There names will be...

We are no longer refering to our sweet girls as Baby A and Baby B!

 

We now call them by their names, Reese and Morgan!!!

 

Reese (baby a) Morgan (baby b)

 

It took us a little time to finalize on names, but I LOVE them!! 

We always seem to have a little trouble when it comes to girl names.  When we were pregnant with Parker we never came up or agreed on a girl name and this time around we had boy names set once again.

 

So we sat down made a list and started to narrow it down...we only had 4 names, so it didnt take too long.  Reese had been a favorite of mine from the start and Morgan a favorite of Waynes.  See aside from being a double blessing, twins allow each of us to get our favorite!! 

 

Diane is my sisters name and also the middle name of my sister in law, so I  had always thought I would use it if we ever had a little girl.  Kate was one of our favorite names, but we would have used the name Kathryn and called her Kate.  Since I have a cousin on each side of my family named Kathryn and a great Aunt, we chose to just use Kate as a middle.

 

I love being able to refer to my sweet girls by their names now! 

Let the monogramming begin!

 

 

 

 

Gender Reveal

Saturday we hosted a gender reveal with our families and closest friends.

 

My ultrasound was on Monday, so we had to hold on to the results for 6 days.  I thought I would be tempted to peek, but I actually suprised myself!

 

So without further adieu...

 

Some of our friends and family casting their votes!

 Old wives tales predictions, voting chalkboard and my sweet babies profiles

 The box that held all the answers

 The invite!

 Parker voted for "Girz"

 

We are thrilled to be adding two beautiful baby girls to our little family!

I think we may still be in a slight state of shock, we both really believed that they were boys!

Made the surpise of the gender reveal that much more exciting!!

 

16 weeks

Today makes me 16 weeks preggo with these precious babies!!  Three weeks and I will be half way!  (19 weeks = halfway with twins!)

For the past week or so I can finally say that the morning all day sickness has passed, knock on wood.

But I have remained tired.  I do fine in the mornings and early afternoon, but as soon as 4 o'clock hits, I am USELESS!!

So far this pregnancy has been completely different than my pregnancy with Park

With him I was sick all day, literally. This time I just felt sick all day, but only actually got sick once.  Honestly, I would rather get sick than feel sick.  At least there were moments of relief.

I have already been dealing with heartburn, which was never an issue with P.

We go on Feb 11th for our big ultrasound.  That weekend we are hosting a gender reveal party for our family and close friends!  I am super excited to get to do this!  We were in PA when I was preggo with Park, so almost all of our pregnancy news was told over the phone.  So happy to be home and be able to share these special moments with those closest to us!! 

I will definately keep you guys posted!  We don't care either way when it comes to gender.  Although I will have to say I adore being a "boy mom"!

I keep feeling like they are boys, but not like I did when I KNEW Park was a boy.

My doctor keeps giving me this smirk and says he puts his money on girls!
We will see soon enough!!

Babies!

It is still very weird to type babies, plural.

We saw our sweet little ones this morning and they were precious and more important...they were in 2 separate sacs!!  Thank you for the prayers!

We had our 2nd sono this morning and I went in a complete ball of nerves with my blood pressure through the roof.  They started out doing a basic belly ultrasound and as soon as we saw our little ones the tech noted that they looked great and were moving all about.  My first question..."are they in separate sacs?".  She said she could not confirm or see a separation and that they were very close together which may be the cause of not being able to see.  I of course broke into tears.

She continued to reassure me all was going to be okay and decided that we would switch to an internal ultrasound for a better picture and as soon as we got an image of my precious babies we clearly saw the wall between them.  I honestly felt the weight lift right off my shoulders!!!

Everything else with the appointment went great.  Babies are measuring right on track with baby B measuring slightly larger.  Baby B also tends to be the show off of the two.  He/She was moving all about and hogging the camera!!  She was able to get one clear shot of the two of them.

We go back on Feb 11th to confirm gender!!

Big Brother

Our little guy now has a new title around here!!

 

He is going to be a BIG BROTHER this summer!

 

We were thrilled when we found out on Nov 1st that we were expecting baby #2!!!

 

 

Now to throw a little extra icing on top of our good news, at our first sonogram we found out that we were not only blessed with one sweet bundle of joy, but with TWO!

 

That is correct, we are having TWINS!!!

 

Although we were initially shocked, we could not be more thrilled or feel more blessed!!

 

More details soon on my pregnancy and the day we found out there were two!

 

Now I just ask you send many prayers our way.  We have another ultrasound tomorrow to determine if the babies are in one sac or two seperate.  We are praying for two seperate as sharing one is very high risk and could result in many complications.  So please send your prayers for our sweet babies!

 

 

Trains,Cars and Planes

I may officially be the worst blogger ever!  Life has just been crazy!

This year for Parks 2nd birthday we did a Trains, Cars and Planes theme, because these three things are his favorite three things!

It was a wonderful day with family and friends celebrating our little guy and he had an absolute blast!!

Here are a few photos of his party!!!

 he loved the bounce house!  he jumped from around 9am to 9pm, he was very unhappy when they came to pick it up!

As soon as the "Happy Birthday" song began he hid his face and started crying!  Once we were done he dove into his cupcake...this was a first!

2 years

On Saturday, December 1st our sweet baby boy turned two years old.

I am still completely unsure how two years has flown by so quickly, but it has and it has been by far the best two years of my life!

Parker,

I still feel like it was just yesterday that I saw your beautiful face for the very first time.  I was in love at the first sound of your heart beating, but the moment I heard your sweet cry and saw your beautiful face it was over, my heart belonged to you

You have the most amazing little personality.  We have seen it shine through since you were so tiny and today it remains the same!  So laid back, calm and kind (like your daddy), although you for sure have your moments where you become tempermental and want things your way (that may be from me!).  I love your sweet smile and how loving you are to those around you!

It seems like just yesterday that I was carrying you everywhere and feeding you your first bites of food.  You have grown to be so independent and trusting, which makes me so proud and so scared all at the same time.

You entertain your daddy and I all day long (as well as anyone else around)!  You have the best little sense of humor!  Always trying to get others to laugh and always laughing at yourself!  Your laughter is my favorite sound!!

I love watching you learn and grow, everyday you do something new and you always seem to amaze me.

Although you are two, you are still my baby boy and I love you more than you will ever know!!  These have by far been the best two years of my life and my heart has never been so full!!

I love you sweet boy!