Cinco de Mayo and telling our families

So, the day we found out we were preggers it was my friend Kelly's birthday, baby Liam was born, baby Tanner was born, Terry found out he pass the Bar and probably a million other things but Cinco de Mayo was special to us because we found out our family of 4 was going to expand to a family of 5 (you gotta count the dogs in that mix, I mean we do treat them like our children). I found out when I went to the doctor earlier in the day to have blood drawn for something different. They wanted me to take a pregnancy test beforehand, just in case. I told the nurse it is going to come out negative so we just stared at it and waited. I asked her what we were looking for and she said 2 lines, I took a peak, shoved her out of the way and I mean shoved, looked at her with wide eyes (and we all know my eyes can get wide) and she said "congratulations, you are pregnant". I stood there with my mouth open for what seemed like an eternity and just smiled, freaked out a little, hugged the nurse, hugged the PA next to me and high fived some random person checking out. I had it so set in my mind that it would take us a while to get pregnant from those details I am sparing you from but low and behold it didn't take long. Of course I could not go back to work that day so I raced home after telling the parking attendant and the cop I was prego and of course telling myself over and over again in my car. I wouldn't let myself call anyone on the way home because I would spill the beans. I rushed inside, told the dogs - they were so excited, and wrapped my prego test up and waited for Danny to get home. He walked in the door and I rushed to him which I am sure he thought was weird, handed him the present, which I am sure he thought was weird and just smiled, which I am sure he was like what is wrong with you. He opened the present looked at me not quite knowing what that thing was but knew 2 lines could only mean one thing so he just smiled, asked if I was serious! I started crying, he started crying, manly tears of course and we on our way to being excited and freaking out. He of course had been ready for babies for a couple years it was me giving the push back so you can imagine the excitement.

Moving on to how we told our parents. Mother's Day just happened to be the next weekend after we found out. We debated on whether we should tell anyone because we were so early, only 6 weeks. After we got my blood results back we found out my levels were not progressing the way they should which could mean my body was possibly getting ready for a miscarriage so as you can imagine we were on the fence(now my levels are completely fine by the way, it was only in the beginning). So, we debated and we debated some more and then said who are we kidding we can't keep this a secret from our families. It was HUGE news! So we told them. We wrote them cards talking about how great they are and then signed the cards: love, Lauren, Danny and baby on the way......I am sure you can imagine what went on from there. There is a short video in case you want to watch the reactions. :) Afterward I must have watched this over and over again because it made me so happy, especially when I was not feeling so hot in those first couple of weeks.

Untitled from Lauren Struzick on Vimeo.