White lies at the wedding ...

I finally found a suitable dress to wear at the wedding (along with some other dresses that I can wear to work; for some reason, I'm very anti-pants right now thanks to the bloating!).

The wedding was beautiful -- very emotional and the bride & groom are perfect for each other. Then came time for the reception ... the reception led to a series of white lies for Mike and I. It was harder to keep our secret under wraps at the wedding than it was at the rehearsal dinner.

1. There was an open bar. I kept trying to site my migraine medication for why I couldn't partake in the mojitos everyone seemed to be having, but I was sensing they were starting to doubt my excuse =)

2. I ordered a steak. Initially, I told Mike that pregnant women couldn't eat medium-rare meat (it's the only way I eat steaks/burgers). I guess he misinterpreted that as "pregnant women can't eat red meat" in general. So when I stepped away from the table to pee (again) and the server brought us our 2 steaks, Mike immediately said, "My wife ordered chicken, not steak." His friend Sevan ordered chicken and suggested that he can switch with me instead. I guess Mike told them that I wasn't much of a meat eater, so that switching would be a good idea. When I got back to the table and saw the chicken I said, "Oh -- I ordered steak" Mike kept saying, "Are you sure? I don't think you did. YOu got the chicken." To which I said, "No -- I never order chicken. I always order steak" (I really wanted the steak at this point and I noticed that it was cooked well, not medium rare so I knew I could eat it). So Sevan asked if I wanted to switch and I said, "Sure! Thanks -- I'm totally a meat eater!" Sevan's wife looked surprised and said, "That's funny! Mike just told us you totally weren't a meat eater!" Both Mike and I blushed, laughed it off and said nothing. Hahahaha ... we totally suck at this lying thing!!

3. Dancing. People who know Mike and I know that we love to dance. So when people told us to get on the dance floor and shake it, it was odd that Mike and I only did a very sublte two-step. It was the most restrained dancing ever!! I don't even think we were dancing to the beat anymore. We were just kind of dancing side-to-side in slow motion! Hahaha ... we were laughing at how funny we must have looked. To make it worse, the entire wedding party started to do Irish clogging -- which is like river dancing aka jumping up and down -- and Mike and I couldn't participate! I ended up doing this lame "can-can" thing with my leg with no hop or jump to it and decided to call it a day and just head home.

There was a point in the evening when we were kind of tired of being so secretive (it's so hard to keep such wonderful news under wraps!!) and Mike wanted to just announce to the table that we were pregnant. However, again, we didn't want to take away from Mike and Christine's wedding, so we opted to keep mum about it for a little longer.

Before we went to sleep that night, Mike put his ear to my stomach and swore he heard a "swish" noise ... he said it was like a fish tank!!! I can't wait to tell my family about the baby tomorrow at church! It's been so hard keeping this from them!