Hello There

I am writing this because today was a day our lives completely changed. Like all life changing days, we tend to look back and have only small pieces of what happened, and all the joy and emotions we felt. We had been waiting for this day. We even made a list of goals we wanted to reach before it came:

1. Go to Disneyland (May 2008)

2. Go to Mexico (May 2009)

3. Stand in Front of the Grand Canyon TOGETHER. (October 2009)

4. Get Married (July 2010)

5. Be Married for at least two years (we are on our way to 4)

6.Skydive (July 2011)

7. Bungee Jump (July 2012)

8. Finish College (May & December 2012)

9. Start our careers (2013: Engineer and Teacher)

10. Pay off our loans (We payed off $40k in one year) June 2014 WE DID IT!!!!!

11. Buy our first home (July 2013)

12. Always go on Adventures (See above)

Most of the things on this list we wrote in a scrapbook in 2007, which seems like ancient history. Some we made along the way though. We knew we wanted to accomplish big things, and be really ready...as ready as we could be. We waited because we had amazing examples in our lives of what it looked like to make and reach goals. So we made them, and then we met them. And then we made new ones. Tonight I introduced Kyle to the name he will have the privilege of going by: DAD. He cried, I laughed...the usual responses for us in the midst of life changing moments. I was too overwhelmed to do anything else. Kyle said "Are you serious?!" about ten times, until I finally said "YES!" Jaylin caught this all on video. It was nothing over the top, but still one of the most life changing moments. I told Kyle several days before I had a feeling. I can't explain it, I just knew (and maybe a pickle craving helped a little). So of course being Bachelor Monday Jaylin convinced me to see if that little line would show. I said hello to you, even though you are really only the size of a sesame seed or some impossible thing. You are going to be our biggest adventure yet.

13. Hold our baby for the first time