Is this for REAL?!?

Affirmative! My eggo is indeed prego. If you're not shocked well then that makes one of us. ;) Not to say it wasn't in the cards at all, but we were stunned nonetheless. I take it everyone is eager for some details, so here they are, maybe a few more than you bargained for.

So as it turns out, I walked across the stage at graduation 4 1/2 weeks pregnant!!! Fun huh? Only we had absolutely no idea. Then we went to Mexico ... still not a clue. We came back and I started my bar review class and still didn't get it, though I was feeling insanely tired. Then one day I just started to wonder (I attribute it to hanging out w/ Lori and and lots of pregnancy talk). On Saturday Joe and I ran errands and I mentioned that I wanted to pick up a pregnancy test but then we forgot about it. So that evening at 9:30 I told Joe "I think there's like a 1% chance I could be pregnant, but I just need to know NOW." He thought I was crazy, but went along with it anyway.

So we picked up a test, came home, got it "seasoned," and instead of waiting for 3 minutes or whatever like it says to do of course we just stared at the thing. One dark line appeared pretty quickly and I was like "nope, Joe, not pregnant." As expected. But then a moment later this other faintish line appeared. And I was like "uh, Joe? What is this? What does this mean??" We scoured the directions and although it said that one line could be faint the picture had it as the opposite one. The only words I could get out were "Joe, I don't get this. Joe, I'm so confused!" (over, and over, and over). There was definitely excitement deep down but it just hadn't made it to the surface yet ... I think at that point I was giving myself a 50% chance of actually being pregnant (up from 1% just a few moments earlier). So our next step was to get in the car and go out for more tests. It was like we were on a fun little mission. We tried Walmart and Target (hoping to find a test that was less than the $12 one at RiteAid) but both were closed (10?? Seriously?) so we ended up at Shoppers where we had to ask this old man to help us get at the tests behind a locked counter. (Shoppers is the place though, folks, only $5 for a two pack!)

Finally back at home, I took the second test. Same deal ... two lines, one dark, one faint, but this time the directions made it clear that the instantaneous dark line meant 'you are pregnant' while the second lighter one meant that the test had worked. Oooooohhhh. My certainty was now somewhere in the 90%'s, and the news finally started to sink in. We screamed, we laughed, we hugged, we didn't really know what to think, but luckily we thought to preserve the moment for posterity:
To celebrate, Joe decided to pour us some bubbly (courtesy of Ryan & Jerianne, left over from graduation) so we could make a toast. Look at that smile!!

We were so giddy and everything was crazy ... I can barely remember it now!

Probably asking ourselves: "Is this for real?!?" But as you can see we are extremely excited. :)

So by then it was after 11 and after getting online to register for updates from some pregancy sites and calculate my due date (ahhh!) we went to bed. Immediately the next morning I took test #3 (just to remind myself that this was really happening). Unfortunately, though, the next few days turned out to be especially crazy and confusing. Less than 9 hours after finding out we were pregnant I thought I was having a miscarriage (pregnancy percentage certainty: all the way down to 20%). I waited until Monday to call my doctor and she sent me in for some blood work and an early ultrasound to see what was going on. And luckily ... everything seemed to be ok!! I had to take some extra precautions (like going on rest for 4th of July weekend) but baby's heart kept beating away. At my last doctor's appointment (8 days ago) I was 12.5 weeks pregnant and my doctor said we should be good to go! Hooray!!!!

So, to sum it all up I am now about 13.5 weeks pregnant and my due date is January 18th. It still is absolutely crazy to me that all this pregnancy talk is about me (me!) instead of someone else. But I love it. We are so happy and we already love our little baby soo much!! And, for any lingering doubters out there, I've got a belly going on to prove it! (This was taken at 12.5 weeks). Crazy, eh??

Thank you everyone for being so excited for us!! We couldn't be happier. I am going to once again sign off for a bit while I cram for my bar exam which is less than 1.5 weeks away (if I fail, I am blaming it on the pregnancy, and unless you've taken a bar exam before you don't get to say there's no way I could fail. There definitely is a way but we'll hope I just don't find it.) Maybe Joe will volunteer to post until then because we got lots more stuff to share (actually not all that much ... all I do is sit around studying, sleeping, eating, and being pregnant, and Joe just goes to work everyday). But it is pretty fantastic nonetheless. We'll keep you posted!!

This ain't no etch-a-sketch!

They say the best way to keep a guy out of trouble is to keep him busy. Obviously with the time I had between school winding down and waiting for the new job to start, I got in a little trouble and this was the result.

That's pretty much how it went down, except the reaction was completely opposite.