"This year we will get 1 of those!!!"

This is what I hear from TJ EVERY single time we see a baby now! It is super cute. Joe and I were talking about how we can officially say we are having a baby this year and TJ caught on resulting in this. So as you can now tell we have been blessed with a healthy pregnancy! It only took 4.5 years of trying, many infertility treatments, a miscarriage, and an adoption for it to happen but happen it did. We were very shocked, thrilled, scared, blessed, and every other emotion in the book when we saw those 2 precious lines show up! This was an au naturale conception and it couldn't have been more surreal the first few weeks. Actually, it still feels surreal much of the time but it IS happening to US!!!!!

Alright after getting this started I realize it could end up being an entire book so I will be breaking it down into separate posts over the next few days.

So let's go back to the beginning. Okay, not THE beginning as no one wants to hear any of that but the "there are 2 lines" beginning...

Halloween weekend we were all over the place with some parties and a fun night out for Joe and I. The only odd thing was that every.single.time I got in the car I threw-up. Very odd as when I wasn't in the car I was perfectly fine. At one point my mom asked Joe what was wrong with me and he responded with she's pregnant. I told him to knock it off since after 4.5 years you just don't tend to believe it could be true and even if it was I was still a week away from being able to take a test. Fast forward to the next weekend. Joe needed to drop his leaf blower off at Sears to be fixed and we needed stuff for dinner. He dropped me at Walmart and him and TJ headed to Sears. When I went to check-out I noticed the $.88 pregnancy tests(yup, $.88!!!). A Facebook friend had posted a status earlier that week asking if anyone had tried these new tests that Walmart carried and for feedback. I remembered this and though what the heck I'm not late but should be anyday now and so I grabbed one just because. I told Joe when he picked me up that I had gotten it but when we got home we got dinner ready and were preoccupied. Later that night I decided to take it. Well, imagine my shock when it came out positive!!! The problem though was the 2nd line wasn't as dark as the control line so we were skeptical because it is an $.88 test that Walmart just came out with! I had shoved the test in Joe's face so no surprising him with the news after that. It was somewhat late and Walgreens was closed for the night so Sunday morning finally rolled around and we went to get the "good" brand name test. Yes, yes, YES every one that I took was positive! We were beyond thrilled and couldn't believe that God was blessing us in this way after so long! With a miscarriage in the past we were anxious to get to the doctor and have it confirmed and monitored. I called first thing Monday morning and got an appointment for Tuesday morning. With that I will save the next bit for the next post.