Girls, Girls, Girls!

Today we had an unexpected ultrasound due to a few other complications. I am now 15 weeks so I wanted David and the kids to come along because I just knew that today would be the day we could definitely know  if we had boys or girls. And sure enough after seeing the babies and hearing there heartbeats. There they were and confirmed our sweet baby GIRLS. To tell you the truth David and I had a sense from day one that they were girls, so we really were not at all surprised. Just the fact that both of us had the same visions of baby girls, I guess we would have been really surprised if they were boys. But God is definitely keeping us on our toes this time around so anything could have went!

Easter "God talking to me"

This Easter was a little different from the last few for a few reasons the first was David had to work over night so he would not be with us until after church and secondly we had just made it through our first major valley of our twin pregnancy, the thought of losing them.
I am healed and feeling better Easter was my first day out of the house since the blood clot was discovered. I was a little worried about over doing it. But I love Easter Sunday and planned to go with God's help.
During the sermon I realized why I was there sitting all alone on the third row on Easter Sunday that was God's plan, he had a story for me that day.
The Sermon was on giving everything you are holding on to up to God. Those things you think you need to hold on to, to be able to control, you know that won't go through if you don't keep hold.
The sermon talked a lot about those sinful things you hold on to, worldly things. But to me it was right in front of me, this pregnancy. Why the moment I have a scare I start wondering why he is doing this, why is it going to be this way. But instead why can't we hold on to the faith and give everything else away.
Giving this pregnancy completely up to God would be the ultimate sacrifice from us but it will be nothing compared to what he has done for us this Easter. It's time to step back from all the things I have been told that can go wrong with a twin pregnancy and really start focusing on the positive the "gift" in all of this. These precious girls made in God's image and who we will raise to love there Lord God with all of there being.
Thank you Bill Driscoll for giving us the good, bad, and ugly truths and making us own up to our own faith and weaknesses. I pray this pregnancy will be different through my eyes for the rest of my months ahead and through the mountains we dance with him and through the valley's we walk hand in hand with him.

Week 13 in The Valley

Well this one is a week I would love to put behind me and move on without remembering. But I start to wonder maybe God gave us this experience to make me realize a few things and it happened to be the week of Easter and a sermon that spoke straight to where I was at that moment.

 Thirteen weeks and two days lying in bed totally exhausted, David is rubbing my back which has been the routine lately for getting me to fall asleep easily. At 9pm kids are in bed and I feel a rush coming from my body, a feeling of my water just broke. I immediately knew something was wrong. I went in the bathroom and started yelling for David to call the doctor now, this was not good. Sitting on the bathroom floor crying out to God. Not this not now this is all to familiar event. I know many statistics say woman bleed in pregnancy but our experience so far is bleeding= miscarriage. I try not to think but to pray I can't help but to think I am too far along for this to happen naturely, I am going to have to go down the same road just last summer and I knew that we emotionally could not get pregnant again after this. 

David has already called the operator and I breath a sigh of relief when she says "YES Dr. Rebenack is on call". I knew that he would do whatever we needed at that moment. Not 5 minutes later is he on the phone with us. I am now laying in bed and David hands the phone over to me so I can explain the rush I had. I clear my voice and begin to speak. He listens asks a few specific questions and asks if we can meet him at the office in 30 minutes?. 

First off this is why we love him so much. He does not tell us not to worry and that he will see us first thing in the morning, he does not send us to the ER to sit and wait and pay $300 for lots of unnecessary stuff and for some strange doctor to tell us if our girls are still alive and well.

David's parents are at the house in minutes with no explanation we are out the door. There is nothing said in the car but prayers going non stop. Praying to God for his will to be our will. We are not positive they are girl's but have been told a few times. I begin praying for them by name YES we already have girl names if they are boys we are in deep trouble NO names:)

We are there a little early I keep praying David asks if I want to talk and all I could say is "I am scared". Of all times he gets on facebook ( I find out later he was reaching out to a few good prayer warriors). The doctor shows up gets us in the back door and immediately takes us to the ultrasound room. As we wait for the machine to warm up he reviews my chart and it brings him happiness to know that just the week before at the high risk doctor we had an amazing visit and everything looked picture perfect.

It was now time! I lay back he places the wand on my stomach and BAM he wakes one up and she was wiggly. My heart dropped and tears rushed I knew that was a good sign and then the other little lady wakes up and same thing dancing around. I can even see there heartbeats on my own. He spends lots of time looking and measuring, not rushing at all considering it is now 10 pm at night. After poking and proding and trying to get the girls still for heart checks. He does fine one thing a blood clot. The babies have already moved up and the blood clot is very far away from them. He measures it it is small and out of the way. That will be his diagnosis for the evening causing me to bleed like a water fall. He assures me with bed rest for the next couple of days that the bleeding should stop. I got off the table and once again another rush, he gave me time I cleaned up and then was ready to get home to lay down.

