Awesome early birthday present

So tomorrow is my birthday and I got a very cool birthday present....a picture of our little one! It was such an amazing site to see that little bit of cells that God is forming into our baby. You could see the little heart beat, which pretty much moved the whole body since the baby is only half an inch long. Our due date got moved back to June 22nd based off of the measurements of the baby currently. What a huge blessing that we can have such great technology to get a glimpse of our baby!

Telling The Parents...

What an exciting event in our lives that we have looked forward to since we have been married....telling our parents that we are going to make them grandparents! So when we found out we were expecting a few weeks ago we immediately starting thinking about how to tell each of our parents in a fun way. So we took a picture of the positive test which we figured we could just show them so we would not have to vocalize something clever through our emotions.

Well this did not go as planned....we had lunch with Mom, Teona, and Katlyn and Rob opened a "gift" with the picture inside and then handed it to my Mom and asked what she thought of it. She just looked at the picture, we thought she was taken over by emotions but the truth was she was unable to see it up close! So Teona took it from her and held it across the table for Mom to see but still that was not possible. Finally, Kate had to look at it and said it is a pregnancy test...it then took about 30 seconds for everyone at the table to figure out what we were telling them and then they all became very excited! For my Dad and Cathy we thought we would try the same thing, surely it would work better for them. My Dad stared at it for a few minutes - not able to see it very well either - once he figured out that it was a pregnancy test he them proceded to try and see if it was positive. We were so anxious for them to get it we finally had to say "why else would we show you a pregnancy test if it were not positive?" Once it sunk it what was happening we got several tears.

For Rob's parents we figured we needed to do something a little bit easier so they could pick up on it quicker. So, we enlisted Riley's help....we got him a t-shirt that said "Big news I am going to be a big brother!" We told his parents that they just had to see Riley's halloween costume...we took him in the other room put his shirt on...and he knew exactly what to do...he ran right in the living room and jumped up on Marty's lap. When she read what the shirt said she screamed in shock! Now that we have told our parents hopefully everyone else will not be so difficult to tell the great news that we are expecting our first bundle of joy in June 2007!!

First Blog

We are so excited to have joined the wonderful world of blogging! What an awesome way for us to share with our family and friends all of the exciting adventures of our lives together! Be on the look out for pictures and blogs of our journey along the blessed road God has in store for us.