It's Official... We're Having a Baby!

So we finally started to tell all our friends and family the great news. It is still surreal to tell people that we are pregnant. Here is how our story began:

Jeff and I decided to start trying for a baby around our two year anniversary, June 16th. We feel like the timing is perfect and we had always discussed having a baby around 30. Jeff turns the big 3-0 in October and I turn 30 on April 11th. My due date is April 10th!!! Talk about timing. I don't think we could have gotten any closer to my 30th even if we tried.

Anyways, the first week into August I started to feel different. My breasts were really tender and I was having slight cramps. I thought I was going to start my "friend" at any time... but it never came. Every hour I was using the restroom but my "friend" never visited. I started to consider the possibility that I was pregnant on Monday, August 10th.

I went to CVS and bought a pregnancy test. The whole time I was thinking that I was wasting my money, because there was no possible way it would have happened so fast. I would probably spend $20 dollars, take the test and within an hour my "friend" would visit. I got home and put the bag on the table. Jeff got home from work and noticed my recent purchase. He asked when I was going to take it and I told him that it is more accurate in the morning. So I had to wait over twelve hours, torture.

The next morning I took the test. The first one returned "no result"(because I flooded the stick). As soon as a drop of urine hit the second test a second line popped up. I grabbed the box to make sure the results were what I thought they were... Sure enough I WAS PREGNANT.

A rush of emotions ran through my body... I was excited, shocked, nervous, happy, worried. I never knew that it was possible to feel all these different emotions at once. I walked into the bedroom where Jeff was ironing his clothes for work, holding the test. I said "It came back positive... we're pregnant." The look on his face was priceless, the room was silent and Jeff looked like a deer in the headlights. I knew he was experiencing the same emotions that had just flooded through me a couple of minutes ago. Then he said "Well, there you go."

Wow - not at all what I thought he would say. My already hormone flooded system just broke down. I stared to cry and Jeff came over and gave me a big hug. He assured me that everything would work out. A much better reaction, definitly the one I had been looking for originally. Since finding out I was pregnant Jeff has embraced his role as the supportive husband.