Maternity photos

A few of my favorites from a Maternity Photo Shoot I did the first Sunday of December. Thank you Alesha for taking my pictures!  You are awesome AND you have a gorgeous property for picture taking!

I know it was a little early for the photo shoot seeing as how I'm not due until the end of February, but I have a belly and I don't look pregnant everywhere yet, so I went with it! :)

On a side note, I am so grateful for the amazing changes my body makes to accomodate these little angels. It hurts and stretches things but it's all for a good cause, one I have waited for for a long time.  I really do feel good, there is an occasional ache and pain in the belly and back, but nothing that a pregnant woman isn't supposed to feel.  I expect it and with that, I rub my babies backs and bottoms when the stick them up from my belly and they relax and stop squishing vital organs inside me. :)  They have cute little personalities and love to get back rubs and have me scratch their backs through my belly.  They arch their little bodies (16 inches and 3 pounds about) and I rub them where they poke out and make my belly lobsided.  It's cute and then they relax and rest a little.  They love to kick and kick each other.  They are good little sisters already!

I'm on to meeting with my doctor every two weeks now, guess that means we are on the home stretch!

Our addition on our house is coming a long fantastic.  Wade works on it everyday after work.  He's a trooper and has gotten a ton done!  All that's left is the trim, carpet and light fixtures.  Not too bad! Then we move our bedroom in there and set the cribs up for the twins.  Can't wait to have their room in an actual bedroom and not the family room.

Hope you all are having a fabulous Christmas season.  What a beautiful time of year to remember our Savior and all the amazing things he does for us!

Merry Christmas!

What a difference a week makes

So this was pre-thanksgiving and ON Thanksgiving.  These babies are growing folks!

I believe it now.  Mostly because they move like crazy.  I seriously get strangely excited each time I feel them move.  It makes me so grateful for this blessing in my life.  I sometimes feel like I'm not worthy to be blessed to carry these babies when so many others still haven't had the chance to do this and may not.  But I definitely count my blessings everday.

And I just realized, as I was looking at my baby registry at Target, that I have 99 days until my babies' Due Date, which is really not the due date because they are pretty sure they will come two weeks before then.  So 99-14 is 85 days.  Nutso!

That big purple bin and all the stuff on top of it is stuff I got from friends and loved ones while I was home in Idaho.  Definitely was showered with love!  So blessed!

Unfortunately my house is exploding with TOO much stuff. 

Can't wait for out addition to be complete, so then my bedroom will be exploding with stuff instead of my family room! 

My poor tree is up but all I have on it is the gift my sister in law gave me for Christmas.  I really need to get crackin on Christmas decor.

  

I still have my pumpkin jars up and my frozen/defrosting/frozen/defrosting pumpkins on the front porch.  Hmmm...holidays all year? Sounds good to me.

THIS is the fabric I will use to attempt to use to recover an old glider I got at a garage sale. Wish me some serious sewing luck!  I hope it doesn't look crappy.  IF All else fails, I'm totally duct taping it to the existing cushions and calling it good!

See how I've grown

So, first of all, I broke down and bought something for the girls.

I bought this little kit for making headbands! How Cute are these???

Thanks to the Etsy Shop MyMissPriss Boutique!

I'm super excited to get them and make them all cute. p.s. I got them for 40% off, so I felt like it was a justified steal! 

I also figured I would share my collage of "growing pictures".  I remember the tough parts of not being pregnant was hearing about all my friends being pregnant, but I really just wanted to see them growing and I hardly ever got to see belly pictures.  I DID love seeing those.  So here are 11 weeks of mine (I forgot to take pics on week 12 and 13 but there wasn't much change those weeks).  When I think that I'm not growing or whatever, I just look at these and I know that my belly is growing babies!



See how I'v grown in 11 weeks! Crazy!?!

And then I really broke down.  I bought those headbands online, but then I saw these on the clearance rack and couldn't resist! Two cute spring/summer outfits (3-6 months) and two cute spring skirts (3-6 months too) and an adorable jean skirt (6 months).  I was pretty excited! Now I can hold off until Thanksgiving to want to get anything else.

