Our big news

In my last post I eluded to some big news.  In February Teddy and I found out that I was pregnant!!!  Teddy was out of town all week, and I had been feeling weird.  Not sick or anything, I was just feeling weird.  I was still a week away from being able to take the at home test, plus I wanted to wait until Teddy got home.  So, he was home for about five minutes before I blurted out, "I think I'm pregnant."  It was still a couple of days before I was supposed to take the test, so we agreed to wait until it was time to take the test.

We headed out to the grocery store, and yea, I couldn't wait, so I bought a test, brought it home and took it immediately.  Teddy was leaving town again on Monday, and I couldn't wait a whole week for him to come home, so I figured, better early and with him, than without him.  So, I took the test, we waited the 2 - 3 minutes and I had the following results.

We couldn't believe it!  We were hugging and crying, and just overly excited.  We both agreed to keep it to ourselves until we at least saw the doctor and got confirmation that all is good.  My original plan was to wait until I was 12 weeks to tell anyone.  But that didn't exactly happen.

A few days after the positive at home test, I went in for a blood test at the doctor.  That came back positive as well, with normal results, so they scheduled our first ultra sound.

At the ultrasound I was 7 weeks along.  Teddy was able to go with me, and we saw our baby.

Here it is at 7 weeks.  I thought it looked more like a frog than a baby, but we saw the heart beating, and everything looked normal.  It was at this point that Teddy and I decided we needed to spill the beans to the family.  I was having a hard time not telling my mom, and plus I was leaving for China in a week, and wanted to let work know before I left. 

So, we were able to tell my parents and Teddy's parents in person, which was a ton of fun.  Both were super surprised and just as excited as us.  We then told the sisters, who were all really excited, and somehow, kept the news off facebook until I was able to tell work. 

Just last week we went for our 12 week ultra sound.  We were excited to hear the good news that all appeared normal and healthy with the baby.  So far, so good!  It was also exciting to see that the baby, was actually looking a lot more like a baby!  We saw that it has two arms, two legs, we saw the heart beating, the umbilical cord, the brain, and we even had the baby stick its tongue out at us at one point!

So, that room that I posted about earlier this week, that's going to be the nursery.  We just need to find out if we're having a baby boy or a baby girl to finish it up.  There's still about 8 weeks to go until we find out that news.  We are just so blessed and can't believe our good fortune. 

The last three months...

I have been just a horrible blogger.  Nothing of substance has been posted for months!  So, here is an update of some of the things Teddy and I have been up to since January.

We hosted a super bowl party with the family, even though we had to bear watching the Packers win.

We're all focused on watching the game

Sara made a delicious sandwich for all

Then late February we celebrated my nephew, Carson's 1st and golden birthday.  He was one on  March 1st.

Doesn't he look good in that hat

His sister was pretty excited to celebrate too

Later in March, we celebrated Erica's birthday

She's looking like she's ready to party.

Since I was busy working every Saturday, Teddy decided that he wanted to do some work on our guest bedroom.  One of the walls was covered in cork board.  He worked hard to remove it to reveal this mess.

Yes, that is one hideously green wall covered in stinky glue that was holding the cork on

He worked for at least 2 weekends in a row scraping all that glue off, and then spackling up the wall that was damaged.  Even Fozzie stopped by to check out his hard work.

Then he gave it a nice coat of primer, which surprisingly covered up that awful color. 

After finishing that project, Teddy got the bug to replace the doors and trim in the room, similar to what we did to the bathroom between Christmas and New Years. 

Here are the closet doors nearly done, they just need the trim casing around them.

He also did all the baseboard and the main entrance to the bedroom.  What are we going to use this room for now that it is nearly done?  More to come on that.

Then in April, I went to Beijing for a business trip.  I got there a couple days early so I was able to check out some of the sites before the meetings started.

We went to see the Forbidden City

Many of the buildings in the Forbidden City were repainted for the Olympics, this was one of them.  The colors were so vibrant

The next day we headed out to see the Great Wall

The wall was amazing, truly an engineering marvel that it was able to be built in the first place, let alone still be standing after all these years

We were able to see a small section of the wall, the whole wall is over 4,000 miles long, so it would be pretty impossible to see it all.

On our last siteseeing day we went for a long walk through Beijing to see the Temple of Heaven.  We got side tracked going through this park that had some beautiful cherry blossom trees blooming.

We finally made it to the Temple, which was really beautiful and worth the long trek there

 Beijing was an amazing trip.  I wish I had taken more pictures, but unfortunately the camera died in the middle of the trip. 

So far 2011 has had a great start!  I still have some more news to share, but I'm going to save that for another blog.  Hopefully, I'll be blogging about that soon.