Hi.
Thanks for checking out our blog. We thought it would be a good way to stay in touch with you...our family and friends. Change is a way of life and around here we have been experiencing quite a few changes! :) I don't have the best memory and I really want to remember this time of my life therefore, the blog was born!
My First Entry:
After being together for 10 years and being married for 1, I decided for some odd reason that birth control was poison and that I wasn't going to take it anymore! I guess I was fed up with missing a pill, then having to take two and feeling nauseous all day. And I had done all this research about women with heart problems and then read the label on my birth control and there were all these warnings about heart attacks. So, yeah, I decided to stop taking them on December 1st. On New Years Eve I took a pregnancy test since we were going out to party that night. There was a very faint blue line, but so faint that I questioned if there was any line at all (you would have too). BUT, for some reason I thought I would take a photo so I could show Ryan and my friends. I didn't think of it after that because I had been told that birth control takes MONTHS to get out of your system and in my mind, there was NO WAY I could be pregnant already! So the beat goes on...we went out to the Grey Goose that night and in Ryan and Sabrina fashion, partied til our hearts content. (Hind Sight is always 20-20)
Fast forward 5 days without even thinking about it and on January 5th Sarah, Alyssa and I were in L.A. about to board a cruise ship for a 5-day cruise to Mexico. I showed the girls the photo of the pregnancy test that morning and they were CERTAIN I was pregnant! So, to appease them, I bought two pregnancy tests at Target and took the first one in the Target bathroom. Sarah was peeking through the crack in the stall door. AND, YUP, in front of 3 strange women in the restroom in Target, I saw a very bright, obvious, horrifyingly beautiful pink line in the bubble that said "pregnant". Sarah started crying. I was shaking like a leaf. Alyssa was waiting for us eating a soft pretzel in the little food court area. She started crying. And when Alyssa cries, it is contagious! She has these huge brown, beautiful doe eyes and when they start welling up, I cry every time!
We debated if I should tell Ryan. So we called Lauren and told her. I was still not sure if telling my husband over the phone was the best decision, so I called Cari and told her. Cari is so soothing and happy. So right then I went from being scared and anxious to overjoyed! I called Ryan...I can't believe he answered the phone since he was at work...I barley got it out. He was so happy, so sweet, so loving. Perfect.
And there you have it. The beginning to this story.
Today I am 14 weeks. Baby August is due September 14th, a Monday.
