We have news...

 

We are expecting a little person!!! 

Last Saturday I wasn't feeling all that well, I was nauseous and tired and all i wanted to do was curl up in a ball and sleep. We were still in Palm Springs celebrating Thanksgiving week and our niece's birthday so my sister in law, my step mom and I went to the store to buy some cake supplies and some pregnancy tests.

I really thought I just had eaten too much the previous days so I wasn't expecting a positive result, but I did have a little suspicion I could be pregnant. 

We got home, I took one test and went to get Caleb to lock him in the bathroom with me. We talked for a few minutes, laughed at the possibility of a baby and then looked at the test. It was positive! Caleb asked me to wait to tell anyone but it was going to be hard since Angie and Milena knew I had gotten a test.

We came out, hung out with everyone and didn't say anything, but I was so nervous to go the bathroom and pee and maybe find I wasn't pregnant. After a couple hrs my sister in law just asked and we told her, she was so excited. She is wonderful, she understood my thoughts and crazy paranoia. 

We told everyone else in the house, my dad, my mother in law, poppa, our brother in law, my step mom. They were all thrilled, and I was overwhelmed. I went quietly to the room and hid for a few minutes in the closet, what if this happened again? I was so sad after and my due date for that time was November 28th, 2011 so I had been thinking about it. God is amazing!

I composed myself and went outside again, everyone was so happy. We all prayed, my sister prayed for me, my mother in law prayed for me, my dad prayed for me, everyone prayed. I felt covered and protected and loved. So I sent a picture of the test to my sister in Colombia and asked her to let me call my Mom to tell her. She was ecstatic and crying and so happy and I was still concerned. 

We called mom, she was at the movies but she always answers my phone calls. I told her and in the middle of a movie she started crying. She said she'd call me back in an hr. It was kind of comical.

We drove home from Palm Springs that night and as soon as I walked into the house I went to the bathroom to take another test. I was so scared and nervous. And there it was, our second positive. It felt good to see two positives. We got ready to go to bed, and Caleb and I prayed for a while before falling asleep. 

Sunday we woke up early, as soon as I woke up I went in the bathroom and one more time took a test, and once again it was positive. I felt great knowing that with my first pee of the morning I was getting a positive test. Then I went back in the room and Caleb and I read the Bible, our reading plan started with Jeremiah 1 and when we got to Jeremiah 1:5 we knew God was blessing my baby. 

“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
      Before you were born I set you apart
      and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”

I started crying, crying has become a very common thing around these parts. God was telling me what the tests couldn't confirm, my baby was HIS, set apart and appointed by Him! We came out and told my dad, step mom and little brother. I texted my sister in Colombia, ans she cried with me. My dad remind us of the word He got the day before, earlier when he still didn't know I was pregnant. Isaiah 60:16

"Powerful kings and mighty nations
      will satisfy your every need,
   as though you were a child
      nursing at the breast of a queen.
   You will know at last that I, the Lord,
      am your Savior and your Redeemer,
      the Mighty One of Israel."

This little person was God's without a doubt. Somehow I still wanted those tests that say pregnant/not pregnant instead of just having the lines.  I just didn't like the dim line in the other tests. So my dad went to the pharmacy and got me a box of two tests, I took one when I got home after church and took pictures of the word PREGNANT on the screen.                                      

My dad asked me if he could put it on facebook and I asked him to wait. We were thinking of waiting until the end of December just to make sure things were going great, and my dad kept telling us we should just tell, God had already spoken. Isn't it funny how sometimes we ask for a physical confirmation when the Creator of all things has already spoken? We are silly and so faithless in our humanity.

We still wanted to wait, and then yesterday morning God directed us to Isaiah 45:23a.

"I have sworn by my own name;
      I have spoken the truth,
      and I will never go back on my word"

What a slap in the face of God to want to wait. He spoke, He confirmed His word, and now He was reminding us He spoke, we did not need to wait for anything. So here we are letting everyone know we have a baby in my belly. Today we went to the doctor and she said I am due August 5, 2012, so keep us in your prayers and we will keep you posted!