Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Silly Uncle Bubba!

Shout out to Uncle Bubba!! My brother-in-law is notorious for coming up with some funny, sometimes off-the-wall poems and jokes that we've all come to love. They keep us laughing, that is for sure!! When we were in the hospital delivering Campbell, Christy and Kyle weren't able to be there, so they sent flowers to our room. The card said:

Sorry we weren't there when you were induced.
We're just glad you were able to reproduce.

Also since being in the hospital, my sister has sent me two more poems on Facebook that he came up with. I thought I'd share them with everyone for a little humor today :-)

Having a c-section can be the worst;
therefore someone should tell Cooper to go out head first.

When Cooper and Conley arrive, they will get much lovin',
But for the next 2 months we prefer that they stay in the oven!

We love you Uncle Bubba!! Thanks for keeping us laughing!

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Happy Anniversary!

Happy anniversary honey!! It's been 6 great years...ALREADY! Matt is an amazing husband and father, and I thank God so much for the man that he is. I feel so blessed that we found each other so early in life, because we have SO many wonderful stories and memories already. I know that marriage is not always easy, and I know people say all the time that they love each other more now than they did when they first met, which sometimes seems hard to believe...but I really do feel that way. I truly appreciate the man that Matt is and I feel so blessed that he is my husband. I don't know that early on in our marriage that I realized how much I would come to love him more and appreciate him more. I look forward to many more years of God's journey for us. I love you Matt. Happy anniversary.

I apologize for the large number of pictures that I posted, but I'm lying in a hospital bed with nothing else but time on my hands, so I came up with quite a few while taking a trip down memory lane :-)



Celebrating 6 years at HEB Hospital with our Dr. Peppers

Hope Now

I have recently started following a blog that has been referred to me by many friends....Pray for Coy. Her blog posts are so inspirational to me, and I have really appreciated that she has shared so much about her journey with both of her pregnancies. I have also found that I LOVE this song that begins to play when you visit her blog, Hope Now by Addison Road. It is my favorite song right now! Even when she hasn't posted anything new, I will still go to her blog just to listen to her playlist. Well, I figured out how to add a playlist of my own finally....see at the bottom of the page. Along with Hope Now, I've added some other favorites. I also wanted to share the lyrics to the song, because I think the words are so perfect.

If everything comes down to love
Then just what am I afraid of
When I call out Your name
Something inside awakes in my soul
How quickly I forget I'm Yours

I'm not my own
I've been carried by You
All my life

Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow
When the world has broken me down
Your love sets me free

When my life is like a storm
Rising waters all I want is the shore
You say I'll be ok and
Make it through the rain
You are my shelter from the storm

Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow
When the world has broken me down
Your love sets me free

I am not my own
I've been carried by you all my life

Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow
When the world has broken me down
Your love sets me free

You've become my hearts desire
I will sing Your praises higher
Cause Your love sets me free
Your love sets me free
Your love sets me free

Friday, July 24, 2009

26 Weeks!!!

Well, being half an hour past midnight, we are officially 26 weeks!!! I'll be more relieved at 28 weeks, but I'm so happy to already be at this point! This week, my cervix measured at 1.2. Last time it measured up to 1.5, but the day I was admitted it measured 0.6....so, 1.2 is really about the same. It sill looks like it's funneling a lot, but the funnel never opened when the doctor checked it out and he watched it for a while to see if it would. I think he was concerned because Cooper's butt (sorry, bottom) is REALLY low right on my cervix and her fist was actually down in the funnel. She must have her arms tucked up under her and be curled up somewhat in a ball to have her fist down past her rear-end :-) . Anyways, that was my main disappointment, Cooper is now breech. She's been head-down this entire time, and she flipped this past week. She will be the first one delivered, so she HAS to be head-down if I even have a chance of avoiding a c-section. I'm hopeful that she will turn again. There's still time and she's still small enough that it could happen. Overall, my sonogram went well...the girls still look good and my cervix is pretty much the same. Cooper weighs approximately 1 lb 15 oz and Conley weighs approximately 2 lbs as of Wednesday. They will measure their size again on Aug 5th.

As many of you Facebook followers already know, I found someone to do my nails here on my patio - woo hoo!! I got them done on Wednesday morning. I also got a free 15 minute neck and shoulder massage as a treat from the hospital to the antepartem moms today. I was very pampered this week, it was really nice!

