Announcing...

Hello family and friends! Hope all is well with you. As for me, I have been feeling a bit "under the weather" for awhile. Welllllll, I wanted to officially let you know that my feeling "under the weather" has been because of (drum roll please) the little baby inside me! :) Yay!!! Brad and I are sooOOOooo excited about this little raspberry! And we felt the time was right to let our family and friends in on our joy :)
Some of you know that I miscarried in February and it had taken us a long time to get pregnant up till that point. I was a little worried that we would start all over and have it take another year or whatever, but then general conference came around and I re-learned to trust the Lord and his timing. About 2 weeks later we learned the good news from a friendly pregnancy test picked up at Dollar Tree (really, how can you argue with a dollar? Plus, a nurse at my doctors office said Dollar Tree tests are just like the ones they use).

Anyway, the whole month of May I felt like garbage. I dont know why they call it morning sickness, because I felt awesome until around noon-1pm. Then it's me on the couch trying to read a book to distract my stomach and head from hurting. Nights are even worse. The great news is the last 3 days have been muuuuuch better! I can leave the house, but not for long stretches otherwise the symptoms kick in sooner and faster. And most of you know how that feels: terrible.

Sooo, there you have it! I am 10 and a half weeks along and though that can be considered early to tell people, we wanted to. Plus, with some additional progesterone I am not experiencing any of the miscarriage symptoms I felt before.

Oh, did I mention the due date? Christmas Day! Poor kid... when you are under the age of 18, you really can't wish for a worse birthday...at least not if you are in it for the presents :)

Due to this recent bout of exciting news, I will once again commit myself to my blog. Feel free to check it out as it will have updates on baby, mama, and other fun stuff happening in the Mortenson fam!