We're Having a Baby!

Friday July 10th 2009:

Wow! What a week. I have been bugging Toby all week to let me take a pregnancy test, he said we should wait until we have a reason too...so here we are today taking the test.

This morning we decided that we would take the test tonight. So I picked up two on my lunch break with Lindsay. Little did I know Toby also picked up two tests on his lunch. I waited all day at work to finally go home and take the test, but to my surprise, I get home and we have company. Kris was over barbequing with Toby. It was a great surprise to have a yummy dinner ready when I got home and I was so excited to hang out with our great friend. At the same time I was thinking "Go home! I have a stick to pee on!"

Well to add my anxiety, Joseph decided to come over and hang out, then Andy joined, then Hyrum, by the end of the night we had a house full of boys and no results from our test yet! Finally at 11:30 pm the crowd left and we were able to be alone and take the anticipated test.

We had been trying not to get our hopes up since we started trying just a couple weeks ago, because we know that these things usually take time. I totally had my heart set on a "Pregnant" reading though.

I sat.

I peed.

We waited.

3 excruciating minutes later Toby picked up the test first and sure enough, "PREGNANT" it read! I almost fell to the floor.

We were so surprised, and although I had my hopes up I really didn't think that we would get pregnant so soon. We immediately felt blessed by this experience and we knew from that moment our lives would be forever changed. We cried a little....ok....I cried a lot, we hugged and we started sharing our news!

It was 11:30 at night so we wanted to be respectful to our family and their beauty sleep, but our friends weren't so lucky. Julia, Kris, Natalie, J.R. and Lindsay got some late night calls and texts with our great news!

I don't think either of us slept much that night, we were way to excited to get up in the morning and call some more loved ones!

The next morning we made the call to Grandma and Grandpa, they of course were ecstatic, and later in the day we shared the news with soon to be first time grandparents Dad and Rocio, and they were just as shocked as we were, but so excited. Rocio literally jumped for joy and dad is already enjoying being called Grandpa!

We also went and visited Toby's mom who will be on her 10th grandchild when this baby is born, and she is so happy for us.

It is so fun to share the news, but we are trying to keep it to our closest friends and family for now. We will see how long that will last. What an exciting weekend for us!