Longest Day Everrrrrr

Well, it's been an interesting day to say the least. I'll start with the good stuff first.... I've spent the last 2 weeks in Florida at my parents house and it's been great. My brother even flew down for almost a week and it was great to see him. It's been too long since we've all been together like that. I think I forgot how HOT Florida was though. I won't complain about that much though because I'd prefer that hot over 8 months of Chicago winter.

The first weekend I was home (because that will always be "home" no matter where I actually live) we spent at my aunt and uncles house about 3 hours away. While we were there they surprised me with a family baby shower! Since this will probably be the only time I'll be home before the baby comes and they won't be able to come to my baby shower they decided to have one for me there. It was a great surprise. :) It was just the girls of the family- me, my mom, grammy, my aunt, and my cousin. My little cousin planned the whole thing and I think she had a great time doing it. We even played all the fun games and had an "offsite adventure". After some games and lunch we went to this amazing little soap shop and made our own soaps. It was SO much fun! They enjoyed margaritas while I had some sparkling cider and we sat around and designed our own bars of soap. Here's mine....

Cute, huh? I think I'm going to put it on a shelf in the baby's room. :)

Unfortunately, I had to go back to the real world eventually. Even though my brother likes to say my whole life is a vacation....ha! I think this was the first time since hubby's year long deployment that I had gone away without him. Even though he was working super long hours, it was weird with him being home every night and me not being there. I missed him.....and our pup.....a lot. So, today was my flight back....it was scheduled to leave at 3pm....it's now almost midnight and I'm still not back to where I'm supposed to be. Apparently weather was CRAZY in Chicago and they detoured all flights with all airlines that were scheduled to go there. We've been sitting in Kansas City for over 3 hours and let me tell ya.....you don't wanna be stuck here. Everything is closed, not even a water fountain in the area we are cordoned off in. They finally allowed us to leave the security area and go into the main terminal....but NOTHING was open. No restaurants, no kiosks, no stores, nothing. They did end up bringing drinks and snacks out for everyone and ordered pizza for us all. Pretty funny sight to see 40 pizza boxes going through the x-ray machine. Oh, and another delay. I never thought I'd wanna get back to Chicago as much as I do now!

My Heart Beats for You

Miss me? It's been too long.... I was trying not to blog as to not ruin my big secret. Being that I really had nothing else exciting to talk about, I decided to stay away. Now that it's pretty much out of the bag I am allowing myself to come back to the blog. So......as most of you probably already know....I'm preggers!!! We are incredibly thrilled and feel so, so, blessed. So here's the story leading up to us finding out.....

We hadn't been preventing getting pregnant since we went on vacation in December. We weren't counting days or anything so I'm not sure if that considers us "trying". I would consider it as trying without going crazy trying to make it happen. After a couple months of trying and hearing about so many people being pregnant and having babies I was crying to hubby one night asking why we weren't pregnant when he said it would work so quickly! Because he knows all ya know....ask him. This might be dumb to some people....why was I worried after only a couple months? It's my nature. I'm a worrier. I'd never been pregnant before and I had no clue if anything was wrong with me, or him, or how long it would take at all. And maybe I wanted to believe in his theory that it would happen right away and it didn't. A few weeks later we went to a chief birthday ball for the Navy. We were in a room waiting to get our picture taken with the photographer. Two other couples were in front of us and both women were pregnant. They took pictures with their husband's hand on their bellies. I made the joke that apparently I was the only one in the room that wasn't pregnant. Little did I know....

A couple days later I went to the doctor because my throat was sore and my sinuses were having a hay day. I went to the pharmacy to get my Mucinex and standard issue cough drops and the guy pointed to a sign. It said "Are you pregnant or breast feeding?" I told him no. I walked home and realized I was 2 weeks late.....I figured I'd take a quick test to make sure and then take my medicine. Well, I didn't end up taking any medicine! Hubby came home that night and looked at the pregnancy test on the counter and said "Are you serious??" Haha!! I can't really fake that thing honey..... I asked him not to say anything to anyone until I confirmed it with the doctor and we gave it a little time. He was on his phone texting his brother about an hour later, haha. So cute, how excited he is. I went to the clinic the next day and they confirmed that I was indeed pregnant. My mom (my parents were in town for the week) did a little dance when I got home and told them. I think she's more excited than any new grandmother-to-be ever!

I was super, super nervous that there wasn't really anything in my belly. Might be a stupid thing to think about but I've never been pregnant before! It made me nervous....maybe it's not real. It's just a trick. We had a doctor's appointment on a Friday and two other girls ended up giving birth so they had to reschedule my appointment. This was THE appointment. I was going to get to hear the heartbeat. Confirm it's real and that everything is ok in there. I sat right there in his office and cried when she said we had to reschedule. My poor husband was probably embarrassed but he consoled me and kept me busy all weekend so the couple days went by quick. We went back last Monday and we heard it!!! The doctor kind of looked at me like "you hear that??" I wasn't sure so he kept the doppler on there longer and looked at me again and I heard it!!! I asked Jason about 3 times if he heard it and he was just smiling and said yes. Such a relief to hear that little thump thump thump so quick.

It's so incredible to think that I'm now living my life for someone else. Responsible for growing a little person inside me that I made with the man I love. I can't even really explain it. How it feels. I am in love already with this little bean and can't wait for the journey ahead. <3