So much to talk about

Ok. I have a lot of things to talk about, lets see if I can remember them all.

First off. Our first meeting with E & S went really well! We spent about 4 hours with them at a local park. It was a fairly nice day (although a tad bit chilly). Ellie was not her normal self. She actually cried! She NEVER cries! I really think she was very tired but obviously didn't want to nap because of all that was going on. Once we did get her to sleep, when she woke up she was much better. It was a very good meeting and we look forward to seeing them again at our Agency's Christmas party in December!

Ellie turned five months old on Tuesday. I can't believe that she is five months already! The time is flying by! She's so amazing right now and it's so wonderful to watch her change and grow. Here's some info about her now:

-Weighs just over 15 lbs.
-Drinks about 25-27 oz of formula a day
-Can roll front to back and back to front
-LOVES tummy time
-Laughs a LOT!
-Loves being thrown up into the air
-Is ticklish
-Sleeps mostly on her stomach

We went pumpkin picking together a couple of weeks ago. We took a hayride out to a local pumpkin patch. Ellie was a bit sleepy but we could tell that she LOVED the hay ride. It was so cute to watch the wind in her hair and see her staring at the corn fields as we went by them. We got some great pictures of everything!

Today is Halloween and Ellie is coming in to work at the end of the day with her costume on. We can't wait to show her off. We put her in her costume the other day to take pictures and it looks SO cute on her! We were going to have her be a strawberry (it was the only thing Matt and I could agree on and in our price range), but then my mom saw this costume at TJ Maxx and we LOVE it so much more. If you are friends with us on Facebook then I'm sure you saw what this costume is. If you're not friend with us, then you'll have to wait until I post picture here! 

I'll try and post her 4 month, 5 month, pumpkin picking and Halloween pics sometime this weekend! 

Happy Halloween everyone!

Love And First Visitation

In just two days Ellery will be 4 months old. I can't believe how fast she is growing up. I know everyone always says that but it's not something you can understand until you're a parent yourself. Never in my wildest, most amazing dreams did I realize that motherhood could be this amazing. I love Ellery with all my heart and it literally HURTS when I think about her. I miss her so much during the days at work. I just sit at my desk and look at her picture, or I go through my phone and watch videos of her just to make myself as close to her as possible. I would do anything for that sweet little angel!

Ok, on to less sappy stuff. :D

Last Thursday was Matt's birthday and he took off work and spent the day with Ellie. I came home and it seemed odd that she was sneezing more than normal. I had a gut feeling that something was wrong. That night, she woke up in the middle of the night (which she never does) crying (which she never does) and I could hear right away that she was stuffed up. I knew she had her first cold. :( I know that you can't really do anything for a cold, especially for a baby but it's her first one and I'm a first time mother so I wanted to take her to the doctor. The next day my mom and I took her (Matt had to be at work). The doctor said that her lungs were clear and that it was just a cold, which I guessed. She said that she would get a little worse in the next day or two before she got better. She suggested saline drops, baby tylenol and a humidifier. We never got a humidifier for our shower and we didn't get one with our completion coupon so that night we went out and got one.

By the time we got home that night Ellie seemed a little better (not worse, as the dr. thought) so we didn't give her the saline drops. She did start coughing and I was worried about a fever so we gave hers some of the baby tylenol and put her to sleep in her rock n'play so that she was elevated with her new humidifier on. Over the next couple of days she got better and better but still kept that pesky cough.

Now, a week later she's much better and is almost over her cough. YAY! We made it through her first cold and she was a trouper! She didn't fuss or cry much and was still her happy self (most of the time).

Tomorrow is a big day for all of us. It's our first meeting with the birthparents since we left the hospital with Ellery. I'm nervous and excited at the same time. I'm nervous because I still get that possessive feeling over her and there are parts of me that don't want to share her. And then I'm excited because we really do like them and it will be nice to spend some quality time with them (alone, for the first time!) and also they can see how simply AMAZING she is.

We planned a whole picnic in a park. I'm bringing all of the food, snacks, sandwiches, salads, chips and dessert. All they have to bring is drinks for themselves. It also looks like it's going to be a very nice sunny day in the mid 70s. There are picnic tables and even swing sets for us to go on. I'm excited for Ellie to go on a swing with us since it will be the first time for her. AND she LOVES having the wind in her face! :D It will also be nice to share one of her firsts with her birthparents.

So, wish us luck tomorrow, although I'm sure we won't need it! I'll update sometime soon after (I hope).

2 months old

I can't believe that Ellery is already two months old. I understand now why people say that their kids grow up too fast!

I went back to work just a week ago. I started back on a Thursday so it helped that I only had two days to deal with before a weekend. It was a tough transition. I missed Ellie so much! It was so hard knowing someone else was feeding her, changing her and playing with her throughout the day. That's my job and I wished I was home with her. Now that I've been through a full work week, I can say that things have gotten a little easier. I still miss her like crazy and I look at her picture (I have about 30 up at my desk at work) throughout the day but it doesn't hurt as much when I leave her in the morning. I just cherish the time we get with her in the mornings before work and at night even more.

I'm adoring this stage she's in right now. She smiles at Matt and I all the time. When we come home from work, if she's sleeping she'll hear our voices and wake up. If she's awake, as soon as she sees our faces she lights up with the biggest smile! It's so sweet! Her smile is the cutest thing I've ever seen. She squints her eyes and wrinkles her nose. It just makes me grin when I think about it. She laughs and coos a lot too. She loves the ceiling fan in our bedroom and can lay there and just laugh at it. One of my favorite things is she puckers her lips and goes "ooooo". It's so adorable!

The first time she slept through the night, I woke up the next morning (without realizing I slept through the night) and quickly woke Matt to make sure she was still alive (she slept in the Rock N' Play on his side of the bed). That was when she was about a month old! Now she sleeps through the night every night!!

We transitioned her to her crib at the beginning of this week. I wasn't sure when to do it but I thought why not give it a try. On the weekend we put her in her crib for naps and she did just fine so we put her in it at night. The first night we kept her unswaddled. She wriggled and squirmed the whole night (at one point, she was sideways in the crib!). The next night we swaddled her and she does just fine now. Once in a while she'll wake up in the middle of the night and just grunt or groan. All we have to do is just go in and touch her for a little reassurance and she'll go right back to sleep.

I can't say enough how amazing she is. She really is the BEST baby we could have ever asked for and we're so desperately in love with her!

We took our first trip to our house at the beach a couple of weekends ago. I was still of work at the time so Matt took a half day off work on Thursday and we went down right after he came home and stayed through Sunday. On Friday morning, we got up extra early to go the beach. Its was the middle of July and we knew it would get hot FAST (plus we were in the middle of a 95+ degree heat wave) and busy fast so we wanted to get there while it was nearly empty (and parking spaces) and not too hot. We got there around 9:00. We went right to the beach. We weren't planning on staying long, just long enough to get some pics of Ellie her first time there. She was fast asleep when Matt held her and put her toes in the sand. She moved her toes to feel the sand but didn't wake up. Then the cold ocean water came around her ankles... and she STILL didn't wake up! She never once cared about the cold water! We got some adorable pictures of her in her sunglasses and hat (see below). After a bit on the beach we headed back to the boardwalk to walk around a bit. We strolled through some of the shops a bit and then headed home.

The next day we went shopping at the outlets (those are dangerous... especially with a baby, a carters store, great sales, no sales tax AND coupons!). In the afternoon before dinner we took her to the pool for her first time swimming. She had the CUTEST bathing suit ever. I took her in the pool (once again she was fast asleep) and slowly lowered her into the pool. At first she didn't stir. Then once the water hit her around the chest she woke up a bit. I think she thought "wait... this is way more water than there ever is in my bath, what IS this???" Then, a few seconds later, she fell asleep again. See what I'm saying? Best. Baby. EVER!!! We really had a great first trip with her! We can't wait to bring her back down again!

