Taking a short break

On our trip to Missouri we had a lot of time in the car to discuss next steps in our baby making process.  We looked at donor profiles on the iPhone (don't worry Jennie read them while I drove), we narrowed down a list of top picks, we discussed timing of our pregnancy and potential delivery--we know we won't have total control over that piece.

After our weekend away we decided that we would take the next couple of months off from trying to conceive and pick things up again in either December or January.  The biggest reason for this decision is our photography business, Green Blossom Photography.  If Jennie were to get pregnant right now she would be due to deliver right in the middle of wedding season.  Since we're such a new business and still trying to get things off the ground we decided that since we had some control in the situation it would be best to plan the delivery date for later in the year, after wedding season is over.  We're hoping for our busiest wedding season yet next year and don't want to be out of commission for too long.

That being said, the blog might be a bit quiet for a while as we focus on other aspects of life and the holidays come around.

Thanks again for all of your support and kind words.

The third time wasn't the charm we were hoping for...

Well we're not pregnant...

For some reason the third attempt not working is really taking a toll on me today.  Again, I kept telling myself not to get excited and that these things take time, but that is a hard thing to do! With so much love and positive vibes/thoughts/feelings/prayers around the conception of this baby, I was hoping we could just will it into existence :)

I think part of why it hurt so much today is this month there has seemed to be an explosion of pregnancy announcements in our life. Friends from college, people on Facebook, colleagues, and family are all sharing their great news and we just keep crossing our fingers that this will be the month.  I'm trying not to get too bitter and I know we're not alone in this struggle, but it's definitely getting harder to not be pregnant each month.

Alas, we'll continue trying until it does work and continue to tell ourselves that everything happens for a reason and maybe the timing wasn't right this month (after all Jennie didn't want to share her birthday month with our kid anyway).  Although now we will have to start going through the sperm donor profiles again because we only had 3 vials of the last guy's stuff.

Anyway, we're flying to Missouri this weekend to shoot a wedding so we'll have plenty of trip time to talk about our next steps.

Keep sending those positive thoughts up into the Universe and we love you all.