The trouble with life is...

So, I have taken to writing in my blog to help release some stress.

Now if you are waiting for fun pictures then stop reading now.

I am unsure of who actually reads this, I am guessing maybe 4 or 5 people, and those 4 or 5 of you THANKS!!! If you are someone who I do not speak with regularly I am going to fill you in on something I wouldn't normally like to discuss.

Blake and I have been trying to have a baby for a while now. I was officially off birth control in November of 2005...Now that sounds like a realllllyyy long time to be trying so, I would also like you to know: Aprox. 18 months of the afore mentioned time Blake was out to sea or Deployed for about 15 of them. AND we didn't apparently have good timing for the other 3 months.... So it has been a year and four months of really trying and at 12 months we saw a fertility specialist... which would have been great, BUT we have NOTHING wrong with us. NOTHING keeping us from having a baby... In fact all the specialist told us we are two of the most fertile people around!!! how can this be?!?!? NOT a good thing to hear...what am I (or we) doing wrong?!?!?!
yeah it's great we are able (apparently) but why hasn't is happened?!?! I had to go through some fairly painful/uncomfortable stuff to find out nothing is wrong! WHY???????? WHY NOT really???

The reason I am asking is.... if any of you lucky mommas or aunties or females with ideas etc... have any ideas or advice on how to accomplish the, oh so, exciting and (in our case) frustrating task of getting pregnant, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear them!! I am usually not one to whine but, my husband is going to be going back out to see in about a year and I would really like to make this work so he can be there for the birth. I know it may seem stupid to some, but I think that moment must be magical and I really would like him there to share in what we have made...


ANY advice would be oh so very much appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for reading!!

NEW BATHROOM!!!

BEFORE: sorry only one pic....
but you get the idea.... really boring! DURING:


The Klinedinst Master bath is now complete!!!

What I was told would take a few weeks took almost four months. Luckily, we have a guest bathroom so it wasn't that bad. At our last house I had to shower at the gym when they redid the only full bath in the house~
All the above pictures are DURING!!!!! and Below is the finished project!!!!!! YES!!!
Blake did the entire job all by himself. I am so proud!!! the only thing left is to up an outlet cover on the one outlets to the left in the photo below...
I love my new cubbie for all my bathroom stuff!! the vanity isn't very good for storage!!!
Pretty pretty shower, no more cheesy insert for us!!

This is where we..... you know...... GO...
Mondo 12 inch rain shower head. No worries, the shower has two separate shower heads, the other is normal and average in size...
I hope you enjoyed my tour of our new bathroom. It;s been a LONG time waiting for this.... now onto the guest bath to make them match!!!

Tag me up butter cup!

I've been tagged...

Christina said all Sara's so here we go...

Four jobs I've had:
1) Sam Goody (all though high school)
2) Bank teller (all through college at Purdue)
3) regional Account Manager (for AIM) auditing hospitals in CT
4) Marketing Programs Manager (recently laid off from... lame job)

Four movies I've watched more than once:
1) The Holiday
2) Legally Blonde (DON'T JUDGE)
3) Crash
4) Goonies

Four places I've lived:
1) Corvallis,OR
2) Quaker Hill, CT
3) Charleston, SC
4) West Lafayette, IN

Four TV shows I watch:
1) Greys Anantomy
2) Gossip Girl
3) Moving up on TLC (EVERY Saturday night)
4) Top Design on Bravo... I should be on that damn show!!

Four places I've been:
1) Australia!!
2) Guam
3) Japan
4) London for Christmas!!(does that count?....it's booked)

Four people who email me regularly (doesn’t include blogging comments):
1) My parents of course!!
2) My cousin Adam
3) Valerie in CT
4) Spam

Four of my favorite foods:
1) ANY thing Thai
2) Poulsbo Deli roast beef sub... so good..
3) pink lady apples
4) broccoli

Four places I would like to visit:
1) Ireland
2) Spain
3) Thailand
4) the maternity ward if I could ever get preggers

Four things I'm looking forward to in the coming year:
1) moving maybe....
2) hoping to have (or be in the process of having) a kiddo
3) paying off all our debt (except the house of course)
4) Being with my hubby!


Four friends I'm tagging:
1) Sarah
2) Tasha
3) Shalyse
4) Hillary