Christmas Morning

All right... time to explain our Christmas surprise. As far as fertility goes, I was needing a break and wasn't sure if I wanted to do IVF again soon. Coby was ready, I wanted to get adoption rolling, so we decided in January we would get both options going. We'd do IVF again while working on papers.

Christmas morning I decided to take a pregnancy test. I promised myself I would not take another one of those darn things ever again and if it wasn't a holiday I probably wouldn't have. I was late, but IVF can also mess up your cycle quite a bit so I didn't think anything of it. We had stayed the night at my parent's to wake up with everyone Christmas morning. Everyone was already downstairs waiting to do presents when I took the test. I think I was in shock and didn't believe it at all. I re-read the codes about 10 times to make sure I was reading it right, but at the same time thought I was making the whole thing up.

So I ran downstairs, wrapped it really quick, wrote on it that it was for Coby and for it to be the last gift opened, went by the family and stuck it in the back of the tree. (I always thought it was funny when people would wrap up the stick... but what else was I supposed to do in a couple minutes??) I didn't think about it much... I think I was in total denial. Once I gave the present to Coby, I started panicking that I read the code wrong and wrapped up a negative test for him. That would have been a mess.

I think Coby was in shock, some of us were crying, but most of us were worried to get too excited. I think we were wondering "How in could this happen when our odds are less than 3%???" My dad told me to take another test, my mom wanted to know how accurate they were, and Heather just kept saying "you don't get false positives, this is for real," and Coby and I kind of sat in shock. It took awhile to process it all, and Heather was working on how to announce it to friends, Coby's family, and planning the baby shower all within the hour. haha

We were trying to come up with fun ideas to tell Coby's family that night. We were all getting together for Christmas, his sister on a mission would be calling home, it was pretty good timing.

We thought we'd make them guess a little bit. We knew we'd be the last people they would be expecting, especially since a few other siblings were talking about trying soon. We put a clue on the table, but a lot of people said they didn't know if it was for them and they didn't want to ruin someone else's gift so they didn't check. Coby had his brother tell his mom to go check the clue, which had the bun inside the oven. First it got pinned on Brandt and Gina, then went through all the other couples, then went back to Brandt and Gina (who looked a little guilty about it)... then she looked at me and we both started crying. I was not very emotional about it unless someone else started crying. If that happened, I was a mess.

It was such a fun Christmas; our best Christmas ever!!! It was fun to talk to Bree and tell her over the phone instead of in a letter.

We were in shock, our Dr's were in shock... I think we needed to do all that we could, still have faith, and our prayers were answered with this sweet miracle. I guess in after all we could do, we just had to wait that "one more month."

-The next day Brandt and Gina came clean that they were expecting and didn't know what to say when everyone kept asking them from our note the night before. She is 6 weeks ahead of me and they are having a little girl. So exciting!