I have another funny Campbell story. She was sitting next to me in my bed eating M&M minis, and I asked her if she thinks Cooper and Conley like M&Ms. She of course said yes, and then put one on my belly that she said was for Cooper and another one that she said was for Conley. They were right next to each other like two eyes in a smiley face, so she then put another one on there and said it was the nose. She then continued to eat her M&Ms and left Cooper and Conley's on my belly. Matt took them off and ate them a few seconds later. Campbell yelled at him, "Daddy! Don't eat Cooper and Conley's eyes!!!" It was really funny, and it's cute that she's already sticking up for them :-) .

She also often says that babies are coming out of her bellybutton. Today she said that the babies are coming out of my bellybutton. I told her that they are not ready to come out yet, because they need to grow bigger and bigger before they can come out.

Thank you God for this day for Conley and Cooper to grow bigger and stronger!!

My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Jesus Christ. Philippians 4:19

Monday, July 20, 2009

Our precious Campbell keeps us laughing!

Campbell is just such a joyous gift to us! Not only were we just blessed to have a baby, and a healthy one at that, but man, we are so blessed with her entertaining personality! It just gets better and better everyday! She is just so witty and enthusiastic and silly...we enjoy her so much! Here are some funny things she has said recently...

Yesterday, she was here with Matt and my parents stopped by. Campbell was reading this ABC book. She loves to ask us, even when she sometimes knows what it is, "Mommy, what is this?" or "Daddy, what is this?" We can say back to her, "I don't know, what is that?", which she'll then attempt to answer herself. If we know she probably doesn't know the answer we'll play along and just tell her whatever she's pointing at. Well, yesterday she was pointing at the letters and asked my mom, "Nannie, what is this and what is this?" My mom told her that one is an upper-case 'A' and the other is a lower-case 'a'. Campbell very sternly and loudly replied, "Nannie! They are NOT cases, they are letters!" We all busted out laughing!

On Saturday when Matt got here with Campbell, he said, "Campbell, tell mommy what you got on the couch." She very proudly smiled and said, "I pooped!" I asked her if she pooped on the couch and she said no. Then I asked her if she pooped in her pants, and she said, "no, I pooped in my diaper and then on my fingers." Yes, people!! She put her hand into her diaper (which she was wearing from her nap) and apparently wiped it on the couch!!! OK, now none of you will ever want to sit on our couch again, but Matt has assured me that it has been cleaned thoroughly! Matt had taken a nap while she was supposedly sleeping, and then she showed up in his room to get in bed with him. He could tell her diaper was dirty, so he went to change her into clean panties. Then when he got to the couch, he saw (or smelled) what had happened and asked her about it. She very proudly admitted to it. She had gotten out of her room while he was asleep and spent some time hanging out on the couch before going to wake him up.

There are so many other funny things that she has said recently, but I'll try to come up with a list for another post!!

Here she is with Channing visiting me yesterday. I was reading them a book, and Campbell insisted that her duck from her Happy Meal see the book too! It was so funny, because she was very serious about it and just held the duck up while listening intently to the story.

On our way to 26 weeks!!!

Well, I'm the most uneventful patient here I think. The nurses say they love it :-) ! I am not having contractions, I don't have any pain, the babies are doing great so everyday I just hang out in bed and the nurses don't have to do much for me. They laugh at me because my biggest crisis right now is that I broke two nails....by the way, it's much harder to find someone to make "hospital calls" for acryllic nails than you would think!!! It's my mission :-) !! I'm not going to give up!! Anyways, nothing new to report really. The babies are moving all the time, they have shown no signs of distress on any of my non-stress tests, and I'm feeling just fine. The hardest part of my NSTs are getting the girls to both stay on the monitors long enough. They get to moving so much, and they are still so small that the nurses have to sit with me the entire time to chase them around. We've decided Conley is definitely the problem child of the two! Cooper is always cooperative and we can always find her hanging out in the same exact place. I feel her moving a lot, but it never fails when we have to hook her up to the monitor or listen for a heartbeat, we know where she is at. As long as my cervix maintains where it's at and doesn't continue to shorten, all is good! I have another sonogram on Wednesday to check my cervix again and to measure the approximate size and weights of the girls. I'm anxious to see how much they have grown over the past two weeks. Yes, on Wednesday I will have been here TWO weeks already!! It really has flown by so far, praise God!

