Our Journey to Becoming Parents

Mike and I knew once we got married we wanted to start our family almost immediately.  When a year had gone by and we hadn't conceived, we decided to go ahead and see a fertility specialist.  After several tests and sonograms, the doctor decided that most likely I don't ovulate.  We fixed that problem with medicine and an IUI.  After the IUI procedure, we had to wait 2 weeks before we could take a test to see if we were pregnant or not.  That was the longest 2 weeks of our life!!!  My patience made it 1 week and 6 days and I had to take a test.  Mike had left to go work out and I took a test.  After 5 minutes I looked at the test and there very faint, was 2 PINK LINES!!!!! I was so excited, but I wanted someone else to see the test and verify that there was in fact 2 lines.  Mike got home and the first thing I said to him was "Do you see 2 lines?"  He said he did! We were so excited, but trying to stay calm just in case.  Of course, the minute I left for school, I called my mom and told her-then when I got to school I told 3 of my closest friends, Amy, Michelle, and Misty.  I decided to go take another test at lunch time and there were two lines again.  I called the doctor and told him that I had a positive pregnancy test.  They had me come in for a blood test to check my HcG and hormone levels.  I went in and my HcG level was a 74, so I was definitely pregnant.  This is when it really started to hit us that we were indeed pregnant! 

Last Friday we went for our first sonogram.  We saw our little sweet pea and his heart was just fluttering away!  I am 7 weeks pregnant and due September 16th.  We go to my regular OBGYN in 2 weeks.  We are so excited about this journey and becoming parents! 

1st Anniversary

Well, we made it through our first year! My sweet husband planned a wonderful weekend.  We stayed at the BEAUTIFUL Omni Hotel in downtown Ft. Worth Friday and Saturday night.  On Saturday, we ate breakfast at The Cracker Barrel and then headed to the Gaylord Texan.  It was so gorgeous-we spent 2 hours just walking around the hotel.  Then we went to The ICE.  This year, the theme was A Charlie Brown Christmas, which is my favorite Christmas movie.  The ice sculptures were amazing.  That night we ate dinner at Reata in downtown Ft. Worth which was fantastic! We had a delicious meal and our waiter even comped our dessert for our anniversary! I am so blessed to be married to Mike!

Guess I Will Finally Start Blogging

So after spending two nights trying to figure out how to change the background of my blog and several texts to my blog-savvy friend (thanks, Misty), I think that I finally figured it out! I'm going to try to blog at least once every week, so bear with me if it is boring! Hopefully, some exciting things will happen in 2011!