It's been one year

On January 9 of this year, Louis and I celebrated our first year anniversary. So I thought what better way to start blogging again than to look back at what I've missed blogging about: my life with my wonderful husband the last few months.

I finally graduated from the University of Arizona mid May. Louis and I were able to visit Indianapolis with some great friends and show him the old stomping grounds. Just as things got quiet again after fun celebration of weddings and friendships, in mid September we got to celebrate the gift of life.

I woke up on a Sunday morning realizing that I should have had a monthly visitor that past week. I came into the living room and sat down on the couch, looked at him and said, "Babe, I'm slightly nervous. It's a good nervous but it's anxiousness."

He looked concerned. "Everything ok?"

"I think I might be pregnant," I said with a little smirk on my face. I told him not to get me wrong, I wasn't upset I might have been pregnant. Because of my anxiety since I'd never had to face this kind of situation before Louis said, "Don't worry. We can go pick up some pregnancy tests, go to Starbucks and have a coffee, take it easy and we'll just see what happens."

Five minutes later, I was in the shower and Louis yelled to me, "I'm going to run to Fry's and get those pregnancy tests for you. I'll be back" which told me that he was just too excited to wait. He got home and I drank a few glasses of water and started to make breakfast. Louis kept on asking me, "Do you want to take them now? You don't have to take them now, I mean, we can wait but if you want to wait. But we don't have to wait. You could take it now if you want to." Yeah, he was definitely excited.

And so, a couple months later I've got quite the belly bump. Just before Christmas we found out that we're expecting a little boy and just this past weekend we set up his crib and changing table. Oh what fun will ensue when this little guy comes around. I'm going on 28 weeks now and I can definitely feel our little blessing moving around in there. I've finally been able to see out of the corner of my eye that my stomach will twitch when Louis Jr. has some hefty movements. His dad has felt him moving around and jokes with me about my large, growing tummy.

All this time I've started to think, too, that this is the perfect story of a Rookie Homemaker. Life has thrown me a curve ball and I'm so excited to knock it out of the park with my wonderful husband. More to come soon. I have another prenatal appointment on Thursday so hopefully I will have new pictures and can start posting those.