A little of our story

So here is some of our story for those who may not know:

Kendall and I met our Freshmen year in high school in seminary. Come to find out a few years later, Kendall and my brother had actually known each other for a few years in boy scouts. And when we were 12, we were at a church Halloween dance and I thought he was cute and my dad tried to get me to dance with him but i was too shy and he never noticed me anyway. LOL! Anyway, we were 14 when we met. He was in the marching band and in the 2nd semester of our freshmen year, I joined the color guard. Kendall at first wouldn't speak to me let alone look at me. He claims he couldn't get a word in because I never stopped talking, I say he was just really shy and maybe scared? Who knows! LOL! So, truth be told, we started "dating" at 15. Of course it was just the rinky dinky "dating" which was more like a public "hey, they like each other" and we would talk between classes, lol. Nothing spectacular. We did start officially dating after 16. He is the first boy I ever held hands with and we are each others first kisses. We went to both of our proms together and Senior year, Kendall took me to homecoming (we usually had UofA Band Day, we skipped out early that year).

We went to college together and over Thanksgiving our first year in college, Kendall sat down with my family (and some extended family, the poor guy was really in for it!) and asked for their permission to marry me. I don't think I have ever seen Kendall so nervous. My dad can sometimes come off as intimidating, so I thought it was pretty funny!

The next month I saw a flyer in my math class about studying abroad. I love traveling (as does Kendall), and I love Europe! So, I decided to live in London for a few months before getting married. It was my last fling of fun before marriage. I moved on Kendall's birthday, a really sad day. Kendall went with my family and I to drop me off at the airport. I cried a lot that day, but the move was fun and I enjoyed living there. I lived there for 3 months. I planned half of our wedding from there.

June 10th, 2006, just after being together for 4yrs, we got married in the Jordan River Temple in Utah. It was definitely a wonderful day! We spent our honeymoon at Disney World, and then we spent our first anniversary in Disneyland.

In January of 2007, we welcome a furry baby girl into our family, Rebecca Ann. She is a mini doxy. She took a lot of begging for me to get and now she is definitely Kendall's dog. She is the most lazy thing ever in the world but she is protective and my best friend to.

In the summer of 2007, we found out I have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) which makes it quite difficult to get pregnant, along with a bunch of other less than stellar things. We started on fertility drugs and luckily our 2nd month we conceived Tyler. Tyler's pregnancy and birth story were quite difficult. You can read it on his blog here. As well as the rest of Tyler's medical adventures. He has been a blessing in our lives, and challenging at teh same time. But we love him more and more each day if that is even possible. Kendall and I still have difficulty conceiving and have been trying off and on (basically, we have been trying at times with fertility drugs and other times just on our own) for almost 4 years now. With the recent discoveries that Tyler most likely has a genetic disease, we are up in the air about having any more biological children. Some days I yearn to be pregnant just one more time, and have another little version of us running around in this world, but then those days and nights I spend in the hospital with Tyler, all the appointments, tests, and medicines, make me rethink the possibility of having another child endure those things. So for now, we are just a family of 3.