When asked why he met with us he said that he knows me and I would have stayed up all night and the best thing for this is for me to rest. He said if I needed it I could take a Benadryl to help me get to sleep. Surprisingly I felt emotionally drained and thought I would have no trouble going to sleep. 

I lay in bed thanking God for one more day with our girl's and asking for help to lay low this week. Very grateful for prayers we have received throughout the night. Just one more valley that we made it through with God's help.

12 week measurements

Seems like we are at the doctor every other week these days. Oh yeah it's because we are!
Today we went for our 12 week evaluation. They did measurements of each babies size, there necks, and we got to count toes and fingers!
All the measurements were right on and there was no sign of any deformities and importantly babies were still the same sizes.

Baby B

Baby A

They gave us a great show. Really looked like they were having a party in there. We saw hands in the air opening and closing legs flaring, waving, and great butt shots:) we are only 12 weeks so they could not tell for sure the sex of them but the ultrasound tech had a very good suspicion that they were girls. We did not say but David and I both had a secret that we some reason felt like they were girls. So we believe the technologist knew what she was talking about, I guess we will see in a few weeks.

Baby B Waving

The doctor was so pleased with there progress he said he would see us in 4 weeks instead of 2. But not to get used to the break because after that it's strictly every two weeks to make sure they keep up with each other.

I made it!! 12weeks!!

It's been 8 weeks since we found out we were pregnant, it's been 7 weeks since we discovered our double blessing and 2 weeks since we moved in to our beautiful new home! In these 8 weeks I have experienced a slew of pregnancy symptoms! I feel like I have been in a sleep coma for the last 8 weeks, keeping my eyes open for only a few hours at a time, and resting whenever I could. My wonderful husband has been cooking, cleaning, working, satisfying my cravings at odd times of the day and night, and most importantly tending to the kids. Lots of days we homeschooled right from my bed. Jacob has been preparing his own breakfast when I was so nauseous I could not get my head off the pillow. Some days that I managed to get up and get going and then paid for it the next day by spending a day in bed. Lots of symptoms that probably are not appropriate for the blog but my husband had to bring his nursing skills to the table and it's just another reason I am grateful for him.

New home!

So many changes in our life right now! Big ones! The day before we found out we were pregnant we signed a contract to move! We have been waiting for God to open a door for us. We loved our house but we were on a busy corner and just made it very difficult to play outside. We got word that one of our neighbors in our cul de sac was thinking of selling. Two great things about this got us super excited
1. It was a house away from David's sister and
2. It was in the cul de sac!
What more did we need! We followed Gods plan and with not much trouble we closed 8 weeks later. With lots of help from lots of great people we were moved in in a week! Just a few adjustments to the house and we were up and running.
So thankful God has brought us to this point in our lives.

Emily is 4!

Emily is 4 now! Wow I know every mother says it but time is truly passing by. In the last few months she has blossomed so much. Things like using bigger vocabulary, doing new chores, dressing herself and brushing her teeth. For school she is so proud of writing her own name and doing her BIG girl workbooks. There is so much I want to remember about her and this special time in our lives.....


*Her number one toy is anything related to her baby dolls.
*She dislikes breakfast and usually does like a mid morning meal instead.
*She still carries around her blankie but not near as much as she used to but it is still a bedtime must.
*She loves going to the movieater ( not a typo that is what she calls it)!
*She expects dessert after every meal ( which is not something we typically do)
*She has become an expert bike rider ( with training wheels). At our new house there is so much room for them to play and ride now, that definitely helps.
*She has become a very strong swimmer. She began swimming last summer and now that we have a pool she is jumping in, doing strokes, floating on her back, and even swimming toward the bottom.
*She still shares a room with her bubba. That may change in the near future but as of right now she will stay put.
*For school she likes puzzles, sorting, coloring, and sticker books. Loves to write her name!
* Since we moved here we don't currently have a swing set but that is on daddy's list to build because she loves to swing. She has learned to pump her legs on her own.
*She dislikes strangers A LOT! Daddy has definitely made her aware of people we don't know and so she does not speak to anyone who speaks to her in public. Kind of embarrassing for me but it's better than an out going child who may talk to anyone (just my opinion).

She makes us laugh all of the time and keeps life going a mile a minute. There is so many thing's about her big dark brown eyes that just sucks you in to her. She loves getting older you know the big girl. She is super excited about becoming a big sister to two little baby girls in September, she loves to hug and kiss the babies in my belly and she always wants to know where each one is positioned in my belly.