We've emailed with E. & S. a couple of times. They sent Matt a very nice email for his first Father's Day. We hadn't heard from them in a while and then we got one the other day. S. said that they've been trying to keep their distance because they don't want to crowd us. But they wanted to reassure us that they are here for us should we need anything from them and that we're in this ride together for the rest of our lives. They are so amazing and strong! I admire them! I'm not sure I would be handling everything as well as they are if I were in their shoes.

Well that's about it. Hopefully I'll be updating this a little more often but I can't promise anything.

I now leave you with a few adorable pictures from the last two months.

Introducing...

Our daughter, Ellery Claire
Born 5/29/13
7lbs. 10 oz.
19" long


















Wow. What a wirlwhind this has been. Ellery is now over a month old. You're probably wondering WHY we're just now telling you about her? Well, she was born in PA. Not far from where we live actually. And PA has a 30 day revocation period. The process is this: The birth mom gives birth. They have to wait at least 72 hours to sign TPR (termination of parental rights). Then they have 30 days AFTER TPR is signed to change their minds. Due to the weekend and whatnot, TPR in our situation was not signed until 5 days after the birth. Fortunately this provides us with a July 4th date for when Ellery is ours for keeps! (Talk about a new appreciation for Independence Day!)

We chose not to tell 90% of our friends and even some of our family until the revocation period was up. We were terrified about the birth parents deciding to take Ellie back and if they did chose that, we did not want to go through the pain of having to tell everyone what happened and going through 50,000 questions about why/how/what now.

But, that revocation period is now up and she is OURS!! So we are introducing her to the world!

Here's how the past month went (if you're a parent, you can probably understand). Sleep, wake, feed, change diaper, rock her to sleep, sleep ourselves, wake, feed, change diaper, rock her to sleep, sleep ourselves... you get the idea.

The first few days where HORRIBLE for me. Thank God for Matt because I don't know what I'd do if he wasn't the most amazing man and father ever. This is hard for me to put down in writing but I'm going to anyway. I regretted her. I really did. I missed my old, quiet life. I missed sitting on the couch with Teddy and relaxing. Watching the shows I wanted to watch when I wanted to watch them. I had severely bad anxiety trying to deal with both losing that and just adjusting to a newborn. Plus, there was a LOT of people coming and going from our house. It was a horrible first few days. I cried all the time and I barely wanted to hold her. Matt changed all of her diapers, feed her all the time and held her. I just cried.

Now, I know I'm not the only one to go through this, but I feel it's a bit different for adoptive parents. I feel that most people don't think I should go through this since I didn't give birth. But ya know what, just because I didn't give birth to her doesn't mean my emotions aren't going crazy and my world hasn't been turned upside down. And yes, I've been going through this and getting ready for this for at least two years but we only had THREE WEEKS to really emotionally prepare for this. That's a lot less time than most people who get 7-9 months to prepare.

Back to our story.... things are getting much better with me. I'm adjusting pretty well and I'm not as sad anymore. I still get a little bit of depression here and there but nothing like the first few days.

Ellie is pretty perfect. She's opening her eyes more and staying awake more often. She has the most beautiful eyes! She's a good eater and an amazing farter (like her father) and burper (like her mother). She has some amazing nights (only waking once and letting us get 7ish hours of sleep) and she has some rough nights (only wants to be held ALL. NIGHT. LONG. and we only get 3 hours of sleep) but we're getting through it. Some how, we're doing it.

Each day is something new. She's just started smiling intentionally, which is pretty magical. Stay tuned... Things are just getting started!

Meeting our daughter

We met Stephanie at the hospital. We were going to meet our daughter! Everything was so surreal!

We went up to E's room and waited outside while Stephanie went in to see how she was doing and if she was up to see us. She was and we went in to see E, her mother and S. And of course, to meet our daughter. We thought that E. looked amazing! She certainly didn't look like she just gave birth the night before!

