Bumpdate.

So I haven't posted too much about my pregnancy and I thought I should write down my thoughts and experience so far with my twin pregnancy.

February 2016--I suspected I might be pregnant because of the fertility treatments I had been on in January. Even though there were two eggs on the ultrasound I had on the 1st, my doctor said the chance of twins was only 5%, I didn't think much about it being a possibility and was just excited to see if I would be able to get pregnant. Around the 16th I took a test and it was positive, then another and another and another! We were still scared of the possibility of another miscarriage so we kept pretty quiet.

March 2016--About a week before St. Patrick's day I was having some complications and called my doctor, he had me get some blood work done and told me everything was fine. Three days later I called the office again and told them I was worried, they had me come in for an ultrasound and that's when I saw the TWO LITTLE ONES and was shocked by the news of TWINS! I showed Keith the ultrasound and he didn't see that it was twins right away but after I told him to look again he realized, both Keith and Carson were elated and so were our parents when we called them. I don't think my dad believed me at first (haha), this makes 41 grandkids for my parents and 7 for Keith's parents. This month was full of constant headaches everyday, all day, but no morning sickness.

April 2016--First real appointment and first time starting to show. Headaches still pretty much everyday, no morning sickness. Hungry, hungry, hungry.

May 2016--It was exciting to have another ultrasound (one a month). Headaches are less and less but still there. Still hungry.

June 2016-- On the 2nd we had an ultrasound with a specialist from Denver to find out the genders. We were so excited to announce that a boy and a girl would be joining our family in the Fall. Pretty much over my headaches, gotta make sure I get my rest though. Hungry all the time. We took basically our only trip of the summer to Boise to see my family for a week and Logan, Ut for a few days for Keith's niece's blessing.

July 2017--Getting big fast, I'm almost as big as I was when I had Carson at 38 weeks. It's getting hot out, I probably get Sonic half off drinks too much, and I mostly just want to stay inside with the AC on. I now have two appointments and ultrasounds a month, one with Denver, and one with my doctor.

I've taken a week by week pic so far (don't mind a few of them where my hair and makeup are neglected that week--must of been a bad headache week)

They are the size of mangos this week.

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Me currently, I'll be 24 weeks on Monday.

        Just to give you a comparison--this is me at almost 38 weeks with Carson.

Some other 2016 Summer highlights so far....

Miniature golfing in Casper for Keith's birthday---Carson's new favorite hobby!

Boise Trip--Meridian Temple is looking good!

Swimming with cousins!

5 years old and driving already!

Meeting baby nephew Camden. We got to attend Camden's blessing, a bridal shower for Misti and a baby shower for Nikki while in Boise.

Logan Trip--Meeting baby Claire and attending her blessing. Claire makes 4 cousins for Carson on Keith's side.

                             Soon he's going to have two---one for each shoulder.

Logan, UT trip--Picnic in Logan Canyon with Keith's family. Unfortunately I didn't take too many pics, or really any good ones.

Finding Dory.

Lots of fishing days with Daddy

May and off to kindergarten....!!!

May was a fun month that flew by quick! Here's some May pics. On the 24th was Carson's preschool graduation and last day of school, still can't believe our little guy is going to kindergarten! Whaaa!!

17 weeks and off to lunch with Jasmine

We had to hit up sonic 1/2 off drinks a couple times

Found this cute dresser for the twins! (no we don't have a cat, that was the previous owners)

On May 10th we went with a couple friends from our ward to the Carrie Underwood concert! She really knows how to put on a concert and has such an incredible voice

Carson's last school field trip to the Ft. Caspar Museum

Graduation Day!

He got the "speedy worker" award

So proud of this little guy!

Gender Reveal and Keith's Birthday!

Yesterday was Keith's birthday and the same day of our gender reveal. I spent the morning making strawberry cheesecake stuffed french toast (one of my favs) for breakfast, I think I'll make it a breakfast birthday tradition. After cleaning up and getting ready for the day, the three of us headed to my ultrasound.

I got to have a special ultrasound with a tech that came up from Denver, I guess everyone here with twins has to have one with a specialist from Denver. The ultrasound was about an hour long and we got to see both little babies! We had her write down the genders in an envelope so it was still a secret.

Afterwards Keith had to go pick up a co-worker from the airport and they went out to lunch while I took Carson to go play at his friend Carter's house while his mom Whitney made my gender reveal cake. She was so sweet to offer and was so excited about it. I hung out at home and waited for Keith to get home and then went and got Carson, we were going to go miniature golfing but Keith was wanting to just hang out at home, so I went and grabbed some pizzas and we had pizza and root beer for dinner.

We were getting so anxious by this point we headed over to Whitney's to pick up the cake and then headed home to cut it! We sang to Keith and of course he then cut open the cake! I was surprised, as you can tell in the video, but Keith had guessed a boy and a girl. The interesting thing was all day yesterday before and after my appointment I had this continual thought in my head saying "it's a boy and a girl, it's a boy and a girl," but I kept pushing it out because I really thought it was two girls, but the thought was there all day and I even told Keith about it before we cut the cake, and sure enough, it was a BOY and a GIRL!

We texted, called and skyped our families the rest of the night to let them know the good news and then ended the evening with our favorite movie-- Zookeeper. It was such an amazing day! Still kinda surreal there's twins in me! I think we'll go miniature golfing today. :)

19 1/2 weeks! Babies are the size of mangos

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Rainbow Babies

Last Fall I remember Keith's aunt posting this picture and caption.

