March 8

Last year, on March 8th, Adam and I were sleeping peacefully in a quaint hotel room off the Champs-Elysees in Paris. I know, life is rough!

I woke up around 4am having to go the bathroom. We had been talking about possibly taking a pregnancy test in the coming days, so I decided on a whim to go for it in the wee hours of the morning. If it was negative, no big deal. If it was positive, I was just going to leave it out for Adam to find when he woke up in a few hours.

I took the test ... checked it ... and saw nothing. No big deal, excited to climb back into warm bed, one more glance before I exit the bathroom and ... wait. Is that a pink line? Maybe I'm just seeing double from the control line. Yes? No? Maybe?

After about 5 more minutes of staring, I concluded that I thought I actually was seeing something. Wow. Big wow. So should I leave it out for Adam to find? But what if he thinks its negative ... that's confusing.

I crawl back into bed "silently" so as not to wake Adam, contemplating what to do.

"What were you doing in there?" he asks. Of course, I am convinced that I've been quiet as a mouse the whole time, but apparently not.

"Um, nothing."

"What were you doing? Why did that take so long?" My brilliant plan is foiled. And I'm REALLY bad at keeping (my own) secrets.

"Um ... taking a pregnancy test," I say in the darkness.

"And...?"

"Um ... I think we're going to have a baby. I think."

So, he gets up to take a look and although skeptical, he finally agrees to seeing a second pink line. And we are officially headed down the 9 month road!

The morning of March 8 ... just a few hours after finding out our big news!:

We were in Paris with our good friends Ryan and Brittany. We couldn't help but share with them, and Ryan's priceless reaction in the Metro station turned the heads of about 50 Parisians laughing at the crazy Americans!

Me (about 4 weeks!) and Brit (about 5 months with Reese!):

We returned to the states the following week and had so much fun surprising our family and friends with the news!

Such fun memories and what a crazy year it has been since that day. We are so blessed!