll see how this continues.

I get to find out what we are having tomorrow. I am so excited and so anxious I am just counting down the hours and minutes. I hope they will cooperate so we can see them. I am just so excited to see them on ultrasound again and see that they are alright. I can hardly wait for tomorrow morning. I am out of my mind with anticipation!!!