Momma's intuition was right on! 2 boys it is! We are beyond thrilled that God saw fit to bless us with 2 baby boys. What a huge responsibility, but one that we are forever thankful for. I remember the first ultrasound where we were able to see our babies, even as little blueberries with little flashing heart beats, I was moved to tears. As I have laid there visit after visit, the tears still come because I am blown away that not only have we been blessed with one baby, but two. As overwhelming of a task of raising 2 babies is, I am baffled and profoundly humbled that God chose us. There is nothing special about me. As stated before seriously the only good thing in me is Jesus, so as I look upon each ultrasound screen I am still amazed that God chose such an unworthy, so undeserving person to raise these precious babies. What an honor.
We have been very blessed with an amazing ultrasound tech. If that term is like "cop" to a police officer then I am very sorry to all you radiology/ultrasound friends. Just tell me the technical term and I'll stop with the tech thing. Our sweet lady actually kind of knew us because her niece/nephew and us are friends and she had been reading our blog! How fun is that?! She has been precious. She has gone above and beyond her duties to make us feel comfortable and encourage us along the way. Not to mention these sweet babies already have a photo albums worth of pictures! For her protection, I'm not going to include her name but just know she is amazing and we love her!
Because of her amazing skills we were able to find out the gender of our babies at 19 weeks. I had heard of several twin moms who found out one gender but not the other until later on so I hoping that both babies would cooperate since our gender reveal party was scheduled for merely 4 hours after our detailed ultrasound.
Once we left the doctors office with the concealed information, we went straight to the party store for them to fill up 2 balloons with the correct color confetti. Because we wanted to find out with everyone else, we waited outside for what seemed like FOREVER. They finally came out with our balloons in hand and told us that they wanted to take care of the expense. They told us to go have fun and come back and shop for the twins 1st birthday stuff there. Party City by Sports Authority people... go give them your business. We certainly will.
With the gender reveal balloons in the car, it was time to go set out the food and get ready for our guests. My in laws were gracious enough to open up their home to everyone. We knew that so many people were excited about these babies that we wanted anyone who wanted to, to be able to be apart of this exciting event. We were blown away by the sweet faces that attended. We were surrounded by over 50 people who genuinely have loved, prayed, and supported us through this exciting time.
Before we knew it (and with lots of prying from our sisters) it was time for the reveal!
A big thanks to Michelle Walker for taking pictures this night and then creating this video... which I had no idea she was going to do. What a treasure this is to us!
Now that we know what these precious babies are we have GOT to give them names. And still we are at a loss. I will say it is not for the lack of help from others. This is just a hard job! These kids are stuck with these names forever and we want them to be good. So hopefully in the posts to come these sweet boys will have names. Thank you for your sweet comments, texts, and encouragement. We feel so loved and blessed and look forward to raising these boys!
