29 weeks

Our impromptu photo shoot in Iowa while we visited to celebrate Thanksgiving & Christmas last weekend....A.K.A. Thanksmas :) 

A certain little boy just hopped out of the hot tub and decided to join us :)

On another note, we have been living with my parents for the last 2 weeks as we are currently homeless. We officially sold our house on Friday the 18th and plan to close on our new place this Monday, the 28th. Life is busy and hectic right now with the semester wrapping up and moving and preparing for two little ones and Christmas...but it is totally worth it. I am feeling well and have started having OB appointments twice a week now with non-stress tests at each visit. Only about 8 more weeks to go!

baby shower 11/5/11- 27 weeks

A special thanks to my mom Lois, and sisters Priscilla and Natalie for throwing me a wonderful baby shower! We had a lot of fun, consumed plenty of good food, and received a ton of gifts to welcome these two babies. Doug's parents were able to come out for the weekend.  It was great to see them and spend some time with them as well. 

moving on

Even though you have all heard me complain about how small this house was...and the headaches it gave us, I will miss it. We put so much hard work into making it our own.   But, it is time to move on and have more living space. Sorry the pictures are a little blurry...I may have taken them from the website :) 

26 weeks...only 12 weeks to go

one pink, one blue

Wow, it has been quite some time since I have updated this.  I think I am way overdue my promise of once a month postings.  I have made it to 21 weeks, and it feels great!  We had an ultrasound at 18 weeks and found out that we are having a boy and a girl!  We did find out that Baby Girl has a choroid plexus cyst on her brain...so we had to go for a level 2 ultrasound within the week.  We met with the high risk OB and he really wasn't very concerned.  He said it has been linked to genetic abnormalities like Down's Syndrome, but that it probably isn't anything, as bone growth and heart function look normal.  He gave us the options of amniocentesis, fetal heart echo, or nothing...we opted for nothing as all it will do is raise our medical bills and our level of worry.  I'm feeling well, other than feeling hungry all of the time.  I have a fear of putting on too much weight as I have already reached 20#, but hey, it averages out to 1 # a week so far.  If I keep up with it, I will only gain 38#'s right?  

Baby Boy

Baby Girl

On another exciting note, we have a contract on our house!  We just have to get through the home inspection tomorrow and hope they don't find any major problems!  So, we may be homeless for a little while right around Thanksgiving if all goes as planned.

We also welcomed a new nephew this past week.  Isaac Seth was born to Adam (Doug's younger brother) and his wife Kate.  Can't wait to meet and snuggle that little guy!

All right, maybe you'll hear from me in another month or so :)

 

home for sale

As of Saturday, our house is officially for sale!  Hopefully someone will like it and want to buy it.  

better late than never

Okay, so this is a little late but Mom and Dad's 40th anniversary was in June and they decided to surprise us!  We met at their house and took a HUGE limo downtown to Navy Pier.  We went for a lunch cruise on Lake Michigan and then spent some time at Navy Pier until the limo picked us back up to take us home.  We had a wonderful time...especially all of the kids.  Thanks again Mom and Dad!  Thanks Natalie for all of the photos.