My deals! 7 items for $10 at JcPenny's.  I was so excited to get all these for $1.40 each.



Craving Frustration

I am extremely frustrated right now with the makers of Reese's Mini Pumpkins

THEY ARE NOT IN ANY STORES HERE!!!! Trust me, I've looked, multiple times.

NOR were they in Target in Twin Falls, ID.

{this picture was taken last year when I stocked up on them, HERE in ND}

But for some obsurd reason, they decided that the one year I'm finally pregnant, they are not going to have them in the stores! OUTRAGEOUS!

{let's be real, it's not really a prego-craving, it's a Lex craving, has been my whole life}

Can someone please mail me a package of them? Mom?

Time is running out people and by next Wednesday they will most likely be all gone.

They should know that these are the BEST candy on Halloween. And that the last time they had Reese's mini's was when they had EGGS.  EGGS folks!  That was EASTER! Ahhh, I'm going crazy here. That's nearly 6 months of neglect of the best candy ever and 6 months of withdrawls.  I'm good. I'm good. I did hide a bag of Reese's mini eggs next to my dresser and they lasted until May, but I certainly could not get them to last until October.

YES. They have the big ones you buy for like 79 cents, but I want the bag of little ones.

Is that too much to ask?

Okay. But really, don't feel like you have to mail me any candy, unless you are my mom, then you should feel obligated....wink wink, I love you mom.  It is probably a blessing and at my next doctor visit I'm sure it will show on the scales that I did NOT eat several bags by myself of these puppies!  But if I do, it's because these baby girls really love them (and maybe I do too! Just a little bit)

And p.s. it snowed here this morning, just little feathery snow but oh how I did enjoy it.  I listened to Christmas music and tried to forget that I was eating a regular dumb Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and just went on with my day!

Happy Fall!

The suspense is over! We are pregnant with......

GIRLS!!

Two pink bows = Two precious girls!

If you are shocked, then join the club.  I was 100% shocked! I thought maybe, MAYBE, one girl at most but never dreamed (literally) or thought both babies would be girls! The ultrasound tech checked many times, they are girls.  And they have all their "2000 parts", what amazing technology we have.  I saw their blood pumping in and out of their heart through infrared technology.  I saw their spines and ribs and 4 chambers of their hearts.  I got to see their legs and arms and even the parts of their brains! They are just perfect!  I couldn't be more relieved and more blessed to know what an amazing miracle these little girls are, especially considering the extreme efforts it took to get them here!

This here is Baby A (notice closely, she has the Burns Family "Pointy" Chin! Lovingly inherited from Grandpa Todd and Aunt Jazz).  These pics make them look like clay people, but I assure you, Baby A has a nose and is so sweet and content even when her sister is kicking her and sticking her bum in her face (which she did during the ultrasound). Baby A is 9 ounces.

Baby B is trying to hide her face, I think she knows she is in trouble for sticking her bottom in her sister's face. Even her little mouth expression looks like she knows she is guilty. haha. Perhaps Little Miss Baby B wanted to be Baby A!  Baby A was located below the belly button and Baby B is above, so I think B wants to push A out of the way and be born first.  Gotta love that they are already acting like sisters!! Baby B is 10 ounces (1 oz bigger and showin us who's boss).

So there you have it!  A house full of 4 women and one man!  And let me tell you, that man isn't the least bit worried! Although he may or may not have taken up drinking Mt. Dew again! (perhaps to secretly cope with having 3 daughters!!!).  He already informed me today the vehicle he wants his daughters to drive in high school. He can't wait to get it and fix it up nice for the girls.  He has 5 years until Autumn is driving and then 15 until the twins.  He's a good daddy! A total pushover though, he loves his girls and let me tell you 3 daddy's girls is what we will have!!

But I will give him his yearly hunting/4 wheeling trip to keep him sane! 

