Here's the Game Plan....

Even when we were first dating and discussing all things important to us we had decided we'd like 3.. 4.. 5... children...

After Ellie arrived, we were beyond blessed with our two little ones, but knew that we'd at least have another child and reevaluate our "plan" each one thereafter...

We had a plan!

We had decided to wait until Ellie turned 2 in September to start trying for baby number 3...

Aaron would be on full-time SWAT for the Summer which would take him across the state for potentially Monday through Thursdays of every week for 3 or 4 months...

We had a plan!

We thought it sounded too inconvenient to have him gone while I am early pregnant and potentially very sick...

We were very "careful" every.single.time.

(there are a few ahem, brand name company's I'd like to have a word with right about now...)

A Spring baby sounded nice. Yes, we'd plan to have our next child be born in the Spring.

We both planned to have THIS be our first baby that we actually "tried" for...you know...in the Fall...

So what the heck happened you ask?

Exactly.

WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!

In all seriousness. We cannot plan any bit of our lives, and this is yet another clear cut example.

"If you want to make God laugh, tell Him what you're doing Tomorrow."

That is SO true. My life is already completely planned out. But not by me. I'm just apparently along for the ride. And in my storyline lies another little life inside me planned for this exact season of my life.

This child is yet another gift straight from Heaven above.

Amazing!

The first few weeks we had known I wasn't sad or in disbelief, I was in "trying to figure out how and when this happened" mode. I over analyzed every single date of the month. There was a lot of racking my brain, but thankfully, I am over that now. I know I'm pregnant and that's all there is to it. Time to move on!

So, with out any hesitation I can say that

This Child was PLANNED!

And they will show their little face by the end of January 2012!!!