Hi I'm Mandi and this is my new blog! I have been reading blogs for years but never actually had the guts to make my own. Well now that I have an 8 month old and just got engaged I figured this is the time! I may not be the best writer or great with grammar so please keep that in mind :)
So to start off Ill tell you a little about me and my family. I'm 27 years old and live in a small town called Marquette, Michigan. I have a love/hate relationship with this place! I love the summers for being on Lake Superior but I hate the winters for the same reason. I work at the hospital here in the Lab. I had Grace May 29,2011 and she is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Ryan and I met in April of 2011 and immediately had a connection. He lived in Ann Arbor at the time and I was in Marquette. He was up for the next to weekends only for NITs basketball. After the second weekend we started talking everyday for hours. 3 weeks after meeting he asked me to meet him in Traverse City with his entire family to see him. After that we were officially dating and spent the rest of the summer driving either for him to Marquette or me to Ann Arbor. Our entire relationship moved pretty fast but I don't regret a thing. I knew he was the one and he felt the same way!
One weekend in October we decided to meet halfway in Mackinaw City to so we could see each other. His mom would be coming through on Saturday on her way home from Kalamazoo and we could all do dinner and hang out. Ryan is originally from Baraga, Michigan and his 3 oldest siblings all lived in Kalamazoo at the time. So the weekend came and went and it was time to say goodbye. I always hated Sundays because it was time to leave and I knew I wouldn't get to see him for another 2 or 3 weeks. I had been having really sore boobs for about a week and didn't think much of it. I was talking to my friend Krysta about this when I got home and she suggested I take a pregnancy test because that was her first symptom when she was pregnant. So I went to Shopko and picked one up. I thought yeah right I'm not pregnant and peed on the test. Literally 1 second later it was positive!!! I was in shock. There is no way this could be true. Ryan and I had only been dating for 6 months what are we going to do?