Then we got a look at our daughter. She's perfect. Of course all parents say that but she really is! We sat holding our daughter and chatting with E, S and E's mom for two hours. Then it was time to go. Stephanie said that everyone was being discharged the next day so we'd have to obviously come back the next day to bring our daughter home.

That night, the two of us went out to dinner. Both to celebrate but also to commemorate our last night as a family of two.

I barely slept that night. I knew it was my last chance to get some REAL sleep but I just couldn't. I was too nervous.

The next day we met with Stephanie at the hospital. They had a little class that we had to go through that just showed you some feeding/bathing movies and some info on how to properly put a baby in a car seat. Pretty much everything we knew but you had to take the class before being discharged. After the class we sat down and signed MORE paperwork. Then we went to see E. and her mom. We chatted for a bit and got to change our daughter's diaper and feed her. Then it was time for E. to be discharged. She chose to be discharged before the baby was. So we stayed in the room while Stephanie and E left. Once Stephanie got back, she said that E said to her "She's home now" (meaning the baby is home with us). It really makes me tear up every time I think about it. She's such a strong woman!

Now, it was time to discharge us. And 4 hours later we left. Thankfully Stephanie warned us that the discharge rate at this particular hospital is one of the worst in the area, I was still not prepared for this. All in all, we finally got to leave and I have to say that the drive home was one of the most frightening of my life! It was so new to have a baby in the car! I was so scared for that first night and just what to do with a newborn!

Birth day!

So, the due date came and went. Our 6 year anniversary came and went. I thought, wouldn't it be odd if she had the baby on Wednesday. We were matched on Wednesday, met with Stephanie to get the info on the next Wednesday, met the birth parents on the Wednesday after that. So it wouldn't it be cool if she had her on Wednesday?

A good friend of our family texted me this morning and said that her daughter was going to have her baby that day and she hoped that we would have one too!

Well, I'm sitting at work trying to get through the day (on Wednesday) and I get a phone call at 12:30 from Stephanie. I go out into the hall and answer the phone. She said that E (the birth mom) was at the hospital and 8 centimeters dilated. HOLY CRAP! She also said that she'll give us any info as she gets it and that E would like it if we don't come that night but come the next day. Of course we're ok with that! So I hang up and go find Matt to tell him. We decide to leave work immediately. There were some things that we had to take care of before bringing the baby home. So, we said good bye to our bosses knowing that I wouldn't be back for two months and Matt wouldn't be back for one.

As soon as we got out to the car, I called my mom to let her know and Matt called his parents. They are all beyond excited and can't wait to hear more!

So, we went home and waited for the phone to ring (after we finished our errands). I kept texting our family friend about the progress of her daughter's delivery and the birth of her granddaughter. She kept asking if we knew anything and we didn't. The only thing we heard was around 8:00 Stephanie emailed us and told us that S. emailed her saying E. was still in labor but all was well.

We didn't hear anything until the next day. At 6am Stephanie called us with information. E. gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl at 7:39 the previous evening. Both birth mom and baby were doing well. She didn't have any other info at that time (weight/length etc.) but we were meeting her at the hospital at 1:00 that day so we'd get the info sometime.

The crazy thing was that our friend's daughter gave birth to her daughter exactly 40 minutes after our daughter was born!

Due date

Well, today is the due date. And there is no word. I don't want to go to work this week. I know I'm not going to be able to concentrate!

Meeting the birth parents

Well... today was the day. We met with the birth parents. They are a couple who is still together but I'm not going to divulge much more info than that. E (birth mom) and S (birth dad) were amazing. They are fun, sweet, caring and wonderful people. We clicked right away after meeting them and we had a great meal talking about video games, movies, books and everything else. It was easy going and just so great to get to know them better. Our social worker was there and she helped us cover some of the slightly tougher topics like naming of the baby, what the birth mom wants as far as us at the hospital and some other harder things. But all in all it was great!

At the end of the meal, as we walked out with Stephanie, we asked her "how did we do?" She said "I barely had to talk, that means it went VERY well". EEEK!

