TWINS!!

Well it has finally happened, our babies our here. They joined our family on Tuesday June 30th. I went in for my twice weekly stress test and the nurses were like your 38 weeks and two days lets call your doctor and get you induced since I was supposed to go to his office after the test anyways. Well I called Jess and was like instead of meeting me at the doctor's office you just need to come to the hospital because they are going to start me. So we got checked in to the hospital and by 6:00 they had started the pitosin and I got to lay in bed and wait. About 11 the nurses said that Dr. Dewey would be by to break my water sometime in the next hour and up until this point my contractions had been really mild and I was in practically no pain. Around Midnight he came and broke my water and I was dilated to like a three or four. After that the contractions started coming. About half hour later I had an epidural and was able to sleep for a while. By 2:00 I had dilated to a six and by 3:00 I was fully dialted and we were ready to start pushing. Since I was having twins I had to be moved to the Operating Room in case they had to do a c-section. We got to the OR and I pushed for a little while and Ashton was born at 3:52 am. Dr. Dewey then broke my water the second time and Addyson was born four minutes later at 3:56 am. Ashton weighed 5 lbs 12 oz and was 19 inches long. Addyson was 4 lbs 10 oz 18 inches long. they went to NICU for about an hour and then they were able to be in the regular nusery for the rest of the time and come home on Thursday. They have been such good babies since we brought them home. They lost a little too much weight while in the hospital so we have to wake them up every three hours to feed them so we feed them and then they sleep. They are so precious and I can't imagine not having them both. We are so lucky that they were healthy and strong and that they got to come home with us. It is so fun being parents. Here are some pictures of them so far.

After the delivery and back in our room. Everything went so good and it was much easier than I expected. Jesse was such a great support and helped me through the everything.



Our precious bundles after they were out of NICU and I got to see them for the first time.


The Proud Parents!






Ready to come home, Thursday July 2


They were so tiny that they have a hard time in their carseats. Someone has to sit in the back seat with them to make sure they don't slump over and not get enough oxygen.




Two Days Old
They love to sleep, in fact that's what they 20 out of 24 hours. Boppy pillows are the greatest.






Three Days Old




Daddy's getting the hang of this!


Four Days Old

Today was the 4th of July and we dressed them as festive as we could in preemie clothes! They actually had their eyes open long enough for me to get some pictures of them.

Update and Pictures

I thought that I would post some recent picutres of me and Jess because we are just sitting around waiting for these two little babies to decide they are ready to the come to our family. I keep taking pictures so I can show how big I really get. However, the first thing everyone says when they see me is that I'm not big enough for there to be two inside but I promise there are two. I feel them moving all the time!! Anyway life is a little uncomfortable, my feet are swollen and hurt, the heartburn is raging, and overall just uncomfortable. It's really not that bad though. I don't think I should be complaining because this pregnancy has been so easy. Anyway, going to the doctor today and hoping that I made some progress and we can see some action soon. Enjoy the pictures.

These pictures were all taken between 37 and 38 weeks.

90% effaced and Dialated to a 2

So I went to my doctor's appointment yesterday and I knew that he was going to check me to see if I was starting to dialate at all (lovely!). Anyways I was quite shocked to find out that I was already to a 2 and 90% effaced (I don't know how you spell that). So then we had to figure the whole situation out. My doc is leaving town on Tuesday for the week so his goal is for me to go to 38 weeks and then he will be back and start me on June 29 if I haven't already gone into labor!! You do the math that means in a maximum of ten day I'm going to have two babies. He's going to check me on Monday too before he leaves to see if there is any progress so i guess if there is we might deliver on Monday, but that seems a little doubtful, I don't know. Either way he said my labor would be really easy to start and I have a really good chance of delivering these twins without having a c-section. They are both head down and Ashton (he's the first to come) is really far down, you can hardly find his head on the ultrasound. All the nurses tell me that I am so lucky that they are in such a good position. Anyway I'm feeling pretty good. I like to sleep alot and I'm pretty uncomfortable but anyone can deal with that for ten more days!!

