2 Years and 3 Months Later...

Clearly, my life over the past couple of years have been fun, crazy, emotional and truly some of the best ones ever. I haven't necessarily neglected this blog but I'd like to think...I just didn't have the time! So it may take awhile to catch you up if we aren't "friends on facebook."

Madelyn has grown leaps and bounds. I was reading and going over some of the posts I put on here awhile back and just sat in awe of the beautiful and intelligent girl she has become. She's a chatter box who literally, never stops talking. There are times that I will look at her, begging and pleading for her to JUST STOP TALKING. She always replys with some witty response. "Um, mom I'm not talking, I'm singing." I'd like to say she's your average three year old girl. She's happy, sassy and quite the little sneak. Eating is nonexsistent, sleeping? Well, that too. My parents laugh and tell I'm getting, exactly what I was.

And since the last blog I've had...twins! Yes, twins! The news was incredibly shocking when I received it MYSELF in the doctors office. Ryan had a golf outing and I went into the doctors office to get a routine beginner ultrasound to see about how far along I was. BEFORE this life changing ultrasound...well, I'm such a worry wart that even though the pregnancy tests were coming back positive (all 34932804928390 of them) I still wanted blood work done. So my doctor sent in the order forms to let me get blood work done to make sure this was a legitimate pregnancy. Poor doctor. My gut told me this pregnancy was just a little different. My day one blood work was in the range it should be according to the LMP so I went back for the second day of blood work to make sure my numbers were going up and they tripled. Um, tripled? What does it mean when it triples when they're only supposed to double? I quickly googled what it meant (google is the worst thing on the planet for people like me) and it said in most scenarios it meant its a multiple pregnancy. Wait, multiple pregnancy? We just thought we were trying for baby number two. Ho-lee-smokes. I called to talk to the nurse at the OB's and explained all the above, as she was listening she was laughing and said don't worry! It's not always the case. So, a few short days later I went in for my first baby appointment and well, I'll never ever in my entire life forget this:
Doctor: "There's the baby, measuring just like it should be"
Me: "Only one right?"
Doctor: "Hang on let me just move...opp there's another one"
Me: "Are you shitting me?"
Doctor: (laughing) "hang on let me measure, this one is measuring the same as the other"
Me: "There's no more in there, right?:
Doctor: glancing around, "nope, two's it."

I left there with a few photos in my hand feeling so happy, unsure and proud. Can I handle two babies, at once!? I sure can!

Two black circles. That meant two babies, currently taking residence inside my body. Well, that was just the beginning.

I have been through one wild journey. Madelyn is now 3 and the twins just turned one on March 22nd. They are one. I have a healthy 3 year and also 1 year old twins. I feel like the luckiest woman in the entire world.

Personally, I had those babies and I wanted MY body back. Is that even allowed to be in the same sentence? Babies and my body? I was bound and determined to. I had those babies and started that day. Food wasn't going to get me this time. It took me one year to do something about my body after Madelyn. I don't know if it was first baby syndrome or what. I spend that first year after Madelyn was born no necessarily depressed but in the slumps because I just didn't feel healthy or good about myself. It was never enough for me to do something about it. Around Maddie's first birthday I joined weight watchers and began to lose weight. I lost about 24 lbs and then got pregnant with the twins.

Since the twins were born I've lost 54 lbs and am back to me with some stretch marks and some excess twin skin. Those are their foot marks on my body. It's ok, for now!

I am now a weight watchers receptionist. Meaning I weigh people in, encourage them and do all the paper work. I start this Friday training to become a weight watcher leader. I can't believe it, I can actually be a leader! This was my goal from the start, being a leader. A leader is the one who runs the meetings and does pretty intense motivation for the group. I CAN'T WAIT! I feel great and I want others to feel this way, too.