Last Tuesday my friends Stacia and Codi decided we needed to get out of PA and head up to NYC for some fun. Both their husbands did not have to work and Darin was on the night shift. Codi's husband graciously took care of Nash for me in the morning then Darin picked him up after he caught a few ZZZZZ! I volunteered to drive us into the city as I knew if I did it once on my own then I would be more willing to make the trip more then I have this past year. I always depend on Darin to drive in the crazy cities! It really wasn't that bad. We had NO traffic and the GPS was nice to take us on some scenic routes we had not yet investigated. Not bad at all and I would do it again! Our first stop was the "Serendipity" Restaurant...you know the one from the movie "Serendipity." We had heard it was great and we were not disappointed!
Their menus were super cute and had SO much to choose from.
I did not know until this trip about their famous "Frrrozen Hot Chocolate" which was HEAVENLY and is now a must for every trip to NYC!
This has become my newest craving. Thankfully we do not live too close as I am sure it was 2000 calories.
Darin came home Friday from work with this beautiful lily. I love lilies for Easter! Our sweet friend Maria gave us these gorgeous tulips to enjoy.
I had the tulips on the table in the kitchen. Nash loved smelling them, although they were really tall and in order for him to smell them he had to stand on the table...not my favorite but at least he enjoyed them as much as I did. :)
While I was resting and Darin was in charge Nash got into the chalk and drew us a pretty "titcher." This picture stretched from the dining room all the way up the stairs. Thankfully it was chalk and easy to wash off.
It was hard to get after him when he was so proud of making us a picture. Thank you Nash and everyone else who showed us so much love and kindness!
Our plan for the Saturday before Easter was to go to the Baltimore aquarium but I wasn't feeling to good and ended up sleeping the day away. I felt terrible. Good thing the Easter Bunny didn't forget. Nash woke up early (of course) and made the announcement that he was going down stairs. I jumped out of bed to run down to get a picture of his reaction. I wasn't fast enough and all I heard was "EGGS! EGGS MOMMY!"
Of course the Easter Bunny knew that Nash would be so happy with animals and dinosaurs! And the eggs were full of starburst jelly beans (for mommy) and snickers (for daddy).
He was one happy little boy!
He informed us that this was a Pterodactyl. It seems to be his favorite prize.
My friend posted this on her Facebook yesterday and it brought me a lot of hope inside. Makes me realize that anything is possible. Sometimes we fall but that is when we have to get back up and put everything we have into moving forward.
Sometimes when I go through my blog list I read how perfect everyone's lives are and it at times gets me feeling pretty down. The truth is NO ONE has a perfect life and why would you blog about the hard times as they just aren't as fun, and the pictures would be so depressing! Well today I am going to blog about our hard times because well I want to get it out and process the past months events. This is not for pity, so please do not take it that way. I may regret this later, but for now my heart is moving me forward.
For the past 2 years we have been trying to have another baby. We finally decided this past February that we would go to a fertility specialist. We met with Dr. Schillings and her staff on March 14th and felt so hopeful that our family would be able to grow. Of course with fertility you have to recognize the fact of having multiply children is a possibility. The treatment we decided to go with had only a 5-10% chance of twins, which in reality we could have twins anyway because it does run in the family. So the next step was to wait for my menstrual cycle to start which was expected on the March 27th. I can gauge my cycle by how I run. Right before I start I get a burst of energy where I want to run a marathon. On the 28th I emailed all my running partners with a new running schedule where we were going to begin training for a marathon in July...haha. Needless to say I knew it was coming soon.
