There's A Baby On The Way!

At 4:30 this morning I found out we are having another baby! I could barely fall back asleep and couldn't wait to tell Adam! After I dropped Allie off I went over to the clinic to get another test done to confirm the pregnancy. As I waited in the waiting room I kept preparing myself to hear I wasn't pregnant and that I must of midread the test. The nurse came and told me Im pregnant and I was shocked! Adam was also very shocked. I wish everyone could of seen his face when I told him. We are very excited and I have my first doctors appointment on October 14th. Our families are also very excited for us and can't wait for Allie to be a big sister! I'll post more updates as things progress!

OH and one more thing!

We were finally assigned a house! We found out the street, but not the address. Our friends checked it out immediately, and we drove by the next day. Right on the corner is a fun little park, and our friends are only a half a mile away or so. Im very excited! I had wanted to be moved in and settled by Halloween, and we SHOULD be in by October 15th. Allie will love having a backyard to play in. I was bummed because the houses on our street don't have porches, but hey, we'll live! We can still decorate and garden and all of that jazz. Adam also wanted to have a house warming party and invite everyone from work, so that will be nice also! Updates will be coming as we get closer to the move :)

Family Fun Weekend...put on hold! :(

Well we were SO excited to have this 4 day since Adam has been working like a fool. Well Monday he tells me he thought he lost his cellphone AGAIN (he just lost it 2 weeks ago), so I was pretty annoyed. It was about dinner time and I hadn't heard from him all day, so I kept trying to call him. The first few times it rang, then it would go straight to voicemail. I thought he was at Sprint getting a new cell phone and I was pretty mad! A few minutes later my phone rings, its Adam calling from the ER...He cut his cornea AGAIN! Its the 5th time, 2nd time this year. He really needs to wear big ole' chemistry goggles ALL the time. So hes been somewhat cranky and has had lots of doctors appointments. We were planning on going to the Newport Aquarium, 2 1/2 hours away, this Friday but were only going to go depending on how his eye felt. Well today he gets a QRF (quick reaction force) recall for a briefing. Thats right folks, on our 4 day, Adam was activated to QRF, which means if he was needed on a mission (think state of emergency type of situation) he would need to be on post within an hour. So while he is home, we cannot leave the area. Today he had to go in for his flu shot and tomorrow he has a doctors appointment at 8 and one of his soldiers is graduating WLC so we also have to go to that (and hope Allie won't be too bad!). Im excited for Saturday morning and to not be woken up by an alarm clock! We don't have to rush anywhere and can stay in and have pancakes. We do plan on going to our friends son's football game because Adam is a sucker for little kids playing football. We also want to go bowling on Saturday night to introduce some friends that we think would really get along. Then hopefully Sunday we will get to see the Eagles play football! Well heres to a good weekend (and lots of homework for me!).

Allie's first time bowling

On Saturday we decided to meet Adam after he was done work and go to the bowling alley. We haven't done anything FUN lately since Adam has been working for almost 18 days straight. Allie has never been bowling before so we knew it was going to be an adventure. We got there and there was a birthday party with balloons which immediately made her even more excited. She was amazed at the brightly colored bowling balls and the loud noise and just was ready to bowl before we even had a lane. Unfortunately they didn't have shoes in her size which would of been a super cute picture, so she just wore her "crocs". They had this adorable little dinosaur or dragon ramp which he could put the ball on and it gave it some momentum down the lane.

Once she realized the ball came back UP, that kept her attention more than how many pins she hit. We only made it one game because it was pretty exhausting trying to keep her happy when it wasnt her turn and she was announcing "I sad!" every 5 minutes. I only beat Allie by 10 points, she got an 88! In my defense, she did have bumpers AND Daddy's help! It is definately something we are going to try again soon.

Everything else in life will hopefully settle down for us soon. We are still waiting on word from housing and hopefully they will call us soon! Adam has been working like crazy, but he has a 4 day this weekend to that definately means some fun family adventures. We plan on going to the Newport Aquarium and having dinner in Cincinnati. It is only about a 2 hour drive or so, so I am pretty excited. The weekends have been very quick and uneventful since Adam works until 4 or so. Im ready for some family fun and hopefully for some Eagles football! School is a little challenging this semester, a lot of reading and response writing, but so far its going well! Im not sure what is ahead for me with school if I get pregnant. My original plan was to take the month of December off, but with the possibility of a baby on the way, I may need to go in December just to get two more classes out of the way before the baby would be born. I guess it all depends on what we find out this upcoming weekend!

Allie: Our little professional bowler!

And so the journey for baby #2 begins!

A few weeks ago, I got an exciting text message (yes! text message!) from my husband that said "Update! I think its baby making time!". (If you heard the story of Adam telling me to just text him the gender of our baby, Allie, while he was in the field, you would find this hilarious.) Well if you know me, you know I would not say no to having another baby! I would ultimately love to have 4 children, but I don't think thats going to happen for us. However, having 2 would be a blessing enough in itself. We think Allie is getting to the age where she is going to be ready to be a big sister. Right now we are playing the waiting game. I immediately made an appointment the day after we decided we wanted another baby so I could taper off my migraine medications. I am now officially medication free and for the most part, migraine free. I took my first test this morning and it was negative. I think Im just entirely too excited at the thought of being pregnant, so hopefully I can retest next weekend. We are really excited to think about having another baby, but for obvious reasons, we haven't told anyone about us trying. Hopefully soon, you will all be getting a very excited phone call telling you Allie is going to be a big sister! Wish us luck and baby dust!