We have a secret!

On December 8th, I realized I was more late than normal, so I decided to take a pregnancy test. I could not believe it when I saw the little blue plus sign! I had made Kyle stand outside the bathroom door, and he said he heard me say "what?.." so he busted in! We were in shock, but so happy! We drove immediately to the grocery store (this was at like 11pm) to buy some of the nicer tests to confirm, haha. And they were positive as well!

I happened, luckily, to have the following day off of work, so I met Kyle on campus and we freaked out (in a good way!) together some more about it! It took a long time for it to hit us that we were really pregnant!

We went to my doctor on the 17th (Ky's birthday) to get a definite confirmation, and a recommendation on an OB-GYN. I found out that I was already 7 weeks along, and we decided to tell our families on Christmas!

We were spending Christmas with the Perry's, so we planned a fun way to tell them on Christmas Eve. This would be the 12th grandchild for Kyle's parents, so we made a little photo calendar with one grandkid's picture per page, and the front said, "When I Count My Blessings, I Count my 12 Grandchildren." We doorbell ditched the wrapped calendar with a tag that said "Open Immediately!" So they did, and LeeAnn thought that the calendar went to the wrong house! haha. But when she got to the month of our due date, it became obvious what was going on! Then we just had to tell everyone that it was us who sent the secret gift:) It was so much fun!! AND then a few minutes later, Kyle's sister announced that the calendar was actually invalid, because she was expecting as well! We have the exact same due date!! So crazy and so fun.

We had a white Christmas! It was so pretty and just amazing. We had planned to save our announcement for my family when we got back to Idaho, but then we were facetiming Masen on his mission, and just decided to have my parents go find the gift we had wrapped for them... It was a little tin with a baby sock in it, and inside the sock was our little positive pregnancy test from the doctor! So we weren't actually there in person when they found out, but I was so happy to have Masen hear about it live! And then when we did come home from Utah, we made my sister come over with her family to open "one last present!" and Kyle filmed that reaction to send to all my other siblings:) It was perfect! And it was so much fun to be able to have it be a Christmas surprise!

Baby's first ultrasound! Dec. 31st.