Our Allie

Some of our favorite moments with our Allie! She is one of a kind!

LOOK OUT: Pregnant Lady In The Grocery Store!

Look out Walmart shoppers! Get out of my way because I am on a mission to look at every item and decide if that is a potential for my cravings this week! I had such a fun time at the store this week because I strayed from my mundane list. Filling my cart with fresh basil, strawberries, bell peppers, watermelon, Gingersnaps, V8 Fruit juice (not the diet kind!), Hot Tamales, and Cheddar Quakes made me giddy to get home and prep next week’s lunches. Did I mention the best ice cream EVER- Skinny Cow. Delicious low fat yogurt sandwiched between two huge chocolate cookies. I also snapped up Sprite and Ritz crackers for obvious reasons. My lunch kit was really heavy this morning- when I handed my lunch to Brent to put it in the car, I wonder if he noticed??? Oh well, I feel the best (and Brent would say I am nicer) just after I have eaten. Hopefully, this is just an early pregnancy phase thing (I think Brent would say that, too)!

Positively Positive!

We found out we are pregnant on March 12, 2008 (our brother-in-law, Justin's birthday)!!! We are absolutely thrilled and pray for a healthy pregnancy and baby. It is such an honor that God would choose us to be parents- we truly believe this baby is a miracle!

(FYI-Two lines means "pregnant")

How we found out... we had been trying for 2 months-- the Sunday prior to the 12th was exactly 4 weeks, so I took a pregnancy test. Test said negative. That Tuesday would be 2 days late and supposedly the test is accurate by then. So, Monday night we decided I would take a test when we got home from work the next day. I got up Tuesday morning, didn't hit the snooze button ONCE, and ran for the pregnancy test... why wait 12 more hours! So, I took the test, waited the 5 minutes and the double line appeared! My heart skipped a beat, maybe several! The line was faint, but still there. I went into the bedroom where Brent was still sleeping at 5:30 am and told him. We turned on the lamp to look and he said "I don't know-- that line is faint (sometimes the negative tests appeared to have a faint cross hatch when they were negative... he was trying to keep me calm until we knew for sure). So we agreed to take another test when we got home that night. All day, I felt really funny and KNEW this was a new feeling. The minute I got home, I ran to take another test... this time the line appeared immediately and darker this time!!! (that hormone the test picks up doubles every 12 hours I think). So the top test in the picture was the first test and the bottom test is the confirmation test!