CA Vacation Newport Beach

Time at the Condo There was so much to do at the condo. We were either swimming, playing giant checkers, basketball, tether ball or at the putting green. It was nice to have some options to entertain the kids there where we were staying. We made many memories with cousins and each other! It was a great last vacation before the twins arrive. The boys enjoyed all of it and we had wonderful weather. We were all reluctant to come home, the sign of a great vacation!

CA Vacation Newport Beach

Tide Pools

We had a great time at the tide pools at Laguna Beach. We saw many sea creatures, including many crabs, muscles, sea anemones (mom's favorite), sea urchins, and Dad and Braden even saw an octopus!

CA Vacation Newport Beach

THE BEACH During our vacation we spent 3 days on the beach. We had much fun, eating, spending time with cousins, playing baseball, football, frisbee, smash ball, boogie boarding, and playing in the sand. There are many pictures to share! My bro Bryan and his family joined us as well as my dad and step mom. My kids loved to go in the water and play around. Tyson came up with what he called "T boarding" Instead of catching the wave before it crashed on the boogie board, they would wait until it crashed and came closer to them and then ride it in. Braden loved to warm up in the warm sand when he was done in the water. Nathan love to play with the cars that were in Uncle Bry's bag in the sand and play baseball. We even went to the beach that I played at when I was young. Every year we would take a trip to Laguna beach and we had what we thought was our own private beach. It was fun to show my kids where I vacationed as a kid and make our own memories there!

20 Weeks

So here I am at 20 weeks. I am feeling good, no more nausea, thank goodness. I do find I have to slow down already and take many breaks during the day to just put my feet up. The babies are doing great and I feel them move around more each day.

Tractor Heaven!

Saturday our cute niece Lauren got baptized. Since we were out that way after the baptism we went out to Julie and Todd's house, Lauren's parents. Uncle Todd has all the cool gadgets and toys and is very nice to let Nathan play on them. At the baptism he told Nathan he has some new things to show him, it was Uncle Todd's new tractor! Nathan got to ride on and drive it! He also got to drive the 4 wheeler, along with all the other kids too. When it was time for us to leave, Nathan was in tears, he wants to move in with Uncle Todd and Aunt Julie....I don't blame him! Thank you Uncle Todd for making him feel so special!

Boy Names Anyone?

OK so after coming up with three boys names we have yet to find a fourth that we LOVE. So if any of you have ideas for boys names just post a comment. My sis in law, Carroll, thought this would be helpful to us and I agree. She suggested some names and right now Milton, is taking the lead! thanks for that one Carroll:) As you can see we need some help!

And it is a boy and a girl!

I was pretty stressed out about the whole ultrasound thing. It wasn't only finding out if I was ever going to get a daughter, it was making sure that everything looked healthy and good. The more babies I have the more I wonder if I will get another healthy one. Thank goodness we had wonderful results. I am thrilled to be adding another son to our family. My three boys are such individuals that it will be fun to see another personality come out. I am also exstatic to be adding a daughter. So when we got to the ultrasound they started by checking the placenta. They noticed that it was one really big placenta, or two that don't really have a dividing line. Identical twins have one placenta and fraternal two. So we still didn't really know if we were having idential or fraternal. Then she went to baby A and looked it over and right away we saw it was a boy. Now don't get me wrong I love this baby, but I was disapointed and kept thinking, please let them be fraternal:) So here is a pic of our little baby boy. We don't have a name yet, still thinking on this one!

After we saw that everything was healthy for the boy we moved over to Baby B. The tech went right over to see the sex and what do you know, the cord was right between the babies legs. We had to go check out everything and then go back and we saw it was a girl! We told the tech that we weren't leaving until we knew for sure what baby B was. Here is our sweet little girl!

When we were done we raced over to the school to pick up the boys. They all were anxious to know what the babies were so we thought we would take them to ice cream. So when they were all loaded in the car we told them we were having a boy...and they all had pretty long faces, and we were having a girl and the cheers rang out! Then we asked them for any boy names they liked and Braden sugested John and Dave. Tyson likes Tyler, since it is so close to his name. The girl name is Jessica Nalani, we have had that picked out since we were pregnant with Tyson.