Baby Teune Coming in October

We are so excited to share that we are pregnant! As some of you may know, we have been trying to start a family for a while now. What an incredible blessing it is to experience such a miracle! On February 7th I took two pregnancy tests...

I had the bottom test already at home to take, but when it came up positive I couldn't believe it and thought "I need something with words!" so I went to Target and bought another test that would say "yes" or "no." Of course as a week or so went by I thought, "what if I'm not really pregnant.." and I took yet another test...

Yep, still pregnant :) And as I know now, there can be false negatives but not false positives.

We had such a great time sharing the news with family. We drove out to Tillamook to share the news with Greg's mom and stepdad. Greg brought the book What to Expect When You're Expecting and started reading it on the couch. It only took Mona about five seconds to ask "What are you reading Greg?" He handed her the book and she started crying and screaming. She will be such a wonderful grandma. When we told Greg's dad and stepmom they were also very excited... his dad is convinced we are having a girl and keeps telling me "take care of my granddaughter!"

Luckily my sister Brittney and her husband Kyle were in Oregon when we were 7 weeks along so it was perfect timing to share the news. My mom had scheduled family photos at JcPenney and Greg and I asked the photographer if we could hold up a sign during the picture to share the big news. The photographer ended up taking a separate photo of just Greg and I. We were too cheap to purchase the photo, but reenacted it later...

When my family was looking at the computer monitor to choose the "best" photo from the shoot, our photo was the last to pop up. They were ecstatic! My sister has it on video and I will try to get it to add to this blog post later on.

We had our first appointment this morning and were able to hear the heartbeat... I feel like I can breathe easy now. For some reason I had this irrational fear that the midwife would tell me something like, "Yeah... you aren't pregnant... you were never pregnant." But all is well, we are a little over 10 weeks along, and our due date is actually October 8th now :)