A long hiatus and a Short "catch up"

I left this blog at 18 weeks pregnant. I wont even bother catching you up from that point, as so much has happened since then and you really do not want to read a novel. I'll give you the basics in bullet form to make this quick and painless, so that I can begin the month of April with the A to Z blog challege. This is a personal challenge for me to write in this blog every day. But first lets catch up:

• WE GOT MARRIED on July 28th, 2012 in front of all of the special people in our life! A very special day to remember with a very amazing wonderful husband We also celebrated 9 years together in December! 
• My pregnancy was hard. I had appointments every two weeks with Maternal Fetal Medicine (for higher risk pregnancies) and then once a month I had an additional appointment with my regular OB. This increased to once a week after 26 weeks and twice a week some weeks. Then 2-3 times a week from 32 weeks on. I also endured almost 4 months of bed rest (on and off) and you'd think I could have used my blog during all my "down time" (pun intended) but I basically slept the entire time. Growing two is quite hard (though I have nothing to compare it to.) 
• The twins were born via emergency C-Section on November 27th, 2012 just a few days before their scheduled date of December 6th. They were 36 weeks. They were both EXACTLY 5lbs and 15oz and EXACTLY 19 3/4"! So if you want to talk about identical twins being identical... they really did a great job of that. No birth marks or identifying features to tell them apart, although mom and dad can tell. 
• Their names are Milo (Baby A) and Brody (Baby B). 
• Someday I'll write about my birth story here for those that want to read it.
• The boys are now 4.5 months old and just the most amazing little humans that have ever graced this earth (as any mom would say about her children.)
• Being a mom is better and more amazing than I ever could have imagined. I love every single day of it and wouldn't ever want anything different.
• Jon is the most amazing dad ever. He instantly was a professional at this whole parenting thing. He's so helpful and is great with the boys. He has no problem taking on two crying babies at one time and is all I could ever ask for and then some! 
  
  Our little miracles.
  We rarely dress them alike, but every once in a while for fun! :-)c
  
  

Wedding Bells are a week away!

Im getting married in 10 DAYS!!!! 

A few things you might want to know:

My fiance, Jon and I, have been together for 8 and 1/2 years.

A year and a half ago, on Valentine's Day, he proposed to me. Of course, I said "Yes."

For the last year and a half we have been arranging and making plans for our wedding day. 

So, originally we had completely different ideas about how we would get married. I have always been a simple person and I really hate being center of attention. In fact, the idea of being in front of people (even ones I know) and having to be coherent completely terrifies me. I originally really wanted to just have a court house style wedding since we had been together for so long anyways. Then we would have had a reception to celebrate with friends and family.

My fiance wanted to have a real wedding. It didn't have to be big, but he really wanted to have an actual wedding and have all of his family here from out of town. He wanted to do it right and as he said to me "we're only doing this once, so we might as well have an actual wedding."

For a long time I was really nervous about the concept and nervous about the whole thing. Through out the planning process I've had moments where I said to myself "Why didn't we just do it the way I wanted?" because let me tell you... planning a wedding is no walk in the park, even one as simple as ours. 

However, after a year and a half of talking about it, planning it, meeting with our mothers to help put it together, getting (almost) everything we need to celebrate our day.... Im honestly EXCITED and also just really ready for the day to be here.

Im excited to celebrate with family and friends. I'm glad we chose to do it the way my fiance wanted. Now, I'm still pretty nervous about the actual ceremony, so dont get me wrong, but I realize that it wont be a long ceremony compared to most and that it WILL be in front of people close to us and thankfully the moms have calmed me by saying even they didn't recite it perfectly and that it's no big deal.

I am definitely feeling less nervous and more ready to celebrate than I have before. I know it will be a blast, but I am really ready to get to wedding day.

So, these next few weeks are going to be busy and go by quickly. I have tons of things to do for the wedding and family in town afterwards, in addition to appointments for the twins.

I'm getting really excited and the anticipation might be what drives me crazy now instead of nervousness. 

I am sure I will have some nerves on the day of and maybe the night before, but a lot of those nerves are put at ease because my fiance and I have spent so many years together. I'm not marrying someone I barely know and so I have no nerves about it being the right choice. He's the one and always has been the one and I'm looking forward to the next chapter of our lives as a married couple and soon-to-be mommy and daddy to two wonderful boys!