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Monday, July 23, 2007

Time Flies

Our baby girl is two months old! Two months! Wow!!! It seems like just yesterday we were headed to the hospital to have our precious miracle. If it's even possible I love her more and more each day. She's such a calm, happy, easy going baby. Her smiles melt my heart. I so love being a Mom. Yes, there are times when it's tough but every minute is worth it.

Two months into motherhood and Shelly and I make a pretty good team. We take turns getting up with her at night. Which is usually around 3:00 am. Shelly's the Mom in Charge (MoC) Monday through Friday. I'm the MoC on weekends and sometimes on weeknights. I even took Miss Riley for her first trip to the Grocery Store this weekend. She was, as always, a good baby. She just sat in her seat and took in all the sites and sounds.

We are so lucky to have the support and love from our family and friends. Shelly and I have been able to have date night every week since Riley came home from the hospital. Even though we spend the entire time talking about our baby. :) And we always rush to get home to her as soon as we can. But, at least we get the time alone together.

Ok, enough gushing. How about some pictures!

Baby's first 4th! Thanks to some dear friends in New York for sending Riley this adorable 4th of July onesie! Riley was quite the party animal on the 4th as you can tell.



Here's the little Miss giving a shout out to her New York peeps. Another adorable gift from our New York friends. Riley's accumulating quite the travel shirt collection.



A few weeks ago Tate (and her Mommies) brought Talor over to meet Miss Riley. Here's a little slide show of their adventure.

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Our Conception Story

After eight years together we were pretty sure we'd spend our life with our four legged kids, doing lots of camping, and traveling the world. On August 12, 2004 that all changed with the birth of our God Daughter Tate. We immediately fell completely in love with her and soon began to re-think our decision of not having kids.

In October 2005 we began the process of trying to conceive. As soon as we started trying Shelly began having very erratic cycles which made the process that more complicated. After four tries over six months we decided to schedule a consultation with the a Reproductive Specialist. We were desperate to conceive and on a limited time frame since Shelly had just turned 41. Dee was 35 at the time but not able to conceive due to a medical procedure.

Our first appointment with the Repro Man was May 2006. He suggested we try IVF using Dee's eggs and Shelly as the gestational mother. He felt this scenario would give us the highest chance for success of a healthy pregnancy. We spent a short amount of time weighing our options and decided this was the best choice. We began our first IVF cycle in August. They did the Egg Retrieval and Fertilization on 8/31. Three days later, 9/3, they transferred three embryos into Shelly. Then the wait began.

Shelly promised not to begin the home pregnancy test too soon. Dee had to travel out of state for business a week after the transfer and asked Shelly to please wait to test. BUT, the wait was too much for her and she started testing after a week. At first there was no line. But after a couple of days testing a faint line started to appear. When Dee came home from her trip Shelly told her, "I know I'm pregnant." Dee didn't believe her and insisted the line wasn't dark enough so she tested herself to compare. There was absolutely no line. She began to believe Shelly was pregnant but still had doubt. Dee went to the store and bought another brand of testing strips. After five home tests, we were convinced we we're pregnant due to all positive results. A blood test at two weeks confirmed it; we were going to have a baby!