The Big News...

November 19, 2012, was a very important date to our little family.  I was going in for a blood draw.  Now this was no ordinary blood draw.  Nope.  We would be finding out that day if I was pregnant.  The days leading up to it Topher tried to have me cheat and take a urine pregnancy test, but I wouldn't do it.  I told him that I did not want my dreams killed too soon.  It was much more fun living in a fantasy land of pretending I was pregnant, and I did not want that bubble bursted. Topher and I kept this blood test a secret from everyone.  We told close family that we were going in to get blood drawn to make sure my progesterone level was doing alright.  We wanted time to ourselves to either rebel in the joy of finding out that we were expecting, or time to mourn the sad news.  Our blood draw time was at 0745, and I remember asking the phlebotomist about what time do you normally find out the blood results.  She stated usually between 2-3 in the afternoon.  She then said: "Just try not to think about it.  Do stuff to keep your mind off of it."  Now that is hilarious!  Try not to think about whether or not I'm pregnant?!  Try to keep my mind off of whether I will finally reach my life long goal of being pregnant?!  That was not going to happen.

After the blood draw, we went over to a Wendy's close by for some yummy biscuits and gravy.  Then it was time to go home, and wait... and wait... and wait...  At about 1:30 my phone starts to ring.  This was it!  The phone conversation went something like this:

Me: Hello.
Dr Zoneraich:  Is this Whitney?
Me: Yes.
Dr Zoneraich:  Congratulations!
Me: Oh yeah?!
Dr Zoneraich:  What do you mean 'Oh yeah?'  You're pregnant!
Me: Yay!

He then went into details about my medications and follow up appointments.  Once I got off the phone, Topher hugged me and said: "Let it all out."  This is when I began to sob tears of joy!  Four long years of infertility, over 48 months of failed cycles, and numerous negative pregnancy tests had ended.  I was pregnant.  Topher and I were going to finally be a daddy and mommy!!!

So what did I do after finding out this monumental news?  I grabbed a pregnancy test that I had laying around in the bathroom and I peed on it.  And look what showed up:

Two freaking lines!  You cannot even imagine how many pregnancy tests I had taken in the past, and you cannot imagine how many times that I had seen just one stupid line!  This was so amazing!  Two lines!!!

What did we do next?  We headed over to my mom's house to spread the good news.  Now this was the fun part because no one expected to find out I was pregnant that day.  We found a little box to put the pregnancy test in.  We told my mom that we had found the little box outside her front door.  She opened it, looked at it for a minute, then said: "You're pregnant!" and began to hug me.  My lovely sister, Courtney, came over to my mom's house after she picked up her kids from school, and we had her look into the box as well.  She was so surprised!  Don't worry if you feel left out, we have it all on our video camera so we can remember it forever.  I sent the above picture via text message to my dad (he was back in Utah working).  He called me not knowing if it meant I was pregnant or not.  Silly guys never read directions!  And Topher called his mom to tell her the big news.

On the way home we stopped by Wal Mart to get another pregnancy test.  I wanted the one that actually says: Pregnant on it, and look what this one said:

Pregnant!

And of course we had to get belly shots of 4 weeks pregnant.