Zach and I have always had a “5 Year Plan”.  We had even discussed this plan before we were married.  I guess every couple discusses their goals in life, and ours were simple:  both obtain our degrees, work in our careers, and spend as much time together doing the things we love before we had kids.

We have been so blessed.  I get really emotional when I think about these last five years.  We have had so much fun and made so many memories together.  I wouldn’t change a single thing about this time that Zach and I have had, just the two of us.  Our lives are so simple and easy.  We go to movies on Wednesday nights for no reason and eat out way more than we should.  We’ve been on weekend trips, stayed up all hours of the night, and been totally irresponsible for the past couple of years.  I love Zach more than I ever dreamt I would love my husband.  Maybe part of me didn’t want to share him.  He’s been all mine for so long, it seems.

It’s kind of a weird feeling going from every month hoping you don’t get pregnant to suddenly hoping you will.  And since I am a huge planner, I prepared myself for the long haul.  For some reason I kept having feelings that it would take a while for Zach and I to get pregnant.  I felt so strongly about this that infertility treatments and adoption were regular topics of discussion between us.  So many people close to me have struggled with infertility and I just didn’t want to get disappointed.  With that being said, I was completely shocked and humbled when I got a positive pregnancy test after we had only been trying casually for one month.  I was so humbled, in fact, that when I saw the result on the test I fell right to my knees, sobbing.  It still seems so good to be true, that I constantly find myself worrying that something might go wrong.  I remember the first thing I did was pray.  Then I texted my husband.  It was absolutely nothing like I had planned it to be.  I had envisioned in my mind telling him in some cute and elaborate way, but even in those first few moments I couldn’t keep it from him.  Maybe if I had had more time to plan something, but it happened so fast that it felt wrong keeping it all to myself.

So here goes!  Come November this little nugget is going to change our lives forever.  I think becoming parents [and a real family] will be our greatest adventure yet!

I have been trying to document with pictures – along with something we did that particular week.