It's official!

Well, we're expecting!! Joe and I made the decision at the beginning of November that we were no longer not trying to get pregnant. We weren't exactly trying, but if it happened... it happened. Well, it happened! And it certainly didn't take long!

I started having my suspicions sometime around the 3rd week of November, but I had taken a pregnancy test, and it showed negative. We went to my mom's for Thanksgiving and the day before we left to go back home, I was 3 days late this time so I decided to take another pregnancy test. STILL NEGATIVE! I was very frustrated at this point. I went in to get a blood pregnancy test done on November 30th, and even THAT was inconclusive! My hCG levels were only at 6.6 and a level 5 is considered not pregnant. So they wanted to wait 48 hours to re-do the test. They said that as long as my levels were going up, they could view it as positive. I guess your hCG levels are suppose to double about every 48 hours. I went in again on December 2nd to have my blood drawn again. I got a call later that evening with the results. Since my level was a 6.6 just a few days earlier, I figured that as long as I was around a 20, that should be enough of an increase to call it what it is. They told me that my level was now at a 41, but that they still weren't sure and that I needed to come BACK in to get my blood drawn AGAIN in a week! WHAT?! My levels go from 6.6 to 41, and you're not SURE?! So I went home and took matters into my own hands. I took my 5th pregnancy test.... this one made it very clear. I'M PREGNANT!! I did go back in to get my blood drawn on the 8th of December just to be sure that my numbers were still going up. At that point, my numbers were at 1,700... definitely pregnant!

We told half of Joe's family at Tyler & Jillian's combined birthday party on December 4th. I had made shirts for them that said "I'm going to be a big sister" and "I'm going to be a big brother AGAIN!". I wrapped the shirts and had the kids open them up at the same time. I had the video camera ready & I'm SO glad I did! Everyone's reactions were priceless! It took them a bit to figure out why we were so excited & video taping the kids getting shirts, but once they read them, they were THRILLED! Then we told my side of the family when we went down for the basic training graduation for Tim, my brother. They were all SUPER excited as well! My mom couldn't be ANY happier that she gets to be a grandma again! She's ready for another baby to love on! Then just this past weekend (the 18th), we told the rest of Joe's family. We had to tell Joe's mom over the phone because she was too sick to attend the King Christmas Party, but she was absolutely tickled pink. She has been saying for quite awhile now, "You have a yours, and a mine.... now you just need an ours!" So it's official.... we now have yours, mine, & ours. :-)