BIG NEWS!

We had our appt. with the specialist and had our ultrasound. We received the big news!! Two more girls are coming our way!!!! We are so excited. It's nice to finally know. Poor Dan, he is so outnumbered. :) After we found out, he said that he loves his girls and is happy to have more. I think he just knows that he'll have two more Daddy's girls running around with Gracie. It's been fun trying to help Gracie understand what is going on. When we first found out they were twins we'd tell her that mommy is going to have two babies. Her reply was always, "And I'm going to have make-up from Wal-Mart." She thinks that we're going shopping and I'm getting two babies and she's getting makeup. :) She's so funny. As my belly has grown I think she can tell something else is going on. Every night in her prayers she asks that Mommy will feel better and the babies in her tummy will be good and get bigger. :) Take care everyone.

Hey Everyone,
Things are going good. Dan started his second semester of nursing school. Gracie is still growing, can you believe it? She's a head taller than most kids her age. It's not like her Dad is 6'4". :) I don't want to be one of those braggy moms but she is so stinking smart. It's getting harder and harder to trick her or distract her from certain things. This is her picture that she drew all by herself the other day. Its Dan, me and her. I'm on the right. It was funny when she was drawing me she was talking while she was doing it. She said, "Okay mom, here's your head, here's you chin, here is your other chin." Then after she was done drawing me she said, "Your picture is kinda ugly mom." I'll admit, she is a total daddy's girl. Without fail, every morning, the first words out of her mouth are, "Where's my Daddy." Not, "Hi mom, or did you sleep good?" :) She is such a hoot! Her vocabulary cracks me up too. She talks so much. Whenever we go thru Taco Bell, she has to roll down her window and order her own food and repeat everything that Dan or me orders. She is Little Miss Independent for sure.


My pregnancy is still going okay. I have an appt. with the specialist next week and I'm hoping that they will be able to find out what I'm having. My guess is a boy and a girl. We've had lots of different ultra sounds from my Dr. and a couple from the E.R. Every sonographer has said the same thing about baby A or the baby that is on bottom. Hardly any of them can get a good picture because the baby will not hold still long enough. Baby A's heartbeat has always been in the 160's and Baby B is always in the 140's. I'm going off of that old wives tale that says that 150-160 is a girl. 130-140 is a boy. Gracie was 160's so I think I'm going to get another active little girl and a mellow little mommy's boy. :) I'll be 17 weeks at my next appt and I hope they'll be able to see. This last weekend was kinda hard. I started having contractions and what felt like labor. I didn't remember really any of that with Gracie so we went into the E.R. when it got really bad on Sunday. Fortunately the babies are okay but I've been put on bed rest for I don't know how long. Probably 4 or 5 months. My doctor called me a couple days after I was in the E.R. and I told him that Dan had pretty much demanded that I do not get out of bed and my Dr. said that I have a smart husband. As much as I want to deny that I'm not okay, I have to realize that I'm not the best at carrying babies. I went into premature labor with Gracie and she was born 6 weeks early. I've had two miscarriages and now I'm trying to carry twins. My Dr. jokes that I'm just too fragile. :) I think I'm pretty tough when it comes to certain things but not carrying babies. It's kinda depressing being in bed all day long except to go to the bathroom or shower. I try to keep a good perspective that it is only 5 months of life that I'm missing and its better to have healthy babies than sick ones. Here's a picture of my growing belly. I turned it black and white because I have absolutely no color in my face. :)Hopefully I can go longer than a few days without being sick. Cross your fingers! The babies are getting bigger everyday and are so active, its fun to feel them move all around.

