Now that I'm finally starting to feel somewhat normal again and have a little energy in the evenings, I thought it was time for a little update. A lot of happened in the last month and blogging has not been one of them, unfortunately--partly because I haven't felt good and partly because I couldn't tell that we were pregnant and it felt weird blogging about anything else!
So, on to the update. :)
First, the baby story, just for my own documentations sake. We found out that we were pregnant about 5 weeks ago--the Saturday after my Half Ironman. For my race I was feeling great and had no idea that I was pregnant--which I'm thankful for, because I don't know that I would have done the race, had I known. In hindsight, I'm also so thankful that everything went well and the baby was ok.
Then, I woke up the Saturday after my race feeling weird--slightly nauseous and headachy and just gross, like I didn't want get out of bed, because moving made it all worse. It didn't even cross my mind that I could be pregnant though, for whatever reason--and even when Landon kept telling me he thought I was pregnant, I really didn't take it seriously. In hindsight, I think I didn't want to get my hopes up, thinking that that's what it could be, because that would have meant that we had gotten pregnant almost instantly. That afternoon though, when I finally manged to drag myself off the couch to go to the store, Landon told me that he really thought I should pick up a pregnancy test too. So, just to satisfy him, I did.
And then, I offhandedly took it when I got home and left it on the table in the living room to wait.
A few minutes later, Landon walked by it, not knowing it was there, and accidentally saw it. From across the house I heard him say, "Ummm, Aja...come and check this." When I saw that it said pregnant, I was literally in shock for a minute--he said he just knew somehow, but I was not expecting it at all. Once it sank in a minute later, I ran and hugged him and did a little happy dance. He wasn't quite doing a happy dance yet, but it wasn't a bad reaction. :)
Landon was a little freaked out (understandably :)) so he went out for a little breather and ran to the store for me--and came back with about 5 more tests to confirm (even though we knew you don't get a false positive, we just wanted to be sure, ha!) and these beautiful flowers, to celebrate.
Then, that night we had my family over for dinner--and not telling them was just about the hardest thing I've ever done! But, we wanted to confirm it first--and let it sink in with us before we started telling everyone! I think part of me still didn't believe it could be real at that point.
We ended up telling our parents just a few days later though, because we had to tell our team members for the Run For Their Lives relay, and didn't want a group of relative strangers knowing before our family! (And, on a side note, a HUGE shout out to my amazing team, who all covered 2 of my legs for me while I was feeling sick and ended up running an extra few miles in the middle of the night in 40 degree weather. And, a couple of miles may not seem like a lot, but when you're already running 30, you feel every mile! You guys are awesome!)
Moving on.
So, we had Landon's parents over that Wednesday night and went to my parents house on Thursday morning to tell them. When they were asked to grab something out of the oven for us when the timer went off, this is what they saw.
When they realized that it was a bun in the oven and that it did mean that we were pregnant, their reactions were so fun--shocked and happy all at the same time! (My brother, Matthew was also at my parent's house when we told them, but somehow I didn't get a picture of him!) And, it was a relief for us to not have to keep the secret anymore--even just for those few days it was killing us!
And now, in other non-baby related news, my sweet husband just accepted a new job at another law firm, doing basically the same thing he was before but with better opportunities, pay, benefits etc. It was definitely a good move (I think--it's only his second day there!) and I'm praying that he loves it and that it's not too super demanding. But, regardless, God's hand was definitely in it and in the timing of it and we are again overwhelmed and grateful for just how well He takes care of us.
And on my job front--things are going pretty well. I'm starting to feel better, which is making teaching easier. And, my one class of students who don't think school involves working--is finally working! I feel like since August I've been trying something new every day, and finally, last week, something clicked. I'm just praying that Thanksgiving break doesn't throw them off again!
And speaking of...only 4 more hours and I'm officially on Thanksgiving break! I can't wait. :)