They are starting the new program that I get to be a part of for the first time here called "Mommies in Waiting Antepartum Family Support Program." It's especially geared toward those moms that are here that don't have as much support from family and friends. Apparently, I have a LOT of visitors the nurses say :-) . Sometimes, I'm afraid they are going to have to tell us to keep it down in here! I really am so blessed to have so many thoughtful family and friends. This would be much harder otherwise. It's so sad, because apparently there are some girls here that are teenage moms-to-be on bed rest or that have some sort of substance abuse problems, whether it be cigarettes or drugs of some kind. They've even had to take a girl down for drug tests on occasion. I can't imagine after all the sacrifices that you have to make (even
though they are well worth it) to be admitted to the hospital for full-time bed rest, that you would continue to do these other things that could harm the babies. It's so so heartbreaking. I pray for those moms and I pray pray pray that their babies will be born healthy. Well, this program should be interesting. I know that I told you guys that they want me to teach/help with the first craft to make the countdown chains - we'll see if anyone even shows up :-) ! We have FREE 15 minute massages that will start on Thursday, EVERY Thursday. The lady will come to our rooms. AWESOME!! They are trying to find someone to do manis and pedis, which we will have to pay for, but is so nice that they want to make the services available. They have
some scheduled classes that we can attend on caring for newborns, breastfeeding, delivering a baby, etc. These are classes that the hospital offers, but they won't be any cost to us. Next week we have a scheduled craft time where we are going to make the sew-free blankets where you put two pieces of fabric together and cut the sides into lots of tabs that you tie into knots....I know it sounds cheesy, but I'm excited about it :-) ! I feel like I'm in a retirement home where they have a social calendar for all of us. I'm waiting for them to say there will be a BINGO night...ha ha!! I'll go to that one too :-) !! Anyways, I think it's really great that they are doing this, because I have heard that so many of the other women are down and depressed a lot. I can see how that could happen over time, especially if you don't have a lot of positive support.

The hardest thing still is being away from Matt and Campbell. I have been blessed to see them everyday so far, but it's still hard to say goodbye each time. I just have to keep my mind focussed on Cooper and Conley, and just thank God that the more time they can stay inside me is less time than they would have to spend in the NICU. I know that Campbell is being cared for and that she is doing fine, so I have to remember that. There are times that I could just cry (and I have!), but I know that this is what I have to do right now, it's only a short time in my life, and it's for the best interest of our two precious girls. I'm still hoping and praying for my ultimate goal of at least 36 weeks, when hopefully they won't have to spend anytime in the NICU. I just talked to a nurse that said she remembers a patient that was on bed rest for over 2 months,
went home to finish her bed rest there for the last few weeks and then had to be induced at 38 weeks!!! I hope that is my story!!! It has been easy to keep my focus on why I'm doing this, because Matt has been so great and handled all of his responsibilities so well and Campbell is continuing to be her happy self. Our visits are getting more fun as she is getting used to visiting me. She immediately wants to turn on a movie, which I love since she can be in bed with me, and she knows when she is here that she gets M&Ms or other candy. My dad got me a box of M&M Minis from Sam's, so I'm stocked up to hand out treats to all my little visitors!

I'm 25 weeks and 3 days today!! Thank you God for this day for Conley and Cooper to grow bigger and stronger!

For a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith - of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire - may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 Peter 1:6-7

Friday, July 17, 2009

Cutest wall letters ever!!!

A few weeks ago, I found this lady that has an EBay store where she sells custom wooden wall letters for baby nurseries. They are so cute and different than any I had seen before!! I emailed her pictures of our baby bedding so that she could custom make letters that would coordinate. They are in the mail and on their way to us now!! She sent me this picture...so cute!!! They also have glitter and rhinestones, but it's hard to tell in the picture. I can't wait to see them in person!! Click HERE to view her EBay store if you are interested in any wooden wall letters. Her email is included in the EBay store as well.


Thursday, July 16, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

24 Weeks and FIVE days down!!!

Today I've been in the hospital for one whole week....and I survived!!! Ha ha!! It's flown by with all the visitors that I've had. I had a sonogram today. I got to see the girls as their usual active selves. Unfortunately, Conley is now turned where we can't get a shot of her face, so they only printed a picture of Cooper this time. They are both in the same positions, although I'm not sure how since I'm convinced that they do somersaults all day!! They will only measure their changes in size every two weeks, so I have one more week to find out how much they have grown...I look forward to those updates!!! My cervix is the same, which is good news for now. The bed rest is definitely keeping it from thinning anymore for the time being. Cooper's head is really low though, so I worry when they get bigger that she'll be putting more pressure on my cervix. We'll see how that goes. For now everything looks fine. I think we'll make it to 25 weeks....one week at a time, right?!!

