I have some exciting news to share with all of you, but before I get right to the announcement let me start with some interesting facts about my “unique” family.
Close to 15 years ago I married J, the love of my life. Although, I call him J for short on the blog his name is actually Jeremy. I also have a brother named Jeremy, so everyone also thought that was funny.
Almost 10 years later my brother Jeremy married the love of his life who happens to be named Natalie (which is also mine name).
That’s right. Two brother in laws named Jeremy who are both married to a Natalie. Out of the three of us siblings half of us have the same names. It’s weird, but we’re pretty used to it.
Shortly after I was pregnant with my 2nd child I found out the other Jeremy and Natalie were pregnant with their 1st. We both had girls.
They are 4 months apart and currently the cutest and best of friends at 5 years old.
They are both in Kindergarten and loosing teeth at the same time!
We seem to take turns having babies back to back. The ages from left to right (for the photo below which was taken this weekend) are 8, 5, 5, 3, 3, 1. Although some of those numbers are about to change with birthdays quickly approaching.
Most of you know I am expecting our 2nd daughter who is due in 43 days (not that I’m counting), but a lot of you don’t know that my sister in law Natalie is also expecting again. We don’t know the gender yet, but I am so thrilled that we get to be pregnant together one more time and our babies will once again be just a few months apart!
8, 5, 5, 3, 3, 1, due in November, due in March.
We get a lot of comments and questions from friends and strangers. One year they even threw in a joke about us in the annual Christmas comedy sketch at church. So far no one has offered us our own reality show, which is for the best. I don’t think the world is ready for that.
It’s been a fun to watch our families and kids grow and in a way we’ve just begun. These next two will make 8 grandchildren in 8 years for my mom and dad.
I know they couldn’t be happier.
This makes my heart SO happy. So happy to share these pregnancy years with you, but SO wonderful to have the kids grow up with their cousins. These next two are going to be cuties 🙂
“The Other Natalie” I love it!
Oh my goodness! This is amazing and celebration worthy! Sounds like you found a lovely sister in law/friend too 🙂 Pretty cool that you guys are so close, have close children and more on the way and share the names! You can’t make this stuff up, truly!
Ah! I’m so jealous. I have a little one year old boy, but there are no cousins in sight on either side of our families. I want my kids to grow up around cousins too so I’m hoping by my second baby my brothers and sisters will catch up. Kind of like you! Does your oldest feel left out sometimes?
So nice to have so many cousins close in age! They are lifelong friends, for sure. I didn’t have any I was close to growing up, and it doesn’t look like my kids will have many at all either (the only cousin now is 4 years older than my oldest child).