Our journey to becoming parents

I figured I needed to write an updated blog post as it seems I have shocked many of you with our facebook announcement this morning :)  Your kind words seriously bring tears to my eyes and make both of our hearts so full!

First, I would like to thank each one of you who have prayed for us during this very long journey.  We have heard so many stories of our faithful friends who have continued to pray and even churches praying for us!  We are so very Blessed!!!

We started this journey of trying to get pregnant a little over three years ago and have done just about any and every infertility treatment, including the 'big daddy"...IVF.  After many failed attempts and a miscarriage in 2010, we decided to adopt.
It has now become almost humorous to hear people say, "See.. when you decide to adopt you get pregnant!"  No.  This is not the case at all.  If you read my blog post from June (I think) I describe how we had put the adoption on hold so we could find a new house and make sure that my mom was taken care of.   (Side note:  We will still adopt from Africa.. the timing will just be a bit different.)

I give all of this glory to God!  Every bit!  It happened honestly when I decided to trust Him and gave my thoughts, dreams and life to Him completely.  I am a bit of a control freak and even though I was a believer, I was still trying to take control of my life.  That's when it happened..... My lovely monthly visitor was late and SURPRISE!  Au natural :)  Our life was about to change forever!  

Now don't get me wrong, the first trimester didn't go without massive worries and I was still learning to trust in the miracle He gave us.  I wrote a few blog posts during the 1st trimester that I didn't publish until today.  Some days were harder than others, but we knew we had Him on our side regardless  :)  We are now well into our 2nd Trimester and expecting our little miracle in March!

I would like to close this post with how I told my precious husband we were having a baby.  I found out on a Friday night and somehow kept a secret until the next day.  We had an appointment with our realtor at the house we were about to put an offer on... we just knew it was going to be ours!  I told Chris I had an errand to run before and would meet him there.   When he arrived I was upstairs in the room that I knew we would make the nursery with pink and blue balloons that I had picked up.  He looked a bit confused and I said, "So do you think this would be a good room for the nursery?"  More confusion... I continued.  "Sweetheart, we are finally going to be parents!!!"  

Of course I had to take a picture of his face when he finally got it :)

Adorable <3

Both of us in the room after Chris found out.  

Thank you all again for your love and support.  We honestly have some of the most amazing friends, family and prayer warriors.  We still have to pinch ourselves that we are finally going to be parents, but couldn't be more excited!!

We love you all.  

Be Blessed,

Tk


Let go, and Let God :)