It's a GIRL!!!

    On November 9th, at our 20 week ultrasound appointment, we found out that we are going to have a beautiful baby GIRL in March. We scheduled the appointment exactly 10 weeks after our first ultrasound to confirm the pregnancy. Ironically, we found out the sex of our first baby on the 6 year anniversary of the first time Bill kissed me. I feel like if that doesn't tell us this is meant to be, what does? It was a very special day. In addition to Bill and I, we invited our mothers, the future grandmothers, to the appointment. It was harder for them to keep the secret of the sex until the reveal party than it was for us! haha

6 days later, on November 15th, we made the announcement to our friends and family and made the big announcement to the world of social media; almost all of which didn't even know we are pregnant! Many, many people were shocked and all were happy. Our family had been itching to tell everyone and let the secret out, but we managed to keep it under wraps for 20 weeks!

    So how did we announce it? We went with something that we both love: dirt biking! We took to the desert and took some fun pictures with our dirt bikes and ultrasound pictures of our future little rider! The whole time, our little miss was kicking around, getting excited about having a dirt bike of her own someday!

Seeing as we are having a little girl, its only fitting that we had my pink helmet to represent her! She of course could fit in it right now (at 22 weeks) and should still be able to fit when she is born! We plan to take some more adorable, themed pictures of her then, too!




We love this picture because we just can't wait to watch her dirtbike and get her her first bike some day! Dirt biking has been a substantial part of our relationship and growth as a couple and will hopefully be a foundation for our family and something we can all do together for a very long time.




While some say that we are young and maybe we should have waited a little longer; we've only been married for almost 6 months. I say: we have been together for 6 years and known each other for 7. We were great friends before we started dating and have grown up so much together. Yes, we are young. But unlike many young people, and some older than us even, we have our own home with room for our family to grow, we have stable jobs with benefits, safe vehicles and we wanted this baby so badly. We talked and talked almost every night about what we wanted, what we should do and what if it happened. We are adults and are very much in love. And right now, that is all we need. God decided that He was ready for us to bring this little girl into this world to serve her purpose and for us to be her parents and we are blessed and fortunate to be able to have her and soon hold her in our arms and watch her grow every day. We couldn't be more excited for our future as a family of three!

The First Kick: Halloween 2017

    The coolest, most awesome thing happened recently: I felt, and actually saw, my baby kick for the first time. Up until that point I had only felt little flutters at random times that I couldn't be sure were my baby kicking. On Halloween, my pregnancy app told me that the baby's heartbeat may be able to be heard with a stethoscope. So what do I do? I get my stethoscope out, lay very still and listen very carefully.

    I carefully moved the stethoscope over my belly and waited for any sort of sound. I was watching my stomach to make sure that my stethoscope was in a good place and all of a sudden my stethoscope bounced off of my stomach. The baby had kicked my stethoscope so hard that it removed it from my tummy in my hand! It was the single most amazing thing to me! I called Bill in to tell him what happened and to see if the baby would do it again so he could feel it or see it happen! The baby kept quiet, like it was our little secret.

    I still have yet to hear the heart beat, but I feel the kicking throughout the day and it makes me even more and more excited to meet our little baby!