A little while back I posted about our trip to Amelia Island to see Eli and Amelia. In that post I mentioned that it was one of our most memorable trips with them but I did not go into any details. Well, this is the follow-up post on that trip. First, I need to give a little background information. Amelia and Eli got married five years ago and about three years after that they decided to start a family. After not being able to get pregnant they ended up at a fertility specialist who after a very short time, told them that the only way they were going to have a baby was through in vitro. Eli and Amelia left the office feeling overwhelmed and a little surprised that the doctor had made that determination so quickly. They decided to wait on the in vitro and began praying that the Lord would give them a peace about how they should proceed. When we were with them a couple of weeks ago, they had been praying about if and when they should go forward with the procedure, for about six months. One day while we were with them, Amelia told me that she had not been feeling well for a couple of days. She said she would feel hungry and then when she would start to eat she couldn't eat very much. I said, a little jokingly, "well maybe you are pregnant." The next morning she came into the room and said, "Grace, I was just dumping out a casserole and I almost threw up". I said "gross, how old was the casserole?" She said, "It wasn't old at all, that's the weird part." I said "you need to take a pregnancy test." Eli had just gone to the store for breakfast supplies so Amelia called him and told him to pick up a pregnancy test. (A small side note, Eli did some bargaining with the guy on the pregnancy test price :). ) When Eli got home Amelia went straight to the bathroom, I was watching TV and the boys were playing a computer game. Two minutes later Amelia poked her head out of her room and silently summoned me in. When I got to her bathroom she was staring at the test. I looked down and saw a very clear pink cross. We looked at each other in amazement and I said, "Amel, you are pregnant honey!) She was in pure shock. She went out to Eli and told him to come to their room. When she showed him the test he was speechless. Neither one of them could believe what they were seeing. I went out and got Pete and told him that her test had been positive. We all huddled in their bedroom, Pete reassuring Amelia that if the test had a plus then that was a 99.9% positive result. Eli could not quiet smiling and Amelia was in denial. We had to look up the reasons for false positive results just to make sure she had done nothing that could have skewed the test, she had not. If the test were not enough confirmation, the next morning as we were getting ready for church Amelia threw up two times. She went to the doctor the next week and was told that she was indeed 8 weeks pregnant and was able to see an ultrasound of their little tadpole. God is so good and he never ceases to amaze us! It was such an amazing and exciting trip, and Pete and I were so blessed to be a part of their little miracle. We are eagerly anticipating the arrival of baby Rowe in March!!!
The night before, neither one of them expecting that in about 12 hours their lives were going to change forever and that the prayers of so many people were about to be answered.
Right after Amelia showed Eli the test.
She took another test about 20 minutes later to make sure it produced the same results...it did.
A very happy but completely astonished soon to be mama.
Eli could not be smiling any bigger if he tried. You can tell that Amelia is still a little reserved on her own joy.
I of course, was completely convinced and ecstatic, and also wishing I had finished applying my make-up before taking this picture!
Amelia explaining to Eli what they were looking at. Please note her facial expression.
The four soon to be parents. Later that day we were talking about the amazement of the situation and how fun it was that Amelia and I got to be pregnant at the same time. We realized that although they would not be born in the same year, our children would be in the same grade at school. We had often said that we want to have our children close together. Amelia and Eli started trying to conceive a couple of years before Pete and I were ready and Amelia use to joke that the Lord was waiting on us to allow them to get pregnant... maybe she was right!
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