The BEST Excuse EVER!

I haven't blogged, I haven't done dishes, I haven't done laundry - - heck I haven't cleaned my house in who knows how long!! I don't get my kids clothes ready. I can't find matching socks. I don't cook dinner. I don't do a dang thing anymore!!







WHY IS THIS!? you ask. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE WRONG WITH YOU??

And here's my best excuse EVER!!! - -



I AM 3 MONTHS PREGNANT!!!



No Lie. No Joke. You're probably just as shocked as I was.
So if you haven't seen me since the summer. And I've flaked out of parties, gatherings, social things and yes, even Young Womens' it's because my morning sickness has lasted 24 hours/day and I throw up on average once to twice a day. Ah, yes, the joys of motherhood! :)

SO a cute Genessy baby like this
is on the way!

(this is Brady)

This is Colby at a year old. (his baby pictures aren't scanned! LOL!)

I'm due June 21, 2009.

And believe me, this was the biggest, best shock of my entire life!! We are sooooooo excited!! We've waiting 7 years for this to happen!! So we are soooooo excited! :)

I'm adding all the gory details below - if you're really bored and want to read on - - otherwise, MERRY CHRISTMAS from us! :)

So here's how it happened - not the birds & bees biz, but how we even figured it out.

First off - you probably should know that I've had 4 pregnancies - 1 miscarriage and 1 ectopic(tubal) pregnancy. Both my boys were c-sections and I have a LOT of scar tissure to prove it.

So I can count on both my hands, how many times my doctor told me that we had a very slim to none chance of having our own kids again. And those same times, I went home and cried and painted something in my house! It was so hard. I was only 25 when I had my last pregnancy and to be told I was finished was not something easy to deal with.

So this summer, we started finishing our basement, and I got tired (& depressed looking at all of our baby things) so I started giving them away. I got rid of EVERYTHING except the crib, which I thought I could probably get money for somewhere.
In August, I went to my doctor because of a pain I had in my girlie parts and he told me I had a cyst. (Yay for me! more girl trouble!) He said it would probably pass, but if it didn't - I needed to come back & have surgery to get it out. More great news for me :).

But I think that was God's way of preparing me because I never kept track of my periods during this time seriously because I knew I was finished in this department. So when I started I was like, Yay, no surgery this time.

Here's the funny part of this whole thing. Kelly went out of town for 3 weeks. (I have to keep reminding him, remember in health class they say it only takes one time!!) So he was gone the end of september and first part of october. The last week before he came home, I felt nauceous and thought I had the stomache flu going around. Kelly asked me if I'd started yet. I told him no and I wasn't worried because my doctor said that having a cyst would mess up my cycle.

All week, Kelly bugs me about not starting yet. I'm like, "it doesn't matter!" So the day he comes home, he makes me take a home pregnancy test. I'm like 'whatever' it doesnt matter so I did it.

LO AND BEHOLD IMAGINE OUR SHOCK & SURPRISE WHEN IT CAME UP POSITIVE!
I'm like "Chunk , it's defective." He's like "no it's not." So I call my friend, who had just had a cyst removed and said "can you have a positive pregnancy test if you've had a cyst." And she's like "well yeah, those are totally different hormones."

I hurried and called my doctor because our first hurdle was making sure the baby was not in the fallopian tube again. They say having a tubal pregnancy once is a 1 in 1,000 shot. Once you've had one, your chances of a 2nd one are 1 in 8. So i had an appt for Tuesday and this was Friday. The whole weekend we could keep looking at each other going "NO WAY! This is impossible!" No way!

I didn't breathe a word to anyone (except my mom for moral support) because I didn't want to get to the doctor and find out that the baby was once again in my tube and would have to be taken care of. My doctor's appt was picture perfect. He said everything was fine looks good. Come back in 2 weeks.

SO then we tell the Grandma's who are THRILLED and i had to show them the ultrasounds so they knew I wasn't teasing. . . and I wouldn't about something like this!
2 weeks later, I go back and have to visit a different doctor who says, everything looks great. There's the baby's heartbeat and everything is picture perfect.

Do you realise how unbelievable and sweet that was to my ears?? I couldn't believe it! This baby truly is a miracle in my eyes. For all medical intents and purposes, this baby shouldn't be here and yet it is!

My 12 week appt went picture perfect too. I think my new doctor thinks i"m crazy but I'm like "Dude, check out my file. It's from volume 1 -10". but everything is normal and well and I am so immensely blessed that I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am for this opportunity again when I thought it would never, ever happen again! (i'm crying as I'm writing this by the way. Great, more hormones to make me CRY MORE! lol)

Yes, I have been EXTREMELY sick. I haven't made it to all 3 church meetings in a while. I have 3 different medications for nausea that either make me sleep for 12 hours of give me a headache all day. So i have to mix and match depending on what is going on. And all the stuff I said at first, is totally true!! But thank heavens for Brady who loves to cook and the boys help me with laundry and cleaning so it's been great that my boys are independant enough that I can be a couch potato and they still survive.

So the due date is June 21 2009. Colby's birthday is June 18. Our Anniversary is the 19th. So this could be really interesting :)

THAT IS OUR BIGGEST NEWS FROM THE GENESSY FRONT - other than we're sheetrocking our basement next week!!! Now we have a REASON to get this basement finished and we are excited that there is so much change in the future!!