First Blog- August 24, 2011

So I have been following a blog from a very nice woman named Robyn who I have not actually had the pleasure of meeting in person just yet, just phone contact! Her blog of her family and her children growing up inspired me, therefore here is my first blog.
I am currently expecting my first child. March 1, 2011 confirmed Jared and I were going to be parents EDD October 28, 2011. June 8, 2011 we were so happy to tell the whole world that we were having a baby boy. I can't even begin to explain the way my heart melted not only seeing the boy I wanted on the ultrasound monitor, but the priceless look on Jared’s face. That was what people quote on quote call a Kodiak moment!! Before we found out the sex, the only part of pregnancy I felt was the nausea every day, all day! One day I woke up a little into my second trimester feeling great and have not been sick since (knock on wood) My belly came out of nowhere one day and our little guy moves around all day, every day and loves to kick me on my right side in my rib cage. I have some back aches and have got to experience that wonderful thing called heartburn. Overall, I've had a pretty good pregnancy so far....it could be a lot worse (:
Jared and I are currently planning our trip to Salt Lake City, Utah for the birth of our baby. 06/08/2011 was also a heartbreaking day for our family. During the ultrasound, the tech found a heart defect known as Transposition of the great arteries, a congenital heart defect in which the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart -- the aorta and the pulmonary artery -- are switched (transposed) We have gone to all of our visits with the pediatric cardiologist Michael Womack t St.Lukes downtown who has completed two echoes of our babies heart over the past 8 weeks or so. He has confirmed and diagnosed the heart defect and has referred us to Children’s Primary Hospital in UT. My OB/GYN Timothy West, Dr. Womack and all the staff at St.Lukes have been very supportive, caring, comforting to us and our family and giving us the assurance of how common this heart defect is and the 95% recovery rate. We are waiting to hear from the children’s hospital for scheduling, estimating us to be there around 36 weeks of pregnancy, although we are really hoping to be there when I am around 38 weeks. This has been hard on Jared and me emotionally and slowly becoming hard financially. I think about my precious baby and all the things that are going to be going on his first week of life, all of the time. I have been able to finally accept that everything is in God’s hands and he will watch over our baby and our family and keep all of us close in his heart. I am thankful that this is something that they were able to catch at an early 20 weeks and have us prepared to have us at a specialty hospital with all the best doctors and have this corrected. I can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone by and now thinking in just as little as 8 1/2 weeks we will be welcoming our amazing baby boy into our world.
I will keep our blog updated while we are in UT and how everything is going. Keep us in your prayers, please and thank you <3
Baby shower is this Saturday, I am really excited. We have decided to have a co-ed BBQ with all of our friends and family, and the best part is my baby sister Kathryn will be flying in from California for my baby shower. She’s my best friend, my baby sister and she’s my number one!! Can't wait to pick her up from the airport tomorrow.
Good night!! (: (: