side splitting

the other day, dallin had me laughing hysterically! he was cracking jokes about "poop doctors" and had me laughing so hard that my belly was in some serious pain!

i finally begged him to PLEASE stop making me laugh so hard because it hurt so bad, and he responded with "well, i'm so sorry for making you laugh, i don't want your life to be enjoyable or anything..."

well, i can't really argue with that (a husband that wants me to be happy), so i guess i'll have to live with a sore stomach!

20 weeks!

Half-way there baby! Or should I say "Babies"...

Today marks 20 weeks!

Here are a few belly pics as requested.

15 WEEKS:

18 WEEKS:

19 WEEKS:

20 WEEKS:

The past few weeks, I've been growing a couple inches a week it seems like, and I feel way bigger than these pictures make it seem, haha. Oh and this week, I went from having an "innie" to an "outie" belly button! I'm hungry all the time, and thanks to these two sweet girls, I have license to eat whatever I want! I'm mostly past the morning sickness, although there is a day every once and a while where I don't do so well. (Ask the Barkers for more details on our recent hike, haha.) I feel good mostly, except that it feels like someone stuck a balloon in my belly and is blowing it up all the time!

Other than that, we are just super impatient and hope these next 4 months go by REALLY quickly because we love these girls so much already!

backyard gossip

so the weather is warming up now, which means that due to our lack of air conditioning, the windows stay open at night to keep us cool. the OLD lady that lives behind us is often out in her yard having LOUD conversations that we (as a result of the open windows) are privy to.

as we lay in bed last night, trying to go to sleep, we heard bits and pieces of what must have been a EPIC conversation. we didn't catch every word, but we caught a lot. it was really hard not to listen, and i'm sure they would have been embarrassed if they had know other people could hear them. but they were SO loud! after trying unsuccessfully to get them to be quiet, like making weird noises, so that they would know there were other people around, the two old lady's conversation turned to relationships. (weird... because they are so old...)

lady #1 was clearly the Alpha of the conversation (it must be her backyard or something, so she's automatically the leader?), and she wasn't very nice. she kept raising her voice and yelling at lady #2 (who we learned later was named Martie) and lady #3. most of what we heard was Lady #1 talking.

here are some of the most memorable pieces of the conversation that we heard:

"i am more psychic than you will EVER know. and you don't recognize that, and i feel sorry for you!"

"what do you think about that? now, stop talking and listen to me. Listen To Me. LISTEN TO ME!"

"oh! i never thought about it like that! you don't want to be in a physical relationship because Satan is jealous of YOU!" (dallin and i were hysterical at this point. we laughed so hard we didn't hear the next 5 minutes of the conversation.)

"i saw you. you went to some quack doctors and you were on prescription drugs. don't you know it, but man's medicine will KILL you! IT. WILL. KILL. YOU."

"LISTEN to me, okay? i know!"

"YOU are a cold-hearted frog!"

"open up to the rainbow."

"love is like God in a pebble."

"Listen to me!"

"Listen to me!"

we also learned that Martie's husband had left her sometime in the past for another woman. that conversation went something like this:

lady #1: how long since john (ex-husband) been with jennifer?

martie: i don't know.

lady #1: you do too!

martie: i don't.

lady #1: YOU DO TOO! two? maybe three years?

martie: yeah, i guess about that much.

lady #1: fine. i'll tell you. it's been 2 1/2 years. 2 1/2 years. it's time to find someone new."

"in this world, the dark angels and the light angels are fighting to possess your body!"

"i can just picture this now. you are going to find a dark, curly haired man. 6 foot 2. and you're on the beach, at sunset. and you have your arms around his neck. and you say to him- i LOVE you."

(at this point, dallin and i TOTALLY lost it, because these ladies have to be like 70 or 80 years old, so for someone they are dating to have not only hair, but DARK hair, he'd have to be like 30 or 40 years younger than them!)

dallin and i finally had to shut the window, because they were IMPOSSIBLE to not listen to, and we were laughing too hard and it was getting close to midnight. WAY past my bedtime. after we shut the window, we could still hear them, but not as much. we still giggled though as we fell asleep.

p.s. dallin wants everyone to know that we are NOT creepy. it may seem like it (because we listen to other people's private conversations late at night), but we really aren't. he says that those ladies basically forced their conversation onto us and we had no choice but to listen or melt from the heat. obviously we chose our lives... we also hope that you don't think we are terrible people for laughing at their conversation, but it was pretty hard not to after some of the things they said and the tone of their voices.

TWO baby girls are on their way!

Well, this was a shocker to us!

Here is the hilarious story of how we found out:

The night before our 1st doctor's appointment, I said to Dal, "What if we're having twins?" And then we laughed because that would be crazy. When we went to the doctor the next day, she showed us ONE baby and ONE heartbeat and we were super excited to be having ONE baby.

