The Beginning - Dec. 23rd & 24th 2008

This is how it all began...
We had been trying to get pregant for a few months and on the morning of Dec. 23rd, I woke up and wanted to take a pregnancy test, Scott said I shouldn't because he didn't want me to get my hopes up again. I had been having cramps for a few days and my period had not started, since I don't normally cramp I was kind of feeling that it may have worked. This was our second cycle on a low dose of clomid. It was a Tuesday morning and I knew Scott was already downstairs working (it was his day to work from home). I knew that if I didn't take it then I would have to wait for another time he was home in the morning b/c I wanted him to be there. So I took the test and jumped in the shower. When I got out it was definitely positive. I called Scott and told him I took a test and he immediately figured it was negative so he hugged me and said that he told me not to, lol. Then I told him that he was going to be a daddy. He was like what, no, really. I showed him the test and he was excited. Of course we said we wouldn't tell anyone yet so I had to go the whole day and not say anything. My sister Stephanie knew that I thought I might be pregnant so I had promised to call her, that was the only person I was allowed (per Scott) to call and even he was not happy that I had promised to call her.

By the afternoon of the next day (Christmas Eve) I was so tired of keeping the secret and so I asked Scott if we could tell our parents on Christmas. He was apparently too excited to keep the secret so we took a picture of the pregnancy test and framed it, then we wrapped it up and put it under the tree at my grandfather's on Christmas Eve. Stephanie decided it would be funny for her to give it to them since she had just had Jesse 2 weeks earlier. My mom opened the 'gift' and started giving Stephanie a hard time, she was like I hope this is a joke. Stephanie laughed and said, mom it isn't mine...it took her a second but she figured it out. It was nice to be able to finally share our news.