My Life: Big Announcement

I’m sitting in a hotel room at Camp LeJune writing blog posts, editing photos  and trying to ignore the fact that I say goodbye to my husband for six months in just a couple days.  I’m trying not to cry because he should be walking through the door to take me to lunch at any moment and I don’t want him to see me crying yet.  I get one night this week to cry in his arms and today is not it.  It’s not that I think it isn’t okay to cry it’s just that I’d rather spend that time laughing with him and having fun.  Crying will get it’s time but for now we are going to focus on the good things!!

If you remember back in January I loaded the pups up and we came down here to spend the weekend hanging out by the beach with David.  It was three days filled with nothing to do but hang out with each other and the dogs!  I posted about it at the time because I fell in love with my husband again that weekend!  Not that I didn’t love him before I came down but I was reminded of how much I love him!  I didn’t know it at the time but I left that weekend with more then just a renewed love for my husband :)!

Something that is going to make this deployment a little bit more crazy then expected!  Something that we have prayed to God for and are thrilled that he has chosen now to bless us with!

A NEW PUPPY!!!!

Just kidding!!!

David and I are thrilled to announce…..I’M PREGNANT!!!! That’s right we are now expecting a new First Mate for the boat this fall! I firmly believe God has a reason for his timing and he has allowed us to share the first ultrasound experience together and he will have my husband home a couple weeks before my due date!

I’m calling this our first family photo!

After having a miscarriage last year we decided to wait to tell anyone including our parents till after we had the ultrasound. I was terrified but right away we could see our baby and watch it move around and wave it’s arms at us! We were able to hear a strong heartbeat and cry with relief that everything was perfect!  I’m just about to enter my second trimester and everything has been fabulous!  Thank you Lord for sparing me morning sickness!!!  I pray that the rest of this pregnancy goes as easy and we can’t wait to bring our baby home!  We’ve decided to wait to find out the sex, we think it is one of life’s last little surprises that are left!  Am I biased for thinking my baby’s first photo is adorable and it looks so cute!!  I can’t wait to meet him or her in October with David by my side!!

Big THANK YOU to Charlotte Tittle for taking the photos of David and I!!

Melissa Arlena

Melissa Arlena is an award winning lifestyle newborn photographer in Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia who has earned her Master Photographer Certification from NAPCP in maternity, newborn and family photography. Her natural and simple work has been featured in magazines and online blogs worldwide. She has been named Best Maternity and Newborn Photographer in Richmond and Charlottesville, VA in 2024.

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