Introductions

Venturing into the blog world is a scary thing. Please bare with me as I attempt to put down into words the pregnancy and life of Bean Streett. Before I get to Bean (the nickname for the growing baby in my belly), I want to introduce Bean's loving parents and how they met.

Daren and Shelly met back in the summer of 2005 on a coed softball team. Daren was already a member of the softball team. Shelly got thrown into the mix because the team was short a girl for one of the games. That first meeting was fairly typical - girl impresses all with her amazing skills on the softball field and boy shows how he is lacking in skills of throwing horseshoes. That was it for the first meeting. A softball game and a quick trip to a hole in the wall bar to drink beers and throw horseshoes.

The second meeting occurred on October 16th.  Shelly again got asked to sub for the team in late October for the championship game of the league. The team won and Shelly and Daren have been together ever since.

On February 15, 2010, Daren asked Shelly to be his wife. The proposal included a bag of calla lily bulbs and a gorgeous diamond ring.  While Shelly was excitedly looking at all of the calla lily bulbs Daren pulled out the ring. Shelly of course said yes and the couple started to plan for a wedding on September 11, 2010.

On March 20, 2012, after taking five pregnancy tests, Shelly contacted her doctor at UNC to see if they could do blood work to check if she was pregnant. Only three hours after the blood was drawn did the doctor report back with the positive results. Shelly and Daren's first viewing of Bean occurred the next day when the ultrasound read that little Bean was around six weeks old.  This put the due date for baby Bean at November 15, 2012.