i started this blog over a year ago and havent done much with it so i decided to start it up again and let everyone know who is interested what my family is up to and how we have grown from a family of 3 to a family of 5, we welcomed identical twin girls on Feb. 25, 2009 at only 27 weeks 3 days gestation, they came into this world 13 weeks to early but are here, they are strong and thriving! My oldest is my son Lukas is 3 and will always be a momma's boy he is the light of my life and i am so lucky and blessed to have him. Our girls are Avery who is the oldest by about 30 seconds was born weighing 2 pounds 4 ounces and our youngest Kyla was 2 pounds 6 ounces. We spent LONG days and nights in the NICU watching them make slow but steady progress. After 69 days Kyla is now home with us and her big brother and Avery is still in the NICU but hopefully by the end of the week both will be home. The girls were born so early because of the type of twins they were. They were monoamniotic-monochorionic meaning the were in the same sack and shared the same placenta. This is a very rare type of twin resulting in only about 1% of all twin pregnancies. I will post at a later time the story of their birth and our long long 10 weeks in the NICU! for now i just wanted to share some pictures of my 3 beautiful children!