Twin Bedtime Routine for sleep!

WE ARE NOT EXPERTS, I want that to be clear, LOL, we have simply found something that works for us and want to share with others in hopes it works for you too! 

Watch our bedtime routine!

Here is our routine simply put:

- 6:30 pm is when we typically START our routine.

- BATH TIME!!! (Vera and Ayva's favorite time) we let them play in the tub as long as they want, they love it and it wears them out.

- During bath time we give them a little GRIPE WATER, to help their tummies settle for bed. We just started doing this but have noticed it really helps them.

- After their bath we give them a little LOTION MASSAGE and PLAY a little more, if they still aren't showing any tired signs.

- Then we do a FORMULA FEED to top them off and give them nice full tummies. 

- SWADDLE AND BINKIE 

- FAMILY PRAYER

- Tuck in and turn out the lights!

I didn't read any books or anything, I just listened to what my babies were telling me through their cries and body language and we experimented until we figured out what they wanted and what worked for them. A sleep specialist had mentioned to me that they should and could be sleeping 12+ hours a night with only one feeding between those hours and after I heard that I tried my best to figure out what the girls wanted! We've been doing this routine for almost two months now and there hasn't been a night that they haven't gotten 8+ hours of sleep in their first stretch of sleep, which should be the longest stretch.

 I hope it works for you and IF IT DOES WORK FOR YOU, we would LOVE to hear from you! Reach out to us on any of our social media accounts, here in the comments, or through email cambriairene@gmail.com!! 

Again, we are NOT EXPERTS, we have NO IDEA what we are doing hahahahahha but we are doing our best and have found something that works and simply want to share. 

Good luck and Goodnight! I hope you get some sleep!!!

Vera & Ayva's Nursery

Decorating the girl's nursery was the hardest room I've ever decorated...SERIOUSLY!

Here's why...

1. I've always dreamed of decorating a nursery and after years of infertility you set your expectations to PERFECTION (everything has to be perfect, or so you think.)

2. I have way TOO MANY ideas and can't narrow it down to one theme or one color scheme.

3. I wanted it to speak about their personalities and their likes but OBVIOUSLY I don't know them like that yet...

4. Oh and did I mention I wanted it to be PERFECT?? Yeah, kinda ridiculous of me.

Anyway here is their nursery and I LOVE IT!!! It's colorful, full of patterns, and 100% inspiring to me. It holds many treasures and emotions and years of hopes and dreams! It's magical to me and I hope it inspires them as well.

 Their names and their name meanings below.

 Bows and bibs for days!

 Yes it has the lived in look (HAHA) but that's exactly what we're doing so I don't mind sharing our lived in lives...a little cluttery and unorganized in places, but definitely lived in with love.

 Wallpaper stripes, a project I was nervous about but LOVE how it turned out!!! I didn't want to wallpaper the whole wall so we added a chair rail to break it up and add more texture. I also had a lot of yarn detailing on pillows, lampshades, and curtains, so I added yarn stripes to the wallpaper wall and I love how it turned out.

 We got this seashell wall art for the girls on our "babymoon" in Hawaii! 

 Lots of colors and textures just how I like it!

 I wanted a little reading corner where we can read to our sweet girls and I love how it turned out!

 Before the girls were here we would come in this room pretty much every day and just sit and talk and read together and it was beautiful. Now being able to enjoy the room with our girls is a beautiful experience.

 We have two babies so of course we each needed a chair to rock our sweet girls in.

 Our faces say it all...WE ARE TRULY LIVING OUR DREAM!

 I love my family!

 Ayva Nancy

 Vera Irene

 I love seeing Jeff be a dad! He was amazing before but seeing him as a daddy takes him to ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!

Thanks for reading!

Dressers - free and refurbished

Chairs - free (I like the vintage look)

Rug - yard sale site

Cribs - Amazon $99

Side table - free

Ottoman - yard sale site

Wallpapers - Target

Shelves - Ikea $12 each

9 Week Ultrasound

These last two weeks have been hard on the sickness frontier! I've been so sick with the added need for sleep, but I'm figuring out what helps and I'm feeling better! It was such a treat and a relief to have our 9 week ultrasound and to hear and see such strong heartbeats.

