Heyyy :-)

I (Joe too) decided to start a blog so our family and friends can keep up to date with our new family's doings! We are having a baby! We are due December 19, 2008. We are both very excited for our new addition to our (new) family :-) As many of our family already knows, I will not be carrying our little bean, who we nicknamed 'chub chubs'. I really wanted to, but it wasn't in the cards for us, right now at least. Thankfully, God blessed us with a wonderful woman who will be our gestational surrogate. Chub chubs is genetically ours, who will be taken care of by an amazing woman, C, for the next 7 months. We met her through an agency back in October. Over the months, our friendship has developed into more of a sister relationship! She is an amazing person who has 4 children of her own, a great supportive husband, as well as wonderful supportive parents. We are truly blessed to be close to all of them. God has worked wonders in our lives and we cannot wait to see what lies ahead. We had our third ultrasound last weds, which showed one healthy heartbeat of 155! C is being released by our RE (reproductive embroyologist) and is able to start fresh with a new OB. We are not sure when our first appointment will be, as OB's usually do not see patients until they are 10 or so weeks along. We are 8 weeks, 1 day. But we are very excited for the next ultrasound. Joe has not seen chub chubs on the u/s screen yet, so hopefully he will be able to soon. As far as finding the sex out, we decided we will. It would be too hard to wait. We have been going back and forth (actually just I have hehe). Since C will know, we figured we want to know too! hehe That ultrasound will be around the end of July, beginning of August. So be on the lookout! :-)

We will be updating on here as often as possible! :-)