Okay, we're all still alive, I promise. Here is our latest family picture. It has been so crazy these last couple months. Dan finished his first semester of nursing school. He did really well considering that he worked full time, hardly studied, hardly slept, supported me in volleyball and was sometimes dad and mom for Gracie. Things have slowed down considerably in the last few weeks since school finished. I'm mostly updating this for my niece-in-law Kasey because she keeps complaining about seeing the same page every time she checks for an update. I mean, it's not like we live right across the street from each other! :) Just kidding. I'm not really feeling inspired to write creatively right now so this will be short but more will come later. We finished our flip house and it is on the market and hopefully will sell soon so we can have a nice paycheck to pay for our up and coming surprise. For those of you who don't know yet, (I can't think of anyone that I haven't told) :).....we're expecting TWINS! This is one of the reasons I haven't posted in a while. I've felt really crappy with this one and have hardly made it off the couch. Thank goodness I was so sick and lost weight because all I did for the last couple months is change the channel on the TV. (With the remote of course!) I am so excited and even more now that I am almost 14 weeks. I look like I'm about 20 weeks. I still fit into my pants but am growing out of my shirts. I'll have to take pictures soon so everyone can see how huge I get. I'm really so excited!! Well, Kasey I hope this is good enough. I'll be looking for your comments. :) Hope everyone is doing good. -Becky

Supermodels!!!

What a fun night we had! For Senia's cosmetology school, they had a fashion show where the students dressed each other up and did hair and makeup to show off their fashion capabilities. Senia had her friends Jayla and Kamren get Lillie and Camille all dolled up and Senia was in charge of Gracie and Mariah. They were so adorable. First, me and Jane got them dressed for the big show right before Senia did touch ups on their hair. Don't we look like a couple of pagent moms? ya right.



Then is was runway time. Gracie pretty much led the way. She was a little shy and had her hand over one eye the whole time. Jane joked that they both were one eyed. Gracie's hand was in front of hers and Mariah's hair in front of hers.







Thanks to aunt Jane, we had Senia at the end of the runway bribing them with a princess Barbie for Mariah and a baby for Gracie. We kept telling them all day that they had to walk to the front and back and they would get their dolls. They were so excited.


Heres a few pictures of our other models. They were so beautiful and total naturals when it came time to strut their stuff. :)







Here's Gracie vegging out after a tiring day on the runway. Who says models have it easy?!

Cute as a bug...

I know its only Monday and Halloween isn't until Wednesday, but I'm going to be leaving for Yuma tomorrow afternoon and won't be back until about 4 am Thursday morning. I'm totally bummed that I'm missing all the fun so we decided to go for FHE. We just went around the block to all the families homes. Gracie was so adorable and at first didn't get the whole concept of people putting candy in her bag. She thought she had to share at first and when we got to Brenda's, she took a tootsie roll out of her bag and put it in Brenda's bowl of candy. :) She's so funny. After trick or treating we came home and carved our pumpkins. Life's crazy but somehow we manage to squeeze it all in. (Almost) :) -Becky

It's really happening!!!

Well this last week or two Gracie has decided that she wants to be a big girl and use the potty. It started at Wal-Mart one night. We were in the toy section and she saw a baby that she just had to have. I told her, as I always did, "you can have it if you go pee on the potty." We were doing everything to try and get her out of diapers. Bribes, treats, trips to the park, you name it. Well the next night she told me that she needed her baby from Wal-Mart. I told her she needed to use the potty and then we'd go get it. So she did! It was her bedtime and both of us were in our pj's but we went and got her baby. I got some blocks while I was there to bribe her to go poo. (She loves the blocks at G'mas house.) She's in panties all day and loves to go potty by herself. Its always, "get out mom and close the door." :-) This picture is from yesterday. Me and Dan were inside cleaning and we look out to first see her drop her pants and sit on the grass. When that did feel right she propped herself up on the swing and just went pee. I guess if boys can pee anywhere, so can girls!

Riding with a busload of girls...

I think it's about 11:00 pm and we are in the middle of Oklahoma. That's Shari telling her most embarrassing moment...which I won't repeat. Poor Dan and Cliff, I think they heard a lot more than they probably wanted to. They were such good sports and for most of the time, the life of the party. Behind coach is Gabbi, our Brazilian who was keeping us entertained with telling jokes over the intercom. I think the jokes were funnier because she was trying to translate them in English. She is such a funny girl.

Gracie's first bus ride...

Since Dan and Cliff Hughes were driving us in the bus, we figured we would have my mom and dad bring her to the game. We decided to drop our stuff off at the bus before dropping Gracie off but when she wouldn't get off the bus we decided to take her. She had a lot of fun with coach Shari and kept us all entertained.