Vegas baby!

so here's the story of how we found out we were pregnant...

jeff and i had finally gotten to the "trying" stage of this whole shebang...it had taken 2.5 years to get here and we were excited to finally get going. i was testing my temperature each day and using ovulation predictor kits to get the timing right. i didn't want to be this analytical, but i felt like our window was small during the time that i was off my medications and able to feel good. i finally got a positive sign on my opk (a little smiley face) and wouldn't you know, jeff was on a plane. i texted him about my disappointment and he was sad. luckily he came home two days later and we think this is when we were able to conceive. thank goodness for patient eggies!

a couple weeks later we were due to go to vegas together for my nurse practitioner conference. the night before we were leaving, i was wickedly nauseous. we both chalked it up to being nervous about the long trip (my tummy doesn't do well with flying). it got so bad the next morning that we almost canceled the trip (good thing we didn't because there was a sports celebrity - tim thomas, bruins goalie - and the stanley cup on our plane!).

i was sick to my stomach all week and finally took a pregnancy test on june 24th - positive! we were together in our fancy hotel bathroom (the venetian) and i saw it first...said "um babe"...he turned around and we looked at it together and were shocked. we thought we would have much more trouble getting pregnant and we had had so negative pregnancy tests before so i think we assumed this one would be negative also. craziness! i'm not sure we believed we could actually do it!

i had to tell someone so i texted my sister and told her to get on skype - now! she thought i was nuts and just missed her kids so she put the camera on her. i said no no i need you to see! so she got behind the camera with them and i held up the pregnancy test stick to my camera so she could see. she was so excited and started to cry. i think i was jumping up and down. we decided to keep the secret from everyone else so that we could try to tell them in person...those stories will come later. i want to write them down so we can tell our little nugget someday. oh yeah, we decided we needed to nickname the baby so that we had something to call her so we called her "the nugget" because she was so tiny. and it stuck!

now "vegas baby" has a whole new meaning to us!