Baby update

I have already announced to pretty much everyone that I'm pregnant, but now the detailed posts will follow.

FYI for those who are non LDS or religious, I'm a very spiritual person and a strong believer in the LDS faith, so I may say a lot of things regarding feeling the spirit, etc. when it comes to decisions and such. This is your fair warning. :)

Describe the events leading up to the decision to have a baby


It's actually an interesting story. We had been talking about having children for a long time now, but had always talked about how it would be after I completed my Masters (Master's?). This means we would have waited until Summer of 2010 to have our first. That would also mean I would be 27 years old, and that was just a little later than I really wanted to start, but we had, at the time (first year of marriage) felt it was the right thing to do. We definitely knew we wanted kids though.

We went up to Idaho to visit our fabulous friends Chance and Jenny. I believe this was in June or July, I cannot remember which month, but it was summer of 2007. It was before Chance and Jenny had moved, and it was when they had started packing up to move to GA. I want to say July, but I could very well be wrong. ANYWAY, back to the point. Chance and Jenny had tickets to see a comedian with another couple, or something, so Bryan and I had gone to see a movie. The movie was Shrek 3. SO many kids were in the auidence, we were literally surrounded by them. However, we loved it. We were all smiles, and just loved the kids in the audience. I don't know about Bryan, but during the movie, I just had this REALLY strong feeling that we weren't supposed to wait until I was done with my degree to start having kids. It was literally right smack in the movie that I felt this. I looked at Bryan right when he looked at me, and we smiled. I had a feeling he was thinking about the same thing, but I didn't say anything. I had figured this would be something I would bring up when we got back to Utah. When the movie is over, we get int he car to go back to Chance and Jenny's place, and Bryan says something along the lines of "so...do you think three years is too long to wait?" I laughed, and had told him I was thinking the same thing. We had discussed that we didn't really think we should be waiting anymore. We said we would start trying when we got home, or at least talk about it more seriously.

Well a few months went along, and I no longer had insurance, that kind of put a damper into our plans, since Bryan no longer had insurance either. But, we found some programs we could afford later on, and had started trying around November, maybe December. That was when we figured we should start trying. We did basal body temperatures, I kept track of my cycles, then January we decided to buy one of those ovulation predictor kits. We didn't get pregnant in January, obviously, but I was late, very late, and we figured we might be on the right track. So we bought another one for February, and it was the end of February/beginning of March.

Fast forward to March 15th, the day of the pregnancy tests. :) Yes that's right...TestSSSSSS. That's another post :)