"What to Expect"... From Your Mother-in-law!

So Heff and I were in Newport this weekend for a big Heffernan family gathering celebrating Bernice's 91st birthday... while we were gone Janet was graciously taking care of our awful beasts for a few days. We came home Sunday to a clean house as our housecleaners (who usually show up unexpectedly on random days) had been to tidy up and they found my pregnancy book "What To Expect When You're Expecting" somewhere under the couch and left it right on top of the Scrabble dictonary in the living room, with a bookmark in it nonetheless! It was one of the books Heff and I picked up on a walk downtown Palo Alto a few weeks ago, anxious for some what do we do now reading... Heff got "The Expectant Father" :)

Needless to say I thought our cover was blown Sunday as Janet had to have seen the book! BUT... I think I pulled off a huge cover-up by announcing at Sunday night dinner with the fam that I was planning to visit Kim Carter again this week (who is homebound 20 weeks pregnant with triplets!) to deliver a "What To Expect" book a girl from work had given me to pass on to her since it "had a good section on triplets." Phew... the only problem was I that I was so nervous about pulling off the successful fib I took a swig of the red wine glass in front of my plate after I finished talking!! I guess one sip can't hurt that much and Heff slyly finished the rest for me :)

Fake beer tastes pretty good

It's so hard to keep it a secret but we were saying our prayers and taking good care of me to make sure this baby isn't going anywhere. The hardest part in keeping the secret is the dead giveaway in not drinking... I always thought I'd have a hard time not drinking when I got pregnant, but I don't have any desire for wine or beer since I found out I was pregnant. Brian offered not to drink either but that's no fun! He might as well take advantage of having a DD while he can. He is very sweet to offer though and he has been "taking one for the team" secretly sipping my wine, switching our beer bottles and ordering vodka tonics, hold the vodka.

The three hardest people to pass the "not drinking in front of" test... Kat, Kristie Flynn and my mom.

1) The day after I found out I was pregnant I went over to Katherine's house to hang out while she babysat her friends two adorable kids... which of course includes wine! She poured me a tall glass I couldn't say no to and had to pour it in the sink a little at a time (sorry Kat, hate to waste good wine!) but as far as I know, she couldn't tell.

2) We were out with the Flynn's in Red Bluff last week and went to dinner at the Green Barn in town. Heff and I arrived early and ordered a sparkling water with lime that looked like a vodka tonic. Of course the guy used a tall water glass and when Kristie and Brendon arrived she told the waitress "I want what she's having!" I looked at the waitress and said "tall vodka tonic" with a wink... they brought her a different, smaller glass, but I don't think it raised too many eyebrows. Heff helped drink the red wine they poured which of course meant I was driving back to Claire and Tom's!

3) Sunday night dinner at Su Hong with Jan and John after church this weekend. We sat at the bar to watch the end of the football game and luckily Jan wanted a Sapporro so we "split" one. I told her it tasted better from the bottle so she didn't notice she drank the whole thing :) Then of course John orders a bottle of chardonnay (which my husband says is wine for cooking, not drinking) and the waiter poured 4 HUGE glasses. Heff had to drink both mine and his... I was giving him "I'm sorry!" looks all night and he was lauhing (sort of) after we dropped my parents off that he was plotting how to explain a DUI with his inlaws should he have been pulled over that night!


Jan and John's Anniversary Party
The other night I came home tired from work so Heff went to the store and got me "fake beer" or non-alcoholic Beck's. It actually tastes pretty good! Heff refreshed my fake beer in our camo wedding coozies during my parents 30th anniversary party too. :)

It's tough to pull this part off! Does everyone have this problem or am I just a well known lush??

6 months ago... it was 106 degrees and we were married!

We celebrated our 6 month anniversary today. On one hand it's gone by so fast and on the other I feel like I've been married to Heff for a lot longer. I am so lucky to have a husband who loves me so much and is so good to me...

So we are feeling very lucky to be pregnant! 8 more months seems so far away, but I'm still nervous and don't want to get too excited. it doesn't seem real, sometimes I forget I am pregnant and then it's a wave of excitement when I remember. We are at 5 weeks 4 days (not that we're counting or anything!) and still can't tell anyone for 7-8 weeks!

We are anxiously awaiting while this litle one forms and hopefully grows into a healthy strong baby!

We're saying our prayers and counting our blessings...

Mare and Heff

We're having a baby! But no one knows it yet!!

We're having a BABY!!! We found out Thursday January 11, 2007 and we are SOO excited! I had just gotten back late Wednesday night from a trip to LA to hang out with my uncles and make sure Uncle Jerry made it through his heart surgery Wednesday with flying colors. When I woke up Thursday morning I took a pregnancy test without much confidence it would yeild anything but "one pink line." I acually forgot about it and left it lying in the bathroom medicine cabinet. I stayed home that morning since work wasn't expecting me back from LA yet and I'd been working non-stop lately. I was watching baby shows on TLC all morning (which is nothing new, they've been my favorite shows since I was 12!) when Heff called to say he was coming home for lunch so I got myself off the couch and took a shower around 11. I grabbed the test to throw it away when I took a second look and thought I saw a faint second line. I immediately took a second test and there it was again! Very faint, as I was only 4 weeks 0 days. I couldn't wait for Heff to get home and tell him the news... 2 PINK LINES!! He was beside himself excited, but we know there is a long way to go to make sure this little one makes it through the first trimester so we are as my husband says "cautiously optomistic."

This is how it went....

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