Right When You Think Things Can't Get Any Worse!

Last night at 11:00 we woke up to our house shaking. We thought there was an earthquake but when we went outside there were two men accross the street cussing and swearing. We then thought we had walked into the middle of a gun fight. We went back inside and looked out the window only for Josh to ask "Where is your car?" Yeah, some drunk idiot illegal Mexican with unknown names ran through my front yard, hit my car which spinned around and hit the back of his car and went through the corner of my garage. It's a nightmare.


The kid in this photo was the passanger who fled the sceen after waking up from being passed out!

We've been told the car is totalled but we're still working on getting things rolling to get it all settled. The police report includes witnesses that said this 21 year old kid was going about 100 mph around the corner when he lost control. Horray for us!

14 weeks, Harry Potter, Too Much Mexican, Vomit

We've had an exciting last couple of days at our house.

This picture is of me at 14 weeks (and 13 lbs. lighter than before I got pregnant), I didn't realize I was so huge. Huge but happy. I've been craving Mexican food almost everyday lately so I've been over-consuming said mexican food. On Saturday I ate it twice in one day. (Bad Idea). We went to the 8:15 showing of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince with Amy and Spencer. We got there a little bit late and I ended up sitting next to a lady who was breathing like and elephant in heat, smelled like feet, dressed in Winnie the Pooh Garb and stuffing her face with pop corn and soda. I was doing alright until about 20 minutes to the end when she adjusted and I got quite a wiff of whatever she had for lunch, combined with too much mexican food, and was from the point on struggling with my up chuck reflex. I didn't want to leave the show because what would be the point of missing the ending, even though I know how it ends, I just have to see it.

Well the movie gets over and Josh leans over to ask me a question and I just about bite his head off because he smells like Strawberry Daquari flavored Sobe and I don't want to be talked to. I completely ignore people I know trying to say hello to me and walk rather swiftly to the other end of the theater, dump out my purse and RALFED all over in it. (Of course I didn't think to grab one the hundreds of large paper popcorn buckets to do my little deed in, NO, I go for my $100.00 Miche bag with 4 different shells instead.)

In the end people stare at me like I'm an animal at the zoo and I am mortified. I just throw my purse in the garbage and walk out the door with what's left of my pride (not much). On the drive home I realize that still remaining in the ralfed in purse is Josh's favorite sunglasses and the flash drive with all my recipes on it that I have been typing at work. So we did have some casualties lost to the cause and now Josh thinks we should name our baby "Harry Ralf" in honor of our experience this evening. (He was joking of course, but the babies now share the nickname Ralf.)

Good Times!

A Decision Has Been Made

We have finally decided on car seats and a stroller. We've been to every store we can think of loooking for a pattern that we liked that came in double and finally it was found at Fashion Place Mall. It's Graco and the colors are charcoal gray and green (just in case you can't tell). We even got a killer deal on it because of the sale. Most places we went wanted close to $600.00 dollars for the set and we ended up paying $380.00 for this. It was too good of a deal to pass up. We had planned on picking car seats before we knew the genders of the babies just so we wouldn't be influenced by the pink flowers if they were girls. So, we love them and are so happy.

Totally Freaked Out!

So, coutesy of our IT genious at work, I am officially terrified that some terrorist in the Middle East is now reading my blog and stealing my identity as I write. In our meeting today at work he showed us how he could take a random blog and find out enough info on someone to be able to steal their identity (he did this with three people). Now to me that is frightening. So I started thinking, in all honesty I am a blog stalker. I am constantly reading blogs of people I know and don't know without leaving any sort of messages to say I've been there. So I thought, not in the "I'm totally awesome" way, that maybe there are people that stalk my blog too. He gave us a few tips on how to keep your identity more secure.

1- Use Nicknames instead of real names (Britt does this and people that matter to her know what their real names are, so that helps)

2- Do not disclose where you were born, went to school, currently live or work. (Not even the state because bad guys can guess the first 5 of your social with relative accuracy.)

3- He said never write about vacations until you are back from said vacation.

4- Never post anything that you wouldn't want the entire world to read, because once you do Google never forgets.

5- Go private. (Although they say there are ways around this, at least you are trying)

So after much paranoia I have decided that I'm taking my blog private. I'll probably do this around the beginning of August before I announce what the twins will be and their prospective names (which of course will be nicknames, thanks Britt) . I realize this is inconvienient for many but I must be able to say that I'm doing all I can to prevent anything bad happening to my family. So for those of you who would like to be invited to view my blog leave me a message with your email or you can send me an email at gubyguns@yahoo.com.

Update on the Twins

Yesterday, Josh and I went to the see Dr. Hutch. He is amazing but we always have to wait forever for him. My appointment was at 11:30 and I didn't see him until 1:00. I got weighed which was fun for me. I've lost 10 lbs exactly since my last appointment and although I've been taking some crap from people about it my doctor said that I didn't need to worry. He told me to remember that I am only eating for one, not for three, and if he sees a problem he will let me know. So it looks like I don't have to gain 60 lbs afterall. We got to hear the babies heart beats. They were at 178 and 167 which is a lot higher than last month when they were at 134 and 140. We also could hear them moving around which was an interesting sound that sounded a lot like I was passing gas. It was embarassing until Hutch told me that the sound was them moving. It was neat.

Hutch also told us the differences between a single and a multiple pregnancies. Basically everything is the same until about 18 weeks. Then you start to experience everything earlier. So what women experience at 25 weeks I will experience at 20 weeks. Interesting. Plus after week 18 we have an ultrasound everytime we go in. Just to make sure that the babies are growing and that one isn't dominating the other. So hopefully next time they will be able to see what the babies genders are. At first I thought that one was for sure a boy; but yesterday I started thinking that they are both girls. So I have no idea! I'll just be happy with whatever I get.

I also got some other interesting news. When we went in for the ultrasound the ultrasound tech told me that the babies were fraternal. Well my doctor told me that they've found you can have identical twins and they can have separate placentas. So the only way to know if they are fraternal is if they are different genders or if after they are born they look physically different. Interesting, I had no idea. Apparently no one else did either because no one bothered to correct me. So we may have fraternal twins, we may have identical twins, they may be boys or girls or one of each.

I also had to have some tests run. I went to the lab and there was this huge poly lady sitting behind the desk and she was going to draw my blood. I was terrified, I just knew she was gonna kill me; but she was the best ever. I barely felt the needle. I'm surprised that I have any blood left because they took so much (6 large viles, 4 small ones). Then I had to pee in a cup twice, so the second time they only got about 1/2 a mL. Hope that was enough, I guess we'll see.

To top off the visit, I had to meet with the financial department. She went over my benefits, which are amazing. They pay 100% of the charges and all I have to pay is one $20.00 co-payment. I also found out that because we are having twins the delivery charge doubles. So instead of being $3000.00 now it's $6000.00. (Thank You Insurance). I guess the extra 20 minutes they spend with you and the extra baby they catch warrants a double charge, whatever! But the sad news is that I may not get to deliver at the hospital I want. Originally I had planned to deliver at Jordan Valley; but once we found out it was twins Hutch suggested we go to the new IMC Hospital since they have an NICU just in case. That way the babies wont have to be transfered. Well, supposably, my insurance wont cover that hospital so now I have to fight my insurance on it. That should make for an exciting phone conversation. So wish me luck, I've got my 'fightin' words' ready!