Big News x's 2!!!

Hey friends and family,

We have some really wonderful and big news to share. Most of you already know but for those of you who don't....(drumroll please)

We're Pregnant with TWINS! :)

We couldn't be happier! It's been such an incredibly long and hard journey in many ways for us to get pregnant both with Campbell and now with these babies so we don't take lightly the grace the Lord has shown us. He's truly heard the desires of our hearts and has blessed us two times! I'm due Oct. 22nd and I'll be at 10 weeks tomorrow I think. We had our ultrasound last week and we took Campbell with us. We had our suspicions about there being more than one because I've been extremely sick (couldn't keep down a cracker, drink of water or anything for about 6 days in the beginning and then had to go to the hospital for 3 liters of iv fluids.), extremely tired (much more than we remember with Campbell), and I'm growing very fast (I'm showing about a month ahead of where a single pregnancy would be).

So when we got to the ultrasound and our suspicions were confirmed we were overjoyed! We've done many many months of clomid and another drug called metformin, suffered miscarriage and were on our last 6 months of drugs before there was no other options other than in-vitro, which is just too expensive of an option for us. We have tried to get pregnant again since about 6 months after Campbell was born so it's been a long journey. I know it's not as long and heartbreaking as some out there face - I feel very aware that God has blessed us in unmeasurable ways with our children. I'm so thankful for them! All this to say - we are THRILLED to be having TWINS!! :) We know it'll be chaotic and we may not sleep for a year but we're ok with that. We're having two babies!! YAY!

Campbell is equally excited to be a big sister and I know she'll be great at it! She talks to the babies and today tried to teach them to walk. It was hysterical! She asked if they could come out and play but I told her they had to grow a lot bigger first. Then she told them she loved them. How much better does life get?!

We don't have a digital copy of the ultrasound so I'll try to figure out how to get that up here soon. Thank you for all who have prayed for us during this journey! Prayers for the babies and pregnancy would be really appreciated.

This picture is from last week at the beginning of 9 weeks - as you can see, I'm already way bigger than a normal 9 week pregnancy. I think I'm as big right now as I was at 4 months with Campbell.