Where are D and B?: October 2010

Otsukimi (pronounced Oat ski me) means 'moon viewing' in Japanese and refers to a Japanese festival honoring the autumn moon. This celebration of the full moon takes place in the fall in Japan and is similar to that of the traditional American harvest festivals of Thanksgiving.

The Fort Worth Botanical Gardens puts this on each year and it is a beautiful display not only of the immaculately manicured gardens but also of the Japanese culture and traditions.

Even though the gardens are right down the street from our home, it was our first time visiting there and we were thrilled to be out and about on such a gorgeous Sunday!

Arigato (Thank You in Japanese) to the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens for putting this on!

D is almost 20 weeks (5 months) along!

I think the last time that we posted anything to this was about a year ago when we said that fall was coming. Well....fall is coming again and we figured we would update you on what has been going on for the past year.

Last fall was full of excitement for us as we had just moved to the Fort Worth area. For the first time in our six years of marriage, we were looking to finally buy a house. I had started a new job with Chesapeake Energy and we figured we would actually be in one place for a little while to come. Just after Christmas, we closed on a house in a location we really liked. The house is a quaint little house of about 1500 sq ft and we decided to take on the project of doing a complete remodel with first focusing on the inside of the house.

We were able to spend a couple of months in the house planning and laying out what we wanted to do before tearing down a few walls, the kitchen, and what seemed to be about everything else. We went through a few contractors and several minimal sleep nights and after about 2 months, we were about where we wanted to be to officially move into our “new” house. With Logan, D’s brother, living next door and helping us out, (all three of us stayed in his one room apartment together for about 3 weeks…that’s love!!) and D’s great vision for remodel and design, the house turned out great.

It’s a good thing we finished our project when we did because it was just in time for us to find out that Denae was pregnant!! Our new remodel is turning into a rearrange now! The first visit to the doctor’s office back in early July, they confirmed she was pregnant and showed us our little zygote that was developing into our little baby. On the second visit a few weeks later, everything seemed to be in two’s: 2nd appointment, 2 people (D and I), 2 nurses and 2 babies. That’s right, two little twins with two beautiful heartbeats. They were about the size of an olive at the time, but stole my heart right off of the bat. We found out later that those two little twins would be identical little twin girls which are doing well so far with mama being almost 18 weeks now. We expect our little angels to arrive sometime early to mid-February.

So with D having twenty little fingers and twenty little toes in her little (but getting bigger) belly, we are settled here in Fort Worth and enjoying the house. We have had a lot going on in the past year and sorry we haven’t been better with the updates, but here are a few pics of the house, the girls, and our trip to Alaska that we managed to pull off thanks for our dear friends Chris and Claire. We spent around 2 weeks visiting them in Alaska and it was definitely a little slice of heaven—after all the stress we had been through with the remodel, it was really nice to take a much needed vacation. We’ll keep posting as we can!!

Take Care and happy fall again!

B&D

A picture of our home on game day. Go UT..but too bad they lost to OU. After 5 years of beign carted around overseas, Bevo finally busted out of his box to cheer on the horns with pride!

B and D at our friend's wedding on 9-11-2010. D is 13 weeks and 4 days prego. Our little angels hanging out at 16 weeks on 9-28-2010.

Best of Friends Already at 14 weeks and 3 days.

Top picture is our sonogram from our first trip to the Dr. The second picture is when we found out there were 2 little miracles on 7-29-2010.

We found out on 7-2-2010 that we were expecting!

The old Copper Mine in Kennicott, AK--located in the beautiful Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. This National Park is the largest National Park in the USA--it's 6 times the size of Yellowstone National Park.

Enjoying a nice glass of Sauvignon Blanc at the Kennicott Glacier Lodge and admiring the gorgeous weather! Beats Texas 100+ temps! Of course the pic was taken before we knew we were prego.