The Journey begins!

We received some news that we prayed for for almost a year now. We're pregnant! It is still very new and very surreal. We decided to create a blog so we can keep family up to date on how we are doing, and really for us to have a way to look back on the journey we are about to embark on to begin our family. This is our journal and we are going to be very open about our experiences. It may not always be pretty, but this is our life. This is by no means the beginning of our journey, but we think its a good start!

So let me start from the beginning. Zig and I decided to throw caution to the wind in about April of last year. Our theory was, we will let whatever happens, happens...If it is meant to be, it is meant to be. Well, for those of you who know me, I am a HUGE planner and things just weren't working out as I/we had planned. We had many months of tears, and lots of heartache. Just this month we decided that if we didn't get pregnant this month, then we were going to take some time off and start again after we got back from Ireland (yeah, that is a whole other story and we are so excited) and we would consider possibly seeing a fertility specialist. At first I was embarrassed and immediately assumed there was something wrong with me, but now I look back and am so grateful that this wasn't something that came really easy for us. This whole experience made us so much stronger and in 9 months from now, we will look back and remember how hard we worked for this and how much we really longed for this baby. This news may come as a shock to most of you. It's not that we were trying to keep the whole thing a secret, more that we wanted it to be a big surprise when it finally did happen.

Anyway, welcome to our story. Over the next few days I will post some stories of how we shared our news with our families, and at Zig's request you guys might even get some belly pictures! (Scary thought!)