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Yes that is right, this is an announcement.  We will be adding Eggett #3 around April 21st 2013.

Only read on if you want to know more about the "spiritual" experience this has been and how it all went down.  And please excuse my writing...I have never been much of a writer, but this is my journal...so take it for what it is worth.

When we were trying to get pregnant with Mckelle, I was very bitter and knew that the Lord was trying to teach me empathy for those that have a hard time having children or can not have them at all, but that didn't make the experience any easier.  If you don't believe me, you can go and read a blog post that I posted on 10/17/08.  It was a very dark time in my life and it really made me have to TRY to be happy in life.  After we finally did get pregnant with Mckelle and the experience that we had with her, I always told myself I would NOT doubt God's plan for me again.  So this time around, as we have been trying for 18 months, I didn't have the same feelings I did as before.  Don't get me wrong it was still a roller coaster of thinking you were pregnant and then having that nasty TOM (time of month) show up and the let down that comes with that.  But,this time I wasn't jealous of others or angry with God.  I had two, a boy and a girl.  I couldn't be ungrateful for the blessings I already had.  I just knew that he KNOWS me and "is in the details of my life"!  Now I say that as a preface to other experiences that I will relate.

Back in January, when we were asked to be TREK parents, I said I would go on the condititon that only if I wasn't pregnant.  As we went to the meetings each month, I would walk away with goosebumps knowing that God needed me to be on TREK.  My additude started to change and I said I would go on TREK even if I was pregnant.  Brett and I would joke that if would be funny if I ended up being pregnant right after TREK, because that is how overwhelming that confirmation feeling was.  Well come to find out, the Lord did bless me with starting my period the day after we got home (yes, I was supposed to be on my period on trek...could you imagine how HORRIBLE that would have been, seriously a BLESSING).

Not thinking anything of being a week overdue on my next period, I started waking up at night so stinking hot.  And I wouldn't be able to hold my bladder the whole night through.  I kept talking myself out of the idea of being pregnant, because honestly that roller coaster is just not fun.  But in all actuality I was definitely showing some of the first signs for my body.  I took a test and instantly it changed...I was shocked.  God does have a sense of humor...I go on TREK and immediately I am pregnant afterwards.  I can't lie, GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ME and MY FAMILY.  I look back and know why I was on TREK.  Sometimes, God needs to teach us things, but also he needs to use us as instruments in other peoples lives.

I didn't tell Brett right away.  He was pretty much set on the idea that God only wanted us to have 2 children...it was his way of coping.  But on our anniversary, I gave him a psychological card (perfect for him) that announced the good news.  He figured it out and was pretty much speechless the rest of the night...and the next week.  I still think that both of us pinch ourselves as if it is just a dream.  We have never waited this long to tell people...but because people aren't expecting it anymore we decided to keep it to ourselves until I was showing.

I keep looking down at my stomach and wonder why I can't wrap my mind around being pregnant and that I willl show and that I will put on weight.  It still feels surreal at 14 weeks.  I guess I just don't have the nausea and morning sickness and fatigue to remind me...just some belly weight that makes me feel like I am not taking care of myself.  I have craved Dr. Pepper, corn nuts, fresh bagels and cream cheese, anything candy, and pickles.

We are so EXCITED!

But ultimately I just have to end with...

I KNOW THAT GOD KNOWS ME, LOVES ME, & HAS A PLAN FOR ME!