Note: I wrote this on Tuesday, Sept 8, 2015 but I thought it needed a bit of editing, so I didn't post it. I also needed to take a week 9 picture to add to this post.
One week later (week 10) I began the horrible heartbreaking process of a miscarriage. I decided to post this anyway. Hopefully in a few days there will be another post about our healing process, and the journey of loosing our baby. Thank your for your prayers. It's been the hardest thing we have ever gone through.
If any of you know us well, you know that we enjoy our cookies and coffee. Shawn especially loves his cookies, and I love my coffee. Our wedding theme was, "We go together like cookies and coffee." So... having said that, we are excited to announce that in April we will be adding milk to our cookies and coffee. Yes, that's right, WE'RE EXPECTING A BABY!!! We've been praying and hoping for a little while now that God was send us a little miracle. We are so overjoyed, and praise God for His goodness to us.
It was our first anniversary, the day we found out I was pregnant. I suspected it... sort of, hoping like I do every month, but trying not to hope too much. We spent 4 days at Promised Land Lake in PA. I threw in a pregnancy test, just in case. The schedule on my calendar said if I was pregnant I could find out sometime that weekend. And lo and behold...... Sunday morning (our anniversary) I decided to take the test. Much to my surprise IT WAS POSITIVE!!!! I cried. Shawn had no idea what was going on, or that I had even brought a test along. So I started thinking about how I was going to tell him. It was so hard to keep my composure. I was shaking, and either crying or laughing. I began to prepare breakfast as planned, hoping Shawn would leave the room for a few minutes. He finally went to use the restroom and I flew into action. By the time he came out I was ready. I told him I had a surprise for him, and wanted him to sit on the couch. I had my cell phone in the corner videoing the whole thing. I first handed him a Bible and told him to read Deuteronomy 11:18-21
"Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children,talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth."
I then handed him the ring box that he had used when he proposed to me. Inside the ring box I had put a coffee granule. He took the box, opened it, and said, "what is it? a bug??" I started crying so hard I couldn't speak. I finally choked out... "It's a coffee granule, it's the size of our baby." He said, "What?" I said, "I'm pregnant!!" He said, 'What?" Are you sure? When did you find out? How do you know?" So I showed him the test. Then he said, "Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness" We were excited and in shock, talking about the possibilities, could it really be? Is it true? What is this gonna be like? How is our life going to change? When am I due? We laughed and cried for a long time. I have the whole thing on video, but trust me, you probably don't want to see it. :)
Week 5, Baby is the size of a sesame seed.
I had to take a picture while I still fit in my wedding dress.
It might be the last chance I have for a while. :)
We decided to start telling our families. We told his parents right as soon as we got back, and they were ecstatic. The video of them is priceless. Since my family is so far away we decided to just skype them. We found these cute mugs for 10 cents at a yard sale, and I had found the pink onesie at walmart quite a few months ago. So we held them up for my parents and my sisters to see. Although the skype connection was a bit poor, it was still better then a phone call, or an email. We saw their faces and heard their responses. I was able to tell Ralph and Krista in person when my cousin and I went up for Krista's bridal shower. It was special to at least tell someone from my family in person. Both families are so excited. This is the first grandchild for my parents, so it's even extra special. So far almost everyone thinks we're gonna have a boy. We plan to find out around Christmas time if it will be a boy or a girl.
Week 6 Baby is the size of a lentil bean. Week 7 baby is the size of blueberry.
PROUD AUNTIES
