June trip to California

This was a very exciting trip out! Jason had a retreat in San Clemente with the Creative Staff at our church. Since they were all driving out to a place that was 25 minutes from my parents I decided to tag along. Jason dropped me off at my parents and I spent the week visiting friends and family. It was great to catch up with everyone!

Friday was Jason's birthday, his retreat was over so he was back at my parents house. At 4 am on Friday morning I woke up having to pee (TMI). I knew that I should use morning pee to take a pregnancy test. I was pretty darn sure it would be negative so I thought, heck I will just take it right now so that way I can know I am not pregnant and go right back to bed. Well, as soon as I took it the test showed a BIG "+" sign.  I was shocked! I couldn't believe it! I went back to bed and tried to fall asleep but how could I after finding out the news. So I laid in bed, looking over at Jason for any movement that would indicate that he was waking up so I could tell him. So from 4am-6:15am I wrote a short poem to give to Jason on his birthday to tell him I was pregnant. At 6:30 I couldn't stand it any more so I woke him up. He was surprised to see me all bright eyed at such an early hour, especially since I am not a morning person.

I gave him his present. After he was done opening it I gave him his card with the poem in it. I was shaking with excitement as I handed it to him. He opened it and read the poem. Here's the poem:

The greatest gift of all

Is not something big, but something very small

Where once was one, now is two

Will it be pink or will it be blue?

He looked at me and said "That's very nice, thanks for the gift." I couldn't believe it! He didn't get it! i looked at him and said "Jason..... I'm pregnant!" He was shocked.... He said "Oh that's what you meant by the poem, I thought you were just talking about the future."

We then told my parents, who FLIPPED! They were so excited!

I went out to tell as many people in person as I could. I showed up on my friend Beth's doorstep with Karli in a "Big sister" t-shirt to tell her the news. I was so happy to be able to tell her in person!

Later that night we had a little get together for Jason's birthday. I put Karli in her t-shirt to announce the news to the friends that came! I was so thankful that I was able to be in California when I found out. It would have been really hard to be away from family and friends when I shared the news. Here are a couple pictures from the shindig.

Kaitlyn holding Karli

The soon to be married couple + Jason

Me with some of my wonderful friend and two adorable babies. I'm holding my new nephew Liam. Oh how I love that litte boy!

Arizona days

We have been so blessed to make friends so quickly out here. We have met such quality people. We feel like God has been affirming that this is where he has us. 

Karli has been such a love bug in the last couple months. She just loves to cuddle with us. I always try to remember to take the time and snuggle with her. It is SO sweet.

We have loved spending time with new friends at the park! Karli thrives off spending time with other kids.

The heat here is starting to rise. So are the bug counts. We check the house for scorpions every night. I must say, I have loved almost everything about Arizona, but the scorpion thing creeps me out SO much! We are excited to move more towards the middle of the city so there won't be very many scorpions. Luckily we haven't found one in our house yet. Praise the Lord!

We are gearing up to buy a house. I hope everything works out. I can't wait to decorate a house exactly how I would like it for our family.

California

Since moving out to Arizona we have gone back to California an avg. of once a month. In May we came out to see my adorable new nephew Liam. We were able to spend some great time with some friends.

We spent a day at the beach club. Karli loved seeing Lexi!

It was wonderful to see Karli and Hannah together again! They played together so well and talked gibberish to each other, somehow know what each other was saying.

This picture makes me want to cry. It is a picture of God's faithfulness to me and my friends. We were all pregnant together and now all our babies are over a year. There are a couple of kids who couldn't hang out that day, so in reality there are even more kids who should be in the picture.

It was also Mother's day while we were there. I was hoping that when we were there I would find out I was pregnant so I could tell my family on Mother's day. Unfortunately I wasn't pregnant.