Ahem...We Have a Kindof Big Announcement to Make...

Oh baby!


{pic taken today Jan. 15, 2012}

This is the real deal peeps.

I can't even believe I'm writing about this right now.

I feel giddy and happy and worried and excited and nervous and elated all rolled into one.

NOTE:

I'm writing this today,

Thursday December 1st, 2011

When you all read this it will probs be January or maybe February....

We'll see how long I can keep this a secret.

Eh,

that'll be hard.

Maybe too hard!

I'm friggin excited and just want to shout it to the world.

.............

So here's how it went down {aka how i found out}:

Last night {Wednesday, November 30th} Kevin picks me up from work,

we come home,

I start making spaghetti.

During the making of this spaghetti I start feeling like I'm gonna throw up.

Sick.

I have to crunch down in the kitchen for a sec,

and then go back to cooking.

As soon as it's ready we throw in a movie:

Conan: the Barbarian

{edited people. no worries}

ps - it's gory.

As I'm sitting there eating my food,

I realize I'm not even hungry really,

which is weird because I'm usually starving by the time I get home from work-

Due to the fact that I don't take enough snacks to munch on throughout the day.

Anyways,

I'm trying to eat this spaghetti and I keep saying to Kevin:

"Ugh. I'm not even hungry! And I feel like I'm gonna throw up! BUT I don't wanna stop eating, cuz then I bet I'll feel more sick!"

Kevin:

"Shhhhhhh! Watch the movie babe."

alrighty.

That's when I go back into the kitchen to dump my plate.

As I pass by the calendar I think:

Sheesh. I wonder when my period will start. Should be like any day now...

I look at the calendar and start counting.

It's been 31 days since my last period.

I am always 25.

I flip all the way from June and count the days in-between each cycle.

25 exactly.

Whaaa?

I'm 6 days late.....

I started getting excited.

Maybe.......No.

I didn't want to get too excited.

I go back in and we finish watching the movie.

{Kevin still has no clue at this point}

Thursday.

I wake up and feel fine.

I get ready to go donate {plasma} but get the sudden thought that I shouldn't.

Hmmmm.

Go buy yourself some pregnancy tests.

Oh my gosh, really?!

Am I seriously having these thoughts?!

Good thing I did too because after I got ready,

I was feeling nauseous.

I drove to the dollar store thinking:

I am gonna throw up on the side of the road.

But I made it.

I felt like a weirdo putting those two boxes up on the counter.

Definitely a new experience for me.

I got home and tried to calm myself down.

No big deal.

Just take the test,

find out it's negative,

and go donate.....

....well it wasn't negative....

....and I double-checked just to be sure!

One line = negative.

Two lines = positive.

Good grief!

It's positive!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Somehow deep down I knew it would be.

My body was telling me it was.

Right before I did the test I decided to record it for Kevin,

just for fun.

Here's the vid if you wanna watch my reaction:

As you can see my next thought was:

How in the heck do I tell Kevin!?

I looked online {google/pinterest} but didn't have one idea exactly stick out to me.

I remembered the idea my neighbor Kate told her hubby,

and I thought it was pretty clever.

I went and got a printout of the above pic {the one with two positives},

and wrote on the back:

Dear Kevin,

I'm pregnant!

Love,

Audrey

I also included this little note I printed off,

and put those in an envelope.

Then I wrapped the two tests themselves in the box like a Christmas gift.

I taped the letter to the box,

and put it in our mailbox.

On the way home from work I had Kevin grab the mail.

I was dying inside!

I had to turn my back to him and pretend I was busily making his lunch,

so he wouldn't see my face.

He went upstairs to change and I thought he was taking FOREVER,

but he finally came down and started opening stuff.

Of course he grabbed this one first.

I heard him open the envelope and I turned around.

I watched as he pulled out the note,

and then the picture.

And then he turned to me with this big grin on his face and said:

"Are you you serious!?"

YES!

Then I tell him to open the present.

"Ugg. I don't want to touch anything you peed on...."

I convinced him that those weren't the kind I got,

and he finally got to look for himself.

..................................

Okay,
so now I am posting alllllll the posts I secretly wrote and didn't publish till today.
But I'm not going to publish them all for today.
That'd be dumb for when it's put into a book.
Instead I'm publishing them on the day they were written.
I know that's a lot of back-scrolling,
so to make it nice and easy for you interested peeps,
 here are all those links:
{haha, your very welcome}


Week 5
For the Record: On Pregnancy
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10 {+ our first dr visit and ultrasound!}
Week 11

and if you are wondering how i made the chalkboard,
go here:

A Chalk Board