A "Quick" Catch-Up on our Family

Ben and I got married on Saturday, March 10, 2007. We had discussed starting a family and both decided there were some other things we would like to get accomplished first, such as school. So Ben began working on his master's degree and I worked on getting my first and second years of teaching under my belt.

Last spring, Ben completed his master's and I had successfully survived two years of teaching. He decided to begin his educational leadership specialist's degree and I applied to begin working on my master's degree this past August.

(During all this time, we had been using one of the "most effective" types of birth control - the deprovera shot, which is supposed to be 99.9% effective.) We still weren't quite ready for any children. We had actually just pawned our dog, Macie, off on Ben's parents. :)

In June 08, we were scheduled to take our youth group on a trip to North Myrtle Beach. I had been feeling a little sick, and so Ben suggested I go to the doctor before leaving for our trip. The doctor gave me a prescription for stomach ulcers and sent me on my way. My mother, however, new differently. After talking with her I reluctantly (and secretly) stopped to get a home pregnancy test. Well, mother's do know all. The test read positive in like 2 seconds! Ben was out of town and I was freaking out.

I contacted the doctor and the rest is history. A month later we went for our first ultrasound (August 6, 2008) expecting to see a "blob". Our friends at church, Tim and Sarah, had showed us their 8 week ultrasound and we knew we wouldn't be seeing much. To our surprise, and the doctor's, we saw A LOT more! Evidently, I was almost 16 weeks (4 months) pregnant!

Here is what we saw:

His head is in the top left of the screen looking away from us. You should be able to see his right arm and right hand resting on his knee.