Upcoming events

Tomorrow is our first baby(ies) shower by Mrs. Imfeld and Mrs. Geison. Jeff specially ordered me a sweet pink dress and I am soo excited:) My family will be there along with many Bolles teachers. It will be awesome. Sunday we will be 27 weeks!!! God is soo good! Melissa is having a luncheon at her house for us (the girls and me) on Tuesday. Leighton and Julia will be there. We also have a R.O.C. appointment this upcoming Friday to look for growth and overall well being of the girls. Please keep us in your prayers. It will be an exciting week and before we know it we will be 28 weeks and I will be moving back home. I am nervous to be further from the hospital, but I know God will keep us safe and healthy! Thank you all for your continued prayers! xo

active faith vs. passive faith

"You've just got to believe He has done it and it is done" -From Days of Heaven upon Earth

I have not mentioned this yet in our our blog, but I was just sharing with my Mom my grattitude for her power of faith...her true essence of being an active believer. At fifteen weeks when we were bleeding and praying for a mircle my Mom never questioned that the God would provide a miracle. She quietly began to sew a cowgirl quilt for our girls. Her active faith made me believe that we would make it. Each day a quilted piece was added ...our faith grew...
At fifteen weeks when we were in the hospital Catie pulled me aside and said, "it is o.k. to believe Jo. Let your guard down...trust God and believe" I remeber it perfectly. Catie, Jeff, and I were there just all teary eyed and we came up with the girls names that day. .................and ever since my Mom and Catie's active faith lessons... there have been a turn of positive events:) Thank you Mom and Catie for making me a believer and for making me a woman of active faith! Thank you God for putting them in my life. I love you both so much!

26 weeks and one day:)

Praise the Lord:) and to God be all of the glory! Today we are 26 weeks and one day pregnant. The girls really have been moving. It is so much fun:) This past weekend Jeff and I went to Babies R' Us and ordered our cribs and bassinetts for the girls. Tami (Jeff's sister) painted the girls room pink (She has been so awesome and helpful). We also picked up an adorable chandelier and Pottery Barn Kids. On Sunday we were able to go to church and the music was awesome:) I still go out in the wheelchair and we have affectionately decided to named it "the Patriot" ha!
Back to the nursery....The nursery is going to be so beautiful:) Mom has been sewing a surprise for the girls and I am pretty sure it is the bedding:) I am so excited and starting to wonder what they will look like. I am feeling great. The only main change seems to be back pain at the end of the day, but I consider it a true blessing to have the back pain because it means my bells is getting bigger and the girls are growing:)
This Saturday is our first baby shower . Mrs Imfeld and Mrs. Geison are having it for us. I am soo excited. Jeff ordered me a dress from the Maternity Shoppe in San Marco. It is chiffon and flowy and pink:)
Every morning when I take a shower I pray so hard for our girls. I am completely humbled and thankful for all of the miracles and blessings that God has provided for us. These babies are such a testimony to His works and that All things are possible with God:) I am also so humbled and thankful for our friends and family and when someone says they are praying for us that prayer is a great gift. It has made me reevaluate when a person asks me to pray for him/her. I take that request to heart. I guess what I am trying to say is that this pregnancy has made me so thankful for my relationship with the Lord and that when it comes down to it...when I am all alone...He is my best friend.

Good news

Todat at the OB everything went great. Good heart tones and growth. I did receive the "watch your weight talk". The way I see it is that the PICC line is no longer needed, the babies are growing, and I am healthy. It did make Jeff and me laugh, but we overall feel blessed. We go back in three weeks. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support. xo

Appointment today

Please keep us in your prayers today, as we have an appointment today at 3:50 with our OB. It is a follow up appointment. Love you all!

almost 25 weeks!

Tomorrow we will be 25 weeks pregnant. The girls are really starting to move and when they kick you can see it outside of my belly:) Yesterday was Valentine's Day and it was great to just spend time with Jeff. He gave me the cutest present. He ordered me a bear from Vermont and it was a pregnant bear :) sooo cute. I also was able to see Tristen's football game in the wheelchair. I also was able to see my two dogs Rosie and Sage. Sage is our chocolate lab and he has lost about 20 lbs over the past six months. After a million dollar work up they cannot find anything wrong with him. Mom says he misses me. Since the tests were negative, I was able to see him yesterday and he was soo cuddly. It was overall just a great day with family.

In closing, I wanted to share a passage rom a devotional I am reading:

"The visions of things that seem impossible are presented to us ...not to mock us, but to incite us to spiritual exploits which would be impossible unless God had stored within us the great strength of his own indwelling. Difficulty is sent to reveal to us what God can do in answer to faith that prays and works" From Daily Devotional Community

We love you all and are so thankful for your continued prayers. With God all things are possible.

24 weeks and two days!!!

Today we are 24 weeks and two days! Thank you Lord! Sorry that I have not written much lately. (The "a" key on the home lap top is not working and I am using Mom's school lap top computer right now). Last Friday we went to R.O.C. and receieved good news. As of last Friday, Cate weighs 1.6 lbs and Ellie weighs 1.3 lbs:) HUGE PRAISE!!! They did notice the remnants of the bleed over my cervix. This is not bad news, just a reminder that I need to be cautious and to continue the bed rest. We also have been following my heart rate. My resting heart rate before pregnancy was around 60 bpm now it is around 110. It sometimes will go up to 135 and it makes me feel like I am running even though I am resting. This seems to be part of a twin pregnancy with increased cardiac output. I am just thankful that we are doing great. Thank you all so much for your continued prayers. We love you all so much! Have a wonderful Valentines Day!

More Good News

Thursdays appointment was great. I passed the glucose toleramce test and the babies looked great on ultrasound. Cate still is loving her feet over her head. We think she will be a tumbler:) Ellie was calm as always. They are getting so big:). God is a God of miracles! You all know how I am so paranoid about my cervical length, so they measured it and it is a 4.0 (which is GREAT) HUGE PRAISE! AMEN! I do not go back to the regular OB until Feb. 26th:) This is a first for us as we usually go every two weeks. We do still have an appointment at R.O.C. (the high risk group) on Friday. Please keep praying.

I started a new devotional called "Streams in the Desert". Today 's entry was excellent. It went on to say that "This thing is from me" 1 Kings 12:24. Meaning that all that we go through is for a better purpose because we are children of God. It says, "The sting will go as you learn to see Me in all things". The Lord has taught me so much during this pregnancy. I chose to see Him in all that we are going through. And the truth of it is is that what we are going through has turned out be an awesome testimony to God's grace and miracles. Even more amazing is that through it all He is right beside us...guiding us and protecting us. What a mighty God we serve!

Love you all-