finding out.

Luke and i have been praying about when to start a family for a while now. I've been pretty excited about it but we felt like it needed to be a prayerful decision. So, we actually decided that we wanted the baby to be born in January, because i have always been against having a baby during the holidays. but after a while we both felt like we shouldn't wait any longer, so it was actually really cool to both receive spiritual confirmation that we needed to start a family a little sooner.

waiting to find out if i was actually pregnant or not was killer!! the at-home pregnancy tests say they can tell you as early as 4 days before your next expected period. not true. i was a little overly anxious to take the test, so i ended up taking one a day early, and of course it came out negative. a few days later i tried again, this was only 2 days before my next expected period...still, negative. i was super bummed. but when my period didn't come the day it was supposed to, or the day after, or the day after that, i started to get antsy again. i decided one evening that the next day i was going to take one more pregnancy test. i tried not to get my hopes up, but that night i could barely sleep. finally at 5:30 am i couldn't wait any longer, i woke up luke to tell him that i was going to take the test. this time it didn't take long for the lines to appear to confirm that i was indeed pregnant. i was soooo excited! neither luke or i cried, we were just giddy with excitement and hugged. luke was still pretty much half asleep through the whole thing, so he went back to sleep pretty easily. But not me. i couldn't sleep. i kept thinking about what it would be like to have a baby and was up looking at baby stuff online. finally a few hours later i fell asleep.

We didn't really know what to do after that. We weren't sure when to tell family or to set up our first doctor's appointment. I read online somewhere that you basically call the doctor right away, which i later learned really isn't necessary. Luke was really cute, we were both excited about going to the doctor for the first time, but luke couldn't sleep the night before because he was so excited:) But our first doctor's appointment i think i was 5 weeks 4 days. Basically it was just a confirmation that i was pregnant.

this is what we saw. the black is the amniotic fluid, where the baby lives, and there is a little white ring which is the baby. i think at this time it was a yolk, but i am not even sure.

After our first appointment we just decided to tell our families. so we just went over to my parents house and pulled out the ultrasound. they were super excited a we caught them by surprise. Then we went to tell luke's mom, mindy, since no one else was around. she was at the institute building and she was super excited too, her reaction was funny because she was so excited. we then planned a family BBQ for the next day so that we could tell the rest of luke's family.

so i made some cupcakes that says "someones pregnant" to bring to the BBQ. It was fun to see everyone's reactions...it took a few seconds for some to get it but they all caught on and everyone was really excited for us.

so this is me at 6 weeks. i figured it was best to have a starting point just to see how much i grow!