It's official!

I have been waiting for quite some time to start this. It's seems as though when you have created something out of virtually nothing you get this crazy urge to brag about it! Just kidding. But I have been bursting at the seams to talk about this since we found out. So let's begin there: how we found out.
I'd love to say everything was a giant surprise but that wasn't so. Unfortunately, I have hypertension and becoming pregnant on my regular medication wouldn't have been healthy for the baby so we switched to something more baby-friendly (but less effective) before we started trying. Immediately I was on alert for pregnancy symptoms but after a freak bloody nose I tested and it came back negative so I told myself to tone it down a bit. Probably about a week later it was the weekend and I was super lazy/tired. We went to breakfast with some family and I found it hard to get interested in a breakfast I would normally have loved. That evening Carl and I were relaxing on the couch and, I don't know what made me do it but, I got up and went to the bathroom to take another test. It was the two-pink-line variety and I immediately got just the control line. Our trash can was without liner and I went to get one. When I returned. . .there was a second pink line! I almost threw a positive test away because I was too impatient to wait! Then of course I thought "what do I do?" Carl finally came to check on me and all I could think to say was, "there are two pink lines!" Of course he was confused because he didn't even know I had tested. We went to the store to buy back-up tests which were all positive. We were both completely shocked because it had happened so fast. We both anticipated months of trying before we had any results. It is one thing to talk about getting pregnant and another to actually be pregnant! I think we both very a little bit panic at first!