Well, we were hoping for a baby, but we were completely shocked to find out that one month was all it took. We were in Park City, Utah, with my family for a ski vacation when we found out. At that point I was still planning on competing in Ironman Lake Placid 2010, so I started each day really early at the gym before most of the house was up and about. Then most days we'd go skiing. The conditions were perfect- new powder on the mountain, and not many skiiers in town due to the Sundance Film Festival. Heaven! It snowed several days, but that never bothers me when I'm on skis :)
On Thursday, January 28, towards the end of the trip, I realized that I was had been experiencing some bizarre symptoms for a few days. I thought maybe it was the altitude or the combination of ironman training and skiing. However when I told Dan about it, we decided I should take a pregnancy test, just in case. The tricky part was that we didn't have an easy way to get to a drugstore by ourselves. The next morning, Elizabeth had gotten tickets for Dave, Dan, and myself to see "The Romantics", a Sundance film festival movie. Dan and I headed to the gym and then met them at the theater. The movie was great!! On the bus ride back into town where the house was, we passed by a Rite Aid. Dan and I saw our opportunity, yelled "headache, need advil, see you back at the house" to Elizabeth and Dave and jumped out of the bus before they had a chance to turn their heads. Later, back at the house, I tried the first of the three pregnancy tests. 3 long minutes later we saw a faint positive. !!!!. We sat on the bed with our mouths agape looking at each other. I took the remaining 2 tests over the next 24 hours, all with the same result!! It seemed too good to be true (I mean, it CAN'T really be that easy, can it??), so I convinced myself something must be wrong. We kept the news to ourselves and enjoyed the remaining hours in Park City.
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