Welcome, family and friends!  We just found out 1/28/08 that we are pregnant!  Many of you are not in SC and we will not be able to see you as much through our pregnancy as we would hope and thought this was a great way for you to track our progress!!  I will have to take advantage of the FMLA and short term disability when the baby is born so we are saving up the difference!  

For those of you who do not know, Brad and I have been together since I was 15 and he was 18 (1998)!  We got married in 2004 and bought our house in 2006!  Brad is a Graphic Designer and General Manager for a family owned Graphic Design firm and I am the State Leasing/Marketing Manager for a large Property Management Company.  Brad has been in his industry since 1999 and I have been in Property Management since 2002.  We have a Boston Terrier, Sophie, a cat, Zoe, and 7 fish!  We are very active and enjoy working in our flower garden and taking Sophie for walks; I enjoy indoor cycling(spinning) and working out in general!  I already know that I cannot continue spinning to the extent that I was.  My heart rate would get up too high!   

We are very much looking forward to meeting this little one!  I thank God we have such a strong foundation to our relationship!  We want to make certain we are as financially and physically prepared as possible for when the baby comes, all the while knowing that you are not ever really "ready" to have a baby.  We are Christians and thank God that we conceived so quickly!  I stopped taking "the pill" at the end of June 2007 and praise God had regular cycles since-except for September, I was like 10 days late!  My cycles returned to normal since then though-thank God!  My doctor prescribed prenatals for me at our preconception consultation in early October ( I had been taking an over the counter prenatal since April).  We ask that you keep us in your prayers as we start this wonderful new chapter in our lives!