Here you have it:
The night we found out we were going to be a mama and a daddy Kayla was actually on her way over to the house… (7 minutes away to be exact)! For those of you who are not so smart like Alex and I.. a word of advice “don’t take a pregnancy test when your friends are on their way to your house if you don’t plan on sharing it!”
We actually made up an excuse for her to take our pic so we could remember it as the night we found out!
Alex was terribly giddy that night, I kept telling him to “table it” and be in control of his thoughts but he made “little comments” all night long about a baby! I couldn’t believe Kayla didn’t hear him or catch on! Whew!
After she left it was back to OH MY GOD is this for real!!??!!
Telling Tucker and Milly! 
Lou was so excited he couldn’t wait to buy a “mommy” related card the very next day! Which is also when the sleepless nights began for us (everyone warned us they come when the baby gets here but now about the lack of sleep you get due to the excitment of the whole idea!!) By now we are used to functioning without sleep! 
We had many baby hurdles to cross keeping this a little secret since we decided not to tell anyone until after we were for sure, for sure… I had to explain myself a lot regarding why we waited so long to shout it out to the world and although i have always known these things about myself I never realized how rare it was to think this way…
A) It was way too good to be true and came so easy for us, I wanted to get pregnant this summer and have a February baby but I literally thought that was way too controlling of a thought and was too embarrassed to even sound that vein so i rarely ever even voiced it out loud…… the freaking child is Due in February people, come on!
B) Both our parents as well as Alex’s sister had struggled with infertility at one point and many of our friends currently are as well so we had always hidden away that this too would be our issue….
C) We also felt and still feel (but even more now!) that our life is too good to be true plain and simple. It doesn’t help that I work with mom’s who have had trauma after trauma in their life and in my mind (as many of you have often heard me discuss) why do they get dealt 2874594857 traumatic horrific things to them and I get none? I hate being this way (survivors guilt i suppose) but I’m not even sure if it’s a pessimistic life style or a grateful life style… either way I’m finally just trying to soak up all this goodness and go with it!
Anyway back to our first hurdle, surviving Tara’s birthday weekend in Hilton Head (filled with drinkable opportunities) without letting anyone noticing me not drinking! How in the hell would I fake this!?!?!?
Get ready to drink up Lou! I ordered drinks and forced, yes forced Lou to suck them down all night “I don’t care if you don’t want it, hurry up and drink while they aren’t looking!”
Whew! We survived that weekend and were off to St. Thomas for our first “baby moon”- Minnicks’ Party of 3!
Would ya look at what the room came equipped with?!?!? The marriot has ESP!
There’s a baby in there!
Our last day there we decided to buy a bottle of Grand Dad liquor for my parents as our way of telling them… this was the way they told moms parents when she was pregnant!
You know i love a tradition! 
We came home and unpacked our bottle of Grand Dad and ran downstairs to share the news… AKA give them their souvenirs..
This was our “AHHHHHHHH we are really about to do this!”
Screen shot from our video of telling mom and dad, they were hilarious and over the moon!
Grand parents to be… getting over their shock!
Leave it to mom and dad to make a celebration out of it!!
Her first book from grama and grampa! 
Our little peanut’s first souvenir from our first “family trip” all together!
Officially, Official!! We are having a baby!
The due date was not what we originally thought… I ended up being less far along as i thought which made me 5 and a half weeks WHICH put us into the month of February!! How perfect….it’s actually February 2nd, Pop-pop’s birthday! Does it get any better!!?!?!?
At this point I still had a normal appetite so out to eat to celebrate we go!
Lou had to stop for one thing on the way home…. pre-natal vitamins! That boy.
I switched doctors after that first appointment confirmation (and after going patient advocate nuts on them and laying into them about how each appointment should be special, unique and specific to the client) but no worries they promised me they would call a staff meeting to address all of my concerns with their staff and I found a better doctors office anyway!
Our 8 week appointment, the first thing they looked at Alex and I and said was; “Congratulations, your going to have a beautiful baby!”
Now that’s more like it! We celebrate each appointment with a mini date before Lou goes back to work! This one involved ice cream!
Our 9 week appointment and we have pictures!!
Our chalkboard is complete in time for week 9 to start documenting weekly updates!
Oh yes and our board came in handy to tell Kayla!
“We’re having A baby”.
Our 12 week doctors appointment and we are so ready to tell the world!! 
Telling the world made everything so much more real and was so exciting! I have so many videos of each of these moments thankfully even us “going viral” which is quite hilarious!
This was our 16 week appointment, yay for 4 months and hearing that sweet girls heartbeat chugging along!
This little girl in the magazine was just too cute with her little belly and I felt the same way so Lou had to snap a picture of us and our bellies!
It has been so hard to find something I want to eat lately but when we got in the elevator to leave this appointment it reeked of French fries so we were on a mission to find some!
Mission complete!
I can not believe I’m almost 18 weeks now, almost halfway there to meeting this sweet girl and I’m still over here pinching myself daily to make sure I’m not dreaming… but then i remember ‘I can’t be dreaming… I’m still not even sleeping!”
Ok I think we should be caught up with baby news! Now back to reality and WOW do I have a lot to share! Lola and I have been quite busy bee’s lately and can’t wait to share some more exciting news about where we have been!!!
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