Conjoined Dell Twins

09/02/2026

Our BUSY girl is right on track. 🩷 We had our anatomy scan today and what a blessing it was to hear that she looks perfect for the 20 week mark.

12/11/2025

For this child, we have prayed. Welcoming our little rainbow baby June of 2026 🌈🤍

28/02/2025

It’s not their actual birthday (given they were leap babies) but we’re gonna celebrate them anyway.

Thank you. To every person that leans in, excited to tell me a story, not afraid of the grief. Even those who did not meet my girls while alive. Thank you for asking what they were like. What it’s like without them. For reminding me that they are not forgotten and they mattered.

Happy 1st birthday baby girls. 🤍🤍

23/01/2025

Sweet girls.. I long for you.. 🤍

03/12/2024

In honor of Giving Tuesday, Petal and Paint will be donating 10% of every order to Angel Dash. Angel Dash is an organization particularly close to my heart. They raise money through Rachel's Gift Inc. to "provide specialized bereavement care for parents who lose a child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death". When we lost our girls in February 2024, the bereavement care team made a world of difference to us at no extra cost or burden. I will have my link below as well as theirs in case you would just like to donate straight to them.

https://petalandpaintstudio.etsy.com
https://www.angeldash.org/

16/11/2024

On this day a year ago, we got the most shocking news of our lives. Not only were we having identical twin girls, we were having CONJOINED identical twin girls. Matthew and I were filled with fear and sadness. We knew the outcome wouldn’t be favorable. All we COULD do was trust in God’s providence for our baby girls’ lives and our own and boy did he prove faithful - even though our babies went on the be with him. Those two little souls changed our lives drastically. We still mourn over them but with peace that they are with Jesus. I think about their little kicks inside me and how I could tell who was who kicking me (Elhora, though the smaller twin, was the feistier one). We are so grateful for everyone who has walked along side us and supported us with thoughts, prayers, and words of encouragement throughout the last year.

28/10/2024

Hi my friends. Just wanted to take a moment to check in since I haven’t in a while. I am struggling. It only seems to get harder as time goes on and not easier. I have a 2 year old who still will not sleep through the night and the lack of sleep makes the weight of the world and our situation crushing and unbearable. Matthew and I are so weary. I am struggling with the dark intrusive and untrue thoughts that flooded my head during my last postpartum depression era after Dallas was born. I miss my babies so much. More than anything. I think of them every day.

Please, if it’s not too much trouble, continue to pray for us. We are coming up on a lot of the 1st year anniversaries of some of big milestones in my pregnancy with the girls. Nov 16th is when we found out that there was an Amelia AND an Elhora and that they were conjoined and that is just around the corner. I anticipate a whole new level of grief to come as we hit these markers a year later. We need peace, and comfort, and rest. Lots of rest.

14/10/2024

As our sweet Dallas turned 2 this past week, I have thought of our girls often and wished they could be here with us. We love you Amelia and Elhora. 🩷🩷

An Atlanta couple is sharing the painful but beautiful story of their conjoined twins, who were fused at the heart and lived only one hour after delivery. Amelia Jane and Elhora Auri were born to their parents on February 29, each weighing 3.5 pounds and embracing one another. Matthew and Breanna De...

17/09/2024

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13/09/2024

Hi friends and family. Wanted to give you guys a chance to be a part of a special upcoming event! 🩷🩷 Point University is awarding a musical scholarship that some of our family members have donated to a young lady in honor of Amelia and Elhora. The event will take place at 2:00 pm on Monday the 16th. Below is a link to Point’s YouTube page and you should be able to click on the LIVE link 5-10 minutes before the event starts! We hope you will join us in this special event honoring our girls and the music program at Point.

Founded in 1937, Point University is a liberal arts institution preparing students to influence culture for Christ in all spheres of life.

06/09/2024

Best one yet ❤️

Originally Published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

05/09/2024

It is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved you at all my sweet babies.

6 months. 6 months since they’ve been gone.

At 6 months old, Dallas was rolling over and just starting to sit up. He was laughing and playing peek-a-boo with us. It was so much fun to watch him experience so many new things. What I wouldn’t give to have double the trouble with our girls. I can imagine what they might look like.

Both would be chunky, because their brother was. Amelia would be the sweet and giggly one. Elhora would be the sassy one (she was in my belly. I could tell when she kicked me that she had a little spice to her - like her momma) both would have dark brown hair. Elhora’s would still be pin straight while Amelia’s had a little kick to it. I wonder whose eyes they would have. My green eyes or Matt’s brown eyes. Dallas has his daddy’s eyes.. They would be SO much fun.

*sigh*