Now, we wait.

Due date is only 4 days away. We don't know much about the birth mom's situation (if she's dilated, having contractions etc.) so we just have to sit and wait. This is going to be hard!

Meeting with our Social Worker

Well, it's been one week since we've found out we've been matched. I've barely slept. Its crazy, this is the TIME to sleep, before the baby comes but I just can't seem to. I'm too excited and nervous.

Today we met with Stephanie. We signed a LOT of paperwork and got some more information about the birth parents and the situation. The funniest thing is that we were going over some of the paperwork and Stephanie says to us "I told you it's a baby girl right?". Matt and I just looked at each other. I said loudly "NO!!! You didn't!" (don't worry, Stephanie is cool and she knew I wasn't YELLING at her). Matt and I kissed and got completely excited. We both wanted to be parents no matter what but deep down in our hearts, we really both wanted a girl. We would have been THRILLED with a boy as well but we desperately wanted a girl. A few seconds after she told us it was a girl, she continued on with paperwork. I then had to stop her and said "we need to stop, I can't hear a thing you're saying." I was still so amazed it was a girl!!

We set up a meeting to meet the birth parents next week. I'm so nervous!!!! What if they don't like us? I know THEY chose US but still, what if we say something wrong and they change their minds about us. What if we're nothing like what they though we'd be like? (which would be very odd because our profile is SO US!). What do they look like? What do they sound like? What are their hobbies? I'm so excited to meet them!

We're matched!

I can't believe it! We're matched! We're actually matched! Here's the story:

On May 8th (a Wednesday) around 4:00 I got a call on my cell phone while at work. I don't answer calls I don't know so I let it go to voice mail. Then a few seconds later Matt comes over and says "go answer the phone". I thought it was odd that he knew I got a call on my cell phone so I asked how he knew that. He said that they paged me that I had a call on hold. I never heard it! I immediately got suspicious. I took a few seconds (much to Matt's dismay) to listen to my voice mail on my cell phone. It was Stephanie, our social worker asking me to call her right away. I got very excited and started walking toward the work phones out in the hallway. I looked back and saw Matt just standing at my desk and I motioned for him to come with me (being that I was pretty sure I knew what the call was).

Once I picked up the line, it was Stephanie. She asked me if I was sitting down and I said no and she then proceeded to tell me that we were matched! I asked if she could repeat it and I held the phone so that both Matt and I could hear and she said yet again "You're matched!". I about fainted! We told Stephanie we'd call her back in a few minutes once Matt and I got to a meeting room so that we could have some privacy.

We went into a meeting room and called her back. She then told us all about the situation. About a month before, we were asked if we wanted to be shown to this specific couple. They matched all of our criteria that we wanted except for one small detail. So we had to decide if we were ok with this change to be shown to them. We were ok with it and we were obviously shown. They took one month to choose and they chose us!

We can't believe that we're matched. It's completely surreal and amazing. I knew this day would come but no matter what, it still doesn't prepare you for the excitement, fear, anxiety and every other emotion you may have.

Oh, and the craziest part... the birth mother is due in only a week and a half! The due date is two days before our 6 year wedding anniversary!

Mother's Day

So, this past weekend was Mother's Day. It was a tough day for me. I have the best mother and mother-in-law but not being a mother yet myself made it hard to get through the day. Instead of celebrating with a child of our own, we celebrated with our furry child, Teddy.

I'm sure the day will come when I will be a mother (to a human baby ;D)... this Mother's Day just wasn't it.

Newborn & Toddler care class

Monday Matt and I had a newborn and toddler care class. It was at a Giant grocery store in Harrisburg (I found it kinda weird for grocery store to have a community room but hey, whatever).

We headed over right after work even though we knew we'd be very early. We didn't know what the traffic would be like and we wanted to make sure to get there with enough time. Plus, if we went home we'd only be there for about 10 minutes before we had to leave anyway.

