The Family Ultrasound

On Monday I had my big ultrasound.  This was the one that they checked measurements for all of the organs and different abnormalities/diseases, etc.  Of course it was a little nerve racking, but the doctors said everything looked great.  I LOVE hearing that.  :o)

Since we already revealed the gender, we decided to invite our parents.  Mikey's dad had to work, so we had to keep him posted through texts and picture messages, but Mikey's mom and my Mom and Dad were all able to come.

The ultrasound was the longest one I will have during the entire pregnancy, according to the nurse.  I was doing great until the last 3 or 4 minutes, and all of the sudden I got really light-headed.  I started to sweat and couldn't focus on anything.  It was the weirdest thing and came on so suddenly that I didn't even have enough whereabouts to say something to the Ultrasound Tech.  Anyway, she left the room and I sat up and started to feel better.  I found out later that day that sometimes that will happen.  There is a blood vessel thing that can get pushed/squished on when prego people lay flat on their backs (and probably more when they have a ultrasound pushing into their stomach for 20 minutes).  Anyway, it was likely being pushed on so the blood to my heart was being decreased.  I was glad to know it was normal.  This was something I had never heard of before, so I wanted to share in case it ever happens to someone else.  Don't be alarmed...just roll to your left side and breath slowly.

Here are the kiddos...

The Big REVEAL

Last week we found out what we are having.  I don't think I have stopped smiling for 7 days.  I am so excited.  I wasn't supposed to go to the doctor until November 22, but I had some cramping at night and was a little nervous, so I went it at 17 weeks. 

The ultrasound tech first got both babies in one shot and I could see two strong pumping hearts and a lot of movement, so I was instantly relieved.  I get worked up about stuff, and at that point I just wanted to make sure they were both doing OK.  Then she went for the gender scan!!

"Baby A is a BOY" was her first comment.  I was so excited I think I stopped breathing.  Then she took a while on the second, and said "I just want to be sure about this one" and a couple minutes later "Baby B is a GIRL."  UNBELIEVABLE!!  God is SOOO good.  Mikey wasn't with me for this appointment since it was a last minute thing, so I had to wait for him to get home that night to tell him.  That was really fun...I went and bought a blue swaddle and a pink swaddle and wrapped up a couple of teddy bears to show him when he walked in.  His reaction was priceless.  He's going to be the best daddy ever!!

The next night (Thursday night) we had our family come over to share our news.  We told them to dress according to their gender prediction.  If they thought it was 2 girls, they were to wear pink.  If they thought 2 boys, they wore blue.  If they thought one boy and one girl, they wore yellow.  Here are the outfits:




Pink Team - guessed 2 girls

  

Yellow Team - guessed 1 boy, 1 girl


 

Yellow Team late arrival



Blue team (you will notice her in all 3 pics...cheater!!)  :)




We tried to get a little payback on both of our moms for having a hard time at keeping our secrets during the first trimester, so we didn't reveal the news until the end of the night.  We made them BEG!!  :)  I baked a cake for each baby and covered it in icing.  It worked pretty good, but if you looked closely, you could figure out that one cake was pink and one was blue, so we hid the cakes until after dinner.  Uncle Taylor thankfully took a video that we posted to YouTube...and Ron took one too, but we haven't downloaded his version yet.

Here's Taylor's video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmn4DyT_XZ8   (sorry for the dim lights...we had to turn the light off so nobody could see the colors of the cake before it was cut).

And a few of my favorite pictures from the party:



Can't you just FEEL the excitement?!?!  :)  LOVE it.




Instant Classic.  Gotta love my dad.

 

Cheater!!



Mamaw and Papaw...so cute




Mikey showing off his babies!!

And now for the best part:  BABIES!!!!!


Yay!

Indiana visit

Mikey and I took a trip to Indiana last week to visit his grandparents.  They are the cutest people EVER!!  They live in St. John...and have been there for basically their whole lives.  Everywhere we went, people knew them.  Even the police officers recognized their car when we would drive around.  I don't think we could ever drag them away from that town...it's definitely their home.

Here are some pics from the visit:

Arriving at Midway Airport

Day 1:  We went down the road to "The Shrine of Christ's Passion."  It is nationally known and people travel from all over the world to see it.  One of the locals in St. John...who's family grew up in St. John with Mikey's grandparents DONATED the entire thing.  I think that's pretty radical.  It was many millions to put this thing together...and it's incredible.  I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...

Entrance to the stations of the cross...Grandpa built the iron gate

Day 2:  Visit to Chicago!!  I did horrible at taking pictures this day, but it was fun.  Windy and cold too!

The Hancock!

Of COURSE we had to get pizza.  YUM!

Day 3:  We went to "Fair Oaks Dairy" which was actually really cool.  You can tour how they feed the cows, clean the areas, etc.  They also have a room where you can see the baby calves being born.  It was crazy because the we got on the tour bus and the guide said "we are expecting something really special today...one of our cows is expecting twins to be born!"  We were so excited...they hurried through the bus tour so we could make it back, and we got there just in time to see the twins being born.  Crazy, right?

TWINS!!  :)

All-in-all, it was a fun trip.  We did get ripped off by Delta on the way home...they basically stole $300 from us by charging our credit card without authorization...but other than that, I'd call the trip a success.  (Sorry for the downer, I just had to complain a little.  I'm still not over the Delta thing).