How Baby Ethan came to be...

Brad and I met in our high school gym class when I asked him how to pronounce the last name on the back of his shirt, little did I know that would be my last name someday. I thought his legs looked great in gym shorts :0) We had a brief fling, then summer came and we lost touch. A couple years later, he took a job at Rainforest Cafe where I worked.

It didn't take us long to reconnect, we hung out all the time and were roommates within two months. We were best friends for a year, when finally we realized how compatible we were. After awhile, we moved into an apartment by ourselves and he asked me to marry him on Fat Tuesday. On May 24th, 2007 at Unity Temple, we were married; just a handful of our close family members were there.

Brad left for his deployment in Iraq in June 2007 and returned in June 2008. While he was on leave in January, we flew to Boston where I got to meet his mother's side of the family. That July, we took a road trip to Oregon and Seattle... it was amazing. We got to see the very first Starbucks, and we stayed with the "grandparents" who "adopted" him while he was overseas. We both went to UMKC and took a couple classes together the following semester. We had our big wedding on September 14th, 2008 at Unity Temple on the Plaza with 100 of our close friends and family. 

In the following April and May 2009, we took 3 trips to Chicago for the Yellow Ribbon program, where we also did some sightseeing. Also in May, I finally graduated with my Bachelor of Arts with a major in Psychology that month. After graduation, Brad and I took a trip to Orlando to visit my brother Jeff, brother Doug, his wife Jessica, and their 20 month old Noah and 1 month old Briony. We had a great time with the family and going to DisneyLand and Universal Studios. Little Noah is the reason I wanted kids so bad, he is just too cute!

We tried to hold off the baby itch for awhile, but when we bought our first house in Overland Park in November 2009, we decided there was no "right time" to have a baby... so we should just go for it! It must have been fate, because when we moved in we painted the spare bedroom blue. In January we became pregnant and on June 2nd, 2010, we found out we were having a boy (just what Brad wanted).

In May, we finally took our Honeymoon. We went to Rome, Italy and Athens, Greece. We saw so many things we've only read about in books, and took over a thousand pictures.

Feeling our little Baby Ethan kick is the most exhilarating feeling I have ever had. We read to him every night and can't wait to meet him!