Can this be considered the official announcement?

I am pregnant.

It has been a long road to being able to have another baby.  3.5 years to be exact.  I spent a few days writing a very detailed account of what we have been done in our attempts to add to our troupe, but it is really long.  I don't mind sharing it, I just want to be able to take more time to edit, breakdown, and explain for our family's record how the last few years have been.

To sum it up though, here's a brief rundown.

-Emily was a year old, we started going for baby #3.  I had my IUD (intro uterine devise) removed.  It was not placed correctly and had to be surgically removed from my abdomen.  All seemed fine.

-10 months later I had my regular women's exam and brought up how we hadn't conceived yet.

-I took clomiphene (fertility drug that promotes ovulation) for 6 months with no success, even on the highest dose.

-I got a 2nd opinion from another doctor but again was unable to pinpoint what could have been causing infertility.

-We took a much needed 6 months break of worrying about it.

-We consulted with a fertility specialist, did lots of testing and analysis and finally figured out that I had significant amount of scar tissue from my misplaced IUD.  The scar tissue was preventing my fallopian tubes from being capable of pick up embryos.  Surgery could not correct the problem.

- 2 years after our first attempts to conceive, we attempted in vitro fertilization.  We did two attempts, both  ending unsuccessfully.

- We got news we would be moving to Kansas.  We decided it was the perfect time to end the chapter of trying to conceive and move on, grateful and so thrilled with our two healthy daughters.  We honestly couldn't have been more happy and had complete assurance that it was all apart of Heavenly Father's plan.

- June 2011, I was late.  I had been late before but didn't put too much weight into it.  Since attempting IVF, my cycle is unusually long.  About a week longer than the average woman.

-June 28, 2011.  I showered and noticed tenderness in my chest.  That only ever happened during puberty and when I was pregnant with my girls.  I still wasn't convinced completely but decided to spend a dollar at the dollar store to get a cheap pregnancy test.  I take the test, sure that it will be another negative (I have NEVER gotten a positive result while taking a pee test).  I was in complete shock when it was positive!

Complete shock, you have no idea!!!

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Here we are now, I am 28 weeks pregnant with another precious girl.  We told nobody (other than doctors of course) that I was pregnant until I was out of my 1st trimester.  I can probably name all the people on one hand who I told after that.  We didn't start telling people until we knew she was a girl (at 18 weeks) and that things were going super smoothly.

We are so so so incredibly blessed.  Before becoming pregnant this time and after all the difficulties we faced, Corky and I were blessed with the peace of knowing that Heavenly Father's plan is ultimately the plan we want.  Our plan for so long was to add more children to our family, but we realized that if that was not part of Heavenly Father's plan, we were okay with it.  We felt guided throughout the whole process and believe that we were guided to make the decisions we made simply so that we could learn the lessons we did.  Now though, we are incredibly grateful and absolutely thrilled that Heavenly Father's plan does include another child for us.

Here is a picture of me 2 weeks ago.  I was 26 weeks along.  I can assure you that this little girl has had a growth spurt since then.  I wore that belt 2 days ago and had to wear it looser than when this picture was taken.