20 Days since my last post

I'm blog brain blocked! (say that 10 times fast).
I can't think of anything to blog about but I feel like I need to! Probably because I'm sick of looking at my last post.  I wish I had better photos or better life stories, seems that all I have anymore is belly pictures and I feel like that's getting boring. 
I am only 27 days or less from bringing TWO baby girls into this world! Can I just say I'm SOOO excited?!?! 
Okay, well I said it. 
I feel like I went from a normal blogger to the one that just blogs about her pregnancy or her kids.  You know those people (I slowly started not reading their blogs or facebooks, forgive me, but I've changed and have repented of my ways).  So I'm trying not to be that person, but by golly, it's the MAIN thing in my life, so why not blog about it?

I could blog about the weather.  We got down to -45 with the wind chill.  That's kinda cool.  According to this weather man, at 5:00 pm Sunday, these were the wind chill temps.  I missed the photo of the -45 at 3:00pm, he was too fast. I love his face "Oooh it's cold"!
Still pretty chilly. I'm not complaining, but that's a pretty cool life experience, not many people can say they have felt cold THAT cold! And yet, it didn't feel THAT cold.  Strange happenings up in here I tell ya.  Acclamation to climate is key!

I could show you all the things we are doing on our house!  That has been pretty significant, but I just don't seem to like any of the pictures I get of the addition and the work Wade has done.  My photos don't do the work justice!
   

 

Wade has done SO good, I just love my new bedroom and bathroom and closet and shower and tub and sink and yeah....I'm so happy!  He has done amazing!

I put up the crib next to my bed (well one of the cribs, the other one will go in the babies' room for when they decide to kick each other awake and I have to seperate them).  I couldn't wait any longer.  I'm so excited and was a tiny bit nervous I would have them early, so I whipped up the crib in no time and put it's cute pink ruffle around the bottom and a cute pink sheet.  That's all it needs, let's be honest.  I'm not paying $150 for a matching ruffle, a quilt they can't even use and a sheet.  Sorry Babies R Us, not going to succomb to your cute stuff when I spent $29 for what's on it now! Take that!  And I didn't even spend it, it was a gift card from my work for keeping on track with my "points" for healthy behaviors online and they give me $250 in gift cards to my store of choice!  It was sweet.

Speaking of the use of those gift cards, I got all this stuff plus a bunch more that came in the mail later that week from Target with my gift cards.
 Last minute random stuff you know.  I'm mostly in love with those little Mary Jane tights!  Are those not the cutest things ever!?!? Built in shoes on the tights so their little shoes don't fall off, so it appears they are already wearing them!! Love it!  As much as I love shoes, I understand the practicality of NOT needing shoes as an infant because they DON'T walk.  But....I still have cute shoes for them anyway.  They will love shoes, just like me and their Aunt Jazz and their Grandma Pam.  It's in their blood.  Sorry girls.

Speaking of FEET.  I hesitate to show this next picture.  For those who are faint of heart and stomach, don't look.  These here are my feet!

 "GOOOooo!!!"

Oh how embarassing.  I joke that they are tree trunks and this particular day, they became redwood tree trunks! (We traveled, walked the mall, and I didn't elevate nor drink enough water) I never had the most skinny feet, I had a mild form of cankles but THESE?!?! These are not mild, nor at they cankles.  It appears my calves have turned into thighs and I have these chubby toes sticking out of them.  I don't know what happened to my knees, calves, ankles or feet for that matter.  So yeah, this is the ugly side of pregnancy.  Thank goodness it isn't summer, I can atleast hide these honkers in my snow boots and under pants.  Unfortunately my giant size 9 snow boots are the only thing that these monsters fit into.  Oh and a pair of size 9 men's slip on shoe things.  Okay, enough about retaining water.  Let's take a peek at a slightly more attractive photo of me (not that I think I'm attractive, but ANYTHING is more attractive than these trunks at this point!)
I'm in my 35th week folks! 

Yikes!  We will be induced on week 38 if they stay in there that long.  That day will be February 20th.  If they come sooner, we are okay, but no sooner than February 13th (In my mind).  I want these babes to fatten up.  They are just 4 and almost 5 pounders.  We are getting there.  Maybe another pound each or more would be okay.  We will know more next week about their weight.  I feel great and don't know how I'm doing it.  My personal size (when they measure my belly) is about 43 weeks big.  That's the size of a 3 WEEK OVERDUE woman!  No wonder I feel like I can't move, roll over and bend, I'm huge!  Luckily the hugeness has only gone to my belly and feet.  But there's no saying it can't spread to everywhere in the next 3 weeks! ha!
Wade is hoping for Valentine's sweeties (secretly it gets him off the hook for Valentine's day if they are born that day because we will have to celebrate their birthdays every year on V-day...hmmmm so we shall see, we might have to make Valentine's day a different day in our house if that's the case! haha)
But really, that would be fun and cute, however we just want Healthy, happy baby girls!  Who cares what  day it is!
Well, there is my post for the day! Hope it was random enough and not too "Baby, Prego" saturated!  I do love my readers and I hope they don't tune me out as a blogger!  If so, I understand!

Same dress. Same body?

A woman's body is something close to amazing! The miraculous changes are almost too much for me to comprehend when pregnancy is involved.  Let me share with you my favorite Dress.  This first picture is me when I first got it for my 28th birthday (in 2011).  My amazing husband picked it out and boy did he do good, I overwear the poor dress but who wouldn't, it's so comfy and cute.

Then I found out I was pregnant and went ahead to wear it, even though I didn't look pregnant, just looked like I forgot to suck in for the picture.  But this is me at 14 weeks.

And then...BAM 32 weeks and a huge-a-mungo belly appears! Amazingly, in the same awesome dress!

But as amazing as the dress is, it's this body.  Do you see how it stretched out to accomadate housing for TWO girls?  Sheesh, they must have their wardrobes and bins of shoes packed in there with them too! They are girls afterall.

But golly gee, they are cute.  Here is a sneek peak at one of them.  I got this picture today at my usual appointment.  This is Paisley and she has always cooperated for the camera, to the right is the back of Delaney's head, not cooperating as usual.  But how chubby cheeked cute is this picture!?!  I can't believe technology either.  A-MAZ-ING! I've got 7 pounds of baby in me and I have nothing to complain about.  Just hoping and praying for healthy baby girls to come in the next 5, 6 or 7 weeks.  While the world gets ready for Valentine's day, I will be too...but my Valentine's will be these two little sweethearts making their way into this world!  Love them!

oh and p.s. Happy New Year.

Have a feeling it's going to be a roller coaster of a year!

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!