Bun in the Oven

I need to start this post with some earlier information.  When Mike and I were dating back in March, I found a travel deal for a 10 day European cruise with flights and hotels included for an incredible deal. It was for January of the next year (2019) but it was on a site that was called Utah Flash Deals and the idea is that the deal becomes available and they don't know how long it will be up. It could be up for 3 hours or for 3 days, so it kind of has a time limit for you to get it.  I have always wanted to go to Europe and at the time Mike and I hadn't quite began the marriage talk, but I think we both knew it was going in that direction haha.  So when I saw the deal I remember texting him and basically asking him if he wanted to book this with me... I added to that text the idea of it being our honeymoon, haha!!! He will now always say that I proposed to him, but you know he didn't say no! Originally our plan was to marry in the fall and it really would have been a great honeymoon! It turned out to be more of a baby moon :)



So with the cruise in our future and some travel limitations with pregnancy we weren't sure when we should start trying to get pregnant. We knew that now being 34 and 37 we had some factors working against us. I had no idea how getting pregnant would be for me. I had never been told or had any reasons why I wouldn't be able to, but I also had never been told it would be easy. I hated to think that I would delay it and then realize that it would take us a year or whatever it might be to have it happen.  When we calculated the timing, and were sure if it happened quickly I wouldn't be too far along to be able to go on our trip,  we made the mutual decision to start trying. This was probably in the end of August.

September 25th was picture day at school. As a teacher I loved this day, the students were always all dressed up and that typically helped them be more focused and better behaved at school. Plus I just loved seeing them all looking so nice. But now as part of the administration team, picture day was very often stressful.  An unspoken part of my job is to make the schedules for things like picture day, vision screening, dental varnishing, and the many other things that happen in a school.  I am typically able to create a pretty nice schedule, but on this particular day I had made a schedule and the photographer wanted it a little different, the change made there be some lulls in time and ultimately threw the timing off requiring some classes to come after lunch, and others at a time they didn't prefer.  Changes in schedules often stressed teachers out, and as the admin "in charge" I felt some of their frustration. Typically, I am able to let things roll and not take an upset teacher personally.  For some reason, unknown to me at the time, I couldn't just let it roll and my feelings were hurt. I CRIED AT SCHOOL. I have been in education for 13 years and NEVER cried.  Upset parents, stressful team meetings, naughty mean kids... never cried.  Everyone was very nice and supportive, my principal even asked me if I needed to leave early! haha.. I recovered, but it took me much longer than it should have! It was so weird! I could not figure out why I reacted that way. I remember going home and telling Mike about it, and since I knew my period was supposed to start the next day, I thought maybe it was some crazy PMS haha! It still stuck out as odd in my mind.

The following day, September 26th, my period did not come.  Now for some this might not have caused any alarm, but I track my period (using a really cool app) and I know that if it says I am going to start my period, I do.  The combination of my emotional craziness and not starting my period caused me to consider that just maybe I was pregnant.  On my way home from work I swung by Wal-Mart to buy a pregnancy test- it didn't hurt to see if it was true.  Wal-mart had 1 test left- the generic brand with 2 sticks in it. I really wanted to get one that I thought was more accurate than the "great value" brand, but I just got what they had.  I am always home a couple hours before Mike gets home from work, so I went home and took one of the tests... It said pregnant, but the line was pretty light, and I was in denial :)  So I tried the second one. It looked pretty much the same,  but I was not sold on the result.

Mike came home, and I was in the kitchen making dinner. He came in to greet me as he always does and I told him the whole thing. Missed period, stopped after work, took 2 tests, still not sure if they are accurate... poor guy he took it like a champ, examined the tests, and looked a little bit terrified :)
I suggested we go and get more tests- something not store brand.  We went to a different Wal-Mart and they had plenty, so we picked a pack that looked pretty legit. I'm sure you will all enjoy this little video I took of us before we took any more tests. Straight up excitement and fear!

Needless to say I ended up taking 5 pregnancy tests (only 4 pictured though)... all saying the same thing... WE WERE PREGNANT! It sure didn't take very long and we were very excited.  I was exactly 4 weeks pregnant.