It's Official!

J and I are very very excited to announce that we our expecting our first little one on the 4th of July!

      We found out when I was 6 weeks pregnant on November 8th.  I had been feeling nauseous all week so after spending a whole day at work scoping out where all of the trash cans were for just in case, I decided to take a test.  I had taken a test two weeks before that was negative and we had just started trying so I didn't really think it would be positive.  I was shocked and excited and nervous all at once when the two lines appeared.  It is such a rush of emotions when you realize your life will be changing forever.  I was thrilled of course but then I had a variety of thoughts about what I needed to do and change now that all of my choices would impact a growing baby.  I decided to wait to tell J until the next day after I went to the doctor's office so that I could verify with a blood test.  After the doctor confirmed that I was pregnant and gave me a folder of information I came home and showed J the positive test.  He had pretty much the same reaction that I did with shock, excitement and worries all coming at once.  I decided to immediately cut out most of the caffeine from my diet (a major sacrifice for me as I am pretty much addicted to Diet Coke), I started making sure my workouts were more consistent, I cut turkey sandwiches out of my diet and I added a spinach smoothie to my daily diet.  I ended up losing four pounds pretty quickly, probably from the increased caardio combined with some nausea that kept from eating as much as normal.  Our first doctor's appointment with the OBGYN wasn't scheduled until Decmber 19th so we had to wait quite a while to see our little one.

      We decided to tell my family about the pregnancy when we went for home for Thanksgiving.  I was so excited to share the news, particularly with my parents.  I'm not good at keeping secrets, particularly from my mom and sister so I was grateful that we had a trip planned only two weeks after we found out about the baby.  I painted some wooden picture frames and wrote grandma, grandpa, aunt and uncle on them for my family members and put the picture up above in them.  We gave them to everyone and tears, hugs and congratulations were given by everyone. I think that my parents are thrilled to finally get to be grandparents!  They were awesome about never putting any pressure on us to have a baby but I also know that they wanted grandkids and they wanted us to experience parenthood.  My mom can't wait to find out the baby's gender so that she can start spoiling her first grandbaby. 
      I want to document this pregnancy so I am planning on using this blog to do that.  I am going to start with a backpost or two to cover the first trimester.  I am 14 weeks now so I have officially made it to the second trimester! We appreciate all thoughts and prayers for a healthy and happy pregnancy and baby.