Wedding and a Baby

Well, in case you didn't know, I'm getting married AND I'm pregnant. Yep, all at once. No, it is not a shotgun wedding. Why not you may ask? Well:

1. No one forced him to marry me.
2. We had talked about and were thinking of getting married someday anyway.
3. We've got good reasons to do it before the baby comes

For a reminder, a shotgun wedding is one that traditionally takes place after the bride-to-be gets pregnant, and her father holds the groom-to-be at gunpoint and forces him to marry his daughter in order to not have a bastard child/child out of wedlock/make the family look bad. Well guess what? We're 27 and 28 years old, employed, living together, and we love each other. Why not get married since I ended up pregnant? Yes, ended up. We weren't actively trying to make a baby, but God works his own ways like that. It's for the best anyway. It was about time I started manufacturing young and besides, the whole starting a family thing would have taken another year or so for us to get together. I will say that it would have been less stressful that way, and the fact that I just lost my mom may or may not have stung so hard with all this going on, but in the end, it was a good time. Why, you might ask? Well: 

1. If we waited until after the baby was born, the earliest it would happen would more than likely be December. I don't want to get married in December. There's my birthday, Christmas, New Years, and unpredictable GA (and US) weather in December. I'm good without all of that happening at once.
2. Therefore, the earliest we'd get married if we waited would be Spring 2012. He didn't want to wait that long.
3. Should something happen to go wrong during labor, I personally thought it would be easier to be there with my husband rather than my baby's dad. My mom's not here anymore and I kind of don't want anyone else making health decisions on my behalf if they haven't been around me. 
4. How cool is it in this day and age to be at the hospital having your kids with your HUSBAND?!? Doesn't always happen like that anymore.
5. I'm old fashioned. Yeah, I pushed it at first, because I really didn't want the baby to arrive without the husband. I can't help it. Something I was taught while growing up stuck. Oh well. I got over it, but we still made the decision anyway.

So on June 4, 2011, I will become Mrs. Linly and around September 9, 2011 we'll welcome Chloe Giovanni Linly into the world. 

I'm excited!