BIG NEWS!!!!

On March 4th Daniel and I found out we were expecting a baby. Well, I found out then had to wait two hours for Daniel to get home before I could tell him. We (Daniel) decided back in October that it was time for us to start our family. I say Daniel because I wasn't real sure, but that's an entirely different blog post.

Daniel was out at a meeting in town and like I said I had to wait a long long two hours for him to get home.  I think I sat in silence for two hours and watched my hands shake.

Back in November I started planning how I would tell Daniel the big news and I bought a tiny pair of baby boots, since he and I both LOVE our boots. When Daniel got home I had supper cooking and asked him to watch it for just a second. I came back and told him I found a surprise for him. I gave him the boots with the positive pregnancy test in them. He was speechless!! I think he said "FOR REAL?" and nothing else.

We were both so shocked that we were silent for a good while. Then we decided we needed to go to the doctor first and be sure and keep it between us until we knew for sure.

The hardest part was knowing that I was going to Troy the following Friday (March 8th) with my Mom to walk in a 5K with Daniel's Mom and Sister. How would I ever keep this quite???

For the first few weeks the nausea wasn't too bad. As long as I didn't let my stomach get empty I felt fine. I did purchase a pair of PSIbands to wear for the nausea and they DO help.

On March the 14th I had a class in Birmingham and Mom rode with me to keep me company. I knew this trip wouldn't be easy and I was so afraid she would notice something. I blamed the nausea on carsickness and put on the PSIbands and we were good to go. ;-) She's never going to forgive me for hiding this from her for so long.

By this time I was almost 6 weeks along.

On March 21, 2013 We had our first Doctors appointment. He said everything appeared to be going well and wanted me back in two weeks for an ultrasound and blood work.

The next day, March 22, I left for my "girls weekend" in Destin. TALK ABOUT TORTURE!!!! I spent the weekend with 9 of my closest girl friends and couldn't tell them a thing. On Saturday I was having trouble hiding the fact that I was exhausted and one of them asked me "are you pregnant?" "No" was all that I could get out and I prayed that she couldn't hear my heart beating.

We didn't keep this a secret for any reason other than we wanted to be sure everything was "ok" and we wanted to tell our families first. We had a plan all along for when and how to tell our families and it just so happened to fall after all of this. Those stories are to come.

The major symptoms I have had are nosebleeds (which I have never had before in my life), nausea, and soreness. Amazingly I haven't had a migraine since February 27th. I know my mother is saying "See, I told you if you would get pregnant it would help your migraines." Lets just pray she is right.

I;m not really craving anything.

I do not want cakes, or doughy type foods. I actually gagged looking at Little Debbie Easter Cakes. I think Daniel's quote after that was "You are very sick." I normally LOVE The seasonal Little Debbie Cakes. Sweets aren't that appealing these days.

I prefer to eat fruits and veggies right now. Oh, and ketchup. I can't seem to get enough ketchup these days. Not that I'm putting it on everything, it's just that when I'm eating ketchup...it's delicious!!! I even sent Daniel this picture because we've laughed about the ketchup thing a lot lately.