another one bites the dust.

You know what greats REALLY old when you're trying to get pregnant? 

Other people announcing THEY are pregnant.

Ugh.  Yup, I swear every day either one of my friends has a baby or announces their pregnant.  Ok, ok... maybe not EVERY day but probably almost one a week. 

I dealt with not being able to get pregnant for two and a half years....  YEARS!  Then I gave up and fostered a sweet baby girl, Renee.  Renee left us after 2.5 months and I got through that.  Then we got Aiden and of course the month we got Aiden, I became pregnant with Nolyn.  But now, it's been 8 months since my IUD has been out and.... Nothing.

I know it my head it's Gods way of saying it's just not the right time.  I still have a TON of thing to finish in the house for my day care inspection which I know I shouldn't do while pregnant (lots of chemicals and dirt and just nastyness)... but no matter how much you KNOW it's not the right time, doesn't make me want it any less. 

But I guess I should just be happy that I do have two amazing, healthy, growing boys in my life right NOW and hopefully eventually we'll get to add to that.  I would LOVE to foster a girl but I'd have to talk my husband into that.  He really wants to have a child together first.  Which I completely understand. 

But AHHHHH!  Hopefully all the positive pregnancy test pictures, baby showers and new births slow down a bit! 

Coors Light 6 Packs to super cute baby shower gifts??? YES PLEASE!

I make a diaper cake for EVERY baby shower I go to.  But, what do you get the person who you know will end up with MULTIPLE diaper cakes???  I have a friend who has a HUGE family and tons of friends, I could pretty much guarantee that she would get a few.  Who needs 5 diaper cakes???  lol  Usually when I make them, I'm typically the ONLY person who makes them.  But I knew I had to do something different, AND we were low on cash.

 

There is is, HELLOOOOOO Coors Light!  lol!  This friend happened to be a pretty frequent drinker.  Like us, very social, goes to the desert, goes to the river, goes to the popular bars in our part of San Diego.  Not an alcoholic or anything.  lol

So... what would you do with this?

turn it to....

Cute, right?

I went to walmart and asked for one of the 6 pack boxes, so that was FREE!  

Then I spent $5.00 on a scrapbook kit at walmart.

$1.00 on a pack of glittery self adhesive letters at walmart.

and Voila!

Then you stuff it with whatever your heart desires!  I originally wanted to stuff it with the large bottles of soaps and lotions for baby, but once I was at walmart and saw the size of the slots, I didn't thing that would work to well.   SO, I got something I LOVED when I was a new mommy, all the travel sizes!  I got powder, soap, shampoo, lotion, diaper rash cream.  Then in the extra holes I stuffed in a 2 piece outfit and a sleeper! :D  SUPER cute!

I definitely spent under $50 total, and usually when I do a diaper cake I end up spending closer to $100 just cause I end up going ALL out.  At least this way I was confined to the small spaces in the box so I couldn't really spend all that much. 

If you make one, leave me a comment, I'd LOVE to see pictures of yours!  And by the way, the Momma LOVED it! :D  I have a few other pregnant friends who I probably won't go to the shower cause we're not super super close but I'd love to deliver one of these to their house.  So, you'll probably see another one of these in the near future.  lol

And P.S. for anyone waiting for an update on my breast lump biopsy and aspiration tests... STILL haven't heard back.  :(  I've been so busy I haven't had much time to think about it.  LUCKILY!  I think all my friends are purposefully keeping me busy which I'm extremely blessed and thankful for.

I heart babies!

So, I wrote a huge post on saturday and yeah, my internet was SUCKING so it didn't save it and when I clicked save, GONE!  POOF!  ugh.. I was so mad.

So, after installing a new modem/router combo, and calling cox cable who still sucked, but whatever... It looks like it might be working good.  I had the new modem forever, but I hate calling cox, cause well, they suck.  So, on with it...

I did a photo session with a newborn baby on sunday.  They're friends of ours.  She is just so darn precious.  Didn't help my baby fever one bit!

I'm really excited to be pregnant.  I think mainly for my New Husbands side of the family.  Of course they weren't around for me being pregnant with Nolyn, or for when Aiden was first placed with me.  So, it's exciting.  His family REALLY wants a grandbaby.  I mean they already have the boys who of course they consider their grandkids, BUT, it's a different feeling and connection to feel the baby moving in my belly, to see one born, and to snuggle with that fresh baby smell, and watch him/her (hopefully HER) grow up from day one.  That will be a spoiled baby for sure! :D

The baby above, her dad's pretty gangster, lol, so he requested the bandana diaper cover as a must!  lol! 

I <3 this one.  So much love!

So anyways, I spent my sunday doing their shoot and then the bulk of sunday editing them cause I just love baby shoots so much I couldn't wait!

Of course the parents love them! :D  I'm so glad!  I was really excited with how some of them turned out!

Sadie Rae is a cutie patootie for sure!

First Comes Love, then comes marriage, then comes the....

...baby in the baby carriage!

well, at least we hope that's how it works, right?

I already have two children from my previous marriage, one I foster-adopted and one biological, both boys.  Now of course my new husband has taken over the Daddy role, as their "old" daddy (as they call him) thinks 10 hours a month and $150 in child support is being a dad.  Nice, huh?

So, we're almost to our 1 month of marriage mark!

Before marriage, we had discussed doing things backwards and adding a new munchkin to our clan first, but we decided to go the "right" route and give our family the big wedding they wanted and then work on kids.

It took me 2.5 years to get pregnant with my bio son.  So of course we enter this journey with worries of infertility...  And we didn't really want the kids all too far apart.  If we could get pregnant any time soon it'd be ideal.  My oldest son just started kindergarten, my youngest son will start kinder next year, so it would give me the nice along bonding time with the baby that I missed with my youngest son.

And hopefully it's a girl!  lol!  But we won't get into that!

So, this was our first month officially "trying."  I had an IUD for about 3 years which cause MAJOR heavy 5 day periods *sorry tmi* and horrible cramps and after 3 years I was more than happy to be rid of it!  It did it's job well but it was definitely time to part ways.

So thanks to my period tracker app, it's easy to track when my ovulation is and period should be expected.... all that fun stuff.  So, last week was our baby dancing time and we did well.  every other day which was what my fertility doctor had suggested when I was trying with my ex.  Plus I think EVERY day is a little over kill and tends to stress and burn you out and I think thats what causes a lot of the fights and emotional part of infertility.  Feels so much more like a chore when you HAVE to do it.  If we couldn't do it, I didn't freak and I really just enjoyed it and didn't think of it any different.

So, we shall see what comes of this month.  We've got a few months now without using protection and didn't get pregnant but we didn't go anywhere near ovulation so we stayed pretty safe.

I think maybe I'm a little more optimistic getting pregnant this time because I've gotten pregnant and stayed pregnant, so I know it's possible for me and  I think the first time it was all the unknowns!

Our family is pretty excited about the thought of a new baby... especially since the boys are FAR from babies anymore, so everyone can't wait to snuggle up with a fresh little bundle of joy!