Ward Christmas Party Luau!

We had our ward Christmas party this week and it was a luau! It was a blast. We are on the activities committee so as usual it was an event with the preparing, cooking, and cleaning. But it was really fun. The food was SO GOOD! We are in a married student ward so our parties are a big deal!!! LOL We love our wonderful ward and all of our friends. We had dancers perform and they were amazing. The best part was when they pulled up some boys from the audience to shake their hips!

Yep, Dan went up there and had a good time!

All the boys shaking it

Dan's solo......yes, he got into it!


Our new bishop! What a trooper!

Natalie, Amy, Lissett, Me

I'll Pass This Year.......

So every year I always get my Christmas cards out. But this year I am just not really in the mood! I don't know if I am just lazy or what, but I decided to pass this year. So my Christmas card is just my header on my blog. Everyone just imagine that it came to you in the mail! Ha ha! Merry Christmas!!!!

Baby Poll

We are going to find out the gender of our baby on Christmas Eve! So I put a little poll on the side of my blog and I want everyone to vote. I just think it is really fun to see everyone's opinion on the baby's sex. Over Thanksgiving I took a poll on my whole family including the little neices and nephews. Right now it looks like 50-50. So let us know what you think we are having!

There is a Great Reunion Today!

The sweet apostle Joseph B. Wirthlin passed away last night, peacefully in his sleep. It is sad because he was such an amazing apostle for our church. He served the church for many, many years. He was 91 years old and still serving daily. He is such a good example for everyone and he has strengthened my testimony with his amazing talks. With this we mourn, but I am also so happy for him. Here is a clip from a KSL article:

"He served a mission in Switzerland in the late 1930s. After returning, he married Elisa Rogers.
The two were married for 65 years before Elisa died two years ago. Her passing, their son said, was the most difficult day of Elder Wirthlin's life, and he takes comfort in knowing his mother and father are together again. "There's a great reunion today," he said."

I just thought that was an amazing way to look at it. He is going to be with his eternal companion again. What a reunion that will be when they embrace on the other side of the veil. He will also have a great reunion with many other great people. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO CELEBRATE A LIFE! I just hope that I can live my life so when my time comes I can have a great reunion!

Christmas Spirit

So since I depressed most of you with my life in my previous post I need to lighten it up. I am so excited for Christmas this year! I love the holiday seasons and all the time with family and friends. I usually have a strict wait until the day after Thanksgiving to put up my Christmas tree.....but this year I made an exception! Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas! Thanks for all your comforting words and support!

My Heart Is Broken

My heart is broken, but it is being healed and comforted in many ways. We went to our second doctors appointment for our baby and hoping to find out the sex of the baby we were surprised when the doctor found something else..........TWINS! That's right we have identical twins in my belly. Unfortunately one little baby didn't make it and died 3 weeks ago. The doctor said that it had some heart problems and it wasn't developing right. So it is the body's natural way when something isn't developing right. Most miscarriages you don't know what wasn't developing right. Since this baby was 9 weeks when it died and won't leave my body the doctor can look at the baby with the ultrasound and tell me the exact problem. The other baby is perfectly healthy so far and is double the size now of the other baby. He checked for a sign of heart problems with the healthy baby and it doesn't look like it has any! I will carry both babies all through my pregnancy and when I deliver the healthy baby I will deliver my baby that didn't make it too. Because they are identical they share the same yok sac and blood supply so my body shouldn't want to miscarry the baby out of my body. I have to go get checked on by the doctor more frequently so he can make sure the healthy baby is doing fine with the other baby in there. And also that my body is handling the twins well. In the ultrasound I can see both babies. And in every ultrasound from here and until I deliver the baby, I will always be able to see that other baby in my body.

I just started to cry because my whole life I have wanted twins more than anything. I don't have any twins in my family and Dan has one sister with twins. I haven't ever been on fertility so I never thought it was possible for me to get twins. I won't get my twins in this life but I know I will get my twins in heaven. I am glad that the twins get to be together for another 6 months inside of me. And I still get some more time with my other baby too. And my baby will always have a special spirit or little twin guardian angel their whole life. And how amazing is it going to be when they meet again. This experience has been hard and I know it might get harder but it will be worth it when we are all together again. It makes me want to live my life more righteously so that I can make it to heaven with my baby. Things happen for a purpose and the Lord knows why it needed to be. I am so blessed with my amazing comforting husband. The spirit is also a strong comforter right now in my life. I am just so lucky and blessed that I have at least one healthy baby still on the way.

The doctor just kept apologizing that he didn't see the twins at the first appointment. I am so glad that he didn't because it would have been so much harder for me. I would have been so excited and expecting 2 babies. But I have only been expecting 1 baby and I still have 1 coming. So for that I am so grateful. I know this was suppose to happen and that I am suppose to grow through this trial. I am so blessed for my sacred temple marraige and my eternal family. I am grateful that I know my baby is with my Heavenly Father right now and that when the day comes I will go to heaven and see the Lord holding my baby. The Lord will give me a hug and let me hold my baby for the first time!

Sorry this post is so long. It is therapy for me to write this. It is hard for me to talk about and I have been in tears the whole time I have been writing. Thanks for letting me share a very private and hard part of my life with you.

Volleyball Champs! You Know It!

So we just dominated in the Layton City Championship game tonight! Plus we got the ugliest orange shirts to prove it! How hard is it to pick out cute shirts? Obviously they were crazy when they designed these! But the VICTORY is what matters! We have 3 pregnant girls on our team too and we still dominated every team in the league! I love playing volleyball and I am sad that this season is over but we have next season! Don't you think my white pasty legs look so sexy in this picture? LOL.......... I am so embarrassed!