California

A couple weekends ago we went to Santa Barbara, for a mission farewell. It was Ellie's first time at the beach and it was fun to watch play in the sand and get her toes wet in the water. Here are a few photos.

A mustache from Aunt Katelyn's nacho libre party. 

The Big Reveal

Jared and I had our first little girl Ellie, in October of 2011. She was just too cute that we wanted another one and decided to go for it again.

We found out we were pregnant in March, and we were so excited for baby number two!

Our first appointment was at the end of April, I was about 9 weeks along. It seemed to be just like the last pregnancy nothing new. Our doctor told us it looked like there was only one baby, then he says, " I may have spoken too soon..." WHAT?! " There is actually two babies." HOLY CRAP!

I look over at Jared and he has these big bug eyes in amazement, and I couldn't contain myself. I bust up laughing and had a hard time containing myself so that our doctor could finish the ultrasound. 

So we are having twins, more specifically we are having fraternal twins. So we told each other that we would not talk about the overwhelming financial burden this may be, and just be excited for a bit.

These next several years are going to be crazy, and I haven't been able to find any blogs about others who have had Irish triplets to get advice from and/or to be warned of what the years might hold for us. So I thought I start one, maybe it will be useful for someone, and for others it may be just pure entertainment to see how we handle things.