Babies

So this is me today at 24 weeks. It's not a very good shot of my belly. It doesn't look that big in the picture but trust me, it's big...to me anyway. Not only that but I have gained at least 20 pounds but I'm trying not to keep track too much.

I have never been pregnant during the hot summer months and so far, I'm not a fan. It's hot and I can't even wear shorts or anything. Even with a summer dress I have to wear leggings because my varicose veins are so awful. I mean AWFUL! Maybe one of these days I will get up the courage to take a picture of them as proof. They are mostly on one leg and that leg tends to swell up really fast so it's no fun at all. Luckily they are not painful.


It's been a crazy couple months as you can imagine. It has been 4 weeks since we found out that we are having 2 more girls!!! (insert concerned and freaked out font here). We found out last month and are still in a bit of shock. In fact, I had another ultrasound today and Brett was really hoping they would find a turtle in there somewhere instead of the 3 lines (for those of you who don't have kids, a boy part in an ultrasound looks like a turtle. But if it's 3 lines, then you know it's a girl). No such thing happened. It's still 2 girls and we have no clue what we are going to name them. It makes us both really ornery even thinking about names because we can't agree on a single name; let alone 2.

So my 20 week ultrasound had to be with a perinatologist because we are having twins. We will have ultrasounds at least every 4 weeks with them. We were in there for a good 2 hours just measuring and making sure that everything was good and healthy with the babies. We thought we were in the clear but the actual doctor found that there was a hole between the 2 ventricles in one of the babies. She said that she wanted me to see a cardiologist and then changed it for after the next appointment. I was a little concerned but she said that it's possible it would go away on its own. I wasn't super freaked out until my regular doctor appointment 2 weeks later. He informed me that if the baby did have this condition then she would need heart surgery within the first year of her life. WHAT?!! Ya, I was a bit freaked out. I guess it's not a huge or super abnormal surgery but it's still heart surgery.

I don't know if I said it before, but we don't have insurance. I was able to find a great insurance for just me but it will only cover the babies for the first 30 days. Brett does have a great job but it's still a contract position and they are moving super slow so who knows when we will get insurance. This surgery would have to take place up at Primary Children's so that would be rough trying to be with both of my babies at the same time. We probably could have pushed to get it done in those first 30 days for insurance purposes but who wants to do heart surgery on a tiny baby? Not me!

Anyway, we just kept praying and fasting and putting them in the temple prayer list. On fast Sunday I actually called my mom and asked if she could fast for my babies since I can't fast right now. So they did a fast and so did Brett. As we were breaking the fast the babies started moving around in my womb. I don't usually feel them moving around when I'm standing so it was really cool. I counted that as a sign and felt a huge amount of comfort at that moment. I still had my concerns but felt much better. Brett actually started applying for other jobs so we could have insurance and I just knew that everything would be okay. Of course I was still concerned but everything always works out so I was just putting my faith and trust in that.

Anyway, today I had another ultrasound and the doctor found the babies' hearts looking perfect and healthy. Can I even tell you my relief? Well, maybe you can imagine on your own. There is a little extra fluid in one of the babies' kidneys but the worst case scenario on that would be that she will be prone to UTIs. We will keep an eye on that but I'm not super concerned. The babies are measuring right on schedule and weigh about 1 lb. 6 oz. each. Baby A which will always be the baby closest to my cervix is head down, which is good. If baby A is breach then they won't even hesitate and go straight to a c-section which I would rather not have. That can always change until about week 30 though so we will see. Things are looking good though and I would rather have a c-section than have to have my tiny baby go through heart surgery.

Now to enjoy some pictures and some non-drama things:

We finally took the kids to Chuck-E-Cheese. This was our first time because Jules is so scared of everything that we figured it would be a waste. Well, we were right. She was scared of everything except these little cars that moved a tiny bit. She was fine at Disneyland when we went last year but she was scared of everything at Chuck-E-Cheese. Go figure right? Anyway, we still had a fun time.



I love our pink blossom tree. I forget what the tree actually is but in the spring it is beautiful. We are still trying to sell the house if you know anyone who is interested, send them our way.
This was at Easter time and this is what happens when Libby gives Mark a sweet innocent look when he is eating chocolate. Thanks again Mark.
The kids love to play on Jules' bed. We have several pictures just like this because they always want a picture taken.
Easter at my parents' house.
Easter morning after finding her Easter basket. When did she get so big?
Libby after finding her basket.
Matching girls ready for church...or after church...I don't remember.
Back to Easter at my parents. Jules got a ton of eggs but Libby still found more $.
The girls at the Wilson's Easter.


