Steven and Kari here. We are creating this blog to capture our journey and memories as we embark on starting a family. Our first year of being married was one of the most awesome years of both our lives, but we feel like God has alot more exciting and wonderful things to come. In case you haven't heard.. We are Pregnant!!! We both knew that we always wanted to have children one day and prayed for God's perfect timing, that it would happen when it was meant to be, yet that second you actually see the pregnancy test confirm that you are pregnant a million different things hit you at once. Excitement, joy, fear, worry, unbelief and just not really sure what to do as we think of how our lives will never be the same again.

July 7th was our first official Dr. appointment and we were just about 10 weeks. Everything went great except when the Dr. tried to hear the baby's heartbeat, he wasn't able to. He said it was because my uterus was tilted slightly back so that makes it even harder to hear the heartbeat (though you usually can't hear the heartbeat with at dopler until around 12 weeks). Anyways he sent us to get an ultrasound just to make sure that everything was ok with the baby and that their was a heartbeat. Though we were freaked out, it was a blessing in disguise because we were able to see our little peanut and see and hear the heartbeat. Hearing the heartbeat was the most amazing sound ever and the little peanut was is cute already.

Today, August 4th was our second Dr. appointment!! It went fairly quick but everything was great. The Dr. felt my tummy to make sure my uterus moved forward and was no longer tilted, then the used the dopler like last time to hear the baby's heartbeat and we heard it right away and go to hear it for a while... again the most amazing sound ever!! We are 14th week and are so thankful we have made it to the second trimester ((already.. dang)). So we go back for our next appointment September 1st, when we will be about 18 weeks. The Dr. also set us up for our next ultrasound for September 25th!! (long time I know) So, we are excited for that, but doubt we will wait till then to find out whether we are going to have a boy or girl... we're probably gonna just cheat and go to the mall in a couple/few weeks :D Thank you Lord Jesus for this precious miracle!!!

That's all for now.. I will definately keep this updated now that we have actually started and figured it out (sorta)

Hugs & Kisses,
Steven and Kari