Infertility struggles really take your anxiety in pregnancy really high and the days til the next ultrasound can't come fast enough as you worry about EVERYTHING!!!! But so far so good, THANK GOODNESS!!!!

We graduated from @utahfertilitycenter with this pregnancy ❤️ we are so grateful for all the help and support given us during our years of trying! Our nurses down here took wonderful care of us and we will miss them!

So yeah...we officially are done at the fertility clinic with this pregnancy so that was a bittersweet moment, and we will be meeting with our OB this week for our baseline appointment! We are feeling so blessed and excited with each passing day and are so grateful for all the love and support! THANK YOU!!!

 Fun spontaneous date night celebrating the end of D Week at my alma mater and Jeff’s current school!! I’m all about free hot dogs and free popcorn 😂😂 and I found a new fav feel good song that will be on my repeat playlist all summer, “Give Me All” by Sammy Johnson, go download, your summer will thank me!!! 

#perfect ❤️❤️❤️ that’s what @jefe_hauck sang last night at the Santa Clara pageant as the girls took their final work! He was amazing and so handsome 👌🏼👌🏼 It was a cool opportunity for Jeff 

and I love when I get to support him in things he loves!

7 Weeks Pregnant with Twins

The first ultrasound of the twins from finding out we are having twins!!

See the two separate sacs??? That means we are having DI DI twins, which is best case scenario for twins meaning that it is the safest and most optimistic because they each have their own sac and will have their own placentas!

We are loving this journey and feeling so blessed. A few things to note on pregnancy for me so far... no motivation, naps are a must, that sick to my stomach feeling is pretty constant, food never sounds good, Jeff keeps spoon feeding me protein (haha what a good husband,) and I'm getting used to all of it so that's great!!! We are still keeping with the shots; progesterone in oil shot every morning, progesterone suppository at night, estrogen shots Tuesday and Friday evenings, and still taking metformin, baby aspirin, and my prenatal! We are plugging along anxious for our next ultrasound where we get to see the babies again, and praying hard everything keeps progressing normal and healthy!!!!

Thank you for all your love and support! We feel so blessed to have so much love behind us!!!

First Pregnancy Ultrasound...HOW MANY??

I’ve had a weird feeling the last couple days, I don’t know how to explain it really... but I keep having flash backs to beautiful moments and memories in my life that I didn’t realize I held so close! I’ve felt homesick and at home at the same time! And I’ve had random Deja vu (yes pregnancy makes you a little whack 😂) however I believe that Deja Vu are little reminders that you are where you are supposed to be! That is truly how I feel at this point in my life, I’m where I’m supposed to be! I feel overwhelmingly blessed with an amazing husband, such wonderful family, incredible opportunities throughout my life, and so much more!! I sit here and cry as I type this because I just feel so blessed 😂❤️😊 tomorrow I will be 7 weeks and we will have our first ultrasound, life is still stressful and we both have so much on our plate but LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL! The lyrics from a song that plays on the radio has been stuck in my head all day and I believe it’s a good reminder to enjoy each day...”I wish somebody would have told me babe,
That some day these will be the good old days...
'Cause someday soon, your whole life's gonna change. You'll miss the magic of the good old days” Okay, I’m done! Goodnight!

...

We had our first pregnancy ultrasound today to see if one or both of the embryos we put in took!!! I am officially seven weeks today and we were anxiously awaiting this appointment!!! Check out the video to find out for yourself, 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, etc. We don't know gender yet (we are waiting the old fashioned way for that, no blood test here,) just how many babies we will be having!!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT????

I feel like I have been prepared my whole life for this news, I always felt like I had twins so I wasn't surprised at all, I SOMEHOW JUST KNEW!!!!

For a long long time I always had this feeling we would have twins first but through out our infertility journey I’ve felt like a crazy person as I’ve expressed these feelings. To see two babies in our ultrasound didn’t shock me at all, it reassured me that the Lord has a plan for each one of us and is mindful of us! I received tender mercies throughout our journey and I feel so blessed to be where we are now. I can’t wait to be these two beautiful babes mom ❤️❤️ and I can’t wait to see @jefe_hauck flourish as a dad! That smile on his face hasn’t left since we found out! Thank you all for the love and support ❤️