So we get there just before 5:30 (an hour before the class starts). We go into the store to look around. I found online that this store is a bit more like a Wegman's, where they have hot food, deli sandwiches and a place to sit down and eat. So we looked around and got some dinner (Matt got pizza, I got a turkey sandwich) and we sat in their little cafe area and ate our dinner. Then at 6 we went upstairs to the community room. We were the first ones there (not really a surprise since we were now 30 min. early!), but no problem, we just sat and played on our phones for a while. Finally people started showing up. One of the couples had a teeeeeny tiiiiiny little girl with them. We later find out that she's only 3 weeks old! Adorable!

Anyway, around 6:30 one of the case workers from our office comes in with the teacher. We all gather around the table in the room and have a seat while the teacher passes out large cloth bags. (I didn't realize we'd be getting goodies, so I was pretty excited!)

We open up our bags to find: A binder with a lot of information and articles regarding what we're going to learn about, a children's book (the book nerd in me went WOOOOHOOOOO at seeing this), a magazine, a boo-boo bunny, and a cooler with two ice packs for bottles (or beer–apparently the cooler holds two beers perfectly). Then we introduce ourselves a little and we start in on the learning.

We got a LOT of great information. The main thing I learned is how to start and keep a routine to get baby to sleep through the night.

We talked and learned for 2 1/2 hours. At the end, we got to chatting with one of the other couples there. They were really nice and we decided to exchange business cards for contacts. It turns out that the woman is actually a wedding and event floral designer! Hopefully we'll get to work with her in a business capacity sometime.

It was a great class and it really made us so excited to become parents! Seeing that little girl just made me want one even more. And of course there is always the excitement and enjoyment of meeting others who are going through the same thing you are. Having a support group of friends really helps out!

More Paperwork

So, we got a letter in the mail from our adoption agency. Apparently, some of our paperwork is expiring soon and we need to get it redone. Things like fingerprinting, physicals, child abuse checks. These things are only good for one year. Its hard to believe that it's been a year since we started our home study and got these things done! I went online to one of the websites to get the clearance done and I filled out all of the information and paid the fee. Then, the website said it timed out and to hit the back button and try again. Well, I hit the back button and nothing happened. So I go to the part where it says to check on a status... It asks me for a specific number... which they never gave me. So I'm pretty frustrated right now! Guess we're going to have to call the help line sometime soon. Just another thing to add to the list.

On a better note, we're planning another fundraiser. This one is going to be a mini photo session fundraiser. We have multiple photographers helping us out with this one and we're pretty darn excited about it. We get to combine our passion for photography with helping to build our family. We're not 100% on all of the details yet but we do know that it will be on Sunday, May 19th. We really hope that we get a good turn out. So if you're interested contact us and I'll give you some more info!

When will it be our turn?

I'm having a bad day. I'm just ready to be a mother! When will it be our time?

Aaaaand....we're still waiting

We're now in our almost 4th full month of waiting to be matched. Most days I have no problem with it, but there are a few here and there where all I can think about is being matched. Who will we be matched with? What state will the baby be born in? What will the circumstances of the match be? Will it be an emergency placement or a match a few months before the due date? What sex will the baby be? All of these questions just come flying forward in my brain and I can't push them down. It usually happens out of the blue for a day, and then the next day I'm back to not really thinking about it.

I think the hardest thing for me right now is seeing so many of my friends, coworkers and family who are having children right now. EVERYONE I know is either pregnant or just had a baby. Its hard to get over that sometimes. It's hard to think about how we've been wanting and trying for a baby for almost 4 years now. I know there are millions of other people out there who are going (or have gone) through what I'm dealing with but it still hurts.

If you can't tell, I'm having a bad day today. I'm really just writing this to get some of my feelings out. I'm just ready to be a mom. It hurts so badly that I don't think I can take it anymore. I just want our time to be here!!

