Hey trubeautys,

After MUCH anticipation, I am beyond excited to officially announce the gender of our second baby in today’s blog post!!!  Are you ready for it?!?!  Our second baby is a… GIRL!!!!!!!!!  Whoo hoo!  We are SO excited and over the moon to have 2 little girls… our own little trubeautyMOVEMENT in our household!!!  ☺️ I will tell you I was COMPLETEY surprised, because I was simply convinced we were having a boy second for many reasons, which I share in the blog post.  Now that it’s really soaked in and I can envision us with two girls—we couldn’t be more thrilled!  …Just thinking about our two precious girls playing together and the powerful bond of sisters makes me all giddy as a Mom.  Check out our journey of why I totally thought we were having a boy next, how we found out, mine and Collin’s initial reaction, plus how I got re-inspired and truly MORE excited about having 2 girls instead!  I also share if we already have a name picked out in my blog post!  May this post inspire you to realize just as I did that even when we think we have it all figured out, sometimes the Universe has plans even greater for us and that it’s important to do what we can to manifest the life we want and also learn the art of letting go and trusting what is truly meant to be for us!

Why I Thought A Boy?

So, why was I so set on having a boy second?  Well for starters, my vision in my head.  As you guys know, I’m SUPER into vision boards and visualizing daily in order to manifest what I want into my life and I’ve taught others how to do the same through my blog and YouTube Channel with success!  This isn’t just some cute thing I’m into, for me it’s part of my spirituality as a yogi and daily wellness routine and I can confidently say the amount of people, places, and things I have manifesting into my life from my vision board are quite frankly incredible!  Anyone who has been following me for a long time or knows me really well has seen how many things I have manifested into my life through my vision board and manifestation tips I’ve shared with you all (check out my Manifestation Meditation (Part 1) Tutorial Here).  For years I have always “seen” us in our future modern, white, beach house with two kids; our daughter (Melissa) as our oldest and our youngest about 3-4 years younger who I always thought was our little boy.  Although I’ll admit the youngest was always more vague than our oldest in the sense of gender.  I had seen this vision SO much over the years in my meditations that I even had a name picked out for him, which Collin and I were pretty set on if we were going to have a boy.  I won’t be sharing that name at this time in case we ever decide to have a third child down the line (right now I’m thinking we are done with two though).  So when I found out I was pregnant and that the kids would be exactly 3.5 years apart—I was simply convinced.  Now, get this, here is something I DIDN’T do, which only reiterates my passion and belief for vision boards… while I had the vision in my head, I never actually added a picture of a boy or second child to my vision board.  I think that’s interesting, since visuals are so important when manifesting.  Years before having Melissa and even meeting my husband, Collin, I had pictures of them both on my vision board, which are still there today (check out my How To: Create A Vision Board video here) and they even LOOK LIKE my husband and daughter!  In addition to this vision on a spiritual level, this pregnancy has been SO different physically than my pregnancy with Melissa.  For example, with Melissa I craved sweets, which I always love and had virtually no morning sickness what-so-ever; I can recall one time feeling nauseous at our old apartment before we bought our house and I used doTERRA Peppermint Oil to heal it fast.  With our second little one, sugar and sweets don’t sound good at all and I’m only craving salty foods, plus I get super nauseated if I don’t eat religiously every 2 hours mixed with applying my other natural remedies, which I may share in another blog post (comment below or on social media if you want to know my other 100% natural nausea remedies I swear by that really work)!  In addition, not that it matters what anyone thinks but literally EVERYONE told me they thought I was going to have a boy next, which can really get in your head!  From social media polls on my Instagram Story, to friends texting, to followers DMing me, to even my OBGYN’s Medical Assistant all guessed a boy.  On top of all that after we decided we wanted to start trying again, I went to get my all-natural, copper, IUD (aka birth control) taken out and while in the OBGYN’s waiting room, I looked over and there was a magazine that said, “Ready For Baby Boy!”  The magazine was talking about some HGTV celebrity couple having another baby boy and get this—the names they were thinking were eerily similar to the name we were talking about if we had a boy.  So, you see… all this together and of course I was convinced lol! ?

How We Found Out!

We decided to pay more and do a special blood test at around 10 weeks to find out the gender early, because we just couldn’t wait until 20 weeks.  I’m almost 20 weeks pregnant now, so I’ve been keeping this secret for so long, only telling close family and friends.  I knew I wanted to do some kind of cute gender reveal to make it fun.  So, once the bloodwork was done and my OBGYN called with the results hidden in an envelope, Collin was so excited he dropped everything he had to do that day to drive 30 minutes and get it (hehe so cute)!  Then he called me after he dropped off the envelope at the cupcake place I wanted and told me they can rush our order and have in ready within the hour (whoo hoo)!  Once he got home, as you can imagine we were all beyond excited and couldn’t wait to find out the gender of our little one on the way!  When I was pregnant with Melissa we had this whole ordeal with Collin’s parents and grandma to the house, set-up a tripod and FaceTimed my parents in Utah to open the envelope, so everyone could be involved. That was so special and a great memory, but this time around we wanted to do something a little more low maintenance but still cute just us three and then tell our families (I’m finding it really is true what they say how you kinda choose easy more often when it comes to your second baby lol).

