Dan and I have very exciting news to share today — as some of you may already know (or guessed), we’re going to be parents in the spring! The last couple months have been quite a whirlwind for us, and our first pregnancy has been a very exciting (and — not going to lie — at some moments, terrifying) experience thusfar.

We’d been thinking of having a family for a while now, and we’ve been preparing since the beginning of the year to hopefully have a baby by next spring. Our wish came true, and we’re expecting our first baby in early April!

The first trimester has been really rough for me, primarily because it has been so physically taxing — my morning sickness has been constant and unrelenting since the end of the first month, and I’ve been feeling nauseous for virtually every waking hour of the past two months. Keeping up with a rigorous workload and deadlines at work has only added to the exhaustion, and my lack of energy has been exacerbated by the fact that I can’t keep half of my meals down. Dan has been incredibly supportive during this time, and has been cooking all the meals (even packing my lunches!) and handling all the household chores, from dish-washing to laundry to cleaning the chinchilla cage, while I have been incapacitated. (Can we say best husband ever? ♥)

Although the first few months of pregnancy have not been a walk in the park for me, it has definitely been punctuated by some breathtaking moments, such as when we saw the heartbeat on the first ultrasound, and later when we finally got to see little hands and feet!

Here is a a picture from an NT ultrasound I took last Thursday…

Ultrasound at 13 weeks

Closeup of a hand. I was relieved to confirm that it had five fingers - no more, no less.

We have so much to be thankful for in our lives, and we feel really blessed to be welcoming a new addition to our family in half a year! We are especially grateful for all the support and encouragement from our family and friends. Thank you so much for celebrating this new chapter in our lives with us! 🙂