**MARCH AND APRIL 2019**

Late post, yall! When looking back at our journey for some self encouragement I realized I left out one of our Dr's appts!! Here is my very first positive ovulation test ever! This was a major goal to make sure I was even going through the proper stages!

DAY ONE!!!

  DAY TWO (:

The days after my level of excitement clearly declined...lol

Fast Forward to APRIL 2019

This was also a big month for us! After not conceiving in March, we decided to follow up with my Dr and also have Dane tested-which is only fair after everything I've gone through and put in my body when it could have easily been him the whole time! lol It was a comical day but Dane didn't want to discuss it and didn't think it was as funny as I thought it was! But his test results came back pretty normal, there was only one thing off and they said it shouldn't impact us getting pregnant!

How we truly feel about being poked and prodded all day! lol <3  little did we know we would get pregnant with zoey joy this month!! 

Crazy Clomid & Baby making potion!

"Here's to hoping your next round of clomid brings you more than just hot flashes"

HA! I feel this yall. I feel it so deeply.

PEACE OUT CLOMID! (DAY 5)

The first couple days I was supposed to start ovulating I was getting negative tests.

But finally Bri was over and I was too busy scrubbing my shower and forgot to look at the results and Bri walked in my bathroom and said "Oh, you are ovulating!" and I was like "What?! I am ?!?" Because I hadn't seen the result yet hahaha

The next day I tested again and was still in "high" ovulation but hadn't reached my "peak yet" which this can happen for several days. The month before I got pregnant last time I never reached "peak" ovulation.

I sent that video to Dane and his response cracked me up! Poor Hubby.

This weekend my fabulous MIL finally gave in and gave me her bedroom set that I've wanted forever! So I switched our bedding out. I had the throw pillows, and I got the textured curtains at Walmart for 4$ I love how it looks. & I still love our antler lamps I just might change the shades to add some color...not sure. I want to paint our room the same color as the living room its called Urban Putty by Sherwin Williams its a nice neutral color. But I hate the white walls. Overall I love how it looks! Its so calming and peaceful.

So since I was ovulating again I told Dane "HEY! Maybe you should take me out for a margarita and I'll end up pregnant!" Well my neighbors were in the driveway and I didn't know it lol so they went with us to El Toro for Margaritas! It was fun, and our sweet neighbors paid! We've grown to love our neighbors and have a great time hanging out.

Kinley girl!! Shes so sweet and adorable.

 

Baby Making Potion

 

My MoMo was at the house before we went for Margs! But her pregnant butt went home lol



Baby Gilpin

My Best Friend is gonna be a mommy again <3

It started with "YaYa roll call"

I did the same thing to them when I found out I was pregnant, lol I had to make sure they were all present!

Morgan and Tim started trying to get pregnant a couple months ago, right after my miscarriage. God has extended grace to me over and over. I couldn't be more thankful. Its hard to be the crazy lady who can't get pregnant and have someone so close to you try for like five seconds and then come up pregnant! I've always wanted them to have another baby and I would never want her to go through what I've gone through. I was terrified that I would have a bad reaction and it would ruin our friendship but I was just honest with her and told her I loved her and was so happy but that I just needed a minute, I know God blessed us both with the right words to say because she was very understanding and loving and assured me it would NOT ruin our friendship!

Now that mom and dad have made the announcement I can post these pictures I took!

Okay!! The first one is my favorite for sentimental reasons. That's Zoey Joys yellow blanket my Nana knit for her!!!! COULD IT BE ANY CUTER?!?!



Little God winks…

After much crying and pleading our case with God i feel like ive been seeing little God winks…..

Sept 10 2019 

And from Dane Michael….

September 12 2019

Decided to open the Bible I keep in my car: 

We are officially at that point of the year in TX where FALL is gleaming at us from the end of that long HOT...SWEATY..."got the swamp butt" tunnel. You will find pumpkins scarecrows ghosts and witches galore, Walmart is putting out sweatshirts and sweatpants...your morning drive to your favorite barista at Starbucks is now delayed because everybody and their brothers uncles monkey needs a pumpkin spice latte.
Well ya'll...I am one of those people. (Not the PSL people that's disgusting and absurd)
But I am one of THOSE PEOPLE, that is dreaming of crisp cool air and hoping I can fit my jeans over this Pillsbury Dough Boy white busted can of biscuits, and if there happens to be a muffin top...guess what? HOODIE WEATHER! Its something to look forward to.
So I did the "basic white girl" thing to do, and lit an apple cider donut candle while watching a Christmas movie and threw some fall décor up in my home.

