Telling the BIG news!

July 10th

Last night was Kevin and his twin's birthday so we had a huge family dinner at their house, we could have told everyone at once but didn't want to tell anyone other than our parents until we went to the doctor, so nothing was said. I had texted my mom on Monday and said lets do wings at your house tomorrow.  (we always eat wings with them so nothing out of the ordinary) mom said she didn't feel  like wings and my sister is in town working at the mart and they said she wouldnt be home early enough for dinner so maybe another time. I was thinking to myself, no we are coming to your house! So I texted her back and said well we need to come over and get the stuff we left when we went out of town and show them wedding pictures and video we took (Kevin was videographer for the wedding). She said that's fine so we were back on track and it ended up that we did eat wings but as they were cooking we were all talking in the kitchen (my sister got home early) so it was the 5 of us and i was ready to tell the news and my dads phone rings, uh... My heart was beating so fast at this point anxious to tell them I answer it and it was my brother Mitch with a question about something at home depot so i answered it and hung up and kept the phone so if it rang again I could hit ignore. Finally I turn to my mom and dad and said "I think I have a rash or eczema again on my stomach"(side note randomly a few months ago I got this rash that ended up being eczema, this was my IN to show them my stomach)  and I lift up my shirt to show them and on my stomach Kevin had written in a speech bubble "will you be my grandparents" they were shocked!!!! My dad's face was priceless he literally was shocked and i dont think we have ever surprised him that much. My mom just started screaming "No way no way" balling....my poor sister Nina  had no clue what was going on bc she was behind me and didn't see it, she thought I had some awful disease. You can see the video we took of it all going down Here It was so awesome we were able to surprise them, they had no idea we were trying and they were so excited. It was a great feeling.

July 11th

We finally got a chance to tell Kevin's parents, Kevin called and said we were on our way home from church and had some tool we needed to bring back to them so we would stop by. We went inside to say hi and Kevin kept asking how was your day blah blah blah I was thinking hurry up already my heart is pounding with excitement again. Finally he said "hey we have a question for both of you, starting in march of 2013 we need a couple of grandparents for our new addition" and their faces were also priceless and full of excitement. It was so fun and I am so glad we finally got to tell them. My first doctors appointment is set for Tuesday July 17th and if my calculations are right I will be 6 weeks this Friday July 13th. Once we go to the doctor to verify this is all true we will announce it to all of our siblings and then September is when we will officially announce it. (obviouly with you reading this now you know we couldnt wait until september.)

Pink lines

July8th

What a busy week we have had. On june 29th we were headed to lake watagua in butler tennessee to hang out for the holiday weekend with our friends. Its a tradition we always try to go every 4th of july. This was also the week i was suppose to "start". Nothing ever happened and i had mentioned it to one of my friends that I might be but didn't want to know for sure until when we got back home. Well after we left the lake we headed to Nashville for my brother nicks wedding. It was beautiful, fun and memorable but we were anxious to get home. I knew after being out of town for a week and being late for over a week it meant something was up! on our way home we stopped by CVS to pick up a pregnancy test, we already had one from our dear friend Erin (from the lake house trip) but wanted another just to be sure. Well who knew these things come in like a box of 3 and cost so much, it was like 17.99 but I knew it would be money well spent. We finally got home and I took the first test, it immediately showed positive so I called Kevin in and we just stared at it and were so excited but I think in shock as well. I decided to take the second one just to be sure and of course I had to chug lots of water to make myself have to pee again and that one said to wait 3 mins. It was the loooongest 3 min. of my life! Finally the second little pink line showed up and we celebrated again and took some pictures. 

A couple months later...

April

This month I continued to think a lot about how we might actually get pregnant this year. I was excited a lot and worried a lot. Worried about money and if I would be able to quit work once we had the baby and if Kevin's business was doing well enough to replace my income.   Kevin being the wonderful Christian husband he is would always talk with me to ease my mind and say everything will work out as God has planned. Anytime I start to worry i pray about it and I feel relieved of any stress. Don't get me wrong I still think about it and make sure we plan for what may come but I do not let it consume me. 

May 6th

Today was the first day in the last 5 years I have not started a birth control packet. Excited and nervous!  I am out of town with my family bc my little brother graduated from college so it has been hard bc I know what could happen over the next few months and I can't talk about it with anyone except Kevin and he is back in GA! I don't want anyone to know we are trying. It will make it so much more of a surprise when we reveal the news, but it's so hard not to blurt it out when everyone is always asking me. It will be an interesting month.

When it all started

Feb 6th :

Kevin and  have been married almost 5years and all we hear is when are you going to have a baby. My mom is the worst, in a good way, she wants a grandbaby so bad. she jokes about it all the time but she knows we are smart for wanting to wait until kevin graduates which will be this December! This week was the first week Kevin and I really started to discuss our plans for this year as far as expanding our family. I remember we were driving somewhere and talked about how he will be graduating this year. Lord willing.  We talked about how we didn't want to have a baby until he had graduated but wanted to go ahead and start trying this year so we would have one early next year. My biggest concern was  what if we can't get pregnant or that it may take a long time. We knew we would have to trust God and know that he will provide. It made me very excited that we were talking seriously and on the same page.

Sometime later in February:

There were a lot of factors that played into when exactly we would get off birth control. For instance i didn't want to be huge and pregnant during the summer, it would be so hot. And i know i will be a terrible pregnant person to be around and i apologize daily in advance to kevin for it. we also wanted to try to find a month where we don't have any family birthdays already but thats hard when you come from a family like both of ours so this wasnt as big of a deal but something we did think about. Some of the major factors were; not being pregnant or at least knowing before my brothers wedding in July. it's their big day and I didn't want to take away from them. I have another wedding in November so I don't want to be too pregnant and worry about the dress not fitting but we found out the dress was sized like XS S M L and the size i would get not pregnant would be the same if i was just in my first trimester. Another big thing was I  wanted to be able to know what the gender would be before Christmas.  Sounds silly but i knew our moms would be so excited about having a new grandbaby and would love to go shopping for him/her. Another factor is We go to the lake house the first week in july and knew we wouldn't be able to keep it a secret from our friends for a whole week if we had just found out. We came up with coming off birth control in may but would still play it safe until around June that way we still wouldn't know until middle of July. I even pulled up one of those calendars to see how far along we would be at certain points throughout the year. Weird I know but it was nice to have an Idea.