The word is out!

We're expecting a baby!!!

We found out on Thursday, December 18th, and it took me more than one test to believe it! Can a pink line be any more faint? I wanted it to be yes, but I also didn't want to get excited and find out it's nothing! Thank goodness for Rite-Aid and digital home pregnancy tests! From our reading, it looks like our due date is late August and I am 5 weeks along! Seems like a long ways to go but I imagine it will go fast as there is a lot to get ready for!

On Saturday we told Elijah's Mom and Callie that morning, then told my parents and Henry! Everybody is quite excited and this is the baby that will turn my parents into Grandparents! Dad already has the crib and cradle he built when I was born out of the boxes and assembled! I am so excited to get to use such special pieces of furniture for our own baby! We planned to tell everybody else on Christmas Day (not an easy thing to do when you are excited!). Saturday, Great Grandma was taken to the ER and as soon as we found out on Sunday, Elijah and I drove down to see her and told her the exciting news that she was going to be a "Great Great Grandma"! She was very happy as she has been crocheting hats and booties for some time now to have for all the great grandkids when they started a family. From updates, Grandma is doing okay, she is still currently in the hospital after undergoing surgery to remove cancer in her colon. The doctor is happy with how everything went, so we are praying for a comfortable and speedy recovery!

At Christmas with Elijah's family, we had Kaylin spill our "secret" and of course everybody is excited! Next to hear the news was Elijah's Grandma and Grandpa! Then to my side of the family! That didn't go quite as planned...as our "creative" way of giving the current baby in the family (Annie) a picture of the pregnancy test took quite a while for anybody to notice! They all just thought she was keeping busy with a piece of paper trash! But when she eventually ditched the picture and Justin finally picked it up off the ground, he questioned Jennifer to see what it was all about...who IMMEDIATELY figured out that we were having a baby, and she definatly gets the most outwardly excited award! Friday we had my Mom's side of the family out to our house...and it was convienently the first day I have felt like crap and decided to lay down for an hour in the middle of cleaning, and conviently the entire family (sans my parents with the food) knocked on the door about an hour and a half early than I anticipated! Thank goodness I had a half decent excuse for a half clean house!

Christmas Eve at Dad & Mom's

Annie with our "pregnant picture". Anybody watching? Nope!

At Grandma's after they all figured it out!