13 weeks and counting...

Greetings,

I hope this blog finds you well. So I've never been interested in the whole "blogging" phenom but when I find out that we are going to have a child I felt the best way to let friends and family know how things are going, this seemed the best choice. I'm not sure how often I will update but you guys will have to help me be accountable.

If you guys don't know Kimmy and I have been blessed with a life that has been giving to us by the Lord in Kimmy's uterus. Kimmy is 13 weeks pregnant now and we didn't tell anyone until week 11. We had an appointment when Kimmy was 11 weeks pregnant to hear our baby's heart beat and praise the Lord we heard it loud and clear. The first hurdle was overcomed and we really wanted to tell everyone after we heard the heartbeat. Kimmy and I knew she was pregnant probably on the 5th week so waiting 6 weeks to tell our friends and family were kinda hard. So obviously Kimmy was "late" and she mentioned to me before that if we ever needed a pregnancy test we should get one at the dollar store because other wise they are expensive. So on this particular day she went to the Dollar Store and picked one up and sure enough it came back positive. I was kinda weary about the Dollar Store test and asked her to make an appointment with the doctor and you guessed it, positive!! We didn't plan on having kids this fast, in our minds we were thinking in 6-7 months we would start trying to build a family, but situations like this in life reminds me that it doesn't matter how much WE plan it's all in God's timing and plan. We are both very excited to be parents and we love kids so much. God has blessed me with a wife who is so good with children and I know she is going to be an awesome mother. Kimmy has been such a trooper during her first 13 weeks of pregnancy!! She has had morning sickness (side note I don't know why they call it morning sickness when it can happen anytime during the day) and had been throwing up about 3-4 times a week. She is back home in California now, I miss her : ( , and she said she has been feeling a lot better so thank the Lord for that. In about 5-6 weeks we will have our first ultrasound and will be able to know the sex of the baby. There are various tests that we can have done to our baby like testing for DS but we feel we don't need it, either way with our without we are going to love our child. It's kinda shocking to hear doctor's talk about terminating pregnancies because a child has symptoms of DS. We would greatly appreciate your guy's prayers especially for Kimmy's and our baby's health.

Other good news, after looking at about 40-50 houses and having a house we really like slip through our fingers we found the house we will raise our child in. Our closing date is on the 4th of June so please pray that all things that involve "closing a house" runs smoothly. God has blessed us so much and His timing has been amazing! The lease on our apartment ends in August and our closing day for our house is in June but we won't have to pay our first mortgage payment until August!! This will give us plenty of time to move out and not worry about having a rent payment and mortgage payment in the same month.

As more blogs come up I will have pictures of the new house and some pictures of Kimmy's belly. You can't tell she is pregnant now but in a few months we should start seeing a noticable difference.