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Friday, January 2, 2009

Family Pictures

We decided to give Shelly's Mom and Dad pictures of their three Grandkids for Christmas. We arranged for a professional photographer to take pictures of the three kids, as well as a few family pictures.

We ended up with beautiful pictures of the three kids but we also got wonderful pictures of our family, us with Riley individually, and adorable pictures off little Miss.

Here are a few of our favorites. Enjoy!

The three Grandkids:


Our family pictures:


Shelly and Riley:


Dee and Riley:


Riley signing "I Love You":


Riley trying to figure out how to get off the bridge and into the river:
Riley being bribed to smile and hold still with bubbles:

Misc. pics of little Miss:
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6 comments:

Audra said...

precious!

January 2, 2009 at 4:53:00 PM MST
my--four--sons said...

Those pics turned out so cute. I am glad your blogging again. I love getting Riley updates :)

January 2, 2009 at 7:04:00 PM MST
K J and the kids said...

Look at you blogging.
LOVE the pictures.
Do I know about bubbles for smiles.
and candy. and begging. and mommy will buy you a pony. and....

Cute grandkids.

January 2, 2009 at 9:05:00 PM MST
Unknown said...

So good to see you blogging again! LOVE the pictures. I am not sure if you have read my blog before... but I wanted you to know we ended up going the same route as you guys. I was the gestational carrier and we used my partner's eggs. We have a 5 month old son as a result! Would love to chat with you sometime about it via email or something!

January 3, 2009 at 4:45:00 PM MST
Stacey said...

love those pictures!!!!! she is getting so big and she's as cute as ever!

January 4, 2009 at 9:49:00 PM MST
Shelly said...

Your family pics turned out great! Riley is so adorable and has such a cute little personality! Love them!!

January 25, 2009 at 8:02:00 AM MST

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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!