Dr. Visit

Well, we went back to the dr. today. He was a little concerned with the fact that I have lost quite a bit of weight since I have been pregnant. Well, ok, he was quite concerned. He said I am healthy and my babies are healthy but I need to make sure I am eating enough.

We got to hear one of the heartbeats again today. The other baby was hiding I think b/c they were unable to hear the heartbeat. Dr. H said it is rare to be able to hear both heartbeats from a Doppler this early. It made me a little nervous until he told me that. I seriously wanted to cry.

I have another appt. in 4 weeks, a sono in 6 weeks and yet another appt in 8 weeks. Dr. H told me that until I am half way through my pregnancy we will stick to once a month appts. After that point, I will be at 2 a month appts. Then the closer I get there will be once a week appts. I will have a lot more sonos than normal pregnant women b/c there are two of them. He wants to make sure the babies are growing and developing at the same rate and one is not hogging all of the nutrients.

I still feel really good. Haven't been sick. I am very thankful for that. Please just pray that nothing goes wrong with either twin or myself. I appreciate everyone's prayers thus far.

We love you all!
Until my next update...

OK now I know most of you know that Dave and I are expecting our first child so here are some pictures for you so you can have a first glimpse. The same look we got yesterday.







How totally amazing are these pictures!!!

Now for the best picture out of all of them...

Can you believe it? We are having twins!!! We are so excited and still a little stunned right now. We were really hoping for twins but it was still a shock!

Our families are soooo excited! Now we get to go double shopping! Yay!

Hope everyone has been having a good week. I'm sorry your day wasn't that great Meggy. Love you and glad you are ok!

Until next time... =)

If you didn't already know...

For those of you that follow this that I don't know, we have some exciting news! Dave and I are expecting our first child in March! Yay! We are so excited and it's going to be a long 8 months from now until we meet our little one. I think we are going to wait and not find out what we are having until the doctor announces it. I think it is more fun that way. It will be a surprise for everyone then.

I don't have much time for posting today but I wanted to explain the layout change.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Vacation pics

OK dear cousins of mine. I have posted vacation pictures on facebook. Hol...I sent you a message to add me as a friend so once you do that you will have full access. There are six albums all together so you can see why I didn't really want to put them all on here. It would take too long and I am not as patient as Megan is. hehe

For those of you that view my blog and want to see my vacation pictures but don't have my facebook, you can ask to be my friend if you know how to find me. If I know you I will tell you how to find me if you ask me to. Otherwise, you are out of luck on seeing vacation pictures.

Don't forget girls to check out the pics of me and Dave on vacation. I pulled those pictures out and put them in their own special album.

7 weeks!!! Only 33 more to go!!! You should understand what this means.
Oh, and Thank you so much Holli and Lisa for the journal. (I'll be calling you to thank you too, but I wanted to put it on here too) If I need a reprieve, I know exactly who to call. :-)
Love you girls so much!

Until next time....

Sorry

I know, I know..I am horrible at keeping everyone posted. I guess I just post when things are happening. Not much is going on right now. We went on vacation to Washington DC and New York City with others in my family. We had a lot of fun. Now we are just enjoying our summer. Dave has been golfing a bit and I have gone swimming once. I really need to swim more. I need more color on my body. I hope everyone is enjoying their summer. I'll post more later when I have something more exciting to share. Until then...Bye!

Graduation and Such

Well, today Baby Rachel graduates from high school. Kinda sad, but happy at the same time. I just can't believe she is going to be 18. Hopefully it doesn't rain and we all get to go. Otherwise...well, let's just pray for no rain. Yesterday was her party and she had a really good turnout. The weather was very cooperative yesterday. I'm so proud of Rachel and all she has accomplished. She is one incredible person and I know she is going to be very successful. Baby Rachel is all grown up.

Well, today we start daily PCC practices. The show is in just a little over a week! CRAZY!!! I'm so excited though. It's going to be a great show. If you don't have a ticket to come see the show yet, just let me know. I can get you one. This is a show you do not want to miss!

Well, since it's been a while, I have some pictures to share with you. Hope you enjoy them. Lucy is getting so big...almost as big as Copper. And since I haven't posted many pictures of Minnie, she has a debut here today. Enjoy!



Look how big and beautiful she is! Copper actually looked at the camera for once!

Minnie's new spot to lay is right on the kitchen table. Luckily for me, we were in the process of getting a new fridge and deep cleaning the kitchen so I had to wash the table later anyway.

She and Dave were playing...I know she looks evil here!

And this is where she attacked the camera! haha

Lucy loves to lay with daddy and she laid like this for almost 2 hours!

Close-up of her beautiful face!

What? haha

She wasn't too thrilled about this but look at my cowardly lion! This was Copper's Halloween costume last year and he is too big for it now, but she is the perfect size for it.

Sitting pretty and posing for mommy!


Well, that's all for now. This is going to be a really busy week so I might not have too many posts to share. I'll try to get some more pictures, especially of Civic Chorus once the show starts and get those posted. Until then...you will just have to come see the show if you want to know what it's about!

Until next time!

Andi

Here Ya Go!

OK Megan, here are some recent pictures for you. Lucy and Copper got to go on a car ride down to St. Louis. We had tickets for a Cardinals/Cubs game.


These are pictures of Copper in the car. I thought the tongue was hillarious!


Lucy slept the whole way down to St. Louis and the whole way back. She was so good!
Here she is when she was just a little puppy. Just wait until you see how she looks now!
This is my ADORABLE niece Sierra! She was being tickled and was squirming but I still got a great picture!
And this is Lucy now. Isn't she getting big? She's so fun!

Copper hates to have his picture taken.

Now for some pictures of the game. We had seats in rows 16 and 17 behind home plate. They were amazing and the pictures don't do the view justice! Enjoy!!

Albert Pujols

The view of the arch from our seats.

Me, April and Amanda. Yes they are both Cubs fans. (Good thing the Cards won!!!)

Dave, Jeff and Jared
View from our seats. So amazing!




Today we participated in the Race for the Cure. We had such a large group this year. We were walking in celebration of my mom, my Great Aunt Betty and some others too. Mostly for my mom though. It is so wonderful that we have her around and she is doing so well.
The group in order from left to right. Judy, Stevie (my cousin), Lindsay (my cousin), Rachel (my lil sis), Jordan (behind Rachel, my cousin) Denielle (behind Jordan, my cousin) Aunt Joy (next to Denielle) Michelle (my lil sis) Grandma Oltman, Mom (my hero), Grandma Frazier, Megan (my cousin behind Grandma F) Aunt Jody (next to Megan) Me (next to mom), Mallory(my cousin) Jacey (my cousin) Marie (Aunt Jody's mom). Sara was unable to walk with us but met us later for breakfast. After the race we went to Missy's cafe in Pekin. It was good and I think we all really enjoyed the family time.

Now some pictures while walking:

Aunt Jody, Marie and Mom

Mom, Aunt Joy and Grandma Oltman

Mom, our survivor!
A view of thousands of walkers in front of us. I forgot to take a picture of behind us.

Well, hope you enjoyed the updates and pictures. I need to go take care of my monsters before they terrorize my sisters.

TTFN