We did our best to contact our immediate family first before shocking them on Facebook. If you found out on on Facebook thanks for celebrating with us and know that we didn't try to leave anybody out of the "finding out process" there was just a lot of people to get around to. Feel free to spread the word now and many thanks to those who did help keep our secret early on.
So here is a little bit of our story.
2012 has already been an exciting year for us:
* March - Heidi finished up 3.5 years at the preschool she was working at to pursue her dream of Tastefully Simple. She now works from home and while keeping super busy with her business is loving every minute.
* April - Kevin started with a new company called WebFilings here in Denver. He has a commute of about 45 minutes to an hour each way to and from work but overall loves the new challenges and opportunities this company provides.
* May 19th will be our 5 year wedding anniversary!!! We are so blessed to be celebrating so much as best friends and are excited for many years to come!
With those three major things we have a lot on our plate so why not add something else right! HAHA - we had NO idea! Let's first back up a little bit...
Adoption:
In college we both had worked with an urban poor ministry. Heidi's focus was with street kids in Denver. Through this ministry these kids changed our world; including a little boy named Shadow who Heidi helped through the foster and adoption system. We new this process would change our lives and family when we got married several years later.
Two years ago we really started talking about adoption. For no other reason other than that is where our hearts were/are at. Knowing we had been married several years and wanted to have a family and acknowledging that the process can be quite involved we wanted to start praying through and looking into that option for our family. On a more personal level we haven't done anything to prevent or really pursue getting pregnant. We both felt really at peace with not having our "own". Families often talk about the stress of this process but for us there wasn't really any we were just really excited about adoption and I had really no desire to be pregnant. We knew we wanted siblings (2-3) and wanted them to be older.
We started the process of talking to our parents. Finding that both sides of our families were more than supportive we began looking into the foster to adoption process. As we did we realized that we needed to get a couple things in line.
First - we needed Kevin to have a better insurance plan through work that offered a good plan for a family and also some long term benefits including life insurance and retirement.
Second - we needed to move because right now our 2/3 bedroom and 1.5 bath townhome wouldn't provide the space we needed and still allow Heidi to have an office for her business.
Third - Heidi needed to keep building her Tastefully Simple Business and client base so she had a strong foundation to work from and the time to take off when needed.
How Things Lined Up:
With Kevin's new job offer in April and knowing we needed to move with our lease being up end of September this year we decided to put the foster/adoption process on hold. This would allow us to focus on Kevin's new job, Heidi working from home, and us finding a new home for our family and time to get settled.
Our plan was to come back to this process in January of 2013 when life settled down for us.
Surprise!
The same weekend Kevin was to start his new job on Monday we had planned a date night to Whole Foods for a Seafood Cooking class. It is our tradition to always have a weekly date night and often we attend these free classes because they are so fun! At this point Heidi was only three days late and we started joking with each other about now that we had decided to put adoption on hold for a couple months wouldn't it be funny if I was pregnant. We were 100% joking!
To take the joke even further before we walked out the door for our class Heidi ran upstairs to take a pregnancy test. 3 minutes later there was 2 lines! We laughed it off and ran out the door telling each other that it was defective. Seriously it had been five years.
The next morning Heidi took test 2 and again 2 lines! At this point we were already at five weeks. We called our parents right away just so they could be in denial with us.
So God really did have a plan even when we thought we had the plan this whole time. We promise you that if you were shocked by our news we were shocked x2 for you!
Our 8 week apt was last week (May 11th) and we saw a healthy heartbeat on our ultrasound. We will be finding out the sex of the baby the first week of August and will make sure to share with all of you as well.
For now foster/adoption is still on hold. We will for sure be revisiting this in the future as it really is still where our hearts are at. We are excited about Baby Gunn and still maybe in a tad bit of denial of course. We were reminded again what a fun sense of humor God has for our lives!
