Guess What........??????

I have plotted and planned writing this specific post for a long, long time. At times, I thought I might not ever get to write it. But oh how happy and blessed we are to finally be writing this. As the news has started to spread fast, we are PREGNANT! We got a bit of a late start as this will be grandchild #18 in the Templeman family and #30 in the Cox clan!!! Due March 5, 2012, I am officially into my second trimester and enjoying every moment of this pregnancy.

Ironically, we actually found out while Ted was in Toronto for work. As some of you know, Ted spent most of the summer in Toronto working for a law firm. While staying at my parents house on a visit to see him, I took a test and when it came back positive all I could say for 20 minutes was OH MY GOSH!!! I couldn't believe it!! So we took a picture to document the moment. (Ted's thought at the exact moment of the photo: wait, did you just pee on this??)

We tried to go back to bed and let my parents sleep some more before we told them, but lets face it neither one of us got anymore sleep.

As as side note, Ted has pointed out that this blog post is Phase 3 of telling people. Phase 1 was our parents after the positive test; Phase 2was telling our immediate families after our first ultrasound, and Phase 3 is now telling the world at large after hearing a safe successful heartbeat.

So back to Phase 1 of telling people: to tell Ted's parents we thought of a cute way since we couldn't tell them in person. We sent Barb an email with a picture of both of us holding a BYU baby onesie. We got his parents on the phone and told Barb to go check her email and of course she passes the phone off to Big Ted and goes upstairs to check and leaves us on the phone with his dad. We had obviously hoped to hear her dramatic reaction when she saw the photo in the email--that was the whole plan. So Ted had to improvise quickly and tell his dad to chase her upstairs so we could hear her reaction. With Barb living up to her reputation for hysterical-ness, we were still able to hear her screaming/crying as she opened the email and saw the picture.

"Baby's first picture at about 9 weeks"

For our Phase 2 reveal, we told my family at our annual family cottage week this August. Here is the video of how we told my family while we were on vacation at the cottage. Roxy actually helped us out. We thought that since many people announce their pregnancy by putting their oldest child in a shirt that says "BIG BROTHER/SISTER" we would put Roxy in a little dog shirt that said BIG SISTER since she has been our first and only "child" for so long [btw, if you're wondering, our cat is more like our red-headed step child that we pretend isn't there most of the time and think about all the things we could have done if we didn't have kitty].

Beware, the video is sideways for some reason and I cant seem to rotate it, so Ted says to just turn your monitor/laptop/iPad sidways.

Some pregnancy stats so far:

Everyone keeps asking if I have been sick/ had weird cravings yet and the answer:

- Lots of nausea that is finally going away but no throwing up.

-No weird cravings but many aversions, I use to love chocolate but not anymore (sweets in general which is so not me I usually love desserts), I can't get enough fresh fruit for example -For example, on one day, I ate a plum, apple, banana, peach, and watermelon!!!

-Taking lots of naps whenever I can, never felt so tired before

-Don't like any meat really

-Peeing all the time

- Still able to wear my normal clothes (hope this lasts a lot longer)

We can't wait to find out whether we are having a boy or a girl--mostly because I can't wait to go shopping! My family thinks we are having a boy because we have a girl name picked out but we can't agree on a boy name.

I will post belly pics later when something starts to show.