If you haven't heard the great news (which I'm sure most or all of you have)

We are PREGNANT!!!!!

We found out while we were in Tampa Fl, and being somewhere else when finding out this news made it much more exciting. Because it took so long to become pregnant I had time to think about if I was going to take a test with Robert next to me, or surprise him. When we found out we were pregnant the first time I had taken the test and called him right away and he came home and we called all our family and friends in that moment and we remember thinking.....now what! hehe so I knew i wanted this time to be different.

I took the test while Robert was working and was in complete shock it was positive! I wanted to do something really cute to surprise Robert, but in the moment I was much too excited to think and only knew where a walmart was so I went there and picked up a shirt and a marker and wrote on it. Rob didn't get home until late that evening, but when he came home Makayla went running to him and he saw the shirt, turned it around and looked over at me with the biggest smile. He was in complete shock as well! We could not be happier right now!

I had a scare early on in the pregnancy. I went to my first doc appt when I was supposed to be 6 weeks 5 days (calculating from when I got my positive ovulation test not lmp) well...we had an ultrasound and the baby was measuring at 5 weeks 1 day and with no heartbeat. A heartbeat doesn't start beating until around 6 weeks and they try not to worry until baby is 8 weeks with no heartbeat, so the heartbeat was not the worst of my worries at that time. It was the fact that he/she was measuring almost 2 weeks behind. The doc said all we could do was wait it out and do another ultrasound in a week to see if there was any progression. In my crazy head I thought for sure the baby had died. Maybe if the measurements were only a couple days off i would have thought differently but 2 weeks is a big difference. I had no pregnancy symptoms either and with Makayla I got super sick right away along with other symptoms. For the whole week I was a wreck to say the least. I was pretty much crying off and on all day and waiting to miscarry. It was a terrifying experience. We had asked our families to fast for us and in the same weekend my parents, aunt, and grandparents had all gone to the temple and put our name in. It was so amazing to know that our names were in 3 different temples at the same time. I finally got into my appt a week later and had my ultrasound and.......ugh there was the heartbeat!! I instantly threw my head in my hands and just started to cry. To know that this baby was alive and growing was the most amazing feeling ever! We still don't know what happened, baby is still measuring small, but only a week behind and everytime we've gone in for an ultrasound the baby had grown slightly more in short time, so i wouldn't be surprised if baby catches up to original size and my due date changes.

Pregnancy thus far had been pretty rough! Other than the scare early on, I became extremely sick. Not morning sickness, I call it all day sickness! Its been pretty hard, I was super sick with Makayla, but it was a while ago, so I cant tell if this one is worse or better I'm thinking it has been the exact same as with Makyala, but at least this time I finally got a prescription from my doctor and it has really helped. It doesn't take the nausea away completely, but enough for me to cook, or want to eat something. I'm 12 weeks sat (wasn't planning on announcing it until 13 weeks but hubby couldn't wait and was begging for me to tell everyone) cute right! and I am so ready to be in my second trimester!!! We feel so blessed and grateful to be able to experience pregnancy again. When trying for so long you start thinking what if I cant have another baby, and now that i am pregnant I have a whole new look on pregnancy and parenthood. I know going through what we went through was only to make us stronger and appreciate this gift that much more. I don't even want to wait 6 more months I am ready to have this baby out and start the no sleep, lots of nursing, hearing the newborn cry's and go through the emotions (because I'm sure my hormones will be raging again after this baby). Bring on this scary yet so exciting time. We are ready!