the beginning, part uno

before i jump in to blogging about our everyday adventures, i will try to give you a little of our history....it will probably take several posts to do this, since i will be blogging between naps, laundry, and playtime. travis and i met in 2002, during the first week of school at winthrop. we started dating not too long afterward, and got engaged a year later. we were married in the spring of 2004. about a year later, we moved to my hometown, and began trying for a baby in january of 2006. we knew we might have some trouble getting pregnant...we figured it might take 6 months or so. right on schedule...we found out we were pregnant on july 4th of that same year! we were so thrilled, and began making plans right away for our new baby. unfortunately, 5 weeks later, i suffered a miscarraige. we were devastated, but resolved to try again immediately. one month later, we found out that i was pregnant again! we didnt have high hopes for the pregnancy, as i was still recovering from the previous loss. that pregnancy ended within several weeks as well. as soon as we were given the ok from the doctor, we began trying again. we tried for another year and a half, even seeing a fertility specialist, before we just decided to put our life in Gods hands and quit trying. We made that decision in march, and on july 4th (again!!) of that same year (2008) we found out we were pregnant. i will NEVER forget that day. i know travis wont either. i am totally convinced that on that day, you would have not been able to find two happier people in this entire world. the very next monday, i called our fertility doctor and made an appointment. the great thing about seeing a fertility specialist is that when you finally do get pregnant, you get seen a lot faster and more often than you would if you were to just see a regular OB. i went in for several blood tests to check the levels of my pregnancy hormone. the first results came back, and they were good. the second results came back, and they were even better! by the time we got the results back from the third test, we had a really good feeling that it was a healthy pregnancy, because the hormone levels were so high. i was googling after every result, trying to find out as much as i good about the "normal" level of pregnancy hormone!! travis laughs at me all the time about my google habit, but i am the first person he comes to when he needs a piece of random information!! after a few weeks, we went in for our first ultrasound appointment. i was so nervous...i sat in that waiting room, just praying to see a heartbeat. we were 6 weeks pregnant. we got into the room, and the doctor showed us the tiny little white blob that was flickering. he told us the flicker was the heartbeat. all of a sudden, i noticed that there were TWO little flickering blobs!! the doctor confirmed that yes, we were expecting identical twins!! if you thought we were happy the day we found out we were pregnant, then we were ECSTATIC when we were told about the twins. i couldnt sleep that night for thinking about what it would be like to have two precious babies. when i think back on that time, and how happy we were it makes me smile, partly because i enjoy the memories, but mostly because i am even more happy now that i have these precious boys to hold and love. i think this is probably enough backstory for now...i will definitely have to do this in several parts!!