I found out I am pregnant today. It has been nine months of nothing but disappointment but it was all worth it to see the positive pregnancy test today. I woke up in the afternoon since I am working tonight and had told myself I was not going to test until this weekend. Well, something told me to go ahead and test and I was shocked at the result. I think I looked at that pregnancy test a million times today, just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. But there was definitely a little pink line in the test window. I had been planning for months how I was going to tell Houston, I couldn't wait to see how he would react. He has wanted this just as much as I have and we had been praying and fasting for you to come. Last week we went to the temple and prayed together that we could start our family, and Heavenly Father has heard our prayers.
When Houston and I were dating we were out one night with my family at a chinese restaurant. We were having a great time and when it came to dessert we passed out our fortune cookies and each went around reading what our fortunes would say. Cassie's said "You look pretty", which she did. Mine and Joey's said that we had a loud family, or something to that effect...which was pretty applicable that night. When it came to Houston's fortune it said "Happiness is sitting next to you". It was so perfect and Houston has always kept that fortune in his wallet. So this is where I got my idea of how to tell him we were expecting.
I had bought a box of fortune cookies from Wal-mart when we started trying to get pregnant, in hopes that I would be able to use my idea. I got the fortune cookies out, which were still individually wrapped in their own little cellophane wrappers, and removed the fortunes with a pair of tweezers. I type up on my computer "You will be a DAD on 10-31-10" and printed them out. I then tried to fit my personalized fortunes into the little cookies, but the curve of the cookie was too much. I resorted to breaking them in half, sticking the fortune inside, and dipping the end in chocolate and caramel to keep the two sides together.
I ordered take out from one of our favorite restaurants P.F. Changs and planned on picking it up at 4:00. I had to leave for work a little after 5, and Houston didn't get out of paramedic school until 5, so it was going to be tight. When he finally walked in the door I was so excited and fidgety from waiting, it was everything I could do not to blurt out "I'm Preggo!" He came in the door and I kissed him hello, asked about work, and he answered as he noticed the candlelit dinner from P.F. Changs I had set up for him. He asked "what is all this?" I told him it was our date night, since he was gone so much this week. We sat down to eat and found out that neither of us was very hungry and I realized it was time for me to go to work. "Well, I guess we will skip right to dessert then" I said as I pulled the fortune cookies out of the fridge. "Did you make these?" he asked. I told him yes, and he smiled. "Go ahead" I said as I smiled back. Houston has this silly habit of always eating the entire cookie before reading the fortune, me on the other hand, breaks the cookie to look at the fortune, and then eats it.
He took a bite and said "It's good, did you make the cookie too?" I shook my head no and he asked "Did you put the fortune inside the cookie?" I told him that I had, but he still was not suspecting a thing. He ate the other half of the cookie, keeping the fortune face down, and started talking about school. I was thinking "turn over the paper, I can't stand it anymore!" when suddenly he did. It took him half a second and then a big smile came across his face and he pulled me into a hug. I almost started to cry I was so happy to see the look on his face and have him react the way he did. We were so happy and smiling at each other. I don't remember everything that was said but I remember how I felt about you and Houston at that moment. There's a baby inside me, its truly a miracle and I can't wait to see your heartbeat in a few weeks.
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