36 Weeks and Counting...

Well I'm 36 weeks along and feeling pretty good!! I sleep alot and have to go to the bathroom every hour and the heartburn is starting to kick in, but other than that life is good. I go to the hospital twice a week for stress tests to monitor the baies' heartrate and to watch for any contractions. Their heart rates are great and the contractions are pretty much nonexistent, which is okay; the longer I keep them inside the bigger they will be and hopefully we can skip and time in the Newborn ICU. I am getting scared though, it's like it could happen any day now especailly with twins and I'm suddenly feeling very unprepared and nervous! I basically have the nurseries done, I'm just looking for a couple of things to go on the walls. We have a generous stock of diapers, I counted almost 800 newborn size, Jesse likes to be prepared! We got the swing and bouncer chairs all set up so hopefully we are as ready as we can be for now. So now we are just playing the waiting game. My doctor said he wouldn't try and start me until 38 weeks and he is going to be out of town then so they need to come really soon or wait a little longer so that he can be there to deliver them.

The Belly at 36 weeks. Everyone keeps saying I don't look big enough for twins but I sure don't feel that way!


The matching bouncer chairs!!


Ashton's bedding:


Addyson's Bedding:


I just love all the little clothes and it is so fun because I can buy any of them!! I'm not limited to just pink or blue I can buy both. I promise that Addy doesn't have more clothes than Ashton even though it looks that way. I just folded more of Ashton's to put in the drawers. I've bought them the same amount of clothes, I promise!



And this is the swing.

Twins Update

So the latest news in the baby depot is things are going pretty good. I've going to the doc every two weeks and I have to go to the hospital twice a week now for stress-tests to make sure everything is looking good witht their hearts. The last stress test was kind of fun, Ashton is always moving and Addy doesn't move as much (sometimes I panic!!). Anyway she wouldn't move so they kind of shock her with this thing that makes a loud noise to like startle her so she'll move. It was funny because it really got her going. She didn't like being woke up. Hopefully that is a sign she'll be mellow when she gets here!! I had a doctor's appointment the same day to have another ultrasound to see how they are growing. Ashton weighed in at approx. 4 LBS and Addy is at 3 Lbs. 8 Oz. so they have both gotten bigger which is a good thing. At first the doc thought Addy was still really small and was saying I was going to go have all these tests to see how nutrients were flowing through the umbilical cord and I don't even know what else. I got way worried and then she ended up being bigger than he thought. My blood pressure is starting to get high which means that I probably won't go to term, but other than that we're all healthy and well other than some sore ribs, thanks to Addy.

We've finally got the nurseries almost done. Cribs and dressers are all up and I'm just waiting on Ashton's bedding to come and then I will post pictures of their rooms. It has been so much fun. These two are going to be so spoiled! Hopefully we can keep inside for a few more weeks so they can get a little bigger!

Our House

I forgot about this other bit of exciting news, our house is finished!!! We are closing tomorrow. I can't believe how fast it has gone, it' so crazy. I can't wait to live there, I just don't to move all our stuff. Check out the pictures as it was built. We tried to keep up with the progress but these people aren't playing around when it comes to building houses!

Exciting News

Well, as usual it has been a while since I've updated this blog but what can I say I'm not very good at this whole blogging thing. Anyway, we have been doing lots of fun things the last little while. For starters, we went to Pheonix with Ty and Whitney for a fun and relaxing vacation, probably our last for a very long time!! We went to a baseball and basketball game, swam in the pool a bunch and mostly just relaxed. Check out some of the pictures and please excuse my ever-growing belly!

Ha Ha!! I was bad at golf before the belly, just imagine me golfing now!!





The next fun and exciting thing we got to do was go see WICKED up at Capitol Theater. It was so much fun and the show was way funny. I loved the music and I think Jess even enjoyed it too.



After that, it's on to graduation. That's right I graduated from college!! It was way exciting. It's kind of one of those things that you think will never actually happen but it did. I even went to convocation; cap and gown and everything. The gown almost hid the belly but not quite. It's pretty cool because I'm part of the first graduating class to graduate from UVU. Anyway it was a great day and I'm going to miss all my friends from school.





And last but definitley least we had another doctor's appointment and ultrasound of our babies. It is so awesome to get to have more than one ultrasound and to see my babies in real life, sort of. Last time my doctor wasn't for sure positive that we had a girl in there too and this time we were able to tell for sure. He also did some measurements to make sure they are growing properly and believe it or not Ashton is over half a pound bigger that Addyson. He was weighing in at approx. 3 Lb. 3 Oz. and Addyson at 2 Lbs. 8 Oz. Ashton is hogging all the food from Addyson!! He said that right now the difference in their weight isn't something to be concerned about but if it gets more significant it could be a problem. Other than that, everything was normal and we are getting closer and closer to their arrival!! We are so excited for these two babies even though it' still hard to believe.