Oct 24 2007
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answers to clues, twin update 29 weeks

And an Nnnnnnnnnn it is

So the answer is N*SYNC and the story though it doesn’t relate to them actually relates to the Backstreet Boys. I had to look up the song, All I have to Give, because I didn’t know which group sang the song….to us, they are both the same…not really our cup of tea, but whatever. SO, the story is…In high school Bj and I went to a Valentines Banquet together at our school and there was a variety type show during it. His group of guys got up and lip-sanc to the song All I have to Give and it was HILARIOUS! I wish I had a video clip to put with this post. But oh well. Anyway, its definitely the only time BJ has EVER done anything like that in the entire time I have been with him. It was so cute and if you saw it you would cry from laughing so hard!

So, you get one N for Baby B 🙂

Update…tomorrow is 30 weeks…whoohooo! That is such a great milestone and we are going for more! I found out who is doing my C-section yesterday and if all goes as planned it will be at 8 am on the 13th. I reallly like the doctor that is going to do it and am glad that she will be the one. I also have earned 6 hour monitoring instead of 4 which has been nice for the sleeping at night. They also have backed down on my blood sugar tests and now I only get tested every other day! That is great!

I’ve been having several episodes of contractions. Every time we’ve been able to get them to stop, but it is very uncomfortable and contractions usually use to dialating which we don’t want.

Some bad news is that our insurance has renigged on paying for everything. Now they aren’t paying for anything past Oct. 17. There are lots of people fighting the denial and we are praying that it will be reinstated. It is so wierd that they did that. The good thing is they can’t legally take back the money they have already agreed to pay for those three weeks so we got half of my stay paid for. So everyone keep praying!!!

Oct 23 2007
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bj, hospital stay, twin girls

Husband and Father of the Year

I found this in my inbox this morning:

Good morning my Love,

I hope you are getting good rest now. I am so proud of how you have been doing and how strong you have been. I know this has been tough on you and all of us but it is getting close to the end and that is such an overwhelmingly great thing. I know you have inspired so many with your attitude, outlook, and strength. I would have never dreamed of this circumstance being in our lives but we have fought through it and soon we will see just how much more awesome our family will be. It has really been a testing time but I know that God knows what we can handle and constantly amazes us. When God stretches us, you seem to go further than you ever thought.

I can not wait for you and our new babies to be home! It really shows you through all of this how much we really depend on each other and love each other. I miss you so much. We have such a great family and God has blessed us with an even larger one than we imagined. It is amazing that the night we went to dinner and I saw that big family and God put it in my heart to want that. LOL. I never did before and then out of the blue, God gives me those desires right before he sets us in the path for the big family. I really love you so much and am so grateful for you. I know that we say that often at home but it has even more meaning now that we see just what each other totally means to one another. You really are my world. You are an awesome wife and an amazing mother. Mother of Zion. How right on can a prophecy be?

God has big things in store for us. I have always felt it. I believe we are right on the edge of some pretty amazing times. It is going to be awesome to walk with you through it along with having our 3 girls and seeing what part they play. They are going to be all 3 incredible. God has a big plan for them! I can’t wait to see what it is.

I miss you. I miss you. So many things we take for granted. Life is very very good with you by my side. I always have known that but this makes it even more real. You were and always will be the perfect person for me. God knew that from the beginning of time. There was no other. Always and forever you. I am sooo excited about our family and what it is becoming. This is AMAZING!

I love you my babe and I can’t wait to get you home and just love all over you and my babies.

Love, BJ

Oct 23 2007
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clues, Name Game

Clue Time

Name this proper noun…two letters must be ommitted.

NISNEYC

The fourth letter will give you one clue to Baby B’s name!

Oct 23 2007
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hospital stay

Top 10 Things I can’t wait to do
when I get out of the hospital

(Aside from spending loads of time with my friends and family because that is the biggest given EVER)

10. Chow down on some amazing chips and salsa at one of my favorite Mexican food restaurants
9. Take Hayden to a pumpkin patch and to the children’s museum
8. Decorate my house for the holidays
7. Sleep on my stomach
6. Go to a movie
5. Eat whatever I want and not worry about my blood sugar!
4. Get back in shape
3. Take a bath and not come out smelling like freaky smelling water
2. Take walks
1. Get my hair cut and colored

Oct 21 2007
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hospital stay, twin update 29 weeks

Pushing ahead to 30!!!

Today marks my 26th day here in the hospital, which finally puts me at less days to go then how many I’ve been here. I only have 23 more days to D-day!!! Whoohoo!!!

The babies have been doing really well these past few days with very few decels. Because of that I have got to skip two nights of monitoring at 3 am!! It has been glorious to sleep 5 solid hours at one time!!! On the other hand I have been having lots of contractions off and on. The doctors have been monitoring them and he told me this morning that if I keep having them and they get regular about 2-3 minutes apart, but I don’t start dialating they will give me drugs to try and stop them. (Which I am hoping I get to skip out on because I hear the drugs make you feel aweful). But he said that if I do start dialating at all, then they will just deliver me. I had never really even thought about that. So I’m hoping my body just calms down and doesn’t try to evict the little ones before its time. Though I know whenever they are born is the perfect time, because God already knows.

I’m so glad we are coming up on 30 weeks. There are so many health issues that are reduced after 30 weeks. And that was my own personal goal and here it is so close!! I can’t wait for you all to see them and know their names and know that all of your prayers have helped bring these girls into the world.

