4 More Days 'Til Summer Vacation!!!

Every morning I have the same conversation with Sarah:

Mommy: Time to wake up, sweetie!
Sarah: I don't WANNA go to school....
Mommy: I know, but we have to...

...and on, and on, and on. Well, at last, we are down to the last few days of school and then it's time for summer vacation! Yay!

I know I've been bad about updating lately, but all I can say is, it's been a busy spring! Hopefully the posts will be much more frequent this summer :-) We've been enjoying the sunny weekends around here, and Sarah has been able to spend a lot of time at home with mommy and daddy, and she's also been able to spend a lot of time with Mimi, Pawpaw, Nana, and Papa. We're really looking forward to being lazy this summer and enjoying the time together before our family dynamics changes drastically!

Belated Easter Update

Getting ready to dye Easter eggs with Caleb


She said she made a baby just like mommy's baby











Sorry for the delay in updating-it's been a little crazy around here! After years of job searching and a long ordeal of decision-making, Jeremy has accepted a tenure-track teaching position at Kennesaw State University to start in August, which has put our lives into a mini whirlwind of craziness. It's great not to be wondering about his job prospects anymore, though! We've spent the last several weeks preparing to put our house on the market so that we can try to move closer to KSU. Now that we've just about gotten the house in tip top shape, and the "for sale" sign is in the yard, we can hopefully get back to the normal routine and play the waiting game for as long as it takes to sell our house :-)

We all had a nice Easter and a super (fast) Spring Break. Sarah semi-enjoyed the family Egg Hunt, even though she had a boo boo on her foot and was more or less cranky the whole day. Enjoy the video clip of all the Grant babies. I would like to say that next year's will be without tears, but with twins on the way, I guess we will have even more drama at next year's hunt!

One of the cuter things Sarah has been doing lately is playing with her baby dolls. As we slowly move more and more baby "things" back into our house, Sarah seems to find them quickly and put her babies into all of the equipment. Every time I turn around there is a baby "sleeping" in something. She says she's going to be a big helper to her baby brother and sister, including bringing them pacis and giving them their diapers (which babies wear, but big girls wear panties, according to Sarah).

It's a Boy! It's a Girl!

Jeremy, Sarah, and I are proud to say that the twins will be a boy and a girl! We are SO EXCITED! The 3-D ultrasound session yesterday was really cool, and if any of you are pregnant and will let me refer you to the place we went in Alpharetta, I would love to ;-) It was amazing to see how close together the babies actually are right now. I guess I figured they would be all out in their own space for awhile until they get much bigger. Instead they are snuggled up close. They are "head to head" although their bodies are going in slightly different directions, kind of like an "L," from what I could tell. They can put their arms around each other and it was really cute to watch :-) Enjoy the pictures--not sure if you will be able to see anything or not. We needed much explaining from the ultrasound tech to know what we we were looking at in a lot of the pictures! The exciting news is that we will be having ultrasounds every 4 weeks from here on out, so we will get "regular" updates! (although I doubt they will be in 3-D!).


Baby A (boy)


Baby B (girl)- waving goodbye to the camera


Baby A and Baby B


Baby A and B


Baby B (girl)


Baby B (girl)- front view


Baby A (boy)


Baby B (girl)


Baby B (girl)- front view. Don't be fooled, they say she's a girl :-)


Baby A (boy)- side view

Spring Break is Almost Here!

I haven't posted in so long that I don't even know what to post about :-) Last time I posted it was snowing, and today it's 80 degrees! What a beautiful spring we are having (at least this week, anyway!). We have had a fairly uneventful March around here. So far so good with the twins---we are hoping to find out their gender(s) at our 3-D ultrasound on Saturday! I had an appointment yesterday, but all the doctor did was check their heartbeats. She did turn on the ultrasound machine to find the babies and their hearts, but it was so quick all I saw were two little blobs. The pictures she printed hardly show any detail, but I have been examining them anyway looking for signs of a boy or girl, though (with no luck). Jeremy and I have been enjoying spending time with just Sarah for now and probably spoiling her as usual, although we are trying more and more to encourage her to be a "big girl." She loves to be my "happy helper" and fetch things for me around the house. For example, the other day, I found myself in the guest bathroom without any toilet paper. Suddenly it occurred to me that Sarah could probably handle the task of fetching me a piece of toilet paper from the other bathroom. She did, eventually, with much effort. It kind of went like this:
Me: Sarah, oh no! What are we going to do? There's no toilet paper!
Sarah: (nothing)
Me: Sarah, can you get mommy a piece of toilet paper from mommy's bathroom?
Sarah: No
Me: Please???
Sarah: Okkkkkkkk......(walks into my bedroom and begins talking again). I caaaan't! It's too dark in here.
Mommy: No, it's not dark. See? The sun is shining through the windows.
Sarah: (goes into the bathroom and starts looking for the toilet paper) Where is it? (starts crying) Where issssss it?
Mommy: No, Sarah, you don't need to bring a whole roll. Just bring me one little piece.
Sarah: Ok. I bring you a big one! (brings me a perfect piece of toilet paper)

So, you see, Sarah is ready for big-sisterhood and will be the best helper around the house when I'm in a pinch :-)

Enjoy the pictures below of some of the things we've been up to this month!