Campbell seems to be doing great, and adjusting well, which really helps me to see. I have enjoyed our visits more and more as we've figured out some things to do with her that keep her entertained here. She likes movies, so those are fun for me since she'll just lay with me in the bed to watch. Now that I'm in a room with a patio...yes, I have my own patio and it's adorable...we can leave the door open so she can play outside even if I'm inside still. Also, my grandfather brought me one of his "zero-gravity" chairs that lays back, so I can actually lay back while sitting outside for a while. It's going to be GREAT!!! Campbell is so funny too, because when she leaves sometimes, she says, "OK Mommy, you go night night one more time." It's definitely the hardest part of being here knowing that she is too young to really understand why I can't take care of her right now and why I'm not at home with her right now. She still puts on her normal happy (and CHATTY) personality.

Oh yeah, potty training update....Campbell is doing really great!! You have to get used to her panicked announcement that she needs to go potty. She says over and over again in a very worried voice, "I going potty, I going potty, I going potty!!" It's funny that she says it that way, because she hasn't actually gone yet. It just means that she needs to go...NOW. She's even slowly doing better with #2 on the potty :-) !! Selfishly, I'm happy to think that I don't have to deal with the potty training much anymore, but I will get to enjoy that hard work that Matt and my mom are putting in since she'll be fully trained by the time I'm home with her....there are pros to this situation as well....ha ha!! Hey, I have to try to find some positives, right?

Tonight I got a very special treat...a pedicure!! I had asked my mother-in-law, Tina, to help me trim my toenails and paint them...I knew that she would agree that this was very important :-) . I shouldn't be surprised at all, and for those of you that know her, you won't either. Not only did she come up here prepared to trim my toenails and paint them, she brought an inflatable "tub" that she filled with hot soapy water for me to soak my feet in. Then, she rubbed them with an exfoliating scrub, clipped my nails and painted them pink with glitter!! As Campbell says, pink with sparkles. It was awesome!! Of course, I have pictures to document...stay tuned for another slide show!!

Also today, my mom brought up a poster board that she attached a bunch of printed pictures to hang in my room. It's great for me to be able to look at, and the nurses enjoy getting to see pictures of Campbell. My mom has thought of everything. She has supplied me with a bag of stuff for Campbell to do inside and outside on the patio....bubbles, puzzles, rubber duckies that she can put in the fountain on my patio, books and colors. She has even stocked the bag with a change of clothes for Campbell for when she is here in case we need backup. Thanks mom!!

My grandmother and aunt even brought me a cute little purse supplied with nail polish, glitter polish, little toenail stickers, cotton swabs and nail polish remover to do Campbell's toenails for her. She loves to have her toenails painted. We haven't had a successful polish change yet, but I hope to try again soon!!!

Matt and Campbell stopped by one more time tonight to bring me some dinner from my parents' house - steak and baked potato, yum!!! Matt was so thoughtful to pray over my belly with me for the girls while Campbell was occupied with a movie. That was perfect.

Here's some cool news...the nurses today told me that they want to start a program for the antepartem (not sure if I spelled that correctly) moms that are here on bed rest. On Monday night next week, we'll have our first "activity". They want to get us together to meet each other and try to have a fun activity planned like a movie or something. Well, for the first activity, they would like for ME to "instruct" the other mom's on my countdown chain. It sounds like I'm going to be the crafts teacher that night - isn't that hilarious!!!??? The nurses really like the chain! I'm really excited to meet other "bed rest buddies", but don't they know that Monday nights are The Bachelorette nights???

I did meet a girl on Friday that has been here since 27 weeks. When I met her last week she was 33 weeks. Once I moved to my new room, I became her neighbor and we share a patio. I had looked forward to talking to her more and getting to know her better. Well, she got to go home today!! Sad for me, but SO exciting for her!! She is almost 34 weeks with twin girls also. She will finish her bed rest, hopefully for 2 more weeks, at home. I was so excited for her. She's been her for almost 7 weeks - wow!! Her husband was so funny when they stopped in before they left. He told me, "you can do it no problem, it's just like a hockey season!" I got a kick out of that!

