Christmas and the day after

On Christmas Eve we went to my sister's house for a delicious Christmas dinner with my family. I love ham!

The girls danced the night away to Christmas music with cousins Dayton & Ellie and my mom was loving every minute. I think their favorite toy is the bounce & spin zebra from my sister. It's always nice to relax and enjoy time with family--if only I wasn't feeling so nauseous.















The day after Christmas was eventful. In the afternoon my whole left arm started tingling and feeling a bit numb. I waited about 30 minutes and started getting worried when it wasn't going away. It got really stiff and started turning a purplish tint. I called my OB's office and they recommended I go to the emergency room. They did an ultrasound of my arm and after four hours I was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis (i.e. blood clot) in my upper arm. They gave me shots of Lovenox in my belly, which is a fast acting anti-coagulator and told me to come back Saturday and Sunday for more shots. My arm is still a little stiff, but it feels much better. Today I talked to my OB's office and was prescribed more Lovenox shots that I have to give to myself twice a day for the rest of this pregnancy. They don't know what caused it, but apparently blood clots are fairly common during pregnancy. Thanks once again to all those lovely hormones. My sister had a pulmonary embolism caused by the birth control patch a few years ago, which is much more serious, and she almost died. She also has to do Lovenox shots because she is pregnant right now. I haven't talked to my doctor directly yet, but I may have to do these shots during future pregnancies as well. Anyone out there ever had this or know someone it's happened to and can give me some advice? The strangest thing to me is that I had a twin pregnancy with zero complications. Oh well...I guess all these things shall give us experience.

Fun in the snow

We thought you would enjoy these fun pics of the girls in their new winter coats. We've had storm after storm and more to come Enjoy...and Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Amy!

Today is my sister's birthday. She bought the girls these cute Christmas outfits and the girls loved them. They wanted to say thanks and we hope you are having a fantastic day! We love you...

One cute little peanut...

I got to see the cute little peanut today. That's right, just one--thank goodness! Seeing the little heartbeat fluttering away is seriously the most amazing thing. It def made things much more real and of course I cried.
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I cannot fathom how anyone can consider terminating a pregnancy after seeing a heartbeat. It blows my mind that abortion is legal in this country before 12 weeks. In some European countries it's legal up to 22 weeks--crazy! Just because it may not be viable, does not mean it isn't a living and valuable being. What is wrong with people??? I will never understand the whole women have the right to choose argument--they made a choice to conceive. That's it. That was their choice and sometimes there are consequences. I know I am ranting here, but I am sooo pro-life. Here's my bit of controversy, I would even go so far to always advocate adoption over abortion. Though I understand the whole thing about when women didn't have the choice (i.e. rape/incest), but choosing to terminate a life is serious stuff. Having the child and giving it up for adoption could turn a very terrible event into something beautiful and could bless so many lives for good.
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Anyway, sorry about my tangent, it's just my opinion and well this is my blog! :) I already love our little peanut and I can't wait to reunite him/her with the girls.

Tuesday twin tidbit

German and I have celebrated seven Christmases together and have never had a tree. We've actually never decorated for any holiday, really. We're lame. But this year, thanks to my sister who let us borrow some extra lights and decorations, we decided to buy a real tree. We all went to pick it out and it smells wonderful--we love it! Thanks Amy!

The girls wearing Christmas outfits from Nona Betty to church. Of course, we already lost one of the berets, so Audrey wore a bow.

Lucy loves to show off her cute belly!

Christmas music dancing...we love our girls, they are so much fun!

Tuesday twin tidbit

Our girls are getting so big...
I've been trying to teach the girls to point out parts of their face and make animal sounds. And German is teaching them Spanish words with actions like lengua (stick tongue out), manitos (wave hands) & ojitos (blink eyes). We're worried their first language will be very Spanglishy. I speak mostly English to them with a little bit of Spanish and German speaks mostly Spanish with some English. Poor little things are probably so confused. It's a good thing kids are smart enough to figure it out eventually on their own.

Moab 10K (aka 6.2 miles)

We did it! We survived the roadtrip with the girls and the race. The scenery was beautiful and the weather was perfect. German did awesome...his time was 44:26 and he finished 66th out of 481 people! This was his first race and he loved it. He wants to train and do the half marathon in March. I thought I would have to walk the whole time, but luckily I felt great and even shaved almost two minutes off my 10K time I ran in September. I finished in 76:05 and well, only 38 people finished after me, but hey I am almost 8 weeks prego. The girls had fun playing with Nana Gail and Grandpa Jim at the hotel, thanks again for chasing them around and taking care of them for us!

So, these pics were taken just after I finished the race (FYI-I was trying to make a heart over the baby in my belly in case you were wondering). I look exhausted and poor German had already been done for over 30 minutes. He eventually ran back to find me and see if I was ok. He's so sweet and helped me push my last mile. Have I mentioned before that I love him alot? We both want to do more races together in the future, maybe we'll do this same race again next December.

Tuesday twin tidbit

On Saturday our good friends, the Christensen's stopped by to visit us with their two cutey little boys. I wanted to get a picture of her boys with our girls, but of course I forgot to take one before the girls went down for their nap. Aren't Jackson & Blake so cute? It was great to see them, thanks for coming over! I loved seeing the little baby...can't believe we're going to have another one of those.

Here are some random pics we took today of the girls playing on the couch.

Dad is sooo much fun!

Audrey all worn out...