Mine & Collin’s Initial Reaction

So we grabbed 3 cupcakes and said, “1,2,3 go!”  The frosting in the center was pink and we were so surprised and excited and told Melissa, “Your getting a baby sister!!!”  Meliss was just over the moon to the news as you can see in the photos (that smile)! ?  Collin and I were so excited and surprised.  I think I was way more surprised than him, because he kept thinking she was going to be a girl right before we found out.  One evening about a week earlier, he came into our bedroom and said, “How are my girls doing?!”  I remember laughing and being like, “Girls?!  Wait, what?!”  Melissa was already asleep, so he was clearly talking about me and our little one on the way.  He kept saying, “I just have this feeling she’s a girl!”  He actually guessed right for both of our pregnancies and I guessed wrong for both, so if we ever do decide to have another kiddo what Collin says clearly goes lol.  I remember through my excitement I started to feel a little guilty, because I was wondering if my feelings were disappointment.  However, it truly wasn’t disappointment, it was more shock and needing to wrap my mind around the concept.  Collin and I have a great relationship and I always say communication is one of the keys to our successful marriage, so I just talked to him about it and he was of course understanding and super supportive.  I remember even telling him, “I don’t feel disappointment, I feel excitement, just complete surprise.”  I knew it was important to let myself feel what I felt and just observe and not beat myself up over it, because I knew I was genuinely excited when I thought of being a mommy to two beautiful, happy, healthy girls and I felt so grateful for that!!

How I Got Re-Inspired & Even MORE Excited About Having Two Girls!

In a word… Pinterest lol!  No, but really!  That night after telling our families and after Collin went to bed, I decided I needed some visual inspiration to better wrap my mind around the concept that we were going to have two girls, instead of a girl and a boy like I had thought.  Within seconds of seeing inspiring images, I was beyond excited!!!  I’m such a visual person, so that helped me a lot!  I literally screen-shot and pinned the images you see below and instantly got not only super inspired, but I started to really see myself as a “girl mama” to our two daughters!  I started to think to myself, “I’m so passionate about empowering girls, it’s what my whole freaking business is revolved around, now I get it!  This is meant to be!”  The inspiration continued, “Not only do I get to empower girls in the world through my career doing what I love as blogger, but on an even deeper level as a mom raising two beautiful, smart, kind, confident daughters who make Collin and me so proud!”  With these thoughts and images (that even kind of look like us) my ENTIRE MINDSET shifted to pure excitement!!!  Pretty sure I even woke Collin up to tell him my epiphany lol.  I suddenly understood my purpose on a much deeper level and could imagine this new, even better reality!  I began to realize that while my original vision was beautiful, the Universe has a similar yet slightly adjusted one for us that is going to be even more beautiful long term and has left me in a bit of awe.  I feel for some reason that little boy is not supposed to be ours at this time, whether that means we are done after two kids or just right now, and I am truly okay with that.  I think we only want two kids, but I am open-minded at this point it’s just too early.  I believe that our little girl is on a mission and is coming here for reason and I am already so in love and so proud of her and her powerful soul!

Names We Are Thinking

So… names!  Eeeeek the fun part!  Well, now that I’m so freaking excited to have two daughters I’ve been looking-up girl names like crazy for inspiration on Pinterest, YouTube… you name it.  From the beginning, Collin and I have had a certain name in-mind which I think we are pretty set-on though.  I keep coming back to it.  Even before we knew what gender we were having, I remember telling Collin if we have a girl I really like this name and right away he loved it—no hesitation.  After we found out we were having a girl, we ran the name by our parents on both sides just for fun and they had the same reaction and loved it.  It just kind of feels right, you know?!  When I see it written out on a list of names, it pops out at me and it feels like us and our family.  We’ve also had a ton of signs around this name, which have been pretty miraculous that I’ll have to share at another time.  Right now we’ve been referring to our little girl and talking to my belly using the name.  So, unless we randomly fall in-love with another name, we are now brainstorming middle names and just having fun with it seeing what feels right.

So, lesson learned  1–I SUCK at predicting the genders of my own kids lol (which seems so unlike me, since I’m usually so intuitive about things, but hey that’s cool you can’t be good at everything ?) and 2–The Universe has a plan for us.  Through my own manifesting success and experience, I believe we all have a major say in what we attract into our lives through listening to our heart’s desires and practicing manifestation techniques consistently.  Yet sometimes there is an even BIGGER picture that we may not realize or quite understand at first that is even more beautiful than we even realize… that everything truly does happen for a reason. So there is a certain amount of yogi energy involved here of learning to let go… and trust.  Haha not a small order for us control-freaks out there, but an important lesson to learn.  Like most things in life, it’s all a balance.  Both our daughters already amaze me and make me so proud—I am so grateful to be their Mom!!  I can’t wait to share more of our fun journey with you all as we all learn, grow, flourish and shine together!

Until next time—be balanced, be tru, and proud to be YOU!

xo! Heath