When we found out that we were having a baby

We knew we were ready to start a family. However we didn't know that it would happen so soon. That most of 2011 would be used to prepare for our upcoming addition to our family. Kiera already touched on the points of us having a baby in an earlier post. However since we are now trying to get our blog back up to date I felt it right to touch on those points individually.

The day that we found out we were pregnant was January 28th, 2011. A normal day that was no different then any other. A day that would eventually change our lives forever. What seemed like a normal day to me though was a stressful day for Kiera. A day that involved some hardships for her and caused her to need to vent to me after she got home from work. In the process of comforting her she told me something else she was thinking. She thought that she was pregnant.

Although it may not have been the way or setting that Kiera wanted to tell me. I think it was probably the best. Who knows what kind of freak out I may have had if I wasn't in comforting type mood at the time of being told that I might be a father soon. Perhaps that was the Lords way of helping me grip with the idea of having a baby and be the most accepting of it. To help Kiera I gave her a blessing in which it was pretty much confirmed to both of us that Kiera did have a child growing in her that we would be intrusted with raising.

That evening we went to dinner with Valisa and Kyle to the Olive Garden. It was hard not to say anything and to play it off as nothing was different. And we succeded. Although the thought was still weighing heavily on our minds. Although we felt the blessing told us we would be becoming parents we needed to find out for sure. So on our way home after dinner we stopped by the store and got a Pregnancy Test. Sure enough the results were what we expected them to be.

So we are having a baby. The next step was to get Kiera into the doctor to verify and start doing what we needed to prepare for that baby. On February 7th we had the appointment and all was verified. We also got an ultrasound and saw our child for the very first time.



And so we stared down the road to parenthood. To say Kiera had a ruff 1st trimester is an understatement. Her morning sickness was more like an all day sickness. So much that she needed somebody to talk to about it sooner then we planned. So 2 weeks later we told our parents and family that we were expecting. However other then slowly telling close friends we wanted to wait til we cleared the 12 week mark before we made it public. The day we did was on April 1st. Yes April Fools day. This was to make people think it was a joke when it really wasn't.

We were so excited to soon become parents in 2011 with a due date set for September 30th. Yes 5 days after Kieras birthday.