Week 26

Yay! So the weeks are moving along nicely and I am steadily getting bigger and bigger. Today was not so fun though. I was sitting at church during sacrament and started to feel the cold sweats, light headed and nausea. I knew what that meant because I have felt it before. I was about to black out. Luckily sacrament was almost over so I asked my Dad to drive me home. I knew that it was because of the weight of the babies pressing down on important arteries and cutting off circulation. All I needed to do to remedy the situation was to lay on my side. As soon as I got home I laid down and I felt better pretty quickly after that. It is defiantly time for me to start taking it easy. I am going to talk to my Dr. about it on Wednesday and see what he has to say.

I am putting myself on modified bed rest as of today. Bed rest bums me out but whenever I do anything to "crazy"...like sit for an hour...I start to pass out. No beuno. Its what is best for the babies and me. Whatever keeps them in longer so they can grow strong and healthy is want I need to do.

Week 25

So I dont have a side shot of my belly this week but I have some good ones from my shower.

You can see how huge my belly is...

 And this is as good of a side shot as I got at the shower.

On the update front, my tummy is rapidly growing it looks and feels like. I can no longer comfortably fit into my maternity jeans that have the full panel. I went out and bought some low rise maternity jeans that would sit below my belly and low and behold, I FIT INTO A SMALLER SIZE! I was so happy. I am actually wearing the size pants I was when I got married. Totally made my day.

Another new thing for me is my feet have started to really swell. After the shower my feet looked like footballs. Also the babies are getting really big and have started really kicking at my ribs. Yesterday I swear one of them popped out (ribs, not a baby) and it was so painful. Luckily it stopped hurting during the night. I can tell that I am losing that battle of staying active. Walking around or being up for more that 20 minutes really is taking a toll on me. It will all be worth it though when I get to hold these two little boys finally.

My Baby Shower

So last Saturday was my baby shower and I have to say...it was pretty dang awesome. We had to have it early because of the possibility of going on bed rest. Plus I am starting to get really uncomfortable and pretty huge so it was just a good time. 

My mom made cupcakes and displayed them beautifully. The theme for the shower was a pond so she made a bunch that looked like sand with rocks, and some that looked like water. I made gum paste lotus blossoms and my sister made the lilly pads. There are also a few frogs hiding in there.

We had a huge turn out. I am guessing around 65 people or so. I couldn't believe it. I really couldn't believe how many presents I got.

My Mom and I decided to keep the games to a minimum and just play one game that would really take everyone paying attention to. So she wanted to play the baby food game...awful game. The way it goes is that everyone of the guests guesses what each of ten baby food jars contains. Then after everyone guesses I get to taste each one and tell you what it is. Baby food is so gross. I feel so bad feeding anyone that. I don't know if I will be able to feed my boys that stuff.

I got so many cute and useful things at my shower. I was really overwhelmed by all that kindness everyone showed me. I cannot wait to use all this stuff on my two babies.

Week 22...They are BOYS!!!

So today I went to my mid pregnancy ultrasound...finally! Dealing with my insurance here has been a pain and that was the reason for it taking so long to get things worked out. Today I wanted to confirm the gender of the twins even though I had been told by my Dr that one defiantly looked like a girl and one was probably a girl. Well, turns out he was WRONG! I am having two boys. As you can see from the pictures above there is a little something extra there between the legs. I am really excited. I called Brett and woke him up with the news. He was so excited. I called the family and let them all know. Everyone is thrilled. Now I just need to re-register.