It's a positive!

Ziff and I are so blessed with Lilly. She is the most amazing little girl and each day we say our thanks to God for giving her to us. Each day with her is an amazing new wonder and she teaches us so much about life, ourselves, and each other. And now we are happy to announce we are expecting our second bundle of joy. It is quite a surprise, however at the time of conception we were planning on a second. We sat down this summer and started talking about where life is taking us and which direction we wanted to go. There are so many choices in life and its hard to know which one is right for you in that moment. We had planned to start trying for baby #2 in the fall, but then decided with Ziff's health maybe we should explore me going back to school to get my bachelors degree. There were some things that were holding us back from me being able to do that so we decided maybe I would work and Ziff would go back to school full time and finish his bachelors. So he applied and was excepted to CSU.

I had been feeling super exhausted and had alot of extra back pain, but I chalked it up to the result of having a very active 14 month old and the back pain from sleeping wrong.but after starting to feel sicker and sicker I also realized I had been missing something for a few months and so caved and took a pregnancy test just to prove it was all in my head and life would go on as planned. WRONG!! As soon as my pee hit the stick I swear it turned positive. It was a shock! We must have gotten it right on our first "practice round". Stunned and barely able to contain it I devised a plan on how to tell Ziff. So I used my fabulous fabric pens to make a onzie for Lilly that said "I am going to be a big sister" and we casually went to see Ziff at work when Lilly woke up. He didn't catch on at first but after pushing him the right way he read her shirt and his jaw dropped. All he could say is wow...really?

It took some time for the shock to wear off of both of us, but now we are pressing on for the future with 2 sweet blessings, I just hope baby #2 can live up to Lilly, she is pretty stinkin amazing.