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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

It's Official - She's ONE!

Yesterday was Miss Riley's first birthday! I can't believe it's come and gone already. I'm having many mixed emotions over her first birthday but I'll save that for a later post. More importantly is how the birthday girl celebrated her big O-N-E!

If anyone knows me they know that I'm a birthday FREAK! I love birthdays, birthday celebrations, presents, anything birthday - I LOVE IT! So, Miss Riley's first birthday had to be all sorts of special and it all started a week ago when Grandma and Grandpa Las Vegas came to see her. We played, we ate, we spent time together. Unfortunately, I didn't take a lot of pictures. The only picture worth sharing is of me and Miss Riley at our families favorite mexican restaraunt. Riley looks like she may have had too many Marghartia's at this point.



This past weekend was actually Riley's weekend extravaganze. Friday night was the family birthday party with Shelly's family. Saturday was a small birthday party with a few of her/our friends. Sunday was a birthday visit with Grandma Connie (my Mom) and Sunday was birthday with her Mommies at the petting zoo. This little girl is loved, and spoiled, by so many people.

Below I've created a slide show of pictures from her Birthday Weekend Extravaganza. And I promise I'll be back soon with LOTS of updates because there is a lot to catch you up on.



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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!