13 Weeks everything is smooth sailing...

So we've reached the 13 week threshold!!! We are officially in the 2nd tri-mester - whew!!!! Some people say the 2nd trimester doesn't till 14 weeks so I don't know I always thought it was 13 weeks - whatever!! We had another ultrasound and doc visit last week (12 weeks) & babies look great wiggling all around and kicking.  It's still too early to tell  but it looks as though we could possibly have two baby GIRLS on the way!!! We won't know for sure until our 16 week appt - scheduled for June 1st - but that is what it seems to be so here we go!! More surprises to come :) Good news is we got all of our 1st trimester screening results back today and thank GOD all is ok with both babies!!!!! YAY!!!!! I have been worried sick - not sure why guess this whole "twins" thing has completely rocked my core so I am nervous about everything now!!!!!  I am getting more and more excited just scared of the unknown and still wondering how the hell Brad and I are going to pull off taking care of a toddler and 2 newborns!! But I trust that God knows that we can handle this..somehow... someway... you will see that I will be mentioning God a lot in these blogs... I have recently become a very strong believer (I know some of you are reading this are shocked but it's true!) only He has a funny enough sense of humor to give Brad and I twins, let alone twin baby girls if it so happens to be!!! More to come as we progress along.

P.S. Hell has frozen over - we bought a mini van two weeks ago... guess there's no backing out now!!!

Here We GO!

OK so I've never "blogged" before (but always wanted to) and now have good reason! For those of you who know us currently we are a family of 3, Brad, me (Shelby) and our precious 2 1/2 year old son Aidan. At the beginning of this year Brad and I were excited to announce that yes we were pregnant again. We had a doctors appt just to confirm everything on March 31sth and then on April 14th we had our very first ultrasound!! This is were it gets good...at the ultrasound we discovered we're expecting TWINS!! Yes that is correct and our reaction was quite comical.  Brad fell down and started laughing, I started hyperventilating- so needless to say this was VERY unexpected!!! Our doctor is pretty sure that these are fraternal twins although no confirmation's been made at this time. Having Fraternal twins (without any medical intervention) have odds of about 1 out of 90 (basically 1 % chance) so maybe we should go to Vegas before these little guys arrive!?  All kidding aside, after the sudden shock wore off we were able to listen to their heartbeats both are very strong and healthy - they look great, squiggling all around - happy little 9 1/2 week old fetuses! Here are some pics of our precious cargo!

Brad's overjoyed - i don't think I've ever seen him so excited or proud :) He's already looking at minivans online! To be completely honest, it's been an emotional couple days for me (probably from the double dip of hormones coursing through my body :) but I am slowly accepting this exciting news. :) I have to keep reminding myself that this is a true blessing from God, He would never give us something we couldn't handle.  Brad and I know there will be a lot of changes and scarifies that will need to be made but thank god we have some time to cross those bridges as they come.  SO for now we have put all worrying aside and at this point, as with all pregnancies, we just want HEALTHY BABIES!!!! We have our next appt/ultrasound on on May 4th :)

Thanks to all of you that have given us such positive support, god knows we are going to need it :) We will keep you all posted and give you updates as they progress.