We're Having What!!!!

I guess to really get to know us I should go back to the beginning. William and I had actually went through a miscarriage two months before finding out we were pregnant again...It has been the hardest thing we have had to go through to date. I remember us sitting outside of the car at GGC and both of us bawling and just at the feet of God asking him to pick us back up. To say it was hard was understatement. Both of my sisters went through miscarriages and I saw the pain that they went through not only physically but emotionally, so the day we found out we were pregnant we did everything in our power to try to prevent it. BUT it happened and we have a stronger marriage because of it. So fast forward two months and I was driving to work one day and something just told me stop and get a test....stop and get a test...helloo...can you hear me...little voice that knows all.....STOP AND GET A TEST!!! So after a few minutes of driving around debating I pulled into the store and grabbed it...Not even 30 minutes later waiting very akwardly in the bathroom at my work I saw the word "PREGNANT." OMG...OMG..OMG.. You really couldn't smack the smile off my face that day. After work I went to Target (who doesn't love target) and got a onesie that said I LOVE MY DAD...I got home and William was on the couch. I sat next to him and handed him the bag. As he pulled out the onesie he looked at it and looked at me...looked at it...and looked at me..."Really..." he asked. "Really" I said...We went through this a few times and finally he broke down. What we had been through the past few months was something that I wouldn't wish on anyone and hopefully we were about to be blessed beyond measure with an addition to our little family...WAY WAY beyond measure.


So (insert sound effect of cassette fast-forwarding). It's D-Day. Our first Dr. Appointment. My stomach was in knots. As they called my name I stood up, took a deep breath and felt my husbands hand on my lower back slightly pushing me toward the door. Man, he is my rock. I can do this...I can do this...As we go in for our first ultrasound I am lying there and all I could think about is the events that happened just 3 months earlier. Being 10 weeks no pain, just excitement about having your first child and then poof it's all gone...It will leave a lasting mark. It seemed like it took forever. I looked over at William and I remember making a remark about how long it was taking for her to turn the screen over and let us see our new baby. I was terrified. William looked at me and nodded his head at me and said "Don't Worry. Everythings fine." He knows me all too well. "Lord, let your will be done. Let your will be done. I love you Lord...Let your will be done. Please give me strength." I must have said this 100 times. Then the sonographer looked up and said what I will never, ever, ever forget. "HMMM...Do twins run in your family?" I looked at William and we both shook our head. As she laughed she said "They don't? Well they do now honey...Take A look!" As she shifted the screen so I could see it they probably heard me crying from the waiting room. Lord. Give Me Strength has been my prayer for the past 2 years.

Baby A- Maci Annabella Keown

 Baby B Chipper Maddox Keown