Our Nursery

I know I've said I'll show you pictures of our nursery soon but then I kept putting it off. I wanted to wait until it was almost done until I showed everyone. Well, it's ALMOST done, so I figured it was time. We have 95% of everything finished, all that's missing is:

1. My mom and I still need to make the crib skirt

2. My mom and I made a hamper liner but sadly, we made it a bit too small so we need to fix it to fit and

3. We're hoping to switch out the small bookshelf in the corner with one that matches the dresser and nightstand

oh, yeah and mostly we need a baby!

Since Matt and I have been going through the "I want a baby NOW" feeling for years, we've had a lot of time to think about the nursery. Ok, honestly, I'm sure Matt didn't think about it too much but I sure did! I have a board on pinterest for nurseries and every free minute I had I would be scouring the internet for ideas. I came across another blog one day and I fell in LOVE with the color scheme. I was torn between this color scheme (a bright, vibrant series of colors), and a more relaxed calming color scheme. We went with the vibrant one!

Thankfully Matt allowed me to basically do whatever I wanted in the nursery. He of course helped choose the rocker, the crib, the pictures etc. but it was mostly my design/vision. In the end, he loves it just as much as I do. It truly is my new favorite room in the house.

Now, we've been so blessed with time to be able to do this, but now that it's done. We're ready and so very excited to fill it with a wonderful little baby.

Without further ado... here is our nursery!!!

(and yes, there are multiple images of the same view but the room is VERY small and the spot from the door is really the best spot to show mostly everything).


The original room was a very pale blue. Blech. Just not a great color in my opinion.


Matt working VERY hard painting!























These are just cute blocks that I saw on etsy and had to have. We got them from this seller.




The prints were the one thing that Matt and I fought over the most (no surprise there since we're both artists and designers and we both have different design tastes). I only bought one of the prints. The other 4 we created ourselves. I went onto etsy and found some that I liked and then just created ones like it, while adding our own little touches.


This is really only because I LOVE dinosaurs. :D



This is one of the scenes from Dumbo and the words are from the song that Dumbo's mom sings to him.



The saying on this one is from the movie Bambi II



This is the one print that we bought. We got it from this etsy seller




And of course we have to finish it off with a picture of our current baby. Teddy LOVES the nursery. He's always going in there and he loves jumping on our laps when one of us is sitting in the glider or sliding himself under the crib.



Well, that's it. Was it worth the wait? What do you think of it?

Sweets for your Sweet?

Not much is going on right now. Just waiting. Working on finishing the nursery. We're ALLLLLLLMOST done. My mom and I have to make the crib skirt. We need to find one frame and then we should be done! I'll get pics up soon (well, as soon as I get everything in the nursery finished THEN I'll post pics). :D

I just wanted to let you all know that we're selling Fudge, cake bites and chocolate covered pretzels for Valentine's day. All of the profits go to our adoption fund. We have many different flavors and prices and we are able to ship if you don't live in our area.

Orders and money are due by February 5th and things will be delivered (locally) or mailed on February 12th.

Everything is made by our friends from Monkey And Me Sweets and everything they make is delicious!

Here is what we're selling (along with some enticingly yummy photos (that we took of course) to help you decide)

Peanut Butter Fudge with white chocolate topping - 1 lb. - $16


Peanut Butter Fudge without topping - 1 lb. - $16


Chocolate Fudge with chocolate topping - 1 lb. - $16


Chocolate Fudge without topping - 1 lb. - $16




Chocolate Cake Bites with chocolate topping - 1 dozen - $10


Chocolate Cake Bites with peanut butter topping - 1 dozen - $10


White Cake & Strawberry with chocolate topping - 1 dozen - $10


White Cake & Blueberry with chocolate topping - 1 dozen - $10





Chocolate covered pretzels with peanut butter drizzle - 1/4 lb (approx. 15 pretzels) - $6


Chocolate covered pretzels with peanut butter and caramel drizzle - 1/4 lb (approx. 15 pretzels) - $6


Feel free to email us if you have any questions or if you want to order. We have tasted everything that we're selling so we know what everything tastes like and we can vouch for it's deliciousness! Our email is mattandkysadoption@gmail.com