An anniversary

One year ago today we learned that a baby was in our future.  One year ago today we were getting ready to fly to Hawaii the next morning.  On a whim I bought a pregnancy test on my lunch break and figured I'd throw it away once it, of course, read negative.  Much sooner than the recommended 3 minutes of waiting was a reading of:

I called Jay to tell him while we were both at work and he was extremely surprised!  Having no idea that I was even thinking about taking a test you can imagine how he might have felt!  He spent the rest of the afternoon researching the probability of a false positive (slim to none).  That night we drove to Portland and the next morning we hopped a plane to The Big Island.  Since we are both cynics we figured that there still might be a chance that we weren't really pregnant, but we went along as though it was really true.  I abstained from alcohol under the guise that I would be starting Weight Watchers when we returned from vacation and I wanted to get a head start on reducing calories.  (I really had been looking into WW!)

When we returned from Hawaii we agreed to take another at-home pregnancy test to check again.  We waited until February 15th.  Almost immediately this one gave the plus sign! 

Forgive the hat - I had just returned home from my 5:30 AM fitness class.  I'm often up at 5:30 these days but there's very little that's fitness-y about it.  

So now we had 2 tests giving us the thumbs up.  But we still were skeptical.  So we made an appointment with my Nurse Practitioner for another opinion.  When we told her we'd had 2 positive tests but wanted a definitive answer she looked at us like we were crazy and said "You're pregnant"

And the rest is history!  Here's a snap from our very first ultrasound on March 2nd, 2011.  We had been  very curious about how far along we were since I had a bit a lot too much fun on Christmas and New Years.  Have no fear, we were informed that the holiday festivities were B(efore)B(aby).