Then on the 29th I woke up feeling pretty depressed mostly because I started reading blogs and facebook and it seemed like EVERYONE was having babies and I was having a self pity day. That was until I realized that I hadn't started my cycle yet. Although, after 2 years of negative pregnancy tests I wasn't DYING to go get a test. I asked Darin to pick one up on his way home from work...he forgot. I just figured in the morning I would run to the dollar store and get a test, but my mind would not stop thinking about it so at 7:40pm I loaded our family up and we rushed to the dollar store (it closes at 8pm). The result was positive. We didn't believe it at first because well we haven't had a positive in 3 years and it came from the dollar store, so we wondered if it was faulty. I think I stood in the bathroom doorway for 15 minutes dazed and confused, when I was flooded with emotions of gratitude. In January I started a Balanced Life Challenge where I made some major changes in bettering myself so that I could better our family life. One of those changes I made was to read the Book of Mormon in 90 days. I guess you could say I made a deal with Heavenly Father that if I finished in 90 days that he would bless our family with a baby. I really had faith in this and I stuck with my part of the deal. :) When we found out we were pregnant I was on the final chapters of Moroni. Of course he held up to his side of the deal too. My testimony was strengthened I know my Heavenly Father knows me and was aware of my needs. We were so happy...I called Dr. Schillings office the next morning and let them know that we scared my body into getting pregnant and we wouldn't be needing the fertility treatments. Other OB appointments were made and it was figured that I was due on December 4, 2011.
Last week (at 6 weeks) I began to have strong pains in my stomach. There has been a bad stomach bug going around and my friend's family got it really bad. I figured I must of picked it up from them as Nash became sick as well. The pains just seemed to get worse and lasted for a week. I began to feel like there was something wrong with this pregnancy or maybe this was going to be a LONG 9 months, as I was NEVER sick with Nash. Then it turned into what we thought was really bad GI bug, and I was so sick. That lasted two days and then the pain began to lessen and I thought I was coming through. Yesterday morning I had a pink discharge which eventually turned into a steady stream of blood. I was brought in at 4:30pm for an ultrasound. It was pretty obvious on the screen that there was no baby. The sack was there but there was nothing inside. The doctor gave me the option of passing the sack on my own or having it removed. I have chosen to do it on my own and next week we will go in for another ultrasound to see if it has passed.
Our hearts are broken as we were so excited for a new baby to come into our family. Nash was beginning to say "bebe in mommy pummy." I am so thankful for my sweet husband and little boy. Darin brought me a lot of comfort as we were able to laugh and cry together yesterday. Our faith is still strong and we DO know that our prayers are answered and they will be answered again. Sometimes we fall but we just have to get back up and move forward through the good and bad experiences.
Our resident friends Nick and Kristen Dowling are expecting their first baby next month. I was happy to throw Kristen a babyshower to celebrate the coming of baby girl Alana! I had a lot of fun putting together the decorations...
I had a lot of great help with the food...THANK YOU Betsy, Stacia and Codi for all the yummy food you made!
This is the only picture I took of Kristen, but don't worry we will be doing a maternity shoot in a couple of weeks! :)
We had a great turn out from friends in the ward.
Thank you to everyone that came and supported Kristen!
It was pretty hard for Nash (and mommy) not to try and still the left overs! SNEAKY SNEAKY!!!
So most people have these types of pictures when their child is just learning to eat solid food. You know the ones where the kid smears the noodles all over themselves and everything else. Well we got cheated with Nash because he would NEVER touch noodles because of how slimy they were. We have been working with this texture and guess what we have a BOY WHO EATS NOODLES!!!! So it may be 2 years late but here are our spaghetti face pictures...
Thankfully this wasn't just a fluke and we have had several noodle dinners since and he is still eating them! YEAH NASH!!!
Darin had his last vacation this week for 2nd year. Instead of going on a trip and spending money that way, we decided to spend the money on our house TO DO list. And believe me that list was SUPER long! :) The forecast was rainy on Monday and predicted snow on Wednesday, but Tuesday was a nice sunny day so we got outside and began sawing down the ugliest, most unruly tree and trimmed a tree that seriously poked your eye out if you weren't watching where you were going.
So basically if you came to visit us you would first lose an eye then as you turned the corner the unruly tree would attack you. If you tried to dodge the attack you would then fall in a random hole that formed in our lawn next to the sidewalk...we were losing friends quickly as they were scared to die in our front lawn!
I didn't get a picture of the hole but if you look closely where the lawn dips that is where it is!
Yes we both took turns hacking away at the beast!
But it is true, Darin did the most work!
Once the crazy limbs were gone, it was time to dig at the roots. Nash was the greatest helper with his little shovel. We gave him the job of filling in the hole.
