Slightly Overdue

So, I think I'm a little late on this post! Where to start....hmmm.


Well, let me take you back a few months to our mission trip to New York City for City Uprising (which was an awesome experience by the way!). We had been "trying" to get pregnant for several months and were feeling pretty discouraged. I can so vividly remember going to our first worship gathering during City Uprising and discovering that I was, once again, not pregnant. (That's all the detail I'm going to give in that area!) I remember standing in the bathroom crying during a portion of that worship session because it was one more month and no baby. At this point, we had even started discussing adoption (and still haven't ruled that out completely!), but we agreed that we would give it a few more months. I just knew that we were meant to have more children...I knew that God was not done with our family just yet. I can so distinctly remember praying for some answer and for His will to be revealed to us for the future growth of our family. In the background, I can remember hearing the group singing "Our God is Greater". What an awesome and powerful song!!

(On a side note, City Uprising was a great experience and I highly recommend it...especially for a family and for a first timer mission trip!)

So, another month rolls around and get to play the whole ovulation kit game again...except this time, the kit never showed that I ovulated. Ugh! Fast forward a couple of weeks and you will find me on Sunday afternoon completely zonked out on the couch...with my laptop in my lap and my fingers still on the keys. Yep, I crashed in the middle of typing an e-mail.  Monday morning, I go to my workout and I stink...I mean, like puny, wimpy, what has happened to me stink. I called my doctor to make an appointment convinced that my thyroid is messed up or something and that's why I'm so tired all of a sudden. A couple of days later, David notices my exhaustion AND the fact that I was LATE!! How did I not notice this major detail?!? Oh yeah, that's right...I didn't ovulate, so why would it matter! A quick trip to Walgreens and two pink lines later, I know the cause of my exhaustion...pregnant! And then it starts...it seems like the next day every pregnancy symptom imaginable appears and is exaggerated times ten! I didn't think much of it though! I took it as a good sign that I was feeling so rotten...ha!

I made my first OB appointment to be at 9 weeks...I knew that we would be able to see the heartbeat at that point, so I was so excited for that appointment. David took off work a little early so he could go with me...since we had miscarried previously, I was a little nervous about the appointment and worried that there wouldn't be a heartbeat there when they did the ultrasound. Well, there was definitely a heartbeat there. In fact, there were two of them!! My doctor broke the news to us and I think we laughed for days out of pure shock! I mean, just a month before I was heartbroken and praying for a baby and now, we were going to have two babies...at one time! What an awesome God, huh?!?!?

To bring you up to date, I am now 24-ish weeks pregnant with fraternal twin boys! They are due April 1, 2012...April Fool's Day! (Hilarious, right?!?!) I am no longer working because I am having too many stinkin' Braxton-Hicks contractions and working puts me at an increased risk for preterm labor. I am adjusting to the idea of not working for several months and trying to relax as much as possible. I am also trying to make the most of the family time I have been blessed with before the twins get here! I guess that pretty much brings everyone up to speed! I'll try to do better at updating my blog while I'm on leave too!

Oh, in case you were wondering, I am being monitored by my hematologist to keep a check on my platelet count and so far we're doing pretty well! I truly believe that God placed these two precious babies here and He will completely see me through this pregnancy!!