When life doesn’t go the way you want or plan I feel like you can go 1 of 2 ways. You can get negative, be mad, want to give up. Or…you can look at your life and see how lucky you really are. I know it’s harder to go the second route, but Laryen and I constantly TRY to see the positive out of everything. That’s just the kind of people we are and that’s the kind of people we always have been and always will be. This is something that we will pass along to our children and hope they live their lives like this too.

That being said: yes we were sad, mad, confused, depressed, bummed, hurt when we found out the IVF didn’t work. Our hearts still hurt weeks later. But you know what? We are so damn lucky. And we didn’t need a negative pregnancy test to tell us that. We know it and thank God for that EVERY SINGLE DAY — just sometimes it gets blurred between the lines of the busyness we call life.

I can’t begin to tell you how many AMAZING people we have in our lives. I honestly don’t know how we got to be so lucky. So many words of hope, love, promise, sadness, kindness, thoughtfulness, prayers have been given to us from the wonderful people we are lucky enough to call our family and friends. We’ve heard these words over the phone, in cards and letters, text messages, voice mails, through hugs, care packages, flowers … the list goes on and on. Every single word and gesture has become a permanent part of our hearts. And it will stay there forever. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We can’t wait for our children to be blessed with you in their lives as well.