Our Exciting News...a bit of a Catch you up

Daniel came to visit me the first weekend in May this year (2009). On Saturday morning (May 2nd), I had just woke up from a good night's sleep...all night though, I dreamed that I was trying to hide from people so I could take a Pregnancy Test, throughout the dream the people I was hiding the test from kept changing. Finally I was able to get away and try a test, but before I could see the result, I woke up!
So, I decided that I would (just for fun) try a Test, I wondered if I was pregnant, but hadn't really thought about it because I figured that the reasons: 1) I wasn't sleeping well, 2)I was having weird dreams and a few other things was because Daniel was gone. (even though they are symptoms). Daniel didn't know I had one, because I bought it while he was in North Carolina, so after taking the test, I was SOOO excited when the Two Pink Lines showed up that I put it in a zip lock and went in to show Daniel. When I walked in the room, he rolled over and asked me what I was doing (he had just barely woke up), I giggled and said "check it out!!" and handed it to him... He kept blinking his eyes trying to see what it said and realized it was upside down so he turned it over and kept trying to open his eyes so he could read/see it better...then all of the sudden his eyes got BIG and he looked at me and with a BIG smile he rapped his arms around me! He was Happy, and I was glad...I wasn't sure what his reaction would be...but when he got back to Base (in North Carolina) he was sooo excited that he was telling the guys he worded with...
One night he text me and said, " ;-* i love you see you in dream land my wife and mother-to-be of our children hehehe :-D "

Here's a pic of me the day after we found out:
(I'll have future ones too just for fun to see the diff.)

Sunday, May 10th (Mother's Day), in Relief Society when they asked if anyone had any "good news moments," my hand shot up and I said, "I get to celebrate Mother's Day for real for the first time this year!!"
After Relief Society, Ms.Mini (Fly) called me over to her and when I got there she asked, "Are you telling us that you're pregnant?" to which I Joyfully replied, "Yep! Sure AM!! :-D"...She said she is very happy for us! ...Some of the other Sisters caught me after Church too (to name a few: Patti F., Barbara T., Tamille J. (also pregnant! 2 months ahead of me), Amy L., and a few other's who's name slip my mind~sorry). I was standing out in the hall talking to Lisa S. (telling her my news) when a couple sisters (Lisa included) congratulated me...the Missionaries were standing behind me and when I turned to ask them if we were still on for F.H.E on Friday-Elder Keller (from Las Vegas, NV) asked, (and I could tell he was kinda embarrassed to ask), "so...are you...expecting?"
When I told him that I am, he Smiled real big and have me a Hi-5, Elder Shock (from Sandy, UT) Smiled and said, "that is awesome!"
...It's sooo fun to see all the different reactions...Timille & I are excited to have a friend here that we can be pregnant at the same time with!!...and in a few months when I have a little tummy showin', we're gonna get a "Tummy Pic," I saw it on one of my friends' blogs and thought it was a cute/fun idea!!

We decided that we'd let our friends here know so that if "anything happened" I'd have support nearby. But we wanted to wait to tell everyone "Back home" until we can "Surprise" Visit them!-Hopefully no one will take offense, but if they do, that's their choice! Because it's Our Surprise anyway and being that this will be Our First Born Baby, We want the opportunity to "Show and Tell" on our own and be able to See the reactions ourselves! :-)
Plus, having already experienced having a miscarriage (not asking for sympathy-just explaining!), where no one really knew but us, we decided we'd see which way we felt better...and living so far from Home, we decided Home could be the "wait to tell" while we announced it here. This way if something happened we'd see what "way of announcing" was more worth it. We both really enjoy Announcing it and I can't wait til the 2nd Trimester so I can feel better (Crossing fingers!)

May 16th-Mom was out "Yardsaling" and found a really nice (practically brand-new) Baby Swing, Stroller and Car-seat Set...we got it for $200...it's currently "in storage" at our home in Utah...waiting for us to "Come back and Play!"...I'm excited about it because it's one of the designs that I like...it's got Brown (one of Our Wedding Colors) and polk a dots...it's also a Neutral Design so we'll be able to Re-use them!! :-) Here's a pic of them:May 17th- So I've definitely been feeling the "Morning Sickness," or at least the Nausea for awhile now, but this morning was the first time that I actually had to hug the Toilet-ewe!! It was a yucky morning, I felt bad because I ended up missing Church, so I turned on some Church Talks-I listened to Elder Bednar's CES Fireside from the beginning of the month (Awesome talk!!) then I listened to Sept. '08 Women's Conference (I missed it-(Honeymoon)). I spent most of the day in bed trying to sleep so I didn't feel so yucky, and by the afternoon-early evening I finally started feeling a bit better...hooray...but I keep telling/reminding myself that "it's all for a GOOD cause!"

Tues. May 26th, my friend Krista gave me a ride to my first Doctor's appointment where I met with Dr.Rossi at The Churchland OB/GYN...She is a wonderful Doctor and very nice too!! It was fun/nice to see Our Baby on the monitor!! Dr.Rossi printed out a copy for me and I took a pic of it with my Cell phone and text'ed it to Daniel (He's been in North Carolina since April 18th until July 10th!)-he did get to come visit the first weekend this month (tht's when I found out I was Pregnant!) ...He was sooo excited to see it!! We are both SUPER EXCITED!!!
The lady who took my blood was very nice and did a good job-Her and Krista did a wonderful job at "distracting me" so that I wouldn't feel so Faint...I hardly even felt it when she did it! But I'm still glad that we only have to do that a couple more times! lol...I HATE Needles and the thought/sight of Blood...ewe!! lol I'm hoping to "grow out of it" like my mom did!

This is Our Little Monkey Bean:
(taken at 8 weeks!)

Our Baby is Due January 6th, 2010!

Maybe it'll come 3 days early so we can have Our Baby on Maggie's birthday!! That'd be cool!! Especially if it's a Girl (Hope so!!! But would love a baby Boy too, just the same!) Since The First Grandkid was a Boy -Ashton, the worlds cutest Bubby!-and he was born on Cubby's birthday, that'd be cool to have a baby Girl (the second Grankid on my side of the family) on Maggie's b'day!!...We'll just have to "Wait and see" what this baby's got in mind ;-) ...heehee
WE ARE SOOOO EXCITED!!!! :-D