I'm sure I'll have more to update soon, so I'll try to post again in a day or two. Check out the slide show of pictures soon!! God, thank you for this week and this day for Cooper and Conley to grow stronger!

Monday, July 13, 2009

Sunday, July 12, 2009

24 Weeks and 2 Days!!!

There is nothing new to report really. Everything is still the same as of my checkup on Saturday. Same is good at this point, I guess. As long as things are worse, I'll take SAME! Unfortunately our "same" is not great news, but as long as bed rest can maintain "same" for a while longer, that is good news. The perinatologist did tell me that we are really just going to have to take this one day at a time and that I should probably talk to the NICU staff to get more questions answered and be better prepared. I think that's probably a good idea even though I'm still hopeful that it will still be beyond 28 weeks at least. I may ask to tour the NICU tomorrow or Tuesday and see if I can get more informed about the levels of preemies that they have. I'd like for Matt to go too, so hopefully we can work that out to both be there. I have another NST (non-stress test) tomorrow to see that I'm not having contractions and that the babies are not in distress.

The hospital stay has been just fine this far. The nurses have been great, and I'm starting to get more and more settled in. Unfortunately (but fortunately) I moved rooms today. It's great because it's a nicer room....has a small fridge, sleeper sofa and a patio next to the courtyard, BUT it takes some getting used to the new setup after being in the same room for 4 days. So, now that I'm all unpacked and settled into this room, they told me I'll probably move one more time on Tuesday. It's nice though, because the room is supposed to be almost twice as big as the one I'm in now (which is great for visitors) and has a PRIVATE courtyard patio. They are really sweet to try to get me the nicest room knowing that I'll be here a while probably. So, I'm trying not to get to comfy in here knowing that it will all change again in just a couple days. I'll have to call in my "movers" to come help me get situated :-) .

The visitors have been great!! I'm having to get used to people popping in throughout the day, sometimes unexpectedly, but I do really enjoy the company. It helps pass the time and I really don't prefer to be by myself ALL day. The nights are nice to have some time to myself, but I don't think I'd want that all day every day. I've been blessed to have so much company!! I really do have the best friends and family!!! I'm totally spoiled!! I'll post a picture slide show of of some visitors so far. I'll try to be better about pictures from now on. Stay tuned for pictures...

To sum it all up, really the ONLY thing that is important in the midst of any of my little complaints here and there is that Cooper and Conley are still doing well and they still are growing in my belly which is where they should be. Thank you God for the last few days!!! Thank you for getting us to 24 weeks and 2 days today!!!

Saturday, July 11, 2009

A bump in the road

As many of you already know, we hit a bump in the road on Wednesday. We discovered that our reality is going to be different than we thought for the next days, weeks and months. We had to make adjustments to this news very fast.

Wednesday morning, we went in for our scheduled appointment at HEB with the perinatologist that we have seen about every 3 weeks for a level 2 sonogram. This would be the first appointment where they would actually measure my cervix and start monitoring it for any thinning. Our appointment was at 10:45. We finally went in to see Dr. Payne around 11:15. This was our first time to meet him. The previous two times we had seen Dr. Graham. They rotate every other week at HEB. Anyways, Dr. Payne was great! He was immediately making jokes and very lighthearted about everything. We had our normal sonogram to see how the babies are doing. They are still doing so great! Cooper was head down very low as she has been most of the time. She measured at 1 lb 5 oz. Conley was still up in the "penthouse" with her head on my left and her feet on my right. She is laying across me. She measured 1 lb 9 oz. The doctor was very happy with the girls and he got us some sweet profile pictures of each. I love the profile shots - precious! They look like perfect little girls!

Next, he said he would take a look at my cervix. I was anxious since this would be the first time I'd get any feedback on how my cervix looked, but I wasn't worried since I had never had any signs of early labor with Campbell, and I haven't experienced (at least not that I've noticed) any contractions or any other signs of labor with this pregnancy. Within seconds of looking at the image on the screen, Dr. Payne said, "you are going to be admitted to the hospital today and you are probably not going home until these babies are born." I honestly said to him, "you are joking, right?" He said, "no, I'm serious." I reached for Matt's hand to hold as we listened to the doctor explain what was going on. He said that the nurse was going to get me a wheelchair to take me down the hall to get me checked into a room. A wheelchair, really, is that necessary??? I feel fine! This was crazy to hear! He said that my cervix should be about 3-4 cm thick right now, and it's only 0.6 cm...wow! At this point he said that I would need steroid shots to help get the babies to mature and develop faster to prepare them for pre-term delivery. He gave it to us straight and said that we would be delivering premature, but he's not sure how premature. He said right now the goal is to get them to 28 weeks where survival is drastically improved. Then our goal will be 32 weeks. He said it's really just one day at a time right now. This was a lot to take in, especially since everything had seemed great up until this point.

The nurse took me in the wheelchair down the hall to get checked in. I was told I would be the sixth patient to check in for bed rest with twins. I guess that is a lot for HEB. I waited in a labor and delivery room for about an hour for Dr. Wood. I had to fill out paperwork with the nurse and answer questions just as you would when you check in for labor and delivery...questions like, "do you already have cribs and car seats?" Oh my, talk about going into panic mode! I do realize that at this point, we are not taking home babies anytime soon, and I also realize that Matt could very quickly head up to Babies R Us to pick up the car seats, however, reality really started to hit with a question like that. First and foremost we are scared for the babies and of course will do whatever the doctor says is necessary for their well-being, but then the reality of all the millions of little things that go with our everyday routine started to sink in. What about not being home with Campbell for months? What about work? What about my stuff, I mean I hadn't packed a single thing? I left the house in disarray that morning and had lots of things our social calendar over the next few weeks. It was overwhelming with all the little things that we were faced with in such a short conversation. Dr. Wood came in to see me, and she confirmed that I would NOT be going home. She said IF I made it to 32 weeks without delivering, she would consider bed rest from home at that point, but before that I would definitely be in the hospital. She said, even though the perinatologist recommends putting a stitch in my cervix, she would not put a stitch in beyond 20 weeks because of the risk of rupturing the membrane. So, strict bed rest at the hospital would be the best thing. She told us a doctor will check on me everyday, I would have a non-stress test (NST) every Monday and Friday to make sure I'm not having contractions and that the babies are not under distress, I would have a sonogram with the perinatologist every Wednesday to check the babies and my cervix and I would also be hooked up with a Terbutaline pump in my thigh that would constantly administer meds to help prevent/minimize contractions. This is what I've come to know as the T-Pump. I learned a few hours later after getting settled in my room that this is a pump similar to an IV tube just under the skin that I (yes ME) would learn to setup, refill and change between legs every 5 days. Yikes!! I also would receive 2 steroid shots for the babies within my first 24 hours at the hospital. She said I would be allowed to take a 5 min shower each day, get up only to go the bathroom and be allowed a 30 min wheelchair ride to go outside once a day. Whew, that was a lot to hear!

Well, I did have my few meltdowns within those first couple of hours, but we were able to get settled in our room and welcome visitors shortly after that helped keep spirits high. Wednesday I had Matt, Campbell, my mom, my dad, Tina, Katie, Sara, Jenn and Stacy all visit. I was spoiled with LOTS of great chick flicks, magazines, a treat basket, cookies, and other good stuff. It was so surreal since I still felt completely fine. Here I was in a hospital bed that I would be living in for the next who-knows-how-long with people visiting me and bringing gifts and treats. SO SURREAL! Matt was amazing as usual. He handled everything so calmly and confidently. He immediately wrote a list of whatever I said I needed so that he could go home and pack some bags for me. He really stepped up right away with no hesitation or panic to take on his new responsibilities. I love you Matt! God, thank you for my husband! As overwhelming as this was for me, I know things are going to change for him too. He will have a lot on his plate without me to help with any of it.

I plan to document this journey as best as possible in hopes of sharing with our two healthy baby girls one day the story of this rollercoaster ride that they came into this world on :-) ! Stay tuned!!!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Fun-filled 4th!!!

Here are some pictures of our fun-filled 4th of July weekend. Campbell had a GREAT day! First, she went to a 3-D movie, Ice Age, followed by some pool-time at Gigi's house and then some GREAT fireworks at the Bedford Boys Ranch with friends and family! So fun!! We ate at Jason's Deli for dinner before heading to see the fireworks, and Campbell definitely enjoyed her chocolate ice cream cone as shown by her lovely chocolate mustache in the pictures.



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Dress-up with Sydney!

Here are some pictures of Campbell and Sydney playing dress-up together a few weeks ago. It was so cute!! Sydney even "fixed" Campbell's hair with lots of little clips, and Campbell loved it! I had to take some pictures!
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