The story behind our family

July 19thHi, I'm Ashley Shafer and I was raised in Massachusetts. My life growing up, I always loved babies, and wanted a baby when I was older. But I never thought it would happen to me so soon. It was my first year in College, when I found out I was pregnant. At the time, I didn't know I was pregnant with twins but I did know who the daddy was. Kyson was the only one I did it with. I was scared as heck to tell him that I was pregnant. More important, my parents. They trusted me not to have sex with him but something just over came me. The moment when I told Kyson we had to talk, he thought I was going to break up with him. Seriously... that was the one time that I saw him break down like that. Luckily to my surprise, when I told him I was pregnant, he was on his knees and asked me to marry him. I didn't even think about getting married yet, but I guess he was. Since he was the man of my dreams, and we've been friends since like we were three, I knew EVERYTHING about him. I knew that he was a ladies' man, his favorite sport was basketball, that you could trust him if you were his girlfriend.. he wouldn't cheat on whoever the girl was, talks trash about the politics.. yeah! I didn't want to miss the chance of living the rest of my life with him. Of course, in the end, I said yes!

I will not get into much of the details here, but when I told my parents, shockingly, they didn't kicked me out! (Or in that matter make me have an abortion because we're strong believers that every child from God is a blessing). They promised (and did) that they would be by my side throughout my whole journey. However, my parents did have one thing that I had to "swear on my grave". And that was to STAY IN SCHOOL, GET AN EDUCATION, AND PROVIDE FOR MY TWINS. I literally had a freak attack right there on the spot. Not because that I didn't want to, I did. And I know that. But the fact that they thought I didn't know that was ABSURD! My education and my life was one of the things I had swore to do in my life. So I told my parents that and boy, were they relieved! Kyson had told his parents, and I headed over after dinner. Surprisingly, his parents supported us through the whole journey too! And like my parents, his parents gave him the school lecture and he was exactly like me. I guess we both wanted something in our lives to have a bright future.(:

When I was four months pregnant, the doctors decided that I had twins and they looked like both boys. We were in complete awe. Not only did we think we could HANDLE two babies, but the fact that God knew we could handle the twins. So all we could say was "thank you" to the doctors. That night, we had a mini family dinner with Kyson's family and everyone else to celebrate. Then in the middle of the night, I had complained of a fever and my parents told me it was nothing, put an icepack on my head, and to go back to sleep. It would be gone in the morning.Well they were wrong. At around 4am, I checked my temperature of 115 degrees. I told my parents and they drove me to the hospital. The doctor gave me some medicine and told me I had to do a c-section NOW. I was in disbelief. Was this even possible? Isn't this dangerous or something? I looked at my mom for help and she asked the doctor if there was another way to help the twins or for my fever to go down. The doctor told me that there was an ice bath and suddenly, I knew there was a possibility of my twins surviving. I slipped (Well I would've if I wasn't so big already) into  the bathing suit. The ice was really cold, and I mean really! After 30 minutes in the ice bath, my fever had only gone down to 112 degrees. I asked for another 30 minutes, and the doctor rolled his eyes. He walked away and I mouthed to my parents "I dunno".  The doctor came back with some more medicine, and told me to take a teaspoon of that gross thingy. Kyson came in all the sudden and we kissed. He didn't care if I was sick or not. He just wanted me to be well. I instantly felt better when I was in his arms.My fever only went down to 106 degrees, and they had me stay at the hospital and I would me home the next day.
Other than that, my pregnancy went smoothly. Kyson moved into my parents' house, and his parents moved to the house down the street.

We introduced our beautiful, healthy, twins May 3rd 2012, 40 wks gestion. Baby A (Kaden) was born at 4:09am weighing 6 lbs 6 oz and Baby B (Kyle) was born at 4:30am weighing 6 lbs 3 oz. They have been great additions to our family, and we couldn't we more happier. We truly are blessed and we thank the lord for everything we have in our lives.

Meet Baby Kaden & Baby Kyle!

Me and my twins(: Mommy love

Daddy and his twins(: Daddy love