We're Pregnant!

You read it right! PREGNANT! I'm 12 weeks 2 days at this point and this weekend we decided to share the news with extended family and friends, and over the course of the next couple weeks we'll share with others.

This has been quite an adventure already! I can't wait to enter my second trimester. :) Our due date is January 2nd, 2010! A new years' baby! My Grampy Kelley (may he rest in peace) was born on Jan 3rd, 99 years ago, perhaps this little miracle will share his birthday!

We had been "not trying but not preventing" for about 9 months when we finally got the positive test in April. Very exciting, and terrifying! We found out on April 25th, a Saturday. I woke up at 6am because I had signed up to do the March for Babies Walk for March of Dimes, in Colorado Springs, with Nichole and Elisa and their little ones. Because we had a wedding to go to that evening, and I was "late", I decided to take a pregnancy test that morning. It was the 3rd test I'd taken in the last week, I assumed it would be negative like the others had been, and that my cycle was just as irregular as usual, however, when I was done brushing my teeth and washing my face, and glanced over to see what it said, I noticed there was no "Not" in front of "Pregnant"... !?!?! OMG! But it was too early to wake Ryan, so I just went to the Springs, did the walk, the whole time thinking "I'm pregnant?! OMG!"... so when I got home at around 1pm, I went and bought another pregnancy test and took it, just to be sure... and voila, also positive! So that's when I told Ryan. He was in the shower and I bombarded him. HA! We then had to come up with a plan for how to avoid adult beverages at the wedding that night!

It's been quite a ride so far. We didn't know when we had conceived, so we went for our first prenatal appointment on May 8th, they did an ultrasound and found us to be only 5 weeks 6 days along, and gave us the due date of Jan 2nd. We then went back for a second appointment on May 19th to ensure things were still on track, and they were! So at that point we were 7 weeks 3 days along. We had our last appointment last Tuesday, on June 16th at 11w3d and heard the heartbeat! It was amazing! So speedy! It was about 175 bpm when she first found it, and then maxed out at around 186 bpm as we got more and more excited. :) So cool!

Anyways, that's our big news! Hopefully things continue to go well! We're already attached to the little buggar. :)

Welcome Baby Willi!

I'll be updating my family blogspace with Pregnancy notes, so this blog might just be a straight-up cut & paste from there when it's pregnancy-related. But maybe I'll share more of the gory details here... HA! We'll see! :)

Undeserved!

Okay, so, I haven't been good about blogging of late... I have a good reason, and I'll get to that in a week or so... but anyways, in the meantime, my friend Ally over at All things Ally gave me the blogging friendship award?! Now, I think this is undeserved. I mean, I am SO bad at blogging, that you cannot just befriend me based on the meager blog I post out here every blue moon... but alas, I must have some bit of fun and entertainment in my notes when I do blog, enough so that people come back and check in when I do post something new, so I thank her and welcome the honor and now will do my best to pass it along to someone who I know TRULY deserves it... Carmine, at The Heilig Family Journey!

Carmine you are SO good about keeping us all up to date on your blog. You make sure to have new pictures and stories posted at least weekly, if not bi-weekly, and because checking blogs is one of my favorite things to do (especially when pictures are included), I have to say, you are the best! You can definitely get to know you by way of your blog, it's very much you and so I say that you really shine through as a wonderful mother, wife and friend on your blog. So I'm passing along this award to you!

The award calls for me to give to 8 recipients, but let's face it, I don't have that many blogs that I keep after, so I will just give it to Carmine, and then will also have some honorable mentions that I'd like to pass the award along to as well, even though I'm not as good at keeping up with these blogs... First Heather and her taste-testers at Mummies Yummies for her fabulous recipes that just keep on coming, she doesn't just share her own recipes, but pulls together favorites from other people and posts them as well, THANK YOU! And then I would also like to share Stretching a Buck with all of you... it's not a personal blog, but who can say someone's not being a friend when they're saving you money?! :)

So now you have to "pass it on"... Here are the rules:

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbon of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

Congrats again to Carmine, and to Miss Ally, thank you VERY much, I would surely turn it around on you again, but alas, I think that might be against the rules! ;)