At our next appointment, around 14 weeks (just a little over 3 months), we heard ONE heartbeat again and were super excited.

Then, this past week, Dal and I were talking and decided that we should find out if we were having a boy or a girl. We figured that we were going to have to pay money to find out whether we did it now, or in two weeks, or in 4. So we set up an appointment at Fetal Fotos for 2 days ago (Tuesday).

We went in that morning and saw ONE beautiful baby on screen. We saw it yawn and scratch it's head. We saw it stretch it's little legs out and I felt it kick! But the adorable little stinker wouldn't show us if it was a boy or girl. After about 20 minutes or so of the ultrasound tech poking around, she apologized and said that we'd just have to come back a different day. She said that the baby would move around a lot in the next few hours and said that if we came back the next day we could probably find out what it was then.

So Dal and I set up an appointment for the next day (yesterday, Wednesday) to come back and try again. Well, by the time we got there we were just itching to know if we were having a boy or a girl! We were so impatient and just wanted to know! We had a different ultrasound tech this time, and as soon as she touched my belly with the little probe, she could tell there were TWO babies in there!

She asked us, "So, you know there are TWO babies in there, right?" We laughed, and said that that wasn't a very funny joke and that there was only ONE baby in my tummy. But she was pretty insistent and after a few, "YES, there are!" and "NO there aren't!" comments being tossed back and forth, she said, "LOOK, I'm NOT kidding here. There really are TWO babies in your tummy. See, here is ONE head and ONE heartbeat, and look over here, ANOTHER head and ANOTHER heartbeat!"

About then, Dallin and I started laughing really hard, in TOTAL shock. But she was right! We could see TWO babies in there! We asked her how the tech yesterday could have missed that, and she told us that the girl was pretty new and had just finished her training and probably couldn't tell that that is what she had been looking at. Or maybe one of them had been hiding behind the other one, so she just hadn't seen it at all. So then we asked her how our DOCTOR could have missed the "TWO BABIES IN MY TUMMY" thing, and she said that if the heartbeat's had been in sync (which is not uncommon), then it could have been overlooked.

At this point, she had me turn on my side to let the babies move around a bit and said she'd give us a few minutes to process things and then she left. Dallin and I just looked at each other in disbelief, laughed hysterically and just were in shock. We were NOT expecting there to be TWO babies in there. We have never even entertained the option!

The tech returned a few minutes later and pretty quickly discovered that one of the little beauties in there was a girl! Dallin got his girl! The other one took some more coaxing though and another tech to finally let us know that she was a girl as well!

So, in summary, there are TWO baby girls in my tum!

Later, as we watched the DVD they gave us, we looked for two babies in the ultrasound from the first day, and sure enough, now that we knew what to look for, we saw TWO babies. The poor tech from the first day probably just didn't know that was what she'd been looking at! No wonder she was confused! Haha, but at the same time, I'm glad she couldn't figure it out because otherwise, we still wouldn't know that we were having TWINS!

You guys are probably sick of me talking now, so here are the pictures:

Dal and I are super excited about this. We are super happy and realize that we are super blessed that Heavenly Father trusts us with two of his precious little ones at the same time. But we are also VERY nervous and VERY scared! I'm so glad I have a mom who had twins also, so she can help me out here! We are so grateful for all of your support and love and offers to help. We'll probably take you all up on them!

is it a girl or a boy?

hopefully the adorable little stinker that we got to see today (via ultrasound) will cooperate a little better tomorrow (open it's legs and face forward) and we'll find out if it's a boy or girl!

(pictures to come!)

garden

remember when we started our little garden?

well, today we moved it outside!

impressive, no?

okay, just kidding... we did plant our herbs in there, but we bought the tomato, onions, and jalapeños. those little tiny plants you can't hardly see (the cilantro, basil, oregano, and chives) are ours!

it's going to be our little salsa garden, and one day soon, it will look like this:

which reminds me... i didn't plant corn! that might have to wait till we have a bigger garden though, this one takes up our whole porch already :)

it makes me so mad!

one of the most frustrating things about morning sickness:

eating something delicious, and then on the last bite, it makes you sick and then you barf it up!

it's happened twice now, and it makes me so mad! haha, i don't even feel sick until half way through the last bite and then i run to the bathroom to heave it up. poor dallin heard me moaning, "stupid, piece of crap!" both times after. he asks why and it's because i'm so mad that i lost my breakfast/ dinner. it was so yummy! he of course offers to make me another one, the sweetheart, but for some reason, i can't quite stomach eating the same thing again :)

morning sickness just ruins some foods for you!

P.S. Sorry for the overshare :)