Halfway There!!!

Saturday was my halfway mark through the pregnancy! I am finally 20 weeks pregnant. And since I'm halfway through my pregnancy with twins, I practically have a kid already, right??? Michael took me out to celebrate on Saturday. We had an awesome dinner at a steak house and then went "cosmic bowling" with two other couples from our neighborhood. Being pregnant really threw off my balance, though. I'm normally a fairly decent bowler, but this time my first three bowls went STRAIGHT into the gutter. Like, within three feet from the starting line. Sad. Luckily, I figured out how to compensate for it and beat Michael on the second game! Ha! (I'm an even worse winner than I am a loser.) Here are a couple baby bump pictures!

18 weeks

20 weeks

Gender Reveal!!!

We found out this week what the genders of our babies are!!! It is so good to finally know! We are so thrilled to announce that we are going to be the parents of

TWIN BOYS!!!!!!

If you would like to see the evidence, my boys are none to shy about showing "it" off :) The first picture is the only one I can really see what is going on. In case you can't, I will inform you that you are being mooned! Those two bones are his thigh bones, and his bum is way in the air for prime display of the family jewels ;)

In these other two pictures, all I can really see is my boys' wands. I can't really tell what else I'm seeing, but I will show them to you anyway. Enjoy!

By the end of the appointment, Michael was thoroughly proud of himself, and I had seen more little boy parts than I ever imagined. I am a little overwhelmed, because boys confuse me. I just don't understand them. Luckily, I live with someone who might understand them a little better :) My mom joked that this is the Lord's way of getting me to want more children after these two, so that I can have a little girl. But, I just think it is to try to get me to be able to say the "p" word with a straight face. Bahaha. Nope. 

Valentine's Day

Well, in celebration of our two discoveries, I told Michael that I would plan our V-day date. In preparation for our impending parenthood, I decided that we should get in touch with our kid sides, so I invited him on a little kid date. To start off, we went out to eat and ordered...pizza! What kid doesn't love pizza? Then, we came home and I told him that we were going to build a fort. He got really excited. I guess some people are naturally in tune with their inner child haha. Once we worked out a couple kinks in the logistics, it came together quite nicely.

Here are a couple pictures of the inside of our little clubhouse. 

And, no fort is complete without chocolate inside, so we had ours well stocked. The best part is, we set it up so that the TV was in the fort, so we could watch a kid movie in there. We searched Netflix for a family/kid movie we wanted to watch, and Michael saw something called "Mousehunt" that he remembered being SUPER funny. After we watched it, he admitted that it seemed a lot funnier when he was 8 lol.

Our next activity was a bottle drinking contest. I filled up two bottles with water, and after Michael was 110% sure that I had distributed the water equally, we started trying to drink them.  

However, I had bought newborn bottles and the flow was rather s...............l................o................w. After about 6 minutes of trying, this is how far we got. 

We declared Michael the winner (by a hair). 

To top off the night, we exchanged cards and presents. My present was a camera, but we don't have a memory thingy yet, so a lot of these pictures are with my phone. The camera was kind of expensive and really for both of us, so his "present" was a bit of a gag gift, but he got a kick out of it. I put together a "daddy diaper kit." Take a look.

It is complete with Boudreaux's Butt Paste, hand sanitizer, gloves, and tongs. Heeheee. Michael doesn't like getting his hands dirty. If I could have found a face mask and goggles, those would be in there too :) And here's a pic of the outside of the card I gave him. Sometimes I think I'm more clever than I am lol.

In case you can't read that, it says

To: The man with all the Y-chromosomes

From: The woman who lets you use them

Again, I think I'm funnier than I am, but luckily I married a man who thinks I'm funnier than even I think I am :)

Food Poisoning and Friends

Okay, so, this is how it went down. On Tuesday, I drove down to Utah because I had a doctor's appointment that I have been waiting months for, and I figured I would visit some friends and do some shopping for the nursery while I was down there. Well, Tuesday afternoon I meet up with my best friend, Dani, and we have the brilliant idea to get some Cafe Rio to eat while we watch The Bachelor. What could go wrong with such a delicious Provo staple, right? Wrong. (Before I go on, I will try to not ruin Cafe Rio for everyone by saying that I have had food poisoning 3 times in the last 5 years. I can eat food that other people are fine with, but I get sick. I must just have a super weak stomach.)

I shouldn't post this picture. I can't even stand to look at it anymore. Well, the night goes on and I start to feel ickier and ickier. Dani and her husband, Pete, leave for the night shift while all hell breaks loose inside my sweet pork filled stomach. I started throwing up around midnight and it just kept going every 30 minutes for a few hours. At 4am, after a "woe is me" conversation with my husband, who is still in Wyoming, I decide to call my Doctor's office to see how long I would have to be throwing it up for it to be a danger to my babies. Well, the nurse on call told me that dehydration was really bad, especially with a high risk pregnancy. She told me to get my butt to the ER RIGHT NOW before the dehydration put me in pre-term labor. At 17 weeks, that scared the crap out of me, and I called Dani and she sent Pete home to drive me to the ER. Well, they hydrated me and put some Zofran in my IV. They said if I still couldn't keep fluids down in a few more hours, then I needed to come back. Unfortunately, the Zofran didn't help the nausea, it just made it so I couldn't throw up, which was even more uncomfortable.

After a sleepless night, I started trying to get myself ready for the 9:30 am appointment that I drove to Utah for in the first place, but I started throwing up again before I could make it through the door, and Dani and Pete forbade me to drive and took me to Salt Lake. Seriously, I have the best friends ever.

Dani and I at Hunger Games!!

They were already up all night working! I didn't know how I was going to make it through this very important appointment though. I threw up in the car, in the parking garage, and twice in my doctor's office. Gross. But Dani even came in with me for some moral support and to remember what he said in case I couldn't. The appointment went well and they even set me up to be hydrated in the office, so I didn't have to make another trip to the ER! After that, I was finally able to keep down ice chips, and started to feel better over the next 12-24 hours. It's funny, whenever I have food poisoning, I know that the worst is over in 24 hours, and yet it feels like the LONGEST 24 hours of my entire life!!

Well, while this might seem like a depressing post, it's really not. While food poisoning is terrible, I was so blessed over those few days. First, I have such awesome friends that are so selfless and willing to help me through a hard time. Second, I made it to my appointment that I have been waiting forever for and drove from Wyoming for (and it went well!) But most importantly, everything is great with my precious little babies! Their health and well being is all I could ever ask for.

My Growing Belly

Well, things are changing fast but we are so excited for this new chapter in our lives! It is pretty crazy how fast I am growing, and even crazier to think how big I will eventually get! This pregnancy has definitely had its ups and downs. I had pretty bad "morning" sickness during my first trimester. It didn't have much to do with the morning though! It lasted all day long and all night long. Michael took such good care of me, but I was beginning to think that I was broken and would never feel normal again! The Zofran my doctor prescribed definitely helped with the nausea. He also prescribed some Compazine to take with it, which I had a bad muscular reaction to and ended up in the ER! The doctor was great though and knew exactly what to give me, and I regained control of my muscles within about 15 minutes of arriving! Luckily, my second trimester has been much better overall, with only one more trip to the ER so far (that's a story for a different post).

Well, here are the pictures promised in the title :)

13 weeks

14 weeks

17 weeks

15 weeks

We are so excited, because we are supposed to find out the genders of our little hooligans THIS WEDNESDAY!!! I can't even say how excited and anxious we are to know!