Is This Really Happening?

I am not sure where to start other than that I swore I would not start a pregnancy blog. Clearly, I am good at promises. Here were the reasons against: 1. There would likely be a strong correlation between not wanting to study and suddenly feeling the overwhelming urge to blog. 2. Who really wants to hear about my personal pregnancy rantings. I am hardly the first one out of this gate. And here, in no particular order are the reasons I gave into tempation: 1. You guessed it, I am supposed to be studying this very minute and I can't read one more sentence on multivariate indexing without falling asleep. 2. We live so far away from so many of our loved ones and don't always keep up with phone calls and emails as well as we should 3. You wonderful people keep asking us how we are doing 4. In this day-and-age and with our busy schedules, this may have to suffice as our little one's official baby book (I still treasure mine so I didn't think it would be fair to rob my offspring of such pleasure). Alright, so I will make this first post as short and quick as the world's most long-winded being possibly can. Yea!!!! We're pregnant!! You will hear me say "we" throughout because I can already vouch that Kevin is going through this just as much as I am. When he's not dealing with my continual tossing and turning at night, he is dealing with the emotions, the fact that my clothes ALREADY don't fit, the fact that I am freezing in our 80 degree indoor temps and 100 degree outdoor temps, and the fact that when he carefully prepares me a beautiful and healthful meal, I literally can't look at or be in the same room with it and end up eating pineapple and cheese slices instead (we will get to that in post #2). For those of you that don't know, Katie doesn't do ANYTHING without some element of planning so the idea of becoming parents had been approached, fully vetted and agreed upon by both of us and the next step was to cease the 13 year reign of the birth control pill and "just see what happens." Our explanation was, "we have pulled the goalie and we are not, not trying..." with the added caveat that "we are very busy and tired and older than average so don't expect much from us." Fast forward a few months and I have one of those sneaking suspicions that something is not right (not wrong mind you, just not right). I get this suspicion late on a Thursday and I am forced to sit through my research class before being able to act on it. As soon as class ended, I beelined out of there and headed straight for the closest Walgreens. What! What's this? Walgreens in Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps, are not open past 10pm? That can't be right. I speed to another Walgreens, ...no dice. I try CVS, nope, apparently there is some sort of conspiracy here. But, that's okay, I was hoping for a nice, quiet in-and-out of a pharmacy but I have a back-up-plan; the grocery store. I am beyond exhausted from my work and school day at this point but I know myself well enough to know that I won't sleep if something of this magnitude is on my mind and I don't have some sort of answer. I head into the grocery store feeling quite smug and DID YOU KNOW THEY LOCK UP THE PREGNANCY TESTS AFTER 10PM AT NIGHT!?!?!? Oh the irony. I am completely dismayed and even a little bit disoriented at this point (am I really in Las Vegas where EVERYTHING stays open all the time). I buy some toothpaste so I don't appear to be just a weirdo lurking around the toiletry aisles and sulk home. The next day, I shut the anticipation from my mind, get through the work-day and head out to prep for a night with our guests from England and our about-to-arrive guests from Salt Lake City. I am feeling very casual at this point and stop by the aformentioned Walgreens, make my purchase and head home for a quick change of clothes and a stop in the restroom. Wouldn't you know it a giant + sign appeared on that crazy piece of plastic practically before I got it removed from the wrapper and in position to work its magic. This result prompted overwhelming disbelief and the panicked calling for Kevin who was somehow supposed to be better at deciphering a pregnancy test than his female counterpart. Needless to say, Kevin took an even faster train to denial than I did and proceeded to tell me that the 99.9 accurate test could not be trusted and let's not get our hopes ups, etc. Well..... I knew for sure at that point but my mind had to quickly switch to how I was going go fake my way through a 3-day weekend full of indulgence. A week later, the doctor's office confirmed the news with a repeat of our prior performance (they said they just put their test stick near the urine and it lit up like a Christmas tree). The result was strong enough that they scheduled us for a sonogram just to make sure we weren't further along than we suspected. The sonogram put us at 6 weeks. We are now 7 and have a another sonogram scheduled in two weeks. That test should give us a more realistic timeline but right now they say we will mark our 34th and 40th birthdays with a BRAND NEW BABY! That's right, I am officially jumping into the Mommy Pool. I can't wait to join all of those who have already swam or have just started to test the water. I suspect it will be a crazy ride but my inpiration is ALL of those that have gone before and who have honestly made pregnancy look easy (actually, that isn't helping me much because this pregancy thing is a little trickier than I thought). On that note, To be continued... Love, Katie (are you supposed to sign your blog or is that just a given?)