We're Having a.....

GIRL

We are so excited to welcome a sweet little girl to our family. My ultrasound appointment was Oct. 3 so around 19 weeks and unfortunately, Andrew couldn't make it due to school. It was really weird just sitting in the waiting room thinking about all the different scenarios Andrew and I talked about depending on the gender. I knew that leaving the office we would be able to have some answers or how i like to put it.....we could PLAN!

Going into the appointment I was 95% sure that we were having girl. Andrew was still about 50/50. Well, this little baby DID NOT want us to know what the gender was. The ultrasound lady just kept saying, "man, this baby is going to make me work hard today." Every time we would get close she would wiggle the other way. Finally we got a great view that she was a girl. It seriously took 30 minutes. It was fun seeing her moving around so much. She also LOVES to have her one hand right by her face. So I don't know if that is going to turn into a thumb sucker?!?

The best part of the day was telling Andrew. We both couldn't wait till he got home from school so I picked him up a little early from school. I let him know he would be having a future BYU Cheerleader vs. a BYU Quarterback. He was still super excited. Later that night I told Andrew that I knew exactly what her name was going to be. The second the ultrasound lady told me she was a girl this name came directly to my head. Andrew then turned to me and told me that while he was at school that he had the exact same name come to his mind. We had NOT talked about it at all. So we're still going to keep it a little secret because you never know if things will change but we're pretty sure this is it.

She gave us a nice little smile and wave. 

 That hand is right there in EVERY picture. 

Baby Bangerter is on the way!

We are so glad that we finally get to share the news that we are expecting our first baby in March! We wanted to wait until we heard a heartbeat and everything looked okay at the doctors before we spread the good news. Most of our close family and friends knew about our secret because we had been waiting for this day for a long time so we had to tell them. Also, our Moms spilled the beans quite a few times to their friends and more extended family so they got the ball rolling.

We are very excited and nervous all at the same time but mostly we just feel really blessed. We have seen the Lord's hand in our life through this experience of trying to have a baby. We truly have had our testimonies strengthened that the Lord has a plan for each one of us and His plan/timing is better than any plan that we can come up with. It was not easy to come to this realization after each month finding out we were not pregnant but once we put all our faith and trust in the Lord/stopped worrying about it every second, we were blessed. We actually stopped focusing on it so much that when I had been sick for a few weeks I just thought I had a little bug that I couldn't kick. My mom being the smart woman she is, pretty much told me she thought I was pregnant but didn't want to pressure me into finding out.  So I sat for about an hour thinking of weather or not I should take a test. I figured I might as well and if it was negative then I could go on with my day. While I was waiting for my test I just got on my knees and prayed that I could be comforted for when I saw that it was negative. But while I was praying I had the Spirit fill my whole body and tell me that it was going to be positive. I can't even begin to describe to you how strong the Spirit was because I had never felt it that strongly. I seriously felt like I had hit a brick wall. Of course when I looked at the test it was positive because the Spirit always testifies of truth. :) I literally didn't know what to do because we had had so many negative results before than. Luckily, it was close to Andrew's lunch time and he had forgotten something from home so I told him I was going to pick him up for lunch. I had texted him earlier that I was debating on taking a test or not but he didn't know that I had actually done it. He got in the car and was being very nice because he noticed I had been crying so he assumed it was negative even though while he was sitting in class he told me he had this feeling that we were pregnant...so he was a little confused. I finally told him that it was positive and we both were so excited and crying! :) We then of course had to call all the parents. My mom especially wanted to know because I had talked to her earlier and I had told her I was going to wait until Andrew got home so when I only called her an hour later she was excited.

Thanks for sitting through and reading my little story but I just felt like I really needed to share it because it has been a great testimony building experience for me. Even now being 18 weeks pregnant and having no idea what I am doing, I look back on how strongly I felt the Spirit testify to me that day that we were going to be entrusted with one of Heavenly Father's children and how we'll get to teach them all about this gospel and how it is our duty to help them return to back to live with Him. It has not been an easy road and won't get any easier but moments like that are what get me through each and every day with every little worry that I have.