The Moment When Our Life Change

I have just had a chance to catch up on my blogs today.  One blog I follow is called Kelly’s Korner.  On Fridays, she has a “Show Us Your Life” segment.  She features a lot things such as tell us about your wedding decorations, living rooms, baby showers, etc.  Well, this week’s was “how did you tell everyone you were expecting?’.  Well, I have been reminiscing so much about when Gracie was a newborn with Jamie having Dean just last week that this is all fresh in my mind once again. 

You all know that we tried for years to get pregnant.  With Matt being a soldier and my body being stubborn, it was not an easy thing for us.  After Matt got back from deployment, we really wanted to have a family.  We knew that was the missing piece.  Once again we have been let down with a negative pregnancy test.  So when we found out the day before my birthday in 2007 that I was pregnant, you could imagine how shocked we were.  Just 2 weeks prior, the test had said negative…I guess my math was wrong!  We told our closest friends but we really debated on whether we were going to tell the family until after the first trimester.  Well, you know that thought only last about a good hour.  We called our parents and told them right away.   My family is small, so it only took a few phone calls.  Matt’s family on the other hand is bigger so we asked them to wait until we got home (we were moving back from Germany in about a month and I would be past the first trimester).  Well, a month past and we made the long trip back from Germany to St. Louis.  It was evening and we were exhausted.  I vaguely remember the family telling me that there would be fire trucks and the local police waiting for us at the edge of town to take us down to the square in Greenfield to celebrate our homecoming.  Apparently, this is tradition for soldiers coming back from deployment.  So we were both shocked (me more about the fact that I didn’t have time to put on my makeup and make myself more presentable).  So we get there, all of Matt’s family is there to welcome us home.  So Matt decided to announce “Well, I guess this is a good time to tell  you all I am going to be a father!”  Everyone was shocked and excited!  Hugs and kisses came flying at both of us immediately.  So you would think this would be the end of the story right?  Well, we woke up the next morning and IT WAS ON  THE FRONT PAGE OF THE PAPER!  I am not kidding….I have proof:

Needless to say, there was no hiding it now!  I love this story and I can’t wait to tell Gracie about it when she is older.  She was already a celebrity before she was even born.

*I hope your able to read the story, I had to scan it in on my old scanner so the quality is not so good!