First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes....

You guessed it! A baby in a baby carriage. We are pregnant!!! Here's the stats:

How far along I am right now: 14 weeks

Due date: January 13th (wouldn't it be cool if the baby was born two days early on 1/11/11?)

When we'll find out if it's a boy or girl: last week of August.

Where I want to have the baby: Orem Community Hospital

What we're guessing the gender is: I'm leaning towards a girl, Christian a boy. Who knows!

Oh wow, I don't know where to begin. We are so happy. It's such an exciting time filled with joy, uncertainty, a little bit of anxiety, dreaming, excitement, and trying to believe it's real! So, to back up, while it was still too early to take a pregnancy test, we suspected that we could be pregnant. Christian was more certain than I however. I didn't want to get my hopes up. I even ran that half marathon a couple weeks into the pregnancy (I wonder if I can blame my slow time on it....) Well two days after a missed period we took a home pregnancy test and it was positive. One test was all I needed. I believed it. I told Christian right away and the emotion hit us. Wow, it still does (combined with the hormones, I'm getting teary quite often...).

I won't bother putting up belly shots since anyone besides myself would not think I look pregnant at all. The midwife I'm seeing says I won't look pregnant for awhile. Great. But I sure feel pregnant. I never threw up during my 6 week-14 week morning sickness period, but I felt like it almost all the time. It's been a long time since I've been hungry - I just get sick when it's time for my body to eat. When I would get discouraged or frustrated for my lack of appetite I'd remember that this is nothing to be frustrated about. This is an enormous blessing and I'm just so glad things have been going smoothly so far.

After two months of being grossed out by most foods, I think I'm swinging back towards a hearty appetite. I'm not as sick feeling when I wake up, I can go longer periods after eating before feeling sick again, and I can eat more at each sitting. Yes! Here comes a joyous second trimester.

So, here we are, ready for the crazy ride of pregnancy. Isn't it amazing how quickly life can change? It was just yesterday I was fantasizing about my FEC (Future Eternal Companion for those of you who don't know) and bam - I'm married and pregnant! It's crazy how quickly life sneaks up on you.

Us right after we found out.

What our baby could look like at 14 weeks. It's about the length of a peach right now.

What do you think our baby will look like? Here's baby pics of Christian and me: