A New Chapter

Thursday January 17^th was a good day.

It wasn’t supposed to be.  I was supposed to have a semi painful procedure called a bubble test to help in figuring out some infertility issues I had been dealing with.  I was nervous and scared and Adam was in Seattle for work, and I really hadn’t told anyone else this was even  happening.  I just felt very alone. 

This test had to be scheduled 6 -10 days after a menstrual cycle, and this was the only time that worked.  However, the morning of the procedure I just had a feeling, that maybe that menstrual cycle that I thought had started 6 days earlier, wasn’t quite what I thought it was.  So I decided to take a pregnancy test.    I have plenty, I ordered a 20 pack online, and over the months building up I had taken probably 7 – 10, so I knew what to look for.  But this time, that second pink line, the one I had hoped and prayed for to show up so many times, well, it slowly started to fill in.  I couldn’t believe it.  Seriously?  Was I really pregnant?  In the next several hours I took two more tests.  Each time, that second pink line showed up. 

I called and canceled my appointment for the bubble study, and made an appointment for my first prenatal appointment.  I could  hardly believe it.

I hadn’t even told Adam yet.  I was trying to decide whether or not to wait.  He would be home in 24 hours, and I wanted to see his face. 

I got home from work, still kind of just baffled and then I saw Adam calling, I was just about to head out for a run, so I decided to ignore his call for the time being.  I needed to decide if I was going to tell him. 

He left me a message, so I listened to it as I was lacing up my shoes.  His message was this… “Eaton called, they offered me the job…”

I fell to my knees and sobbed.  Could this really be happening?  Adam had been looking for another job forever, while he liked Boeing, he just wanted more opportunity to grow in his career, and all his traveling was certainly not the easiest lifestyle. 

All this in one day.  Wow.  I went on my run, during the first warm night we’d had in January all month.  The sun was setting and my heart was so, so full. 

I came home and opened up my scriptures.  At the beginning of the year I decided I wanted to re-read the New Testament, I had left off the night before at Matthew 21.  I read it, and then got to verse 22.   22 And all ^athings, whatsoever ye shall ^bask in ^cprayer, believing, ye shall receive.

I can tell you, I’ve never prayed for anything more in my life than I had been for the last 12 months that Adam and I would be able to start a family.  So reading this scripture caused me to just weep.  I haven’t felt that close to my Savior in a long time.  Truly, I felt surrounded with his love.  He heard our prayers, and in His time He answered them.  

I knelt in prayer and all I could really say between sobs was Thank you.  Thank you. 

Still, I hadn’t talked to Adam yet.  But I decided to wait.  I wanted to be able to see his face and feel his embrace.  I spent Thursday night feeling the embrace of my Savior and it was so incredible.  I’ve always had a testimony of prayer and having faith in Jesus Christ and His plan for us.  There are just moments like these that affirm your faith that are just so truly incredible.  I know He knows what’s best, even though I had brief moments of doubt, didn’t He know I wanted to have a baby in the Spring to avoid being big and pregnant in the summer?   That was the plan anyway… He had a different one.  One that would bring Adam and I back together so we could start our family off right.  Together, as an eternal  unit.  We are so, so blessed.  

Adam came home on Friday and we had our serious talk and excel spreadsheet comparison between the new job opportunity and his current position at Boeing.  I still hadn’t told him, but soon enough I was able to slip into the conversation that having him home would really be the most valuable thing this year, because we were going to have a baby.  Oh, it was so worth it to tell him in person.  Adam is not an emotional  guy, but I am pretty sure a few tears welled up in his eyes as he said, wow, we’re really going to be parents! 

 These past three/ four months have just been a whirlwind.    I was labeled right away as a “high risk pregnancy” because of some thyroid issues and being diagnosed is PCOS.  I was nervous and sacred for so many weeks.  But I truly just had to put my faith and trust in the Lord and things have gone really well. 

I ran my sub-two hour half marathon at 6.5 weeks pregnant.  

 

Goodbye pre-pregnancy body, glad I got a good run in to kiss it goodbye! So worth it though!

 Went to London at 7.5 weeks pregnant...

 and went to Mexico at 11 weeks! 

 Whew!  Probably pushed myself a little too hard there, but it made that first trimester just fly by.  And I have been very lucky that I really only experience a couple weeks of nausea, and other than that, things have gone so well.  We find out what we’re having in just a couple weeks, and then the planning will really begin!  We can’t wait for September 26^th to get here and welcome our little bundle of joy into the world!  Parenthood, here we come!  

16 week 3 days, I have a baby bump! Don't mind the mess in the background, we're reorganizing!