Welcome to our blog!

Thanks for taking the time to visit our family blog. I'm writing this to document the trials and joys of starting our family together.

Steven and I are both from Southern California and met in July of 2005. We moved to Salt Lake City,Utah later that year. We grew closer together and stronger as a couple for the next three years and decided to get married on July 26,2008. We just celebrated our first wedding anniversary and are looking forward to many more!

We added our first family member, Rusty the golden retriever, at two years into our relationship. Rusty was at the humane society when we found him and has since become a wonderful companion and watchdog. We got another golden retriever, Dare, about a year later. The two of them are best friends and cannot be separated for any length of time. I don't think we would know what to do without our "kids" around.

Our Trying to Conceive (TTC) Journey to Date

We knew we wanted children a year into our relationship. Medications don't agree with me very well so I went off of birth control and we decided to take the approach of "if it happens great, if not then we'll work on it later". Well that approach hasn't gone so well for us. After our wedding we decided to step it up and I started charting my cycles for ovulation. I fell pregnant in November of 2008 and we lost our baby at 6 weeks. I cannot describe the emotional roller coaster that follows a miscarriage. It's one of the hardest things I've ever been through. Then in June of 2009 I fell pregnant and we were elated! Sadly, I miscarried again at 4 weeks. At that time they discovered a large cervical polyp and had it removed. I saw a new OB/GYN in June and she was very understanding of what we've been through and what we wanted to achieve. She scheduled me for blood work and a HSG (a procedure where a dye is injected into the uterine cavity and x-ray pictures are taken to see if fallopian tubes are blocked or if there are in irregularities of the uterus). The technician that preformed the HSG told me that he didn't see anything out of the ordinary. My follow up OB/GYN appointment is on August 17, where I will find out the results of the blood work. They are looking for any clotting disorders that would cause repeated early miscarriages.