A Baby's Coming Our Way

(The preface...not the most exciting part, but worth reading)
Right before Christmas, someone in my parents' ward shared in church how her missionary son goes out every day expecting miracles to happen. And they do. Matt and I thought and talked a lot about that and how we could increase our faith, especially in regards to having children join our family. We came to the conclusion that whether those miracles came through adoption or pregnancy—and regardless of when they happened—we’d still need miracles to happen and should try to have enough faith to expect them.

But we never could have foreseen what happened next.

(The exciting part)
Only a couple days later we received an email from a birth mother attending BYU-Idaho, and she wrote that she was choosing us to adopt her baby.

Then...
Our caseworker called two days later and informed us that a different birth mother from Texas was expecting a baby girl in May and had selected us to be the adoptive parents.

But…
Before this all happened, on December 27 at 3:38 a.m. (the same morning the first birth mother emailed us) Matt woke up hearing a loud gasp in the adjacent bathroom. Crying followed. His suspicions were confirmed when I came out holding a test that read, “pregnant”.

We are so excited! I don't think I've been able to stop grinning since we found out. Matt gets a laugh out of my overactive sense of smell and my mild paranoia that my stomach is getting enormous. He also likes to make fun of how our baby's developing. "Paddle your flippers hard, you blueberry," he'd say to my stomach a while ago...(But really, he's so excited.)

We feel overcome with gratitude and feel like we've been blessed more than we could've dreamed. We would've been just as elated had only a birth mom chosen us, but for now we've put adopting on hold. We got to hear the baby's heart beat yesterday, and it was the coolest thing, ever. I'm almost thirteen weeks along, and the baby should arrive around September 2.

It's already been so worth the wait. :)