And Baby Makes Three

The night before I met B for the first time (nearly 14 years ago), his old friend from high school was showing me yearbook photos of the people that were going to be at the party the next night. B was the last photo he showed me and when I saw him I got chills. I won’t say that in that moment I knew I was going to marry him. But I knew that something special was going to happen. As we approach our 11th anniversary (this Sunday), I am once again reminded of how right I was that night.

I can’t imagine my life without him. He is truly my best friend. He makes me laugh, he is my shoulder to cry on, he is my anchor in times of uncertainty, and knows me to my core. I can’t even tell you how many times I have fallen in love with him over the last 14 years. It makes my heart hurt when I think about how much I love him.

And now we are about to embark on a new journey in our lives together…growing our family. For the last 10 years, this has been our family:

(Those of you with ‘licky’ dogs may recognize what has just happened here.
In fact, you can still see the culprit’s tongue sticking out of her mouth!)

But in February next year, we will add a new member! Yes, I am pregnant! Officially 12 weeks along today :-) Although it’s still kinda hard to believe there’s something growing inside of me sometimes! We are super excited, a little nervous (after all, neither of us has ever changed a poopy diaper and we have joked that we may be doing a lot of coin flipping for the job in the future), but excited none the less!

(This is my 9 week sonogram where we were able to see

the little guy's heart beating for the first time.)

I won’t be bogging you down with pregnancy details here, I’ve started a family blog for that, but I will be sharing plenty of baby projects in the coming months. I also wanted to take a moment to say that I know how fortunate we are to have been able to conceive this growing little baby. I know that for some it can be very difficult, so I wanted to acknowledge that we are not taking one moment of this pregnancy for granted. We truly understand how special and miraculous this gift is for us. So far things have been going well and I really can’t complain about any discomforts I've experienced so far, but as I mentioned to Nonnahs yesterday, this has been the slowest fastest time ever!