Baby Steppe!!!

So as most of you probably already know, we're expecting :o) It's been a long time coming, or atleast it's seemed like it to me!! So let me bring everyone up to date on all of the details.... We got our first (of 9 lol) positive pregnancy test on the evening of January 4th. I just felt 'different' so thought I'd take a test since I had a few of the cheap dollar store ones handy. Not expecting anything, when I went to throw the test away, I started shaking, because I KNEW I could see the 2nd line and it wasn't just my imagination playing tricks on me!! I hurried to get ready for work (this was around 5:30p and I have to leave by 6:30p), and ran to CVS to buy another test and a digital. **My thoughts were: the cheap test is probably wrong, and if both say pregnant, I still won't believe it until I read the word "Pregnant" on the digital test. Yes, I'm a bit retarded, but that's why you all love me!** In the CVS bathroom, I quickly started to believe that I could quite possibly, maybe, 'no I'm not just dreaming', I think I'm pregnant! Ahhhhhh!! The excitement and nervousness set in all at the same time--lets just say we didn't want history to repeat itself in this case!! So I bought a small gift bag, a fluffy bow, and pacifiers, and headed to Nick's work to surprise him! First off he was surpised to see me there at all, knowing I had to work. When I held out the bag and told him I had a surprise for him, he had 'clueless' painted across his face. He reached in and pulled out the pacifiers (should've been a dead give away if you ask me), but again, 'clueless'. Dying for him to know, I told him to look in the bottom of the bag (the positive tests). He pulls one out, and looks at 2 pink lines, still unsure what to make of it, and then, out of nowhere, it hits him! His eyes lit up and he said, "REALLY???", and I replied with, "I think so!". And there it was... we were pregnant!

In the following weeks we were quite nervous until we seen the doctor and had an ultrasound. After all, that would be proof that everything was as it should be!! On Feb 1st, we had our first ultrasound-- we got to see our little bean and that beautiful little flicker of a heartbeat for the first time!! Heart rate of 179-- everyone says it's gonna be a girl! The next week we went to see a specialist, and got a 2nd ultrasound (I wasn't upset by this at all!) It's amazing how fast the little one was growing already, and we even got to see baby move! It was crazy! We heard and saw the heartbeat again- 171bpm this time. It was simply amazing! The specialist said everything looked great, we were 9 weeks along by this point!

So here we are today, 15 weeks today! I feel so much better than I did in the first trimester, and we're so excited for our next ultrasound on April 9th to find out what we're having :o) I've been thinking boy, but everyone else thinks girl, so we'll see!! We're having a Gender Cake Party (although Nick thinks it's a bit much) on the evening of our ultrasound.  The plan is-- at our ultrasound, the tech will not tell us the gender, but write it on a piece of paper and put it in a sealed envelope. I'll take the envelope to our baker, and she will make either a pink or blue cake (gender dependent of course) and cover the cake completely in icing. We're inviting our friends over that evening, and we will all cut into the cake together, and find out the gender of our little one. It think it will be alot of fun!! We'll record it and post it on YOUTUBE, so you can all watch to see what we're having!

That's all I've got for now, we'll keep you all updated!!!

I only took a total of 9 tests, just to be sure ;oP

I SWORE I had a belly here! Hahahaha!

You can see the little heart in the very center of baby!

If you use your imagination you can see the large  head, looking down, you can see the eye and little nose. There are also little arm and leg nubs forming too!! We were 9 weeks here!