It was October 14 at 3 p.m. and my husband and I were exchanging our wedding vows in Michigan. We are both young and were ready to start our lives together.

After the long drive home (we lived in Colorado) we were ready to settle into the wonderful life of being a married couple. We had talked about kids before, but had come to no real conclusion about them. We talked about kids and decided that we weren't going to prevent it, but we weren't going to try either.

I thought we wouldn't have a baby until at least another year. It was only two short weeks later that I was feeling not quite like myself. I was late for my period and I just had this feeling. But we had only been married for two weeks and nothing could happen that fast.

So one Sunday night my husband and I were sitting at Barnes and Noble. I was reading through some pregnancy books and every time I would read something that I was feeling or that my body was doing I would point it out to my husband. He would look at me and tell me I wasn't pregnant. So I would read on and still there were symptoms, I just knew it. So that night I begged and begged and we went to the store and bought a home pregnancy test. I read the box and it said that it was best if taken in the morning. So I tossed and turned all night, wondering if this was the last night before I knew I was pregnant.

First thing the next morning I jumped up and took my test while my husband was taking a shower. When the line showed up faint at first that I was, I still told myself to wait the full five minutes. So I took the dog out and when I came back in the line was so there I couldn't deny the fact that I was pregnant. I was so happy that I leapt into the shower with my husband in my pjs. I never would have expected that it would be so soon. But now at 20 weeks along, I couldn't imagine life without him or her. It truly is a blessing.

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