Holiday Season is here!

Wow! The holiday season has arrived. We had Thanksgiving at Paul and Andrea's. We enjoyed being able to spend the holiday with Brian's parents.

On Saturday, Ed and Gloria came by to meet Sara. Of course, I forgot to take pictures. I'm so not good at remembering to capture this stuff. We had lunch and visited. It was so great to see them but, it was all too short.

Then, we got down to decorating! We listened to Bing Crosby, drank White Russians, and hung ornaments with care.....

Sara was mesmerized by the lights on the tree!


Such wonder in those eyes...

She would stare and stare....I love the picture of her shiny head. She's getting a little more fuzz!

Tears of joy were shed as we hung this ornament!

You mean to tell me a big, fat white guy will fit down our chimney to bring me presents?!?! I don't believe you!

Joy to Mommy and Daddy's World!

That's all folks.....thanks Aunty Ally for sending this bumbo chair!

Thankful???

Thankful???

Immensely.......


Hugely.......


Greatly.....Forever Thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Letters to Sara: 4 Months

Dear Little Miss Sara--

Last week marked the one year anniversary of us finding out that I was pregnant with you. It's amazing how much can change in a year! I looked through all your ultrasound pictures recently and it's so crazy that those pictures are YOU. You were one of those perfect embroyos. The little blob at our 5, 6, and 8 week appointments was you. The tadpole baby at our 10 and 12 week appointments was you. The yawning, thumb sucking, kicking baby at our 20 week appointment was you (and it even looks like you!). It's such a wild thing to try and wrap my brain around. I look at you and just can't believe that you were the little baby that we wanted so desperately kicking and rolling in my belly all those weeks.

You are changing so much now and are growing such a personality. You are still very serious. But you are at such a fun stage, where you are discovering the world and are delighted by everything. I'm so excited to see what you learn next! I love watching you watch things. You smile when we play "Patti Cake". You laugh when daddy holds you over his head.

Your coordination has really been improving--you are really taking a interest in toys, and are great at grabbing them and bringing them to your mouth! Everything goes in your mouth right now, and you're doing lots and lots of chewing and drooling.

You'll spend quite a long time on your tummy now and you can push yourself pretty far up with your arms. You've even started kicking your feet like crazy. I think you'll be scooting pretty soon.

You are such a sweet and mellow baby, Sara. What a blessing it is to be your mommy. Love you baby girl!

your mommy

Sara at 1 month:




Sara at 2 months:



Sara at 3 months:



Sara at 4 months:

What a difference a year makes!

For a long time

there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams.

Even from such small things,

we knew we could not wait to love you forever.

~Story People

November 8, 2009

November 8, 2010

One of these 2 beautiful embryos is Sara. The other is her twin that we lost at 8 weeks. While we will never know which is Sara, we will always remember 11/8 with great fondness. I will never forget Dr. Wachs pointing to the catheter on the ultrasound screen. We all intently watched as the fluid contains the embryos flowed out. I remember crying as I lay there watching. All of my work had been done, it was now up to these microscopic embryos to find a comfy place to implant, hold on, and develop into the baby we wanted so desperately.

I watched, I worried, and I prayed harder than I ever had in the 8 months that followed. And then once Sara was placed in my arms, it was all about the love....At the end of the day, that's the one constant. It's the one thing that supersedes all the questioning, over thinking and heart ache that comes along with the journey of infertility and IVF.

What would you do with $11,255,272?

If you need a good, heartwarming story....here it is. Fair warning....it made me cry....

What would you do with $11,255,272?

Happy Friday!