Our "green" St. Patrick's Day dinner


Mary Evelyn and her "girls" at her first bridal shower


Mary Evelyn and Sarah


Sarah showing off her Easter sweater


Waterfall at the new Freeman's Mill Park


There's also a grist mill with a water wheel to explore


Exploring the cool new Freeman's Mill Park


Playing dress up/tea party with her friend Maya


Sarah with her very own "twins." She likes baby dolls now, by the way!

At last!

Happy Valentine's Day from Sarah! Thanks, Nana, for the adorable outfit!


Jeremy and me with our slouching snowman


Rebecca driving the sled


Jeremy driving the sled


The girls enjoying the snow


Sarah going for a ride with Papa


Sarah with the snowman


Learning how to ride a sled


So much snow!


Baby A (top) and Baby B (bottom). They don't look the same size but they really are.

I know you've been checking my blog daily for updates (well, maybe not quite that often), and you're finally in luck! My sanity has briefly returned for the day, and I'm playing catch up with all aspects of life :-) It's been so long since I updated, I don't even know where to start, so I guess I'll start with the most exciting news first. Drumroll, please..........Jeremy and I are expecting TWINS in September! Yes, that's right--Sarah is going to have TWO baby brothers or sisters in 7 months or less! I am SO excited, although my hormones have been wreaking havoc on my emotions lately, Jeremy is excited, and Sarah is excited, so we are a house full of excitement these days! Our family of three is becoming a family of five, and our house is going to bust at the seams, both literally and with love :-) I am ten weeks pregnant today--it's hard to believe it, but that means I'm a quarter of the way there! We found out I was pregnant early in January but just found out there are two babies about 2 weeks ago. I think the doctor was just as shocked as I was when she saw two babies! Since I'm having twins, I am officially considered a "high risk pregnancy." Hopefully that just means that I'll get extra ultrasounds down the road :-) So far I have been feeling a bit worse than I felt with Sarah, and I could be wrong, but I think I am very much more exhausted than with Sarah. Hopefully the "blah, sicky" feelings will go away soon, and maybe I'll even find the energy this week or next to head back to the gym for a leisurely stroll on the treadmill (I tried running for 2 minutes a couple of weeks ago and it was SO hard!). Last weekend, I got strep throat, and I'm almost done taking medicine for that. Hopefully, I can stay healthy, rested, and sane for the rest of this pregnancy and enjoy every minute of preparing for these precious new additions to our family!

As far as the rest of life, there's not too much new to tell. We got ourselves snowed in at my parents on Friday so that we would hopefully be able to make it to the Ringling Brothers circus in Atlanta at 11:00 on Saturday. Since the roads were pretty much covered in ice Saturday morning, we had to skip the show, but luckily we were able to exchange our tickets for the afternoon show, and we had great seats and had a great time! Sarah said her favorite part was the elephants and the zebras. I will add that the popcorn was another one of her favorite parts (and mine, too!).

We all had fun playing outside in the snow on Friday and Saturday. A bunch of adults outside acting like little kids was probably a humorous site. I put together a little video so you can see all of us taking turns sledding down the driveway on the sled that was my brother Russell's when he was little. I think everyone took a turn except for Nana. We built a really nice snowman on Friday, but since Russell built the bottom part on a hill, you will see what he looked like when we woke up on Saturday to take pictures :-)

Let it Snow?

We had our first "snow day" of the winter today. We had about 1/4 inch of snow on our driveway and that's it, but Sarah and I sure had a great time staying home and relaxing for the day! Naps all around! We played in the "snow" twice and Sarah learned how to make snow angels. She was so cute and I just can't wait for one day when she can experience real snow (not sure where or when but hopefully one day!) and build a snowman.

We all had a fabulous Christmas, got wayyyy too many toys and gifts, and enjoyed spending so much time with family. Now that Jeremy and I are both teachers, I guess we will be able to enjoy a nice Christmas vacation each year(and hopefully summer vacation too--we'll see)! Jeremy's parents came to our house Christmas Eve, so we got to spend Christmas Eve with the Grants (my mom's side) and the Gulleys, and then we were all back together on Christmas Day for lunch. The next day, Jeremy and I got to go out to dinner to celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary! Then, we got up Sunday morning to go to Greenville to visit some more with Mimi and PawPaw and with Uncle Joal and Aunt Alecia. We had a busy time but it was so much fun!

We had a quiet New Year's Eve here--Jeremy and my dad spent the whole day putting in flooring in our attic, a much needed "addition" to our house. Sarah went to spend the night with my parents, and Jeremy and I spent hours and hours and hours moving everything from the bonus room (was the junk room) to the attic and then setting up a "real" office room in the bonus room. We still have some work to do but it's looking pretty good! I think Jeremy's handyman skills are improving quite a bit thanks to some excellent "mentoring" and lots of trial and error :-)