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Monday, August 19, 2013

And baby makes three!

We are going to be parents! Sometime around March 5th-ish! :) We're super excited about this new chapter, a little freaking out about it, and so super grateful. :)
Here's a little back story-since I feel like there's a good portion of people who think it's an oops child or something...
We had been praying about getting ready to start a family, but when we got married I had a two year plan. I figured that'd be perfect timing, right? Well, right before I was going to take my Pharmacy final I asked Matt for a blessing. I honest to goodness wasn't even thinking about babies or anything besides passing that stinkin test! It was one of the most touching blessings I've ever recieved (which is just further testimony that Heavenly Father knows us deeply and loves us! He knew exactly what I needed to hear.) and halfway through the blessing, starting a family came up.We both felt like it was a clear answer and so... here we are. :) We didn't think it'd happen this fast, but we're grateful. :) 
 
We found out the last week of June. I think I was in shock at first. Kind of scared. A little teary. :) When I told Matt he got a cute grin, and we got teary together. :) And then I got impatient feeling like I should just magically inflate and feel pregnant right away. Not true... just hungry. A little ornery. Really excited. (Can you say pinterest overload?) So. I'll probably morph into one of those blogs that you're annoyed with from my total obsession with telling you everything baby related, but read anyway out of curiosity or something. (Or maybe not read at all?) Either way, we're excited for this journey and feel so blessed to have this opportunity. 
 
I was a little worried about telling everyone, I was scared you'd all think we're stupid because we're young and poor students and it's barely been a year since we tied the knot... (who knows, maybe you all really do think that. ;p) but when we got to finally tell Grandma Marilyn while sitting around Grandpa's bed with Aunt Sharla and my Dad, we just felt so much love and support. It was a bitter sweet day to leave our first doctor appointment after seeing our little peanut wiggling around in there, to seeing grandpa getting ready to make his journey on to the next life, but I've been grateful for the timing. It's given me a lot of perspective on life I think.
Grandpa passed away the day after we told my family and I've had a few different times that I just stop and feel like he knows our little spirit which has been comforting for us. Heavenly Father knew it was good timing, even if we weren't sure at first. ;)
 
Anyway. We're super excited, and I'll just apologize right now, because here come the baby blog post overloads. ;)
 
(I was DYING not telling anyone so I wrote these posts... Here's links to them since they're back dated.)
 
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 10
 
(ps can I just tell you about my monday real quick? so dr. williams asked me to come in an hour early to clean. well i got here... and my key to the office didn't. guess where it was? oh, just in nebraska. :p thankfully i have awesome in laws and jennifer said she'd mail it to me. well, then the rest of this morning was filled with a GIANT pile of files i had to do catch-up billing for the past week. and lots of other crazy projects, not to mention we had patients back to back all morning that ran way past their appointment times and all that fun dr office type stuff. can you say overwhelmed? at least i got to go have lunch with sweet grammie marilyn. :) Love you gram!)
 
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5 comments:

  1. I don't think you guys are stupid at all. At least you got pregnant AFTER you were married. {; (*cough cough*) I am SUPER excited for you. Having kids when you're young was good for us because I'm pretty sure by the time we'd be "ready" to be parents, we'd be waaaay too tired. As my bishop says, "You're continuing the plan! Way to go!"

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  2. Yay Shannon I'm so excited for you guys!!! Mason and I both agreed, at the same time, that you and Matt would be wonderful parents! We will be able to have play dates sometime with our little ones! I want to say sooooo much, but I will just leave this little comment for now. And a few more in your other posts. I also know what it's like, I wanted to talk and talk about pregnancy stuff when I was preggo, know I want to talk and talk to other ladies that are pregnant about theirs! Well, I lied, this wasn't so much of a little comemnt :)

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  3. Dear Shannon,
    First of all, can you teach me how to make a cute blog like yours?!? Second of all, don't even think for one second that starting your family now is dumb or crazy...you two know better than anyone what you felt and experienced, and you followed it. I think that it takes a lot of faith to do something like that. I admire you both for doing what you knew was right rather than not doing it because of fear of what others would think. Honestly, you two are going to be terrific parents! And I can't wait to see how adorable your little one is! :) I am SO excited for you two!!!

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  4. Shannon! I'm so excited for you and Matt. Who cares what anybody else thinks. It's between you, Matt, and Heavenly Father. The end. P.S. I haven't forgotten you...just need a little pestering for a date. You free Saturday evening?

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  5. So very excited!!!!! It will be hard to wait.....Take good care of yourself and come see me soon....

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