One Year Ago Today- Two Pink Lines

One year ago today I took these 4 tests and for the first time I saw two pink lines and the word pregnant!

I remember that day so clearly!  Summer was over, and it was the first day of preplanning (Wed.).  During our morning meeting our principal welcomes everyone back and asks if anyone has any news to share.  Two new pregnancies were announced, and I sat in my seat wishing I was one of them!  I of course congratulated the other two teachers, but my heart was breaking!  I wanted a baby!  For almost a year and a half every month I had taken pregnancy tests and seen one line or the words not pregnant! 

I went about my day but noticed that my boobs were feeling sore!  I didn't think much of it until I was on my way home.  I called one of my friends, Becky Pfaff, and asked her if her boobs were sore.  She said they weren't, so I decided to swing by Walmart and buy a pregnancy test since I knew that it was a symptom.  In my heart I thought I was pregnant, but didn't want to get my hopes up.  I got home, chugged a bottle of water, went into the downstairs bathroom, and peed on a stick.  I placed the test on the back of the toilet and waited.  Within seconds, I looked at the test and saw TWO very bright pink lines.  My heart was racing, tears streaming down my face as I looked at the box to double check that I was seeing what I was supposed to be seeing!  I was!

I didn't know what to do.  I stood there in shock, looked at the test, looked at the box, looked at the test again, thanked GOD over and over again!  I WAS PREGNANT!  I needed to tell John right away, but he was at work!  I always wanted to do something cute to tell him, but I was too impatient.  He needed to know right now!  I called him at work and told him he needed to come home right now.  He asked if everything was okay and I told him he just needed to come home right now.  Luckily, he works about 2 minutes away.  He called on his way home to double check that everything was okay, and when I told him it was he said he knew!  He walked in the door and I showed him the stick.  We hugged, kissed, cried!  What we had prayed for and hoped for was finally happening!  We were having a baby!

After I told John, I had to share the news with family and friends!

John went back to work to get his things and I went back to Walmart to buy more pregnancy tests!  I just wanted to double check.  This time I bought the digital pregnancy tests.  I wanted to see the word pregnant in writing without the word not in front of it.  After taking four tests, I decided it was really happening and I didn't need to take any more!

We went out to celebrate that night at Brookwood Grill!  I could not get the smile off of my face!  I was going to be a mommy and John was going to be a daddy!  God is so good!

Here we are one year later with the most precious, sweet, smiling, babbling, spit bubble blowing, rolling over baby boy!  We have been blessed in more ways than I could ever dream of!

Life is SO SO good!