25 weeks and a trip to Star Valley Wyoming

Eric and I ventured out on a trip to Star Valley for a Roberts Family reunion.  We had to stop about every hour (doctors orders) to keep circulation going.  We thought that would make the trip long and bothersome, but we actually had a really great time and the drive went by quickly.  It is a very beautiful drive and there are lots of things to see in between Missoula Montana and Star Valley Wyoming.  We stopped in Idaho Falls for a quick dinner and of course a picture in front of the temple and the falls.  It is so pretty there.  I am at 25 weeks and feeling the babies move lots.  We are able to feel body parts on what seems to be the very surface of my skin even though with there being two in there we have no idea what and who we are feeling.  I am being entertained as I watch my belly move each time a baby does!  I have been feeling a little more winded lately and I get worn out pretty fast.  I have a pain in my rib cage when the kids get a little wild, but nothing I can't handle. I have no complaints really.  :)  I'm just grateful these kids have a place to grow and develop!  Eric takes such great care of me and I love him for that!  Enjoy the pics!  

Doesn't look like much growing going on!

Trust me.  There is plenty of growing going on!

Picture of the falls and temple in Idaho Falls.

20 weeks and counting.....(more than halfway there!)

I am officially 20 weeks pregnant and doing great, double chin and all.  My blood sugars were perfect for a long time and all of the sudden went high.  I panicked and called my diabetes doctor.  He wasn't worried at all.  He said plan on that happening every 2-3 weeks from here on out.  Great!  I will just up my insulin every time it happens as my body will become more and more insulin resistant.  He said as long as we control it when it happens the babies won't be 15lbs each.  I don't know, maybe i should go for a record for heaviest twins.  (no thank you)  I think i had to tell that story because up until this point it has been an ideal pregnancy.  2 or 3 days of feeling like poop, a little (or a lot) tired, but other than that...no complaints.  My doctors appointment was yesterday.  He said the babies looked great on ultrasound.  they are growing evenly which means my little boy isn't quite a bully to his sister yet.  He said their hearts are beating nicely and so far everything couldn't be better.  that was comforting.  He said my weight gain is perfect. (when i step on the scale, i'd beg to differ.  but then i remember bambino and bambina growing inside me and that makes it okay)  i am measuring what a singleton mom ( i love that word) would at 26 weeks.  that seems crazy to me.  anyway, things are going great here. Eric was able to take a trip to Cour D'Alene (said cord alaine) for a pharmacy thing.  it sounds like he had a great time.  Work for both of us is going great.  I love my job more and more everyday and Eric likes his but the drive to Hamilton (45 min) is a little draining on him, but so worth it. Sorry i've been slow on the update.  I'll include a picture of Erics institute graduation as promised.  Also, memorial day weekend we went up the canyon for a weeny roast and smores.  I'll put a few of those pics up too.  Hope all is well in your neck of the woods! Love,  because everything was wet, this fire took about an hour to start!
enjoying our reese's smores...ahhh yeah.
Eric the fire starter.  what a hard worker
  Sara, Eric and Mom.  I'm seeing a color trend here...

Coming soon! (but hopefully not for at least 4 months!)

We are excited to announce that we are going to be the proud parents of not only one, but two babies! I know you already knew that! We had an ultrasound on Monday May 4th, nothing official, but again i have connections. Baby A was pretty easy to see (at least for the tech). Baby B on the other hand was pyscho! B was not still for one second! the kid waved at us then moved both arms and every picture we have of B is blurry because the kid was moving so fast. It was kind of funny. At this point they don't have a lot of fat, so they still kind of look like skeletor. I just think that next ultrasound I have B is going to be giving me the rock sign with its hand and have its tongue hanging out its mouth like KISS. scary! anyway, it was a pretty exciting ultrasound. It took two different ultrasounds on two different days to determine the gender of both children because the umbilical cord was down around the legs of B the stinker! But it is always fun to see them and so i didn't argue with the second ultrasound! It is official now (at least for two more week!) Our little baby B has hidden from us before, tricked us and then reappeared, won't hold still and makes scary faces at us. I wouldn't be surprised if the little one decides to change our plans again! We'll see in two weeks! We are having1 GIRL and 1 BOY!!
We are so excited for our little rugrats! baby B of course is a boy and baby A is the girl! Also, Eric my man was able to graduate from institute last weekend. It was a nice little ceremony and Eric got to speak at it. That made it fun! His mom came to spend the weekend with us and we had a good visit. I will be sure to post a few pics of these happenings in the next week. I'm so impressed with Eric though and all of his hard work. This next week is finals and if we can just make it through this week and next, he'll be done with P2 and we'll be grateful to move on! Wish him luck!!!

roberts family happenings...

