IT'S A GIRL!!!!!

We found out this wonderful news about six weeks ago but we were keeping it a secret until we could see some family in person. We also had been debating on waiting to find out the gender altogether (and by we I mean me) but those plans got tossed out the window when we got some worrisome news. Our gender ultrasound was not the special, magical day I had been imagining. Our sweet baby girl had two soft markers for down syndrome and trisomy 18. She has Renal pyelectasis — a condition in which an area of a kidney is enlarged and a Choroid plexus cyst (CPC) on her brain. We had had the ultrasound tech seal up the gender results so we could later debate when to find out and do something special. But when the doctor came in with this news, the gender suddenly didn't seem to matter so much. We luckily got in to see a special the next week and they really helped to alleviate our fears. Both these soft markers are not that big of a deal on their own, but more concerning when seen together. Since then, I have gotten test results back from a new test they can do called  Maternity21 and baby girl appears to be just fine. I won't take the remarkable news of a healthy baby for granted again.

I thought I was going to do something really fun and cute to announce the gender to family but by the time we saw everyone I just wanted to do something easy. We were able to tell Cindy, Chris, Daniel and Becca at a weenie roast in our backyard and then my family on the 4th of July. Rosie and Evie loved passing out the chocolate bars and gobbling them up afterwards. We are very thankful and very excited to have this sweetie pie joining our family.

Rosie and Evie loved the 4th of July and we had a great time celebrating it in SLC before heading to Newport, CA.