Welcome!

Welcome to the Everything Evelyn Blog!! I'm new to this 'bloggin' business, but I wanted to do this not only for my family, but also for my daughter, who someday can read this and get an insight into what her life was like and how she came to be the person she will become (does that sound weird or what!!)
And since, my parents put me through college for writing...I might as well use it, right??
So..where do we begin??
Well, let's start with August 2008.....Jay and I took a little trip to Las Vegas for his birthday and let's just say that everythign that happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there (we argue over if this is when Ev really came about or if it was a few days before..but i like my version better...)
So anyway...a month later..Sept. 13th to be exact....the night of our friend's Rob/Amy's stag/stagetter parties to be exact I was feeling a little 'off.' I knew someting was up and decided, why not...let's give a preg. test a try...not thinking at all that my entire life would change with one trip to the bathroom. (quick sidenote..Jay and I were not planning on doing the 'kid thing.'...so you can imagine the 'extra shock' that accompanied this news.....)
Anways, so I went to my bff's house, Kerry, where we poured Powerade down my throat trying to rouse up some urge to go 'pee-pee.' Well, after one failed attempt...missed the stick...we successfully were able to get the right amount of saturation on that thing and within seconds....one line..then two lines....
quick kerry..what does two lines mean??
two lines??
yes...two lines????
ummm...
HOLY SH*T........
From there things were a blur....I remember crying...then deciding how am I going to tell jay...how am I going to tell anyone? We have a stag/stagette tonight..people will wonder why I'm not drinking...even sick I would man-up and manage to get a few down..but clearly this was not a case of 'oh, I'm sick!"
So, I gave Kerry a hug and said I'm off to tell the father.....
Well, hubby jay had been throwing a few back with his dad all afternoon so let's just say he was a little tipsy when I walked up and pulled 'the stick' out of my purse....never seen somene get sober so fast
'What is that???'
'I'm pregnant...'
Before I could really get a reaction out of my husband..my father-in-law (who oringally thought I was holding a marker) gave me the biggest hug...then I noticed the tears in my husband's eyes...and out walks the mother-in-law...who by this scene must have thought someone died...well she almost did when i dropped the 'i'm pregnant' bomb on her....from there it was a phone-fest...
I wish I could have told my parents to their faces, but I was just so overcome with all these emotions.... I did it over the phone. My Dad thought my sister was pregnant (remember, we didn't want kids and we didn't hide that fact from our families...so it was a 'shock' to EVERYONE to hear that I was the one with child)...my Grandma (who was in the backseat of my parents van at the time...they were taking her out for her bday dinner), well, she was convinced she knew all along I was pregnant...ok..grams..if you say so..LOL..
Needless to say there was a stream of excitiment running through our families and our friends...Jay even made me go out and buy more tests just to be sure.

Now I wont' go into the 9 months it took to bake my little pumpkin...but I will say it sure wasn't easy...going from a do-whatever-I-want-party lifestyle to 'i have to pee again,' 'are you going to finish that' and/or 'you're going out..again?!?' was not easy.....by any means...
But on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 3:46 p.m. it all became very much worth it....
Evelyn Rose came into this world at 6lbs., 13 oz and was 20.5 inches long...
We didn't find out the sex and we were pretty sure it was going to be a boy...so no one was more suprised then us when a sweet little girl was 'plopped' on my chest to (finally!) say hi to her mommy and daddy....
And thus began this journey we are now on....a whirlwind change that has turned our lives upside down, backwards and sideways...but all for the better. For two people who didn't want to do the 'kid' thing...we cannot thank God or whoever is up there enough for blessing us with such an amazing opporutnity.....
next blog...month's 1 & 2.....