Big news coming soon! I'm at work right now. Probably not the best time to be blogging! stay tuned! :) and i can't get the writing any smaller. Sorry

And then there were two.....

This post shouldn't take much explanation.  We have been married for 3 years and 8 months.  In that time we have had a blast!  We've been to so many places.  Closer places like California,

Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona.  And places a little further from home like New York, Georgia, Hawaii and Cabo San Lucas.  We've lived in St. George in our own little apartment.  Eric's mom's house while we waited out our transition period.  And now back to our own little, but much larger than our last, cozy apartment in Missoula Montana.  We've experienced the very happiest times.  We've enjoyed packing up on a whim and flying wherever or now driving wherever, whenever we want!  We've been so blessed in all things.  So we ask ourselves, "What could be better than this?"  Well we hope that we have be blessed with the right answer..... so my friends the time has finally come to introduce to you....this

 and this........

thats right my friends.  There are not one, but two little kiddos we're waiting on.  It has been a long, happy, sad, wonderful, frustrating, exciting, trying, growing, bonding, fun time getting to this point, but we're here now and are very excited about our great news.  A little anxious and nervous about two, but excited none the less.  My diabetes is doing great, probably better than it ever has and the doctors keep close tabs on me.  In fact, I spend 8 hours a day with my OB docs.  (I work for them) Things are great so far.  I haven't been sick, but if i'm not at work or upright, then i'm sleeping.  and sometimes even if i'm upright, i feel like i could be sleeping.  I am due in mid October.  If we're lucky the doctors will let me make it to the end of September.  I pray that we're lucky!  so that's it.  There's the news! I am able to have ultrasounds anytime just for fun and i have taken full advantage of that.  Here is one of the last pictures we'll be able to see of them together in their little bunk beds.  They are almost too big now to see at the same time. 

Happy Birthday to my man!...kind of....

My husband kind of gets a birthday this year.  Actually we are spending all weekend celebrating it.  Lucky guy. I just found out that only 11 times in 100 years February 28th is on a saturday and March 1st on a sunday, so his birthday is allowed to last all weekend. (even though that is how we usually celebrate it!)  Since he was born on February 29th (as most of you know) he will turn 7 1/4 this year!  i know.  I hear jokes all the time. "sara's robbing the craddle."  "wow, so you like em young?"  Eric and a brother that is 4 years older than him (but only one year older in numbers) share their leap day birthdays.  We are going to dinner tonight and then to a comedy show with Brian Regan.  Tomorrow we hope to have some friends over for cake and what not.  We'll see.  

I just wanted to take the time to tell Eric publicly happy birthday.  These last couple of weeks (and years too) but especially the last couple of weeks I have really noticed how perfect we are for each other.  I never laugh harder than when I am with eric.  He makes me smile.  We have such a good time together always.  We have so much in common and just enough differences to make things interesting.  I'm grateful for how hard he works, in school, at home, and at the pharmacy.  I know it is because of his upbringing.  I see it in all of his family.  I am grateful for how his parents raised him and how he on his own has bettered himself.  I'm so glad he was born!  So happy birthday punks!

Okay, all right!  enough of the mushy stuff.  "that is neither here nor there!"  :)  We will try to get some new pictures up quick.  we've been working hard, studying harder, and having fun while we're at it.  We'll see if we can capture some pictures worthy of this blog!  Hope all is well in your neck of the woods!

Love, Sara  

Days like this....

Days like today when the high is 10 degrees and it is gray and snowy and there is a slight breeze, it makes me long for days like this....

just a thought.....