She's such a cheese head. She is either super grumpy and scowling in pictures or cheesing it big time. That's pretty much how she is in real life too.
My mom works for the person in charge of BYU Women's Conference so she can get VIP seating and such. So I took advantage for the first time this year. My sister has been coming down from Idaho the past 3 years now so I figured I should take advantage before 1) I have 4 kids and 2) while my mom is still working. My sister happens to be the YW president of her ward so when she saw Sister Dalton she was super excited. I quickly snapped this picture of them for her.
May brought Jules' and Libby's birthdays. They are 10 days apart so they get to celebrate together. Here they are at my parents' with their cupcake cones.
I bought them 5 gold fish the day before to give to them at the family party. 1 died that night and by the end of the party 3 more were dead. The last one survived about 3 weeks until we went on vacation and forgot to feed it. Oops. We now have a beta fish (which are near impossible to kill, although I still almost succeeded). That's another story for another day though.
Jules practicing to be a big sister. Luckily the girls are obsessed with babies... Maybe that's not so lucky. The poor babies might get attacked all the time.
I had zero intentions of throwing a birthday party for Jules this year. As it got closer though we decided to go ahead and do one. She's at the stage where the party is your birthday. If you don't have a party, then it's not your birthday. A friend on facebook made a Tangled cake so I tried to make one too. TRY being the key word. It didn't work out quite as planned but she was happy. That weird looking thing is supposed to be the tower.
For the party it was based around the movie Tangled. We watched bits and pieces of the movie then played a game or had an activity associated with the movie. That was a super last minute decision and it turned out great. Here the girls are coloring their bags that we put little battery operated candles in that became their lanterns.
We had a special visit from Brett's brother and his family from Arizona. They came up for a day and we all just loved it. The kids love uncle Matt and attacked him on the swing. Look at all of those kids adoring him, it was so cute.
Ya, that's from a blue pop cycle. What kind of dye do they put in pop cycles these days?
More of the Naumann birthday party.
For Memorial Day weekend we always go camping but this year there was a prediction of rain. When it rains in the valley, it POURS where we go so we changed the plan this year. We all went to Park City and stayed in Brett's parents' condo. The weather was pretty much awful the whole time and even snowed. We just stayed inside and watched movies and played games and had a relaxing weekend. Unfortunately I didn't take very many pictures. It was Libby's birthday though so we had some dessert and sang to her. We couldn't find anything to light the candle with though so we pretended to blow the candle out.
Hanging out at the condo.
Enjoying the free breakfast at Macey's for Orem Fest. Notice I didn't even get the kids dressed for it.
We even went to the parade and watched the fireworks. The kids did awesome and we had a great time. We met up with some ward friends and just enjoyed it. Jules is usually terrified of mascots but she was the one that asked to get her picture taken with it. Libby on the other hand was hanging onto my leg screaming as I took this picture.
For some reason blogger uploaded pictures backwards or something because this is out of place like many other pictures. Anyway, this is what Libby got for her birthday. We were able to go to a park while the weather was nice for a couple of hours so we all could ride it around.
That's all for now!

It's for REAL!!!

This is going to be long so either just look at the pictures or prepare for a long post. This is mostly for me in the future so I can remember. Having said that, lets begin where the last post left off. I announced that I was pregnant last post. Well, that pregnancy didn't last. On October 20 I lost the baby due to a miscarriage. It was a very hard and sad day. Luckily the Lord had prepared me for it. From the beginning I didn't think it was the right time to get pregnant but we have always felt that keeping kids 2 years apart is the right number. A few weeks before the miscarriage I actually told Brett that I wouldn't be surprised if I did lose the baby. I don't know why I said that but I just think I was being prepared. Something just didn't feel right about the whole pregnancy. The day I did lose the baby I remember my prayers being a little strange that morning. For some reason I had the impression to pray that I would be able to endure trials in my life and what was in store for me or something to that effect. I figured it was due to other things going on. My dad had been in the hospital due to a blood clot in his lungs. It was very serious but they caught it right in time so he was okay. My brothers work had been broken in to and a lot of their equipment had been stolen. We were waiting for trial #3 in our family and then it came. It was the last thing we expected it to be, but it happened nonetheless. It was a very hard time even though I was prepared. I was fine until I got sympathy from someone and then I would break down. All is well though, it really just wasn't the right time. After that I just kept having the thought that October was when we needed to have the next baby. We probably could have gotten pregnant right away but we waited so the due date would be October. Things went according to plan and we got pregnant and our due date (according to the internet's calculations) was going to be October 11th. This time we waited to announce the pregnancy just in case things went wrong again. I did tell some of my family I was pregnant that week so they knew. My first doctor appointment was March 30th. Since this is baby #3, I told Brett he didn't need to be there. He was really busy at work and still isn't hired on full time so we still don't have insurance. Anyway, I told him to not worry about it and my sister watched the kids so I went alone. I told my mom the night before that I was nervous for this appointment because I was scared it was going to be twins. I don't know if it was a feeling/prompting to prepare me or what but I was a bit nervous. Part of me was also scared that maybe things weren't going to be okay since the last one ended badly. Anyway, I went in and got an ultrasound because that's what our doctor does at our first appointment. Low and behold the nurse told me there were 2 babies in there. I was in shock and I still kind of am. She said it's very rare that people by now don't know or it's not expected because most twins these days are because of infertility problems. I was shocked but I guess I really shouldn't have been. My mom is actually a twin and seeing as it skips a generation and runs in female blood I was likely to be the one to get twins. I only have 1 sister and she's done having kids. I did tear up just out of shock mostly. I told the nurse that had helped me earlier and when I did I just started crying more. I talked to the doctor and he calmed my fears. He is very experienced in having twins and he doesn't charge more to deliver twins and just reasured me of many things. I didn't even know what to ask him because I wasn't prepared with questions about twins. He was great and I left feeling much better. I drove to Brett's work and told him to come out and I showed him the pictures. He handled it really well and started doing research on twins right away. I called my mom afterwards and she just laughed, especially after my comment to her the night before. Our families are super excited and happy to carry on the tradition. We are so blessed to have so much support and we will need it. We had already planned on announcing it on April Fools but now that it was twins I couldn't keep it in. I told all of my family but Brett made me stay quiet until April 1st. We did tell his parents the day before and Tammy jumped up and down and is so excited. Throughout this pregnancy I haven't been able to sleep as much as with the girls and I thought that was weird. I can't nap really well and the sleep at night is awful. I really think my body is preparing me for no sleep. Anyway, here are the pictures. The first one is of the top of their 2 heads, the 2nd one says baby B, and the bottom one says baby A. 40 weeks would put me due on October 6th (as planned) but twins tend to come early so we could have full term twins anywhere between September 15-October 6th. Now going back to the fall. Brett and I made a quick trip down to Vegas to watch a Michael Buble concert. We went backstage to meet the opening act which was an acappella group, Naturally 7, who did amazing. They were really cool and we just got to sit and talk with them for a while. I love Michale Buble and loved the concert. We left the kids at home and just enjoyed the quick trip by ourselves. We did bring one of Brett's friends with us seeing as he was the one that got us the tickets for free.

