Lets go on a trip...

Last summer, we planned a trip to Dallas to see Joseph's side of the family. Our niece was only 8 months old and Joseph's mother was transitioning into a new job in San Antonio. We thought it was the perfect time to see everyone before fall began and everyone got really busy! So, we booked tickets to fly to Dallas the first week of August. And that is where our story begins...


Wednesday, August 5th, 2015

I decided not to work on this day because we had an early flight Thursday morning. So, like any crazy lady who is trying to get pregnant does, I took a pregnancy test for the third time before I was supposed to get my monthly "visit." I quickly glanced at the test and once I saw one line, threw it in the trash! I left the apartment and went on with my morning. I met Joseph for lunch at a cute little vineyard near our house then proceeded to run errands in preparation for our trip. I came back home and started packing our suitcases when a silly and I mean SILLY thought went through my mind. I thought, "I should probably just pull the test out of the trash to check it one more time, right?" Yep, that was my internal dialogue. I am sure no one has ever done that. Or they aren't brave enough to fess up! Anyways, I pulled the test out of the trash and swore I saw a faint, and I do mean faint, second line! Could I be crazy? Um, yes. But that is beside the point. So I decided I better not tell Joseph about the probably negative test I pulled out of the trash! I continued packing and Joseph eventually came home from work.

Thursday morning quickly arrived and I did not take another test! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?? Someone who was trying to get pregnant AND thought they saw a faint second line on their pregnancy test the day before?! Yep, I did not take another test. I didn't want Joseph to find out by me peeing on a stick. So I decided I would have to wait until I was completely alone, with a pregnancy test nearby, before I could find out. Great. When would that time arise? So, we left our apartment, no test taken, and headed to the airport. All the while, Joseph is none the wiser. On the plane ride, I had a hunger pain like no other! We bought several snack boxes from AA and I ate snacks I packed myself. (I guess that should have been clue number one. Ravenous hunger.) When we got to Dallas, we planned to stay with Joseph's brother, SIL, and niece. We ordered pizza and grilled chicken salad for dinner, which was tough because I forgot to mention I was eating paleo at the time. We ate and went to bed somewhat early since we had traveled all day. That night I had hunger pains worse than the day before! What the heck!! Luckily, I had snacks in my bag still from the trip over. I ate those and went back to sleep. Morning. YES! Finally, I can take another pregnancy test! I rolled out of bed to reach for my bag to take to the restroom...ever so quietly. Remember, still didn't want Joseph to know! Andddd wouldn't you know, the dude woke up! Soooo, I waited some more to take another test! Everyone was waking up so we went out to the kitchen and had breakfast. Afterward, I was going to shower and get ready for the day. Freedom!! I took my pregnancy test, make up bag, etc. to the bathroom and shut the door. THE TIME WAS HERE! I started to take the pregnancy test and barely anything came out. OMG. I had one pregnancy test and I wasted it on barely anything. Grrr. That was the only emotion to come out of that situation. I started brushing my teeth and washing my face when I glanced down at the barely used pregnancy test. Another faint line!!! Only, this time I was sure it was a second line!

I waited a few seconds and in my excitement, ran into the bedroom with the stick and put it on the bed. I asked Joseph, "do you see that!?" Well there went playing it cool and trying to surprise him. Oh well! He looked at the test and said, "yes, but it is really faint. Maybe you should take another one." Are you kidding me!? A positive is a positive bro. But, just to oblige, I said we could buy a second test. Since Joseph's brother and SIL had to work that day, we planned to visit one of Joseph's former operators. So we had ample opportunity to go out and buy another test without anyone knowing.  While we were out, we went to Northpark mall and tried to find matching "cousins" onesies so we could tell Joseph's brother and SIL in a cute way, that our niece would be getting a cousin! Let me just tell you, those onesies don't exist. At least, they don't exist anywhere except amazon. So we settled on onesies that said "best friends."

While at the mall, Joseph got the cute idea to buy some nuggets at Chick-fil-A and take a picture of me holding a nugget near my stomach. We took the picture outside and he attached a meme that said "somebody has a nugget in the fryer." We sent it to one of our friends and saved it to show the rest of his family at dinner. 

After we concluded our shopping trip, we went back to Joseph's brothers house and gave them the bag of wrapped onesies. They slowly pulled out the newborn sized onesie first and Joseph's brother said, "Oh, that won't fit Lila!" I just looked at him and laughed...I thought, "no, no, Alex. It won't." So he pulled out the second onesie that was Lila's size and finally put two and two together. They congratulated us and asked when we were due and if we wanted a boy or girl, etc. Such a fun time! Also, they wanted to know if we planned on telling everyone at family dinner, which would include Joseph's mom and boyfriend and aunt and uncle. We weren't entirely sure but we both thought we probably would end up telling them.

As we walked into the Mexican restaurant for dinner, we saw all of our family sitting at a table towards the back. We sat down and ordered drinks. While we were waiting on the server to return to take our orders, Joseph whipped out his phone and said, "Hey mom, look at this picture we took at the mall today!" (The nugget by my belly pic) She looked at the phone for a good 20-30 seconds, confused. Joseph's aunt and uncle had already figured it out by this point and we were all just staring at her like, surely, any second now. And...lightbulb. She immediately started crying and came over to hug us and congratulate us. We finished dinner and headed back to Alex and Christy's house. When we got there, I went to our room to face time my parents. I thought they would surely know exactly why I was calling, since I never face time them. Plus, I rarely call while I am out of town. So, yes, I thought for sure they already knew! Anyways, back to my story, the phone rang and my Dad answered. I said, "hi, what are you guys doing?" At that time, Joseph texted my mom the nugget picture. She came running over to my Dad's face time exclaiming, "YAY!!" They were so excited! First grand baby! We finished up our conversation and it was off to bed. The next day was filled with baby shopping and dreaming about who our baby would look like and if we were having a boy or a girl. And THAT friends, is how we found out we were going from WE to THREE!