We've been doing some major projects in the yard this month- we have cut down trees planted bushes, dug up flower beds and planted grass. We are finally getting somewhere. Even if nobody else can tell, we have fought this jungle and all the beasts living in it. I came out wounded with mosquito bites and blisters because apparently I don't know how to use a shovel. This weekend I decided to be the trend setter of the hood, and display my pumpkins for them all to see.

But wait, there's more. I got a cricut and heatpress this weekend to make literally any and everything.

This was my first project and obviously I had to go with Disney, Cinderella, Mickey Mouse PUMPKINS.

& Though it was not truly fall at all, she lived happily ever after in her world of illusion.

Sappy post warning

Ohhhhhh how I miss my little baby. We would be 21 weeks and 3 days today. We would know if you were pink or blue. God put the name Zoey Joy in our hearts for a reason I have to take faith in that. I’m ending my first round of hormones since our miscarriage this Friday.. It’s been a tough week. Preparing myself mentally for Clomid round 3 👎🏻 “The Lord announced the word, and great was the company of those who proclaimed it”

It will all be worth it in the end 🔮

We get my niece Jaelyn every other weekend! She is such drama lol but she’s my little brown hair brown eyed baby! Friday night I took her home with me and she was exhausted she went straight night night and never made a peep! 

I had plans with my MIL to pick up Brayden the next morning so we decided to leave a little early so we could get breakfast! This girl was so sleepy I woke up got dressed and ready and she STILL was snoozing! She was so cute I took a video of her snoring lol 

She was half asleep the whole time I got her ready! But she was so cute at breakfast 

Off to pamper myself after picking up Brayden.

Curl Up N' Dye the local hair salon!

 Before and after! I felt super weird I had gotten use to my blonde hair! But majority of my friends and family has said they like me better with dark hair and its fall so it will stick around through the winter at least.

"Perfect Princess Pink" polish!

I went next door to the local Vinyl shop and got my mother in law this cute Chic Fi La and earring set for her bday that we were celebrating the next day!

When I was all done I went home to make dinner for Pams neighbors they are always so good to us I just wanted to do something nice for them and while I was at Pams cooking she noticed this spot on the back of my leg...

I'm super allergic to everything and it didn't really itch or hurt much and its normal for me to get really red and sensitive to things so I didn't think much of it. I didn't sleep good that night it was really sore and I woke up the next morning and it was swollen

At this point I started taking Benadryl and some antibiotics I had because it was Sunday and I assumed it was bad poison ivy or bug bite. I went to pick up El Toro for Pams Bday and the credit card I was using was expired so I went to my car to get my wallet and locked my keys in the dang car ughhhh. So Dane had to come pick me up we couldn't find the spare key but we were late to his moms and we were the ones with the food lol I was very hot and BOTHERED and not in a good way!! When we got there his family was kinda freaked out by it and it had gotten worse so we went ahead and went to urgent care, who sent us away to the ER and by time we got to the ER a few minutes away it was spreading up my thigh! Now I was getting concerned

So they took me right on back and got me started on IV antibiotics but it didn't get better so they decided to keep me overnight and draw a line around it.

Long story short it was "Cellulitis" which is just a vague diagnosis of a bacterial infection and they think I got it from one of the salons I went to...so much for pampering myself! But I've gone to those salons for 5 + years and its never happened before I love both of them...I think it was a fluke...anyways I got 9 bags of antibiotics steroids and Benadryl through IV. They drew my blood twice and my white blood cell count was good. Thank God.

 It spread outside the circle overnight but in the next pic you can tell something finally kicked in bc it started healing.

Nana brought me Starbucks and gave me a ride home when they discharged me.

 Shelbi visited me too!

My leg was sore and I missed Monday/Tuesday at work and tried to go back Wednesday but halfway through the day I felt horrible they sent me home on two oral antibiotics as well. I went to my follow up appt and the Dr told me I needed to stay off my leg until Monday! So I basically got a weeks vacay but couldn't do anything fun. I just stayed home and slept and binge watched TV. Mom and Nana brought me some starbucks on Thursday because I was bored to tears lol and Nana helped me change my curtains to get ready for fall! Yay cheered me up some < 3

Another negative test!

Zoey Joy 👑 Dane and I faced many trials trying to get pregnant for so long but we were h o p e f u l and stayed F A I T H F U L. & we never lost our J O Y! My best friend sent this to me and said “Joy remains despite the circumstance” that means everything to me y’all because while enduring those trials God blessed me with a peace and joy that I clung to. Everything about our journey and pregnancy has been the biggest joy I have ever felt and we couldn’t have picked a more perfect name for our baby. &that joy has helped me to find purpose- God gave me this mountain to show others it CAN be moved 💓

Another negative test....