I figured I'd start this blog off by talking about when Ben and I found out! Well, our story starts back in December before Christmas time...I had a feeling that I might be pregnant, since I had been exhausted and had a lack of an appetite, but I had originally figured it was due to a newly full schedule waking up at 5:45 to leave my house at 6:30 to get to Newport Beach by 8:00 for my first client, and not getting home until after 6:00 in the evening. With my busy schedule of sessions, driving, and more I figured I was just starting to wear a little, but something just didn't feel right. So on my way home from work one night I decided I'd take a home pregnancy test, just to put my suspicions to rest. I got home and quickly took the test, and after the longest 3 minutes of my life, I saw a faint little pink line and began to flip out (but not too loudly as to not concern Ben...I had a plan for how I was going to tell him later). I gathered myself up, and acted normal until Ben took Murray out for his evening walk.
Now, I had a couple minutes to get together Ben's "Christmas gift" to let him know the big news. I had already purchased a set of neutral "onesies" to give Ben as a gift for when I did find out I was pregnant (since we had been talking about having a baby recently). So I quickly wrapped them up to give Ben when he arrived back from his walk with Murray.
When he got home I quickly gave him his present and told him to open it right then and that I thought we should exchange gifts tonight. So he unwrapped it, and at first didn't seem to understand. I explained to him that I was pregnant, but it was still very early. He began to smile, and gave me a hug and a kiss, and we immediately started talking about when we were going to tell the rest of our family. Since we were going home for the Christmas break that weekend, we decided that it was too early to tell our family, so we were in for a tough 2 weeks or so to spend with all of our family and keep our mouths shut about our big news.
We were home for almost 2 weeks spending time with our families and had to act like nothing was suspicious. Although, looking back I don't think we were as subtle as maybe we were hoping. Constantly turning down wine at Christmas time was definitely out of character for me, and I was exceptionally sleepy through out the holidays. It also didn't help that at one point Ben even pointed out at dinner with his family "Katie, you can't have that it has alcohol in it!" Thank goodness no one REALLY figured it out! Unfortunately we didn't get to tell all of our extended family in person, even though we had multiple get togethers and it would have been the perfect situation, but we knew that we wanted to wait a little while longer to tell everyone that we loved.
After telling Ben, we celebrated with some Martinelli's! Sorry for the messy table!
