la vita e bella

over a year ago, i decided that i was going to tell my best friend how i really felt about him. i invited him over to drink beer and watch jeopardy (our usual). i was so nervous about telling him with the fear that he wouldn't feel the same way, or that it could ruin our friendship. as i was gathering the liquid courage to tell him, he beat me to it. he told me how he had been in love with me for a long time, how he knew he wanted to spend his life with me, and then we had our first kiss :) 

two months ago, we said "i do," and this has been the happiest/craziest/scariest two months of my life. we found out in june that we are going to be first time parents, and we couldn't be happier. 

within our first month of marriage, matt and I found out that our little boy would be born with gastroschisis, a birth defect that affects 1 in 10,000 babies. gastroschisis is a defect that allows the intestines, and sometimes other organs, to protrude outside the abdominal cavity.

 each case is different, and our baby may spend anywhere from one to several months in the NICU depending on the severity and complications that he may have. the same week we got the awful call from the doctor, i had surgery on my armpit to remove a "third boob" i was apparently growing, joy! :P 

so in the last two months, i have learned that 

we have a very tough and challenging road ahead of us. but as long as i have my best friend by my side, i know that there is absolutely nothing that we can't overcome as long as we have each other, and everything will make us stronger people/parents in the end. 

as for baby david, i know that he's already a little fighter, and is gonna be one tough cookie, just like mama and daddy.