Thursday, May 7, 2009

BIG News

Yes, the updates to the blog have slowed a lot this spring. We love posting pictures here, but Facebook and Twitter have made it so much easier and faster to give updates. Rachel has constantly been tired for a while, and a few weeks ago we found out why...

After trying for over a year, Easter weekend we began telling people that we are finally having a baby! We started working on the baby's room in December. In March we attended a meeting explaining the foster care and adoption process in our county and state. We decided to stop stressing out about baby stuff and start the process to be certified as foster parents. Just as we were starting to lose hope and change direction, we finally had a positive pregnancy test!

We are so excited, but were waiting for the first appointment to make sure everything was OK and see that there really is something there. Yesterday was the first ultrasound, and it was great to see that everything is healthy and OK. The woman doing the ultrasound said "OH! I see two babies!!!" and sure enough, we could clearly see two of them.

So the big news is WE ARE HAVING TWINS!!!! They are both the same size and are measuring just over 8 weeks old. They have a December 14th due date - twins usually try to get out up to a month early, but we are praying that they can hang on as long as possible. After two weeks of bad morning/afternoon/anytime sickness, things are starting to get a little better! We are still in shock but excited (and a little scared). Thanks for all the prayers (I think we had too many...) - now we will need ALOT more!!

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