Jax Taylor and wife Brittany Cartwright announce they are expecting their first child together

There’s more baby joy for the stars of Vanderpump Rules as Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright have just announced they have a little one on the way.

Brittany took to Instagram on Monday to share the happy news, posting a photo of the couple sitting together on their staircase and holding up their ultrasound images.

‘Mom & Dad. The love of our lives is coming soon.’ Brittany wrote in the caption. 

Jax also shared the photos on his Instagram. He gushed in his caption ‘Sooooo,……..I am gonna be Dad..’

In the cute snaps Brittany, 31, wears a floral dress as Jax, 41, sits behind her cradling her baby bump. 

In the fall-inspired snaps the couple sit surrounded by mini pumpkins. Jax looks sharp in a crisp white shirt and jeans.

The couple – who married in June 2019 in Brittany’s native Kentucky – told PEOPLE that they their baby is arriving in April 2021.

Brittany described her excitement when she found out she was pregnant.

‘We had been trying for around five months and we just can’t wait to grow our family. I had the ovulation sticks and all the apps… we were ready to go!

She told PEOPLE: ‘I woke up super early to go to the restroom and just had a feeling I should take a test and it was positive!! I cried, I laughed, we were just so happy!! Then I took three more tests and cried some more.’

The couple don’t yet know the sex of the baby but should be finding out in the next few days.

‘I can’t wait to start shopping and getting the nursery ready. I am just so overjoyed and every day I fall more in love. Boy or girl, we are just so ecstatic!!’ Brittany gushed.

The loved-up duo opened up about their family plans to Us Weekly in April 2019. 

‘I’m definitely eager to have kids and Jax is eager to have kids,’ Brittany said.

‘He’ll be 40 two weeks after [the wedding]. I’m 30, we’re ready. We’re buying a house. When it happens it happens. We’re not going to be very careful. We’re gonna let it come with God’s grace, and he’ll give us a baby when it’s ready.’

It’s an exciting time for the SUR gang with two more babies on the way. 

Jax and Brittany’s former costar Stassi Schroeder announced her pregnancy in June. She is expecting a baby girl with fiancé Beau Clark. 

She announced the news shortly after being fired by Bravo following the controversy around some of her past racist actions. 

Stassi, 32, was dropped from the show with longtime pal Kristen Doute and two other newcomers to the reality series, Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni. 

And SUR hostess Lala Kent is expecting a baby girl with her fiancé Randall Emmett. They were planning to marry in April 18 but had to delay their wedding due to COVID-19.