We are so so so excited. I am a little nervous to have a bunch of girls, only because I am one and I know how emotional I can get, let alone 4 of us!! I restricted myself to not buying anything until after Christmas.  We'll see how well I can hold out!  I ADORE little girl stuff though!  Yikes!!! Wish me luck!

And the gender is....?

So...any guesses?

We go in next week to see if the twins will cooperate and let us see their gender!!

PINK???

Will it be two stinkin cute girls?

Watch this video of two adorable twin baby girls dancing!

OR

BLUE???

Will it be two clever, precious boys?

Watch this CUTE video of twin boys mimicking a sneeze!

OR lastly

BOTH??

Will it be a Boy AND a girl?!?

I love how babies just love dancing!

{My kids will definitely have dance parties often!}

I have my guesses and hunches but you can never really be all that certain!

Stay tuned for the reveal next week!

The Addition

Can I just say how much I love watching my husband build?  I don't believe I had that on my "list of qualities a husband must have" but Geez, I lucked out, because he's GOT it!

Okay, I'll stop being mushy. 

We decided we needed to make our 2 bedroom 1 bath house a 3 bedroom 2 bath house. 

And so we did....all by ourselves.  Well, that backhoe you see in the first picture is a guy from our ward digging the hole....My sweetie certainly did NOT dig that hole, shovel style. Though, I suggested it when the backhoe decided to break, but the guy brought it out anyway (if you can see, the backhoe has NO back tires, the guy dug it by pulling himself forward with the bucket and re-positioning the arms. Crazy!)

The hubs doing the foundation.  Yeah, 4 foot walls here in ND, lots more concrete and headaches, but we endured and got-er-done!

Now this is where it gets good!  Who loves the smell of fresh cut wood?!?!  Oh I love that construction wood smell.  Seriously, I think I liked it before, but now that I'm prego, it's even better.  I could just go to Home Depot and sit a lawn chair in the lumber aisle and be totally satisfied! 

This was all in a days work for this man!  What a stud!  SO glad he loves doing this stuff because when he sets to it, it gets done!  WOo WOo

The back view of the addition.  NO, it is not the size of the existing house, though it looks to be that way!  It will be a nice 375 sq ft addition (Master bedroom that is good size, a bathroom and walk in closet!)

{I suppose I will show you a picture of our other addition}

(the Twins starting to poke out of momma's belly)

Now, I honestly hesitated doing this because of the nature of infertility.  I feel like I was a cheerleader for women with infertility as I went through the heart breaking process and now that I have become pregnant, I feel like I got cut from the team.  I don't know how to explain it, it is a bitter-sweet feeling.  I remember desiring to be pregnant SO bad and how horrible I felt when I saw friends posting pictures like these or the progress of their baby.  Don't get me wrong, I was excited for them, but it broke my heart as I ached for my own turn.  I don't do this because I can now, but because of the hope and the blessing that it IS possible.  That it CAN happen and does! Please have faith and know you are still in my prayers.

To those many friends of mine who are struggling with infertility, my heart still aches for the pains it causes and my only wish is that SOON and extremely SOOONER then later, you will all be in the same predicament as I.  I love and appreciate the support I have received from so many and honestly I am so grateful for the continued support.  But please don't cut me from the team, I'm still your cheerleader!  I still have been there, and honestly I'm not out of the boat yet.  As much as I want to just feel like all is smooth sailing from here, there are still many many fears I have considering that my body wasn't right before. I fear it will still act up.  I try very hard not to think that way. I even tell my husband sometimes that I think I'm not really pregnant, but who am I kidding, I throw up, I feel nauseous, I have heart burn and the infamous baby bump.  I guess it's real.  But infertility sucks that excitement out and you shake your head at the reality of a pregnancy.  I do feel good and I do have faith.  I am so excited and eager and hopeful now.  Your prayers are felt. I am at 17 weeks and praying for things to keep going well.

Loves to all! 
And HAPPY FALL (loving the weather!)