Baby BOY Brady is on the way!

I don't even know where to start.  I guess I can start with the basics.  Our sweet little baby boy is due on July 26, 2012 and we absolutely could not be happier!  It was a long tough emotional difficult and strengthening experience to finally have him on the way.  This experience alone has strengthened me and brought me closer to my Heavenly Father than ANY other experience in my entire life.  I can't say thank you enough to the many friends and family members who were a shoulder to cry on month after month and gave so many words of encouragement.

For the backstory on our struggle with infertility read here: http://macandjaime.blogspot.com/2011/10/noteworthy-notes-about-life-in-alaska.html

After 13 months of infertility, I often still find it hard to believe that there is a little person growing inside of me (although that is getting harder and harder to deny.) I'm now 14 weeks along and I can feel my body stretching and I can definitely see my belly starting to poke out.   At our ultrasound yesterday we got to see our little guy bouncing around and waving his arms.  THAT made it very very real and I don't think I stopped smiling all day long!  They were doing some tests and that little stinker had his head wedged way down in the right corner of my uterus, so we got to watch him for 30 minutes till he finally moved from that spot so they could get the measurements they needed.  I was cheering him on as I was loving all the time we got to have to watch him on the screen.

When we first got to our ultrasound the ultrasound tech said he "might" be able to tell us the sex of the baby, but it was really early.  So after one glance he said he was pretty sure we were having a boy.  Then as the ultrasound went on it progressed to "I'm 95% sure you guys are having a boy!"  So, I guess we could have a really big surprise at our next ultrasound in 4 weeks and find out we are having a girl, but I think we've both felt like it was a boy all along.

So now I get to enjoy the "honeymoon" phase of pregnancy, or the 2nd trimester.  I don't know that it will be much different from my first trimester since I was never sick, and my only real symptoms were being hungry 24-7 and tired just as much.  Here are some pictures to enjoy from our ultra long ultrasound and our pregnancy photo shoot the day we found out we were prego!