Finding Out...& God's Goodness

I took this picture of the verse I happened to read the

 morning after I found out I

was indeed pregnant! Words cannot describe

the joy in my heart, and the relief I felt 

washing over me from the past year. 

God is so good and I'm overwhelmed at

His love and blessing.

After months of trying and hearing from our 

fertility doctor that this would be our "last chance"

to do the medication, I was honestly surprised.

You can read some about what was going on

last year here.

I had come to grips that this may never happen

to us, and was praying that God would show

me His will for us.

I had also just finished reading the book I had

purchased shortly after our 

miscarriage that really helped me 

delve through my emotion towards

God, my husband, myself and other people

through this path He has us on:

I would highly recommend this

Christian based book to any

of my friends/family going through

fertility challenges or 

adoption loss.

Because of what happened just a few months

prior, I wanted to keep this one to myself

for now-I didn't even tell Jordan!

It was a special time with just me and God getting

to rejoice over what He was doing in my life and

the hope of what was to come.

This was one of the tests I took during that 

"secret time" :)

I was about 3 weeks pregnant at this point...

I waited until right before our Valentines Date to test

again and possibly tell Jordan the news.

Since Valentines Day fell on a Monday,

we had made reservations to go out on the 

Saturday prior. I was getting too impatient keeping

this huge secret! I ended up deciding to take

a Clearblue easy test. The digital one that says

Pregnant or Not Pregnant b/c they 

require a higher level of hormones to detect.

My plan was if it said Pregnant, I would tell him...

I was SO excited!! I had never seen one of these before.

The validation just felt really good;)

Anyway, knowing Jordan's weird phobia of

"touching pee sticks" I went to Walgreens

and picked up a clear baby bottle that the test would

fit in. I then put it in a gift bag and waited until he got home.

I told him I had an early Valentine's Day gift to which 

he replied: "Man, you're really starting to make me 

feel bad b/c I didn't get you anything and you keep

giving me gifts" then I said "Well, this one is 

different: I didn't buy it and you were invovled" :)

He then pulled out the bottle!

A smile from ear to ear went across his face. 

He then asked me, "are you sure?" I of course

told him yes, and that I'd known for almost a week:)

We had a wonderful evening of rejoicing and joy

together and went out for our Valentines

Date the next evening to celebrate:)

We had reservations at the Houston Aquarium

for their special Valentines Dinner.

It was our little secret at this point, but we told the

waiter-that was fun! haha. It was a nice 

evening of discussing the future, gleaning

from our past and preparing for the present.

I will never forget this evening:)

That Monday (Feb 13th) we had our Dr's Appt

that had been scheduled to find out if we were

pregnant. Right away when I saw the nurse 

she knew;) After they tested me and 

confirmed it, they took us in the  exam room 

and our Doctor came in and congratulated us!

It was really neat. She let us know

we could come back in 2 weeks for

our first UltraSound-which we did on 

Feb 27th. I was a day away from being

 6 weeks and all you can see at this point

was the gestational sac, but still cool 

to finally get to see something in there!;)

We are so grateful to God for this blessing. We

pray everyday and thank Him for His

provision in our lives and doing what was

best for us. Saying we're excited is an understatement,

and we can't wait to watch Baby Carl grow:)

THANK YOU so much for your prayers, your 

support, your thoughts and encouraging

words through this journey-and we welcome 

them still. And although its

far from over, we are happy to have started

this new chapter in our lives.

Our future Carl baby is due October 23rd, 2012.