It's a girl!

We were SO excited and happy to find out we're having a girl!

The night that I found out I was pregnant, I wrote in my journal:

         "I really feel like a little girl will be coming into our family and it makes me want to cry with joy.  She will be the sweetest, smartest little one.  I'm so excited to see how this goes and to experience this blessing that God has given us."                  

It was wonderful to finally have these feelings confirmed last month at our ultrasound!

I'm almost 22 weeks now and I can feel the baby move throughout the day. Boyd was excited to finally feel kicks for the first time this last week.

It has been interesting (and somewhat trying) to see people's reactions at work and school to me being pregnant. While some people are really happy for me, other people say things like, "Congratulations, I guess..." or "So are you happy about this then?" "Was this planned?!" is another awkward one.

I'm grateful that I have a family and good friends that still see children as a blessing even though a lot of society seems to focus on how inconvenient and burdening they can be.  After a few negative experiences with sharing my news, I was grateful to have one of my supervisors remind me that although it is a sacrifice, it will all be worth it one day. She assured me that I will never regret choosing to have a baby. I'm so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who gives us the opportunity to choose if and when we will become parents, and then supports us in our decision.  We realize that come September, our lives will take on a different focus and we will have to make sacrifices in order to make things work. But we're excited about the great joy that has already come into our family from this little blessing.

We're excited to meet you, little girl! Now if we can just get through the HOT summer...

22 Weeks

21 Weeks

Girl will be styling thanks to Aunt Jessica!

First outfit we bought her a week before we found out it was a girl!