loves/loathes

Well, I suppose it is time for my second edition of loves & loathes. Here we go...

Loves:
-coming home to a clean and organized room. hubs rocks.
-i had the most brilliant thought to use my grandmother's name as my future daughters middle name. JOY. isn't it perfect!? Her name is actually Guiseppina, but my grandfather calls her Joy. i don't know how i have never thought of it before
-my nephew will be here any day now. i will officially be an AUNT!
-my best friend has a BF and she's so happy it makes me happy
-celebrating my other best friend's Halloween birthday party and making the costumes... I didn't have a baby to dress up, so might as well dress up myself and enjoy it...

Loathes:
-a super duper crappy cycle.
-no one to talk to that understands anything about infertility.
-having another Halloween baby-less. i vividly remember last year, so sure that it would be my last one.
-being tired and depressed pretty much 24/7
-having to take a break from TTC and not having a chance at my summer baby
-it's November, which means hubs mustache has sprouted :|

Well, that's it folks! xx

november first two thousand eleven

Can it really be November 1st? Today is the due date of my sister and brother in-laws first baby. The one that will make me an auntie.  The one that was not supposed to exist, but will. I am happy for this.

It also marks the 19th month of our TTC journey, and the beginning of a two month TTC break. A much needed break.

This cycle has been a bad one. Many strange things happened.
-late o
-no spotting until 25ishdpo. usually starts around 11dpo
-bad cramping for the past 7 days
-no sore and large bbs
-lots of BFNs - I can't bare to see another one of those
-AF has still not arrived 

Tomorrow hubs and I have an appointment with our RE. We will be discussing starting IUI in January, and my messed up cycle.

this and that

Well,  I have not been a very good blogger. I wanted to start this blog for myself. I wanted to keep track of my life happenings, memories, failures. But of course, the wedding season happened and for a wedding photographer, there is a lot of work involved. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed almost every minute of it, but it is a lot of work.

It has been exactly 2 months since my last post. Since then many things have happened and many things have stayed the same.

Husband and I, and two of our friends went on a 3 week European vacation, which included destinations such as Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam and of course ITALY.  A post about the trip will follow.

We are still not pregnant. I am still sad everyday. We have decided to do IUI in December/January if it does not happen.

We had our 2 year anniversary. 2 years.

I have so much going through my mind, but it is blank at the same time. It is hard to put into words what I am feeling, because really, there are no words to accurately describe it.

That's all for now.

loves/loathes

So, I have recently encountered an annoying short term memory loss issue. I  think since I have a gazillion things on my mind, and my to do list, I easily forget the important things in life.

Loves:
-finding milk glass vases for .89 cents at the Salvation Army
-when the most amazing husband in the universe buys me 2 new lenses for a wedding
-buying a backpack for our trip to Europe that is way to big for me
-my parents face when we told them we bought them a new stainless steel fridge
-friends that I haven't met face-to-face that have impacted my life and that make me happy
-organizing my desk
-getting amazing emails from clients who are thrilled with their photos
-shooting a wedding and getting images like this:

Loathes:
-I don't O for another week....O stands for ovulate people, get your minds out of the gutter.
-STRESS ahh I have so much of it to go around, and I hope it doesn't affect point #1
-ignorant people...35 is 35, not 41
-having a temporary bedroom with no windows and waking up with a headache and no sunshine every morning

And that wraps up this weeks addition of loves and loathes...until next time...
xo

L+L

My two loves.

Husband, aka Lucas and my baby Lexi.

As you can see, Lex is in desperate need of a bath. I shall put that on my to-do list with the other gazillion things.

the belly that isn't mine

Since I don't have one of these yet...I am a lucky duck to get to take photos of other girls bellies. Super duper cute bellies, I might add.

I love maternity and baby sessions. Period. Speaking of period, you can go away now, please and thank you!

white and pink

On a happy note.....
What do a couple of best friends, who happen to be wanna be party planners do when their other best friend gets engaged? Throw her a fabulous party!

And who may the wanna be party planner be? Me, duh! Katie and I made all of the desserts, all design done by me, and all decor is DIY!

The beautiful bride to be...

For the full story and more photos please check out the post on my photography blog... here!

Our party was also featured on bridal musings!