I'll Have Water For Now

This has been a crazy week for BJ and I. Now that we are pregnant, we are trying to decide when we should tell our family and friends. I'm only 5 weeks so I feel like it's really early to tell anyone. We are going for our initial doctor's visit and ultrasound on December 18th. That seems like forever to wait to tell! We liked the idea of waiting until Christmas, and letting our parents open a picture of the baby as a gift. That all sounds great in theory, but Christmas is still a long ways away to hide something so big. With the Iron Bowl next week and many Christmas parties coming up, it's going to be very difficult to drink water without being noticed. We still had not decided on when or how we are going to tell, but we certainly weren't ready to do so tonight.

Tonight BJ, Aubrey, Ann Taylor, Hal, Kimberly, and I went to eat dinner at Ruby Tuesday (totally random choice for us). As we sat down and began to order drinks, I told the server "I'll have water for now" trying to play it off as though I would order a different drink later. After the server walked away Kimberly immediately called me out. She said "Are you Pregnant?!?!" I looked at her and Ann Taylor and turned bright red. I began sweating profusely and got really uncomfortable before replying, "No, I'm just tired and have a headache so I'll just have water for now." It was so obvious that I was not telling the truth. Kimberly then replied, "Well you didn't do anything last night, and tonight you are drinking water so I think you are." Ann Taylor seconded her comment by telling me she thought something was up when they saw us at Rosie's last night, and I was going home instead of going to hear an awesome band that I love. As much as I wanted to hide it, I completely crumbled and told them that yes I am indeed preggers. It was hard to tell them because I'm the first in our group of friends to get pregnant, and BJ and I are still not comfortable with everything. I feel so much better now that the cat is out of the bag, but I feel terrible that they found out (or got it out of us) before we could tell our families. It was such a great feeling to hear all of the positive and encouraging things our friends had to say. BJ and I have been very scared and nervous so it's great to know that we have friends that are so supportive. We are going to need lots of prayers, encouragement, guidance, advice, and positive feedback through this pregnancy. Now, we have to tell the family.....SOON! And then we will announce it to the rest of our friends. After that, I will let my blog go live so everyone that wishes can keep up with the pregnancy updates.

I Think That Means You Are Pregnant

After reading multiple blogs of all types, I decided that becomming a blogger myself may be just the thing that BJ and I need to help us share our feelings and emotions over the next nine months. As many of you know, BJ and I grew up together and became best friends in the 7th grade. We attended church together and went to the same High School. We began dating during our Junior year of college and got married on May 13, 2006. That means we have been married for 3 1/2 years now! We have both learned alot in the past 3 years, and have much more to learn in the upcoming year. BJ and I were starting to talk about having children, but we were not planning to start trying until sometime next year. This past Monday my body seemed a little out of whack and something just felt weird. BJ was at the gym, and I had just gotten home from working in Cullman. For some reason I felt the need to take a pregnancy test, although I was fully confident that it would come back negative. I recently had surgery so every time I feel bad or weird I blame it on the surgery. I thought that the feelings I was having this week were also a result of my body adjusting after my operation. After taking the test I glanced down to look at the result and my entire body went numb as a + sign appeared in the test window. I immediately thought that the test was wrong and waited impatiently for BJ to get home so I could fill him in on the news. After telling him the symptoms I had experienced that day, and telling him about the test I had taken, I told him , "I think I might be pregnant." (in tears) After the initial shock, I proceded to take another test to get his opionion. The second test came back positive but it wasn't real clear. The blue line was not REALLY blue (but there was definately a line). I made BJ come look at it to make sure I was seeing correctly and his response was, "I think that means you're pregnant."

After a week of no sleep and many mixed emotions, I finally went to the doctor for another confirmation. After the Nurse Practitioner came in and told me Congratulations, everything began to feel real. This pregnancy came completely unplanned, so we have had a very hard time accepting the fact that we are going to have a child. This is something that we have both always wanted, but never dreamed of having this week. We both share the same feeling that we wanted to have our first child on our own time, when we felt we were ready. This pregnancy has just been a reminder to both of us that God has a bigger and better plan in place for us. He has blessed us with this baby, and He has given it to us on His time. Therefore, we shall be grateful.