It has been a long time since I posted. After Jennifer's computer trouble we had some here too. Hopefully we are all better now!!!

I will talk about myself first. I have been feeling really good lately.....except being very tired. I get up in the morning good but after lunch I can't function very well. Being a preschool teacher, I am out by 11:30 so i can get a nap in before I go get my kids at school at 2:45. That has been a huge blessing. I have been out of breath lately too. I am sure it's due to space in the belly. I was out of breath with my kids too so it's probably just how my body is. If I can get to the stage where the babies drop, I will know because I will be able to catch my breath again!!
We have started doctor appts. every 2 weeks for awhile. We were going to a high risk doc and a regular OB/GYN. Last appt. we decided it would be best to just go to the high risk doc. He is wonderful and we feel very comfy with him. They do an ultrasound every appt. and they couldn't be any more thorough. They check everything. They measure every organ and bone. I love that. They are keeping a very close eye on us.
If we haven't mentioned before we are driving 3 hours to the doc because of the laws in our state.....we are. That is also why they are watching close.

Our next appointment is Monday, November 1st. I am always excited to see the babies. They are very active and I know they are doing well. They move a lot now and that is always a good sign!! There is nothing better than feeling the lives of them in me. I am so thankful I am part of this.

Jennifer had her shower a couple weeks ago and, my goodness, she has some great friends and family!!! She received some wonderful gifts from people who have been praying very hard for us and the babies. They brought books instead of cards and several put messages in the books about the praying for us.

Well, I have had my nap now so I really need to use the energy I have to do some laundry and cleaning up. I never dreamed I would be so wiped out. I guess that would be a slight downside to carrying twins, but well worth it!!!

27 weeks and 4 days!!!!!!!!

I am SO excited!! God is so awesome!! What a blessing Valerie is to our family!! More ultrasound pics to come!! :) Last doc appt was the 18th of October! Now we go every two weeks twice then we are down to weekly appointments!!!!!!!!!!!!

18 weeks!!! We found out what sex Baby "A" & Baby "B" are FINALLY!! :)

172 ultrasound pics!! I am only uploading 4!! LOL!! It was so awesome to find out what Baby "A" and Baby "B" were!! It was pretty intense! When she looked at the sex of Baby "A" and said it is a BOY! I thought Jeffrey was going to....I don't know!! What emotions! He was so excited and happy!!

Then came the pictures of baby "B" and YES! It's a girl!! I was so happy!!! :) God blessed up both with what each wanted!! He is so awesome and we could never be happier!!

We had to go right out afterwards and find an outfit to bring them home in!! ;) Jeffrey wanted to get our baby boy a pair of carharts to wear home from the hospital!! I said, "Uh...no honey they like to be held close and tight not stretched out and stiff from the new carharts! LOL!! I told him we needed to wait just a bit longer! LOL!! :) It was great! Valerie and Steve seemed to be as excited as we were!!!!

BOY ARE WE BEHIND!! Catching up!! :)

WE HAVE FINALLY GRADUATED FROM THE IVF DOCTOR!! On July 6th, 2010 (3 mos. appt) we had our first ultrasound done with Dr. Watkins at Women's Specialist in Louisville, KY. Our first time to hear the heartbeat's too!! It was so awesome! Our initial experience with our doctor we found him to be very nervous...to say the least! We were definitely something special as far as us being a couple with a gestational carrier (a very special one at that!) It was a pretty eventful appointment. The nurse was really crackin' us up! We explained to the nurse that we weren't "a couple" too. LOL! It was pretty funny!!! She was a hoot!

Get it Right!!

We still do not have pics up. Soooo sorry. That is because we all are super busy. Jeffrey is a cowboy in charge of many acres of cows, Jennifer has her 9-5 job and I do babysitting daily. About 7 kids per day.

I had to fit in a tooth repair today, but I am fine.

I reason for my post today is because we learned somthing new the other day. Thanks to our lawyer he told us there is a difference between surrogacy and gestational carrier. You are a surrogate ONLY if you are directly related to the intended parents. Either related to mom or dad. For example if Jennifer was my sister, I would be the surrogate. I am not related to either of them so that makes me the gestational carrier. Thanks to Jennifer for changing our blog name from "God's Percious Gift Thorough Surrogacy" to "God's Precious Gift Through a Very Special Gestational Carrier"!!

Babes from the start!!

I am sooooo far behind it's a bit ridiculous. We have had 2 doctor appointments since I posted last. I have been incredibally busy and a little on the puny side. We do have pics from both of the appointments which will be posted soon. The first appointment was the last at the fertility doctor. We had our ultrasound that day and they are growing. Jolly rancher size!!! They were about 1 1/2 inches long and lookin' good. We do appreciate our fertility doctor and were pleased with the kindness and care we recieved from them.

Our last appointment was with the new doc. Dr. Watkins. We met him yesterday and answered a lot of questions. A lot of questions!! We briefly discussed delivery and things like that but mostly it was family history and how this even got started!! When we finally got around to the physical part of the appointment, doc could find only 1 heartbeat. I was not worried at all, but we did end up with another ultrasound just to double check. Everything is fine. Both babies were moving around and Baby B is a real mover!! "B" was moving it's hand around even had it up to it's mouth. B was also pushing on A's sac. I told Jeffrey to get his child under control!!! Baby A was not as active. Just chillin'. I wonder if that is a sign of things to come!?

I have been glad we have had a chance to see them at every appointment thus far. I know we won't see them next time, but it's been sooooo neat to see how they have changed in just a couple weeks between visits. I am totally convinced that they have been real babies since the first day!!! God has made them and noone will ever convince me that they were ever just 'cells'.

I will work on getting pics and you can see how they have changed. The nurse yesterday said it was a little tough to get them both in the same picture. Next time we see them, hopefully, we will see 'parts'!!!!

Jolly Ranchers????

I guess I should go ahead and update a little here. Jennifer has done the last couple of posts, so it's my turn.
I am officially 7 weeks 5 days pregnant. I am feeling pretty good except that I could nap at any given moment. A friend told me that when she was pregnant with twins the doctor told her that it's like having 2 parasites sucking the life out of you. How true that seems so far. I feel very tired, but that's ok. I have not been sick at my stomach at all. I would rather be tired:) I do know that I am eating for 3and so that has been a little challenging. I know I need to eat plenty of fruits and veggies so I am trying to do that. With twins I was told to try to eat about 73g of protein per day. That is a lot of food every day. I can't eat that much so I am just doing the best I can. If I eat that much I feel completely stuffed, but if I don't eat good I feel underfed. There is a happy medium. I am just trying to find it!!

Our fertility doctor will release us on our next visit on June 21st. That will be our last ultrasound there to check the growth of the babies. Last time we were there they were the size of gummie bears, so I am excited to know how much they will have grown by the 21st. I don't know.....jolly ranchers??? We will go to our first OG/GYN appointment on July 6th. I am excited to move to a regular doctor. It's kinda like we are moving to the next step already. Before we know it, Jeffrey and Jennifer will be holding their babies!!