My 22nd birthday was on April 25th and it was by far the best ever!! On April 18th the Boyce’s took me out for my birthday dinner at Cheesecake Factory…which is one of my most favorite places! On Saturday April 24th my wonderful husband gave me my new purse, tickets to Tim McGraw, and a watch. Later that day he took me to lunch (at Plates and Palates), shopping, a movie (Date Night), and to dinner (at California Pizza Kitchen, another favorite). Then on my actual birthday my Grandma Gerda made me my usual birthday dinner. On that following Friday my dad took me out to dinner at El Burrito. Thank you to all my wonderful families for making my “birth-week” so great.
This might sound like just another typical birthday, but there was something else that made it that more special. On April 21st I found out that we are expecting!!!! This is pretty much the reason it has taken me so long to post anything because it was still so early that I wasn’t ready to announce it. We are 9 weeks tomorrow and couldn’t be happier. We had our first doctor’s appointment on May 7th (I was about 7 weeks), and went back on May 20th for our first ultrasound. Everything went great. We heard the heartbeat and the nurse said everything looked to be healthy. This pregnancy has been so easy, well so far…I haven’t been sick at all which I’m so grateful for. My due date is exactly December 25th and I’m hoping I go before then. Right after I found out I knew that I couldn’t post about it yet so I wrote down a couple feelings I had in my journal so I could remember just how I felt in that moment. Here is the entry from my journal…April 27th, 2010
So I’ve been meaning to write this for a while now, but for some reason I’ve had the hardest time trying to put what I’ve been feeling the last 6 days into words. After some much needed time I finally feel as though my thoughts and feelings have been collected and that I can express just how I feel about this wonderful occasion. On April 21st I found out that I’m pregnant!! After being late about 4 or 5 days I finally got the courage to take a pregnancy test. I can remember being so nervous to take it because I was so worried about being disappointed, but after anxiously waiting the longest 3 minutes of my life I finally saw those 2 pink lines. I couldn’t believe my eyes; I seriously thought I was imagining it. I ran down the stairs and with my hands and voice shaking with shock I told Dallas I thought I was pregnant. He took one look at it agreed with me. I took about 5 more tests before it really hit me though. We are so excited and couldn’t be more grateful to bring this baby into our lives. Excited, nervous, scared, happy etc. are all emotions that I’m currently feeling every day. We had been trying to get pregnant for what seemed forever and after months of it not working I felt like just giving up. So when I got this amazing news that I’m pregnant it was the most shocking thing ever because I wasn’t ready to believe it. Words truly can’t express how happy I am that we are able to have this baby. I want our baby to know that even though I haven’t even met you yet we love you so very much and we can’t wait to meet you!!!
