Our Story

Here's our story:

Michael and I got married in April 2008 after dating since 2003.

If I had it my way we would've had a baby right away. Ask my mom. When I started college, my mom asked what I wanted to major in and I told her that all I wanted was to get married, have babies, and be a mom.  She told me that wasn't an option so I ended up with a degree in Elementary Education because in my mind that was the closest thing to being a mom (and I also thought being a teacher would help me be a better mom in the future).

 Anyway, the original plan was to buy a house and get settled in before we decided to grow our family. A year after getting married we bought of first house.  Our house was built in 1959 and needed a lot of fixing up to make it a place that was both functional and our own.  We had a lot of work ahead of us and with construction costs and just the costs of owning a home in general, the thought of having a baby was pushed back a while. 

 After finishing up the major projects with the house (a year later), I was ready to have a baby.  Michael, on the other hand, was not so ready.  I decided that if I couldn't have a baby then we should get a puppy instead. We ended up getting a chocolate lab puppy and set the timeline for babies back another year.  (Michael has since said that he often wished we had a baby instead of getting the dog though!) Our sweet puppy, Cooper, is now 2 years old.

Now we no longer had any excuses to keep waiting to start our family. This July my prescription for my birth control pills ran out, so we decided that I would stop taking it and just get pregnant whenever it happened, trusting that God's timing would be better than our own. It's easy to say that you are just going to "let it happen when it happens" and not stress out about it, but in reality it is hard. You just want it to happen right away! So every month would come and go and I would just try not to make too big of a deal that it wasn't happening right away. But like always, God's timing is always better that what I could ever possibly plan on my own.   And so begins our journey through pregnancy and parenthood...