Our Story in a Nutshell

I (Emily) will just start off by telling you, I'm not a blogger.  I'm not great at writing and/or grammar, SO just excuse my mistakes as I try to keep your attention.  :)

Jared and I have been married for 9 1/2 years now and we love being married to each other! We are best friends and love spending time together.  After being married for a few months we decided that we should start trying to have a baby. Well, that went on for a year and then I finally got pregnant! I was pregnant for 11 weeks when I miscarried. It was devastating, but we kept trying and doing different procedures to get pregnant. That went on for another 4 years. During that time I decided to go to school for Esthetics. I love helping people feel better about themselves and this was a fun way to do that. After I graduated from Esthetics school, I started seeing clients out of my home and continued to work part-time at the dentist office I had worked at before school. We talked a lot about putting our adoption papers in and starting the process. We actually filled out the paperwork twice, but it never felt right. Then finally after 5 years of trying to get pregnant, I found out I was going to have a baby! We were so excited!! My pregnancy was really easy, minus the first trimester. I was really sick for about 8-10 weeks.

 Zach was born on November 19th 2010. He was perfect! Jared and I were instantly in love with him and his tiny little features. A month later we celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary. Life was really good. 

When Zach was about 8 months old we started trying to get pregnant again since it took us so long to conceive him. It has been a different experience trying to get pregnant with a little child to worry about and consider too. It actually has made it soooo much easier. As Zach has gotten a little older, (3 1/2 now) he constantly talks about having a little baby to protect. He wants to be a big brother pretty bad. It's really great that he is ready for a little baby to join our family. A few of my close friends have recently had little babies and he loves to look at them and hold them. 

I have had 4 miscarriages since having Zach. After the most recent one, we decided to put our adoption papers in. It finally felt like the right thing to do. Jared and I felt completely at peace with this decision and also excited! We started talking more to Zach about 'when' a baby would come into our family instead of 'if'. 

We are pretty excited about this journey we are on and can't wait to meet our little babe! Thanks for reading!