This tree turned out to be a bigger beast then we anticipated! The neighbor came over and said "OH Thank heavens you are getting rid of that ugly thing!" Then she told us they had to have a truck come in and pull out the stump of their tree.
I have never been one to get into holidays but I am realizing as Nash gets older I need to spice up our life and make more FUN! So I made green pancakes this morning, I was a little scared of doing this as Nash doesn't take change very much.
He seemed to like them. The only thing he didn't like was when I called them pancakes...according to Nash they are "wapples." This is wha the is explaining to me in the next picture. Notice his cute little hands, he is always crossing his fingers.
Nash learned his colors a while back but lately he has been confusing blue and purple, black and brown, and rarely tells me what yellow is anymore. So in an attempt to make this day fun as well as practice our colors we played a matching game with colored clovers.
Yes he has no pants or diaper on. We are in the process of potty training and I let him run free. If he wears underwear or pants he usually has accidents.
In Nash's world a game would not be complete if there wasn't animals, roaring, and running involved.
It's true my son ALWAYS has a dirty face. But isn't he oh so cute! HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!
Their menus were super cute and had SO much to choose from.
I did not know until this trip about their famous "Frrrozen Hot Chocolate" which was HEAVENLY and is now a must for every trip to NYC!
This has become my newest craving. Thankfully we do not live too close as I am sure it was 2000 calories.
YUMMMMM!!!!
Our sweet friend Maria gave us these gorgeous tulips to enjoy.
While I was resting and Darin was in charge Nash got into the chalk and drew us a pretty "titcher." This picture stretched from the dining room all the way up the stairs. Thankfully it was chalk and easy to wash off.
It was hard to get after him when he was so proud of making us a picture. Thank you Nash and everyone else who showed us so much love and kindness!
Of course the Easter Bunny knew that Nash would be so happy with animals and dinosaurs! And the eggs were full of starburst jelly beans (for mommy) and snickers (for daddy).
He was one happy little boy!
He informed us that this was a Pterodactyl. It seems to be his favorite prize.
I called Dr. Schillings office the next morning and let them know that we scared my body into getting pregnant and we wouldn't be needing the fertility treatments. Other OB appointments were made and it was figured that I was due on December 4, 2011.
I had a lot of great help with the food...THANK YOU Betsy, Stacia and Codi for all the yummy food you made!
This is the only picture I took of Kristen, but don't worry we will be doing a maternity shoot in a couple of weeks! :)
We had a great turn out from friends in the ward.
Thank you to everyone that came and supported Kristen!
It was pretty hard for Nash (and mommy) not to try and still the left overs! SNEAKY SNEAKY!!!
Thankfully this wasn't just a fluke and we have had several noodle dinners since and he is still eating them! YEAH NASH!!!
So basically if you came to visit us you would first lose an eye then as you turned the corner the unruly tree would attack you. If you tried to dodge the attack you would then fall in a random hole that formed in our lawn next to the sidewalk...we were losing friends quickly as they were scared to die in our front lawn!
I didn't get a picture of the hole but if you look closely where the lawn dips that is where it is!
Yes we both took turns hacking away at the beast!
But it is true, Darin did the most work!
Once the crazy limbs were gone, it was time to dig at the roots. Nash was the greatest helper with his little shovel. We gave him the job of filling in the hole.
This tree turned out to be a bigger beast then we anticipated! The neighbor came over and said "OH Thank heavens you are getting rid of that ugly thing!" Then she told us they had to have a truck come in and pull out the stump of their tree.
Nope not us we just need He-Man Darin!
And a cute little helper.
And wa-la you have an annoying tree free yard!!
YEAH now we can have friends again! ;)
He seemed to like them. The only thing he didn't like was when I called them pancakes...according to Nash they are "wapples." This is wha the is explaining to me in the next picture. Notice his cute little hands, he is always crossing his fingers.
Yes he has no pants or diaper on. We are in the process of potty training and I let him run free. If he wears underwear or pants he usually has accidents.
In Nash's world a game would not be complete if there wasn't animals, roaring, and running involved.
It's true my son ALWAYS has a dirty face. But isn't he oh so cute!