by Annie Vischer

In one of her most recent interviews, Blake Lively told Marie Claire that if she could spit out a litter of children right now she would. A family, it seems, has been on the couple’s mind since the very beginning, and today they took to Blake’s lifestyle site Preserve to formally announce, via a romantically hazy shot by Blake’s brother Eric, that they are expecting their first child, and to congratulate all the expectant mothers and fathers out there. We wish them all the best!