 A “rainbow baby” is a baby that is born following a miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death or infant loss. In the real world, a beautiful and bright rainbow follows a storm and gives hope of things getting better. The rainbow is more appreciated having just experienced the storm in comparison.

The picture intrigued me so I read it's caption and commented that I hoped my "rainbow baby" would come soon. I never thought I would get TWO Rainbow BABIES at once!

Yes, most of you know, some of you don't, but yes, we are expecting TWINS!!! I love the part of the caption that says a rainbow follows a storm and is more appreciated having just experienced the storm. I can't even put into words my emotions from the miscarriage to infertility to finally finding out we're pregnant to finding out we're having twins! We are elated to be having twins and feel so extremely blessed that we get two at once. I'm still praying for those friends and family members of mine that are in that difficult stage of infertility or loss. You're in my thoughts and prayers, never forgotten.

So come October our family will be welcoming.....

two little bundles of JOY!!

This was taken at my 8 week ultrasound when we first found out about the twins, I'm currently 15 weeks.

Swimming in April!

When it comes close to 80 degrees in April, what do you do in Wyoming? Go swimming!!! Friday was going to be a gorgeous day, the last gorgeous day for a week or so, so Athena and I decided we needed to get the kids together before they move (still so sad about this) and she mentioned having a picnic at Edniss K. Wilkins state park. It was a gorgeous day and turned out to be the perfect idea because the kids loved it! I think we spent close to four hours there. I put sunscreen on but didn't think about my feet, think about your feet people!! Now they are super red and swollen but oh well, totally worth it. Afterwards we took the kids to get ice cream at Sonic. Sure gonna miss these good friends of ours!

Carson, Soph, and Emmett playin in the sand

Ready to jump in!

Diggin in the sand

Best Buds

Athena and her friends son

And.....in other news my sister Shae had her baby boy Camden on Friday. Two days overdue but he's here! Can't wait to meet him in June when we go to Boise. Keith's sister is due in May and I have another sister due in July, so lots of cute lil' nephews and nieces to hold!

3 Month Update

So.....here it is almost the end of April and I haven't blogged since February. Well Jenelle things have kinda been busy/exciting/crazy etc...so lets begin with February....

February was actually a pretty warm month except the beginning where we got slammed with snow and then the insane wind made some incredibly huge snow drifts which cancelled church since the stake center was blocked due to the snow drifts....but it warmed up and all was forgotten. Carson had a Valentine's party at school, we celebrated Valentine's together, Carson went to the dentist and had a field trip to a pet clinic, and at the end of the month Keith had surgery on his toes to straighten them out since they were pretty crooked from his fall back in 2005. He still hasn't recovered fully from his surgery and his foot is still swollen, but at least the pins are out!

I really need to fix my camera because iphone pics just aren't the greatest....

Valentie's party at school

After he was done he asked if he could go to the dentist everyday!

Petting dogs at the animal clinic

Prepping for surgery! He was a trooper!


March was pretty warm too until the end of the month, we even got some park time in! Park time, 4-H Carnival, Zootopia, school field trip to the dinosaur museum, celebrations (more on that in my next post), Easter egg hunts, dying eggs, tons of snow, spring break and bowling were some highlights of March. 

At the dino museum

Playing pie face at the carnival

Carson learned about stalagmites and stalactites one day at school so he came home and built a cave and put the them inside his cave (the white things hanging up top in the pic)

Easter egg hunt downtown. I loved it because instead of candy they gave you tickets in each egg that you could redeem for prizes instead, so no sugar overload!

Playing downtown after the egg hunt

We got slammed with snow over spring break so we spent the afternoon outside making a snowman.

Dying eggs with shaving cream

He found his Easter basket!

Threw in one of us since all of them are of Carson. Out to dinner at Olive Garden to celebrate :)

Bowling over spring break

Onto April....we spent the first weekend watching conference of course, the following weekend was nice out so we went garage selling with Athena and her kids, rode bikes downtown, then took the kids out to McDonalds (every kids fav). Last weekend we drove to Idaho Falls/Rexburg for Catherine's (Keith's sister) baby shower and to meet Misti's man. Thursday the 14th we went to the museum in downtown Idaho Falls, we promised Carson we would take him since they have an exhibit on baby dinosaurs until May. Afterwards we ate at Chic Fil A (oh how I've missed you), went to Cabelas, visited Misti at her 2nd grade classroom, and then went back to prep for dinner at Marcus's (Misti's boyfriend) house. Keith made some amazing chicken parm and then we indulged in muddy buddies. Friday we took Keith's little sis to move into her apt at BYUI then took her shopping in I.F. at Winco. Saturday was Catherine's shower and I ate way too much, then Carson and I headed back down to I.F. to meet up with Misti and my brother Jared and his family who came into town from Boise for a concert. We walked around the greenbelt by the temple and then went out for pizza. Afterwards Misti and I watched the kids for a bit then Carson and I headed back to Rexburg. Sunday we just went to church then had to say our goodbyes and head home. It was a super fun weekend but I hate that almost 7 hour drive!

At the dinosaur exhibit in Idaho Falls

Pretending to be dinosaurs!

Getting so tall!

Walking the greenbelt in I.F. Can you spot the temple? My parents were married there.

Taking selfies on the way to dinner

Hailey and Carson. We didn't get any pics of Aiden or Abby :(

Right outside the museum



And....that's a wrap!