January 16th, 2012. I had been felling weird for a couple of days and noticed that when I would eat my daily serving of ice cream I would get very nauseas to the point of throwing up. This seemed peculiar to me since I love ice cream and have eaten it almost everyday of my life. I had an appointment set the next morning to finish a root canal so I ultimately made the decision that I might want to take a pregnancy test just to be sure. I waited for Justin to leave for work and then headed in the bathroom to take care of business. I waited the 3 minutes and then looked. I was a bit disappointed because only seeing the one line; I decided the test was negative. As I finished getting ready to leave the house, I suddenly thought… that line was different this time. Sure enough I looked back at the test and the line that I saw was the bright pink positive line with a much lighter line beside it. I was excited but still was not sure so I made the decision to go buy another test. Of course it ended up being a crazy day at my internship; by the time I got to buy a test I was on my way home. Justin had beaten me home so I had to sneak in the guest bathroom and take the test before he could figure out what I was doing. It had been hard not to say anything to him all day but I didn’t want to get his hopes up unless I was sure. I bought the type of test that reads out “Pregnant” or “Not Pregnant”, that way I would not be confused by the lines again. Haha… For the second time, I waited the 3 minutes, even though the test started to beep before then to tell me it had the results. It said “Pregnant”. I had already known that when I got a positive test I would want to tell Justin in a creative way, so during my lunch hour I had put together a power point just in case. While he was in the shower, I added a picture of both tests at the end of the presentation and then told him I had an early anniversary gift. We sat down and started the power point and I thought my heart was going to leap out of my chest! I knew this was something we both had wanted for some time but now that the reality was hitting I sat there in a panic. When it got to the last slide I was so over whelmed I started to cry; he looked at me and asked if I was serious. It was such a sweet moment. We had discussed before we were married that we wanted to wait and have children until I finished school or, if school took longer than expected, when we had been married 3 years. I got to tell the love of my life that we were expecting on the eve of our third anniversary! What a way to be reminded that God has our every step ordered and if we follow in the path he has set before us then we are always a part of his perfect timing.