Oct 18 2007
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A it is…

According to Wikipedia…Acapulco is known as the paradise of the americas. BJ and I took Hayden with us two summers ago and it was so much fun. She did great on her first plane ride and we just chilled for a whole week. You can see all the details here and see how little Hayden was then. So weird to see her and remember her that small.

Acapulco was also the setting for Elvis Presley’s movie Fun in Acapulco.

We made it to 29 weeks!

Your baby is growing rapidly now. This week she weighs about half a pound more than she did last week (about 2 1/2 pounds total) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. Her muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and her head is getting bigger to accommodate her growing brain — which is busy developing billions of neurons. Every day, about 200 milligrams of calcium is deposited in your baby’s skeleton, which is now hardening. With this rapid growth, it’s no surprise that your baby’s nutritional needs reach their peak during this trimester.

Oct 18 2007
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Oct 18 2007
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clues, Name Game

Clue Time

What is known as the Paradise of the Americas?

It was also the setting for a famous rock and roll king’s movie.

The first letter of the answer will give you two clues for Baby A and one for Baby B 🙂

Oct 17 2007
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28 weeks, hospital stay

Almost to 29!

Today I had my ultrasound and it was so great to see the girls again. I have more face pictures, but still no way to scan them. So you will all just have to wait and see their beauty until they emerge from my womb. Baby A weighed in at 2lbs. 5oz and Baby B weighed 2lbs. 11oz. Nearly a full pound weight gain for baby b since I have been here! Those weights were so great to hear that we are out of the 1lb. range. And I have gained two pounds so at least I am gaining a little, thought that is probably mostly babies.

They also picked a for sure date for my C-section. November 13 it is. I am on the schedule that day, so I will either be at 8, 9:30 or 11. Not sure on the time yet, though I’m hoping for the early one so we can get this show on the road.

Another good thing that happened is that my every 72 hour blood draws got cancelled. PRAISE THE LORD! I hate getting stuck and every 72 hours leaves your veins pretty sore. My specialist saw my arm today and it has a big bruise on it from one of my draws and he was not happy with the fact that they were drawing them so frequently. He was also concerned that by the time I got to delivery my veins would be so worn down that they wouldn’t be able to give me an IV. So he used his big man on campus authority to shut them down. I was thrilled. The reason they were doing it so frequently is because of some weird policy that you have to have a clot on file in case of emergency but they only last 72 hours, so since I’m here for so long they keep having to redraw and redraw and redraw. Very annoying and painful. So no more of that nonsense.

Last night was another rough night with continuous monitoring and a nurse that was about to drive me legally insane. So I didn’t sleep much at all. This morning I looked like a zombie so I have been sleeping most of the day since I returned from my ultrasound. It was so nice to get to go over to the doctor. I had a nice wheelchair ride and got to see the world for a change and get out of my little cave for a while.

So that’s about it for now. I’m hanging in here. We love the name guesses!! Keep them coming! If all goes well then I will try to have another clue up tomorrow.

Oct 16 2007
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answers to clues, engagement, Name Game

The Letter M

Well I don’t have a story that relates to the clue but I will tell you the story of how we got engaged, for those who have never heard it 🙂 Since for me that happens once in a lifetime!

It was the summer and BJ and I were taking a BIO class together here at home. We were supposed to watch Gatica for some reason, on our own time. So we had decided to get together and watch it at my house. Well, that morning I woke up with some freak eye disorder. One of my eyes was totally swollen. We had no idea what was wrong. So BJ had called and asked if we could go grab a bite to eat before we watched the movie. (It was right around our 1 yr. 4mo. anniversary or something). He asked if we could go somewhere kind of nice and dress up a bit. Well I told him I didn’t feel like doing anything and I surely wasn’t getting all dressed up and putting makeup on my swollen eye. As the day progressed I felt less and less like going anywhere, but he kept insisting. So reluctantly I agreed. My eye started un-swelling and I started to feel better. So, I start getting ready and my mom keeps coming in and telling me that I should wear something nicer. I didn’t really care what I was wearing because it was no big deal to me, so I was kind of getting aggravated. So , BJ shows up and we leave. This new little restaurant had just opened The Black Walnut, and I had been wanting to go for a while. So he pulled up there and I was so excited. We start walking in and he makes a comment that he made reservations for us. I didn’t think much of it, and he even said he reserved us a room. I thought, well a room is way too big for just us, but oh well. I didn’t know why he felt like we needed to eat in solitude. So we walk in and someone is waiting for us and had the room all closed off. So we walk in to the room and there are several small tables, and one in the back with a card and a rose. I thought it was so cute and just a gesture toward our anniversary of being together. So we go sit down and I start reading the card. I don’t remember the exact wording, but it said something like ” here’s to the first of many new anniversaries“. I didn’t get it at all….so I’m reading this out loud and look up as I finish and BJ is on his knee with the ring in front of me. I totally freaked. I had not seen that coming and was totally caught off guard. I kept asking if he had already talked to my parents (which of course he had) and I just couldn’t believe that this was happening. I was so excited, and of course I said yes. So I put the ring on and we started talking about how he had worked everything out and planned everything. He had met with my parents two weeks before and I had no clue. They were great secret keepers. So as we are talking suddenly his family and my family and his best friend Jared all walk in with a video camera. I could not believe it. That’s when I started crying. So we all ate and celebrated our first dinner as a merging family. I think I ate two bites 🙂 It was the perfect day! And BJ had picked out the ring himself so I had no idea at all. And it was gorgeous 🙂 Then I realized why my mom had wanted me to dress up more. That little sneaker!

The End

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