Prayed for One, Blessed with Two!
Monday, April 27, 2009
3 years ago today.......
From October until early March of 2006 I first took some medicine that he prescribed that diabetic patients take, which is also know to help with PCOS, but in my case it started making me sick and I called my doctor on the phone one day and told him I could not take that anymore and since it hadn't really worked anyway I just thought it may be better to just go ahead and try the Clomid. I had taken clomid about a year before this time with another specialist and it didn't seem to work, but God has a plan for everyone and the first time was not God's plan for us. So of course my Doctor told me the chances of possibly a multiple pregnancy and I understood the chances, but I was just determined that this was it and I needed to try again. So, March of 2006 was when I was put on Clomid and by April 13, 2006 I took that dreaded test I had taken many times before and in my mind I was expecting to get the negative result like all the other times! Well, God had bigger plans here and when I saw the word "Pregnant" on this high tech pregnancy test they sell now, I was kind of in shock, but very excited! I could not believe it really said Pregnant! I was so excited that Larry was actually playing ball that night and wouldn't have gotten home until late and I knew I would be asleep, but I didn't want to wait until the morning to tell him, so Yes, I called him on the phone and told him we had some news to tell our parents that Easter weekend. He really didn't click to what I was saying and so I told him that I was finally pregnant. I could here the excitement in his voice, but do wish I could have seen his face too, but I was just still in shock that we got pregnant our first go with clomid this time!
This was just the beginning of our pregnancy journey.
Here is our first ultrasound taken on 4/27/06. This was our little peanut that we got to see for the very first time! I was only 5 weeks pregnant at this appointment, so there was not much that you could see.
This was just the beginning of our Journey. Stay tuned for the next post when I finish our story of our pregnancy!
Happy 18th Birthday Lexis!!!
So today, I want to wish my beautiful little sister a wonderful 18th Birthday! We hope you enjoy your special day!!!
WE LOVE YOU LEXIS ARIEL!!!!!
I will be posting some pictures, but I am having some trouble getting them to download to the computer, so I will have those up soon!
Love- Larry, LeJoy, Cooper and Kayla
Monday, April 20, 2009
Our Saturday and Sundays Trip to the Houston Zoo
Sunday turned out to be a very beautiful day and the kids and I woke up and played around the house while daddy got to sleep in for a few hours. We didn't have any plans for the day and after daddy woke up he decided it would be fun to take the kids to the Zoo. Well, that was a great idea since it was so nice outside and we figured the kids would really enjoy getting to see the animals now.
We got to the zoo around 11am and we spent almost 3 hours there! We just had a great day as a family and we loved getting to see the kids seeing all the animals! I think our favorite was the giraffe. There was one so close to us eating off a tree on our side of the fence and the kids would just talk to him and said hello!
Here are the kids looking at the Otters up on the log. These two otters were so fun to watch as they played and played and played! They would go in the water and then out on the logs and then chased each other in the water for a bit!
Here the otters were in the water swimming. Otters are so cute!
Here was a BIG Turtle! It even started moving and walking around. The kids really liked seeing it walk. They thought that was cool.
This was another favorite to see. We are big into salt water tanks and this was a huge tank that took up one whole wall. It was beautiful with all the rock and corals and the fish!
And here is what we saw when we walked up to the giraffes. He was eating off the tree on the other side of the fence. It was cool to see one that close up.
I wish I could just lay around like this and take a nap!
When I took this picture, I thought the cow was going to give Kayla a kiss. They loved getting to touch the cow! As the kids would say..."What does a cow say? Moo" They are too cute!!
There was a table of people set up right in front of this orangutan and he never moved. He was so interested in seeing the people as we were in seeing him. Although we didn't get to get very close as we were so rudely cut off by a man that couldn't wait in line like the rest of us to get to see and he never moved so he was in the way the entire time we had been standing there. Poor Kayla wanted to see so badly Larry finally put her down on the ledge and she got a little closer, but we decided to just go since this man would not move. Poor Cooper couldn't see either. I had to get Kayla and she cried when I was carrying her away.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter Weekend Part 2
I noticed on Part 1 that I left out what we did Saturday evening after we left Alvin. We took the kids to cousin Trey and Megan Smith's house to decorate Easter eggs! He had hamburgers and hot dogs and just had some family fun hanging out. We took easter eggs to color and dye, but Kayla and Cooper were not really into to that yet, so mommy had fun doing it! I love hard boiled eggs, so I didn't mind doing it by myself. I didn't get any pictures of any of that, but I did get some when we got home and gave the kids their Easter baskets from mommy and daddy. See pictures and Video below.
Easter Sunday morning Daddy had to go to work at the Fire Station so mommy and the kids met Nana Davis at Sagemont church. After church mommy drove to the fire station to let the kids see daddy for a little bit. They loved that of course! They get so excited when they see their daddy even if it was for just a little bit. After visiting daddy we drove over to Nana and Pops' house to have lunch and just hang out. The kids got a good nap in and then they played for a little longer! They colored and played with all the toys. They then got their Easter baskets from Nana & Pops. Kayla's had a bunch of coloring stuff and side walk chalk and Cooper's had army men, trucks and a plane!
They got so excited when they saw the orange and apple in the basket too. Funny kids!!
Kayla was saying "CHEESE" and she always puts her head back when saying it!
We wished daddy could have been in the picture with us this year! :(
Cooper's Easter basket had a hat as the bottom and Pops put it on for Cooper! HAHALook closely, this is what happens when you give a two year old a sheet of stickers! Silly Turkey!We took the kids down to the lake area so that they could feed the ducks! They love to see the ducks and they got to have a bag of food to feed the ducks. They get out there and call the ducks and say "Quack Quack". We also saw the turtles that came to eat as well. I counted at least 15 turtles and there may have been more! There were only two ducks this time and across the road in the other lake we did see a mommy duck with her ducklings walking right behind her. It was very cute to see that!Uncle Landon with Kayla!Landon's girlfriend Valerie with Cooper!Aunt Lexis with the kids!Kayla is one brave girl. She has no fear! She got right to the edge and didn't understand why we were all telling her to get back.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Easter 2009 Weekend Part 1 of 2
Saturday we took the kids to Alvin to visit Grandma and PawPaw Dickens and Uncle Chris. We met for lunch at Joe's BBQ and ate lots of good food! The kids wanted to be big and sit in a big chair and not a highchair. After lunch we went back to Grandma and PawPaw's house and the kids got to open there Easter baskets which contained lots of good things including big boy underwear for Cooper and Princess panties for Kayla. Now we just need to get the kids to learn to tell us they need to go potty instead of just going in the diaper and then telling us!
Here is Uncle Chris teasing the kids before they got their Easter baskets.Kayla got a pretty necklace that she just loves!Cooper got his favorite things that we see in the sky.... A Helicopter and an Airplane.Now after opening our Easter baskets, Daddy, Uncle Chris and PawPaw went outside to hide Easter Eggs and then the kids got to go hunting for them! They did really good! Kayla was pretty fast at it and just kept filling her basket! Cooper had to shake them at first and make sure they had something in them! They were so cute! I have a video at the end of them hunting eggs.After hunting eggs, we took the kids inside and Grandma got out the cookie stuff to bake cookies so the kids could decorate them. They got to help lay the dough out and press the cookie cutter down to make the different shapes for the cookies. They baked the cookies and then the decorating began. They had so much fun with this as well! They loved getting to put the icing and sprinkles on and then they got to eat them! YUM YUM! I also included a video of the cookie decorating.