2 weeks and 5 days ago... back when food was still good

August 13, 2009... Tanner and I found out we were expecting! Two days prior, on the phone with Laura, I looked at my temperature chart, noticed a third rise in my temperature and realized that indicated I was pregnant. Assuming that raise in temperature was from the bug Tanner and I acquired a few days before in Mexico but cautious at the same time, I decided to stop taking my steroids (I've been recently getting in body building. Ok, that's not true. That was what the doc prescribed me when we got the bug in Mexico.) until I could take a pregnancy test.

We arrived in corny Iowa on Tuesday, purchased a test on Wednesday, and as I got out of bed Thursday morning (that AM urine is always best) I grabbed a test and went to the bathroom. I have taken may fair share of tests and each time I take the instructions in and read them thoroughly prior to peeing on the stick. Same basic instructions each time, but just like shampoo bottles, I feel the need to read them nonetheless. However, on this particular morning I did not take them in and as those two blue lines quickly formed I assumed, as was always the case before, that meant negative. I walk into the room and with Tanner half sleeping half looking at me, I grabbed the box and held it up next to the stick. And at this moment, I woke up. Tanner's reaction to my non-verbal but very telling facial expression was something like "Stop joking." (He has always said that's the one thing I can't joke about... no "We're pregnant!" if we're not and no "We're not pregnant." if we are) I still did not speak but simply handed the box and stick to him. And at this moment, he woke up. Sitting up with a disbelieving grin, he told me to take another one. I couldn't believe it either and I also didn't need to pee. I decided to give my bladder and sometime to refill itself and go to the Urgent Care thinking, "If a professional tells me it's true, then I'll believe it". I also thought it would be a blood test.

Tanner went to a meeting and my sister-in-law Haley drove me to an Urgent Care. While waiting to be seen, I took another test and it was also positive. They finally called us in and gave me a cup to pee in. Dangit. Like I said, I thought I would be having blood drawn. I managed to get enough urine in the cup though and after waiting and waiting and waiting they came back in and told us it was postitive. Wow. Such a surreal feeling. Tanner and I had been patiently waiting for this moment for about 10 months and in God's perfect timing, this moment had arrived.