Halloween. Libby was a cute chick and Brett was corn flakes. He had to dress up as cereal for his work party and that was the best we could do. I accidentally erased other pictures we had taken on our camera. oops!

Jules was a fairy.

Libby was so tired at the store one day that she fell asleep. It was so cute, she has never done that before.

Jules being Jules.

Growing up, Brett had some grandparents that would give them the chance to reach into a big jar of coins and that was their present. Tammy decided to carry on the tradition this year and it was a huge hit. The older kids obviously get more money because their hands are bigger. It's much easier for her so she doesn't have to find presents for 20 or so grand kids and they all have the fond memories.

For Christmas Santa made Jules' room into a play room and now Jules and Libby share a room. Jules slept in our room with us on Christmas night and when she woke up we brought her into her new room and into their play room. Jules had been asking for a princess kitchen so she was so excited to see this. Here is Libby with her presents.

I got a headboard, a coat, a purse and later after the picture, Brett surprised me with a wii and wii fit. I was so excited and loved it all.

I gave Brett a bunch of much needed clothes and a paid and planned date a month. Each month has the plans and the gift cards for the date we get to go on that month. It has been so much fun so far.

Jules with her presents.

This is her initial reaction when she saw her new room for the first time.

New jammies

Brett had been singing in a UofU acappella group since the fall and here they are at a performance. They went to a competition and took 2nd place. He quit after that though because it was taking so much time away from the family. We sure love having him around more but he misses singing.

This is Jules' new room that she shares with Libby. They have done so well sleeping together and I love having the play room so all the toys aren't spread out on the living room floor all of the time.

More of the playroom.

More of the group.

Singing and rocking with daddy.

Libby's hair after a nap.

Jules and Libby got hair cuts. This was Libby's first time and she did great. It was just a little trim.

More snuggles with daddy.

We watched Rob and Melissa's kids so Rob could go out on his birthday. The kids all got to decorate their own cookie.

Brett sang the National Anthem at a Jazz game on February 2 (one of Jerry's last games).

Jules....ya

Jules was invited to a Valentine's party and it was so cute. They got to sit at the big table and got food and decorated cookies and made bracelets. It was so cute and the kids felt so grown up and special.

Libby loves ketchup.

After family scripture study and prayers. This happens most nights.

We went to the Provo library for the annual Fairy Tea Party. We had an extra ticket so we took cousin Maddi with us. We were there with other friends too but I'm awful at taking pictures.

For our 5 year anniversary Brett surprised me and we went up to Park City. In the condo was also a food dehydrator that I have been wanting. He totally surprised me with it and this is the only picture we got of the whole weekend. Ugly I know but we had to have some proof of our 5 years. It was nice to get away for the night and go swimming and just relax.

Libby fell and hit her head on the corner of my parents house (stucco). She has been falling so much lately but she's one tough chick...most of the time anyway.

Jules has been in a dance class put on by the rec center. It is so cute to see them all dance together. As a neighborhood and friends, we all got into the same class so it was so much fun for the kids and the moms.

Libby just had to wear a tutu as well.

She got to wear makeup and felt so grown up and special.