The Beginning of a Grand Adventure

As many of you know, I've always loved a grand adventure.  Touring Europe and taking classes in Spain was one of the biggest.  Our Hawaiian vacation and diving in St. Lucia were also amazing!   When we got married last July I knew we were jumping into a huge adventure, bigger than any we had done prior to this point.  I knew we'd share so much love along the way and learn much more about each other than we could ever imagine.

Over the past 9 months of marriage, Sam and I have had a wonderful time settling into married life & find ourselves loving each other more deeply every day.  That bond has gotten even stronger this week.  Sam is learning more about me than I think he ever imagined!  Thankfully, he's SUPER excited about it and is taking everything in stride more than I thought possible!   

So now we find ourselves jumping head first into our next big adventure.  This time though, it's not going to be a trip to an exotic locale (well, maybe you could call it exotic since it's all totally foreign to us).

On Monday the 27th we celebrated our 2 year anniversary of buying our first home.  I made a nice dinner & we enjoyed a fabulous dessert after.  Unfortunately, it didn't taste all that great to me.  Who would have guessed?!  Molten lava cake and ice cream not tasting good?  Blasphemy!

I actually haven't been feeling all that great for about a month now.  Though it would have been poetic to find out we were preggers on our "anniversary" I just couldn't see the signs & decided against it.  I was convinced that it was just years of birth control working itself out of my system.

The next day I called my friend Lara to get her take on this whole situation. After hearing her convincing argument for taking a test, I decided to go ahead and do it after all.

So, Tuesday night Sam and I headed upstairs and after about, oh, I dunno, a whopping 30 seconds I saw something that totally rocked our world!  That's right, kids!  I let out a loud OMG! and Sam came running (literally) to read it for himself.

We still can't believe it and are looking forward to going to the doctor soon for our official confirmation  (though I did take another test on Friday to reassure myself).  Friday came along and I just had to get confirmation since our doctors appointment is 2 weeks away & the signs are so confusing!  I mean really, why does no one tell you that pregnancy and PMS are SO much alike?!  That's something they should cover in school!  But I digress. So I bought a different brand of test at a different location & made sure I ate all different kinds of food and the second one was also positive.

So, here we go ... off on our next big adventure.  And after browsing through our week by week pregnancy book it looks like we're in for A LOT of changes! 

If the websites are correct, our little miracle should make his/her appearance mid December.  That's right!  The books say that my 31st birthday present will be the best one ever (sorry, babe!  New York will become the second best behind our first baby).