You WILL Want To Read This....

I figure we have waited long enough to make it blog/facebook official. Many of you already know, some of you don't, and I'm sure a few of you have heard rumors..... My friends, the rumors are true!!! Drumroll please.......

COMING (on or around) JULY 3RD..... Baby GIRL Dodge!!!!

Nick and I are SO happy, excited, overjoyed and a bit nervous to bring a baby into this crazy world. Mostly me on the nervous thing- he's done this twice before so it should be a breeze for him, right? Rriiiiggghhhttt. When we found out it she was a girl, we were so excited! Nick was so cute and the expression on his face was priceless! Melted my heart, that man is already wrapped around her little finger. When the ultrasound tech left the room, Nick turned to me and said "I don't know what to do with a girl!!!" I keep telling him the same things he's done with his boys, girls are just a bit more sensitive... should be pretty easy being married to me, right?!

How we found out:

Towards the end of October, I had been really REALLY tired. My daily routine after work would be:

* Nap

* Dinner

* Bedtime

Awesome, right?

There were a few days I didn't feel very good and just chalked it up to fighting off some of the nasty cold/flu going around. We had talked about booking a trip somewhere tropical in the Spring/Summer, I found a really good Groupon deal and Nick called me from work asking me if I wanted him to book it. I told him we could wait a couple more days and we could finalize dates, etc. A few days later I told Nick that it might be a good idea if we went to the store and bought a "test." He was SO excited! Neither one of us could wait. That Friday, we went to dinner and did a little shopping. We cut the shopping short because we were both so excited. We got home, and I took the test.... It seemed like we waited forever! After the 3 minutes was up, I asked Nick if he wanted to go into see what it said. He told me to go check and he would be waiting. I picked up the test and there it was, plain as day... TWO pink lines!

 I was speechless, I was so excited and overwhelmed with emotion that all I could do was walk out to Nick with the test in my hand and a HUGE smile on my face. Nick kept saying "are you serious?!!" We both gave each other a big hug and cried tears of PURE happiness!

Don't mind the "I had been so tired I never got ready" look I have going on



Fast Forward a few months- I was REALLY tired at first, then I was REALLY sick (whoever named it morning sickness needs to be punched... I was sick all...day...long), that changed to kind of sick and back to being tired. Now that I'm in my 2nd trimester I've been feeling a LOT better. The only thing I've been dealing with now is heartburn- nothing a little RX from my Doctor didn't fix though!

I can't even describe how happy and excited I am! I can't wait to be a MOM! (The thought of this still feels a little weird to me.) Having step-kids is one thing, having a child of my own on the other hand... let's just say I've had a few breakdowns to Nick about it. He has been SO sweet and so patient with my "pregnancy hormones." He takes such good care of me and I can't wait to see how cute of a Daddy he is going to be with our little Princess.

Let the countdown to Summer begin!!!!! Let's hope I don't look too much like Shamu by the time July rolls around :)