guess what...?!

Yup, it's true. As of March 2015 (Lord willing), we will no longer just be the two of us. 

It is very exciting & terrifying & feels right. 

It will change everything. 

I will be responsible for another human life in a way I've never been before.

That's scary. 

It means Illinois is more permanently not home than ever before, & Oregon is home, will be my children's home. 

That's bittersweet. 

My family will have to be long-distance aunts & uncles. 

He won't have the last name I grew up with. 

She won't know what I mean when I say "Fugate Woods", "Dave's", "humidity", "thunderstorms".

But he will have a view of the mountains;

a close family that adores them; 

a far family that adores them just as much;

cousins within months;

a growing-up-on-a-farm experience;

And we are happy & wouldn't want it any other way.