The decision to start a family was not as simple as I had thought

Jenessa and Justin's pregnancy announcement ♡

All growing up I knew that I wanted to have kids. I knew that I wanted a family and I was always excited for the day that I would get married and be able to start my family. I went through high school, had fun dating, and met my best friend. We both went on missions, came home, and fell even more in love and decided to get married. That will forever be the best decision I have ever made. A few months later I started to realize that I was finally where I always looked forward to being. The funny part was that the decision to start a family was not as simple as I had thought. I never realized how many factors would play in to that decision. Timing with schooling, finances, and many other things started to worry me and make we wonder when we would be able to make the final decision to start our family. I thought about it for months and months on end and I realized that there never is a good time to start a family so I started to look at each set back individually. I thought about wanting to spend more time with my husband before we started to have kids, I knew that this was important but we had been married for over a year and known each other for a long time before that. I thought about our future children and decided that I was being kind of selfish by waiting to bring them into the world. I thought about schooling, and knew I had a year and a half left. I knew I didn’t want to wait that long to start our family so I decided that I would pray and see how it felt. The more I prayed the more things started to fall into place and we decided that it was finally time. One year and four months into being married we were finally ready and I couldn’t be happier. I stopped taking my birth control and then three weeks later we took the test. I was bummed because there was no little line saying I was pregnant but then my husband looked at it and noticed a faint little line and we both knew what that meant. We are so excited to be having our first little baby in March. We waited until I was about two months pregnant and then decided to tell our parents. It has been fun to see how everything worked out to make this happen. I have been amazed to see how much God has blessed our family as we made the decision to get pregnant. Things have truly worked out even when we didn’t know if they would.

- Jenessa