Our Story

My best friend introduced Andrew and I when we were seniors in high school....that was almost 7 years ago...wow. Seems like it was just yesturday that he walked into the gym during a basketball game; wearing some wranglers, boots and a cowboy hat :) It's so weird looking back, he was supposed to be my blind date to my junior prom and I said no because I didn't want my prom date to be a blind date (he's even in the background of many of my prom pictures, he went with someone else). Then I started working at Henry James only a week after he had quit...so odd how many times we could have gotten to know each other before we actually did. That night at the basketball game I remember thinking how I usually wasn't attracted to the country boy type..but Andrew was right up my ally ha!

Fastforward a few years...to September 2, 2006. Now that was one of the best days of my life. We had the most spiritual ceremony I had ever attended, and I'm glad to say that it was my own. God was definitely present while we said "I do". From that moment Andrew wanted a family. I've always wanted a family from the time I was 5 I've had at least three or four names picked out at a time...ya know just in case God blessed me with quads :)

After we had been married about two years we decided that maybe we needed to try fertility drugs as we were not getting pregnant on our own. We were on cycles of drugs and had procedures done to help us get pregnant. After a year of this we decided it was God's way of telling us it just wasn't our time so we thought we would take a break. I was actually at peace with not being pregnant just yet because I still needed to finish school...(I STILL am trying to finish school but thats a whole new blog in itself!!!) On Thanksgiving morning I just thought that maybe I should take a test. I had to work that day so I was going to wait until my lunch hour to take one. I took it and it was POSITIVE! I was a whole bag full of emotions, I didn't know what to do with myself! I was so excited to tell Andrew but he had to work 2nd shift that night (I tried my hardest to convince him to leave early but it didn't work) when he got home I gave him a gift bag with the positive test in it. I have never seen that man so happy. At midnight we had to travel across town to tell his parents because I refused to tell them over the phone, that has been another wonderful day of my life...and so this is where our sweet Paisly's story begins...