On Wednesday evening, February 1, 2012 I got a phone call from Jessi, one of my best friends and college roommate, telling me she was expecting her first child. I actually had a suspicion that I was also pregnant. The following morning I took a pregnancy test before work and it was positive! I immediately took a digital test as backup, just to be sure.
Ryan's 30th birthday was the next day and I decided this would be the perfect birthday present, so I decided to keep this huge secret for basically two whole days. It proved to be incredibly difficult to keep such exciting news to myself. On Friday evening, Ryan's birthday, we headed out for his birthday dinner and then came home to open cards and gifts. He first opened a Husker piggy bank, which he thought nothing of. Then I gave him a card that started with "Daddy..." and had a picture of the pregnancy tests inside. His mouth dropped open and he kept saying "I don't believe it." Best gift ever, and a moment we'll remember forever!
We then immediately launched into hide-pregnancy mode since we had planned a 30th birthday party at Buffalo Wild Wings the next night with friends and family members. We weren't ready to share the news with anyone else yet, so we had to make sure we had our stories straight. Turns out, we were able to avoid most suspicions for the next couple months with tricks such as drinking water out of beer bottles! It wasn't until I was 10 weeks along that we first spilled the beans.
Love that story! Happy birthday to the hubs.
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