Baby B part three and four

Well, whaddya know, I'm pregnant! (I'm a little late sharing to the blog world, but we've been public since 11 weeks!) 

I had been waffling on adding #3 to our family ever since Davis came along. Mark and I would talk at random about it but we never really decided for sure. Well, it was decided for us! We found out in early March that we were expecting. 

We slowly started to let the news leak out to family and a few close friends. I confided in a friend and mentioned to Mark a couple of times that this pregnancy was different, and that I just "hope it's not twins". Well, I guess I said that a few too many times...

It's twins! We were shocked at my 9 week ultrasound to see two babies in there. That same day, we bought a minivan! We jumped straight into preparation mode. 

We found out via blood test around 11 weeks that we have fraternal boys cooking in there. I don't know what it is about my uterus and boys, but it is what it is and we're excited about a house full of chaos! I'll never have to carry in groceries again...;)

We've since sold our SUV, redecorated the nursery (with TWO cribs!), moved Davis into Beau's room and added bunk beds. I feel like I cannot prepare myself enough to have twins and four children (barely) four and under, so I'm trying to take care of everything I have control over now!

My first trimester was rough with early symptoms like dizziness, head/face/scalp acne (beautiful, I know), nausea, loss of appetite, and exhaustion. Second trimester has been much better and I can sometimes find something that is appetizing to eat! I feel MUCH bigger at this point (20 weeks) than I did with my previous pregnancies, of course. The discomfort is already here to stay and I'm just trying to power through every day, knowing that each day the babies stay inside is so beneficial for them. 

Beau and Davis are so excited. Beau actually understands the concept this time and will kiss my belly, pray for the babies, and talk about them a lot. Sometimes he will claim that he has babies in his tummy to con me out of a snack or something like that. Davis talks about the babies and that there are two of them (as he holds up both pointer fingers) but of course he doesn't really understand quite yet. He'll be two this month!

So that's our exciting update! We are praying these boys grow steadily and are born at a healthy weight and with no complications. Twin pregnancy is a lot harder and a lot more complicated and risky but so far we've been blessed with good doctors appointments and scans. Thank heavens for little boys!

travel diaries | destin 2019

Hello! My name's Diana and this is my trusty ol' blog. I had to dust off some cobwebs, but here I am! We have LOTS to catch up on. ;)

After our amazing trip with friends last year, I was dying to get back to Destin this summer. We ended up booking a small 1 bdrm townhouse on the beach and headed down in early May with just the four of us. 

Again, we are SO grateful that we have a friend that lets us use his buddy passes with Southwest...but this was the first time we had any trouble getting to our destination and it was a long day! Mark and I had to split up. I took Beau on the early flight to Panama City Beach and Mark and Davis stayed behind. We were hopeful they would get on the next flight but unfortunately they didn't get there until about 6pm that night. Anyway, Beau and I made the best of it with a stop to eat and stretch our legs in Rosemary Beach. 

Meanwhile, Mark won Dad of the Year by hanging back with Davis at the airport for 8 hours...

Beau and I ran all of our grocery errands, etc. and unloaded ALL of the luggage while we waited for the other two to fly in. Finally we were reunited and we started our beach vacay the next morning!

We took it nice and easy, had no plans, and just enjoyed the beach, the waves, and the salty air. 

Some nights we ate in, others we walked down the beach for dinner. We ended almost every night with a beach walk!

Our view from our balcony:

Every day, Beau would BEG Mark to dig him a tide pool and every day, Mark would end up frustrated with Beau because he would end up knocking sand back into the hole. 

One day, both boys were a little grumpy and didn't want to play very much. They both ended up sitting in our laps and before we knew it, they were both asleep! We basked in the silence and the snuggles until I couldn't take it anymore. 

Beau and I went inside to each lunch and take a real nap while Mark didn't dare move a muscle. Davis ended up sleeping on him out on the beach for 3 hours! I even brought Mark some lunch and refreshments. He loved all of the snuggles!

Oh yeah, and I'm pregnant! I turned 12 weeks during our trip. More on that later...

We love staying ON the beach because we can take advantage of the beach while the kids nap. Our baby monitor situation didn't work out this time but Mark and I switched off afternoons of having the beach to ourselves. It was heaven. 

One night, it was supposed to storm so we took the kids to an indoor black light putt-putt. We had the best intentions but the big room, balls, golf clubs, black lights, etc. posed too much of a temptation for the boys and it was a hot mess of us chasing two toddlers around. ha!

On the last morning we had breakfast al fresco in our pajamas, cleaned up, said bye to the beach, and headed out together. Luckily our flight home was wide open and we made it back with no problems!

Bye, beach! Until next time! <3