Our Story: Our special Halloween treat

It's official...Stephen and I are going to be parents!!!

This last April I got off "the pill" and we officially started trying for a baby! We both have wanted to start a family but didn't know when would be the best time. After going back and forth and changing our minds for when to start trying, we decided all that mattered was that I didn't have a baby here in Dominica. So we planned to start trying when it came close enough to us moving back to the states that we could both be at the birth. Which meant April was the month to start. I started taking prenatal vitamins in February and began reading way to many blogs and articles about pregnancy right away. I wanted to know everything! May came and went with no baby. We weren't to surprised with it being our first month trying. After June and July passed we became a little discouraged but again just had to remind ourselves it has only been a couple months. Towards the end of July I started tracking my ovulation through my temperature and I guess it worked because while we were in Martinique celebrating Stephen's break from school I ovulated which meant two weeks later we got the biggest surprise ever!

September 7, 2014!
Today was a pretty exciting day for Stephen and I. We have been trying to get pregnant since April and this morning the stick read "Pregnant!!!" I had decided a few days earlier I would wait to take a test until Sunday morning because then I would have officially missed my period. So when 6:30 Sunday morning came I couldn't sleep any longer. I got right out of bed and headed to the bathroom. While waiting for the result to show up I hid it out of the way, washed my hands and as I was drying them grabbed the stick which read that I was pregnant. I stood in a daze for a few seconds, then with still pretty wet hands I ran to the bed to wake up Stephen and show him. I turned the lamp on first and that just wasn't bright enough so I quickly opened the blinds so there was plenty of light in the room to read it. My hands were shaking as I handed it to him and I've been a little on edge all day. Of course the reality of me being pregnant hasn't quite sunk in and I'm not exactly sure when it will. I've felt a little sick all day, though I'm not sure if its because of the baby or my nerves. We looked up the size of our little baby and its the size of a poppy seed. So we immediately started referring to it as our little poppy. Baby Poppy Peirce is due May 15th 2015 and we couldn't be more excited!!!

Of course I had to take two just to make sure!
Then I took a third the next day.