We are so excited to welcome our little man into the world and cannot wait for everyone to meet him! He has already been such a blessing and we cannot wait for every moment that is to come! I already don't want him to get any bigger... :)
It's official, my body has begun the birthing process and I am considered 2 centimeters! The size of a penny... I have a LONG way to go! 
Baby Tharp will be here soon... I can't wait to see if we are having a little boy or little girl!
This local Tracy photographer was amazing! I am in love with every picture we have seen so far... I only wish we could have had her take our wedding pictures too! :) If you are in the area, you need to book a session with her! 
As we embark on an the next stage in our lives it is my goal to begin a blog (again) to help keep our loved ones more in tune with our comings, goings and everything in between... especially with having a little one soon!
A quick review of our life so far... *We have been married for going on 5 wonderful years in June. Life hasn't been the easiest path for us so far but through it all we have kept not only God the center of our marriage but have remained strong and faithful to each other. I couldn't have asked for a better person to spend my life with and I know without his strength and love we wouldn't be together today!
*Our first children were our two wonderful puppies, Kita and Jax whom we both love VERY much. I know they can be high maintenance and others don't always find them as fantastic as we do but it is their involvement in our lives that has brightened some of the worst days and kept us content even when we were longing for a little one.
*We began trying to have a baby after a year of marriage. Initially we tried for a year and to no avail we were not blessed with a baby. We began to question if there was an underlying issue and sure enough it was established I had what is called, Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome. It essentially is a fancy word for multiple cysts on my ovaries that can cause me to not ovulate regularly. I was then placed on fertility medicine (clomid) throughout the course of the next two years off and on and still was not successful. I had been very stubborn and had a lack of faith in the Lord to go to a fertility clinic because financially we knew it was something we would not be able to afford. When I was blessed with left over money in 2010 from a flexible spending account we decided to use it on a consultation visit.
Two months later I was supposed to begin the next step in treatment when I began having terrible menstrual pains. It turned out that I was actually pregnant but sadly the baby was ectopic (attached inside my right fallopian tube instead of my uterus). I was beginning to have internal bleeding in my stomach and was rushed to the hospital for surgery because if my tube was to rupture then I would be in a life or death situation. It was a miracle that I was seeing a fertility specialist and being monitored... without her, I may not be here today. The goal was to try and salvage my tube if possible but unfortunately it was not repairable so two and half hours after surgery we lost baby Tharp as well as my right tube. Now we were left to deal with the loss of a child as well as the realization that another pregnancy would be potentially even more difficult.
We did not begin trying again for a few months because we wanted to just take time to heal emotionally from what we had just been through however God had other plans. The month we were supposed to start the fertility treatment we discovered I was yet again pregnant and this time... everything was in the correct place! :) Praise the Lord!
Several trials later throughout this pregnancy (high risk, kidney issues, complication pains from the ectopic surgery, etc) we are at 38 weeks and patiently awaiting our precious little one!
*Amidst this pregnancy Jason was also promoted within Les Schwab to an assistant manager in Tracy, CA. So we packed everything up and moved over 600 miles from family and friends... It hasn't been the easiest transition, especially expecting our first baby, but it was such a blessing for our overall family situation and we know it was only through God that this opportunity was even made possible. It was something he had been working towards for 5 years and yet again the Lord made it possible when we least expected it.
Looking back we can see the Lord's hand in all the things we embarked upon on our path together and it has definitely renewed our spirits that no matter what He truly knows all and through Him all things are possible. We are excited for the next step in our life and whatever may come from it... :)
