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My name is Krista and my husband and I have a beautiful son, Riley Camden, who turns three on June 20th. He's definitely a handful, but one that is well-worth it. We are trying to have another baby, hopefully a little girl to add to our crazy family. We have already agreed on the name Emily (I'm thinking Emily Alanna Kate, but convincing the hubby of two middle names is another story) if I somehow become pregnant with a little girl. If its a boy, Shane chose the name Cameron, after his middle name.

It's a lot different when you're actually trying to conceive rather than trying not to. We hope to get pregnant next month-July. According to the Chinese birth calendar I should conceive a girl if I become pregnant in July.

If anyone is interested, here is the URL for my MySpace Page. http://myspace.com/hottiemommie83

Aug 23- Well, I haven't written in while. Perhaps because AF showed her ugly head again a few days ago and I'm waiting for her to leave, which should be any time now. It's a whole new cycle now but the hubby and I have really committed to not trying anymore. If it's meant to happen, it will. We know it will happen, so it's just a matter of when now. Here's a cheers to trying!!! xoxo

Aug 10- On CD11! One week til Ovulation!

July 28th- So I'm on CD7 right now. It's a whole new month...a whole new cycle...a whole new headache....and a whole lot of familiar stress, anxiety, and obsession. I feel good right now, but I have actually begun to feel more nervous and concerned that this whole process may take a whole lot longer than I anticipated. It's so easy in the beginning to think that it's so simple, but as the months and unsuccessful cycles pass, it starts to get harder to think that any of it is simple. Ovulation day is CD18 which is August 8th, so all I can do right now is Baby dance with the hubby til then. At least it never gets old trying! :-)

July 22nd-Ugh! I can't believe it but AF showed up today and I'm having the worst cramps of my life. I think the cramps are really just huge laughs erupting from AF. I was so certain this was our month. I'm sad :-(

July 21st- I'm 12DPO! Af should NOT be here July 24th-Thursday, so I've decided to wait until at least then to test. The hubby keeps asking me every day when I can test-it is so cute. I want it to be a surprise and I want to tell him some really neat and fun way, but how do you do that when he keeps hounding me for an answer? Any ideas anyone?

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July 15th- Well, I charted my basal temp on fertility friend and it looks like I ovulated on the 9th instead of the 11th. All because darn AF showed up at 1 a.m. back on the 23rd, causing me to have to choose cycle day one as either the 22nd or the 23rd. I went with the 23rd- and was wrong obviously. Oh well, I still have excellent chances of being pregnant. Tomorrow will be 7DPO leaving only one week left til testing. I'm going to try to wait til AF due date passes instead of testing early though. Lets see if I can make it. :-)

July 7- Oh, what a wonderful weekend I'm having. The 4th was wonderful. And then Saturday hubby took me to Turner falls in the Arbuckle Mountains, which has Oklahoma's largest waterfall. It was so beautiful. We camped there all day and went hiking and swimming. I had an amazing time. Hubby and I got brave and messed around in the mountains, lol. We took a picture of the spot too. Haha. Can't let nature detour us from our schedule, now can we! Cm is sticky as of today and LH is faint, so it looks like things are on course and Friday is looking good for O-day!

June 30th- This weekend was wonderful. Hubby and I certainly made the most of it, :-) On CD8 counting down the days until the 11th when I hopefully ovulate as schedule tells me I should. Took a OPK test today-absolutely no sign of any LH anything, which is not surprising and actually good-it means things are moving along as expected.

June 27th- Last day for AF-Yippee. Preparing to BD for the next two weeks up until the 9th of July. I should ovulate on the 11th according to every ovulation calendar known to woman. It sure will be fun practicing, but heck, I am so darn impatient! I have a feeling though, this is the month. Keeping my fingers crossed!

June 23rd- Well, the darned AF popped up on me last night at 1 am. Strange thing is I BD with the hubby two hours before that and no sign of anything. I had a dream I was bleeding heavily and woke up to it, such a nice surprise let me tell ya. So it looks like I'm back to CD1 or CD2, I really don't know since AF sprung up on the brink of two different days. The dumb b**** probably did that on purpose just to throw me off! She probably wants me to miss O day just so she can visit me every month and torture me for the rest of my life. Only two weeks til O day and oh, how I look forward to visiting with AF til then....Not!

On a lighter note, Riley's birthday was so great. We had a barbeque and had all of our friends and family over, all the kids played on Riley's new Adventure Playset which took my husband two days to build, and somehow a two hour water balloon fight played out. I think it was one of Riley's favorite days-he had so much fun.

June 18th- So, yesterday morning I was feeling really nauseous. I wasn't sure if I should take a test or if it was just stress. A lot is going on right now so I figured it was most likely just stress and not eating breakfast. But then again, you never know. My hubby begged me to take a test, so I did during lunch time.....and guess what? BFN! The hubby was sad, and so was I. I ate a whole tub of ice cream to make me feel better. Only three days til AF is due and I'm anxious to get it over with so I can BD like crazy til O day. Well then it will just be another 2 weeks waiting, but I have faith it will happen next month. I really believe next month is our month! Wish me luck!

June 16th- So, my birthday was great-everything I expected and more. The hubby and I bd'd all weekend-now that the pressure has been off until next month, it was back to being fun again. We let loose and just enjoyed each other. That's what its supposed to be about after all-enjoying the connection between you and your other half to the point where you want to share it with a little one. I think I came to the conclusion that even when it gets down to those hours of really trying-we're going to do everything we can to make it as special as possible -even if that means a glass of wine and a hundred candles every single time.

Fathers Day was wonderful as well. Riley and I got up and made Daddy breakfast, Riley gave him his presents, and then we took him to lunch a little later. We went by the park and my husband and Riley hit some golf balls around and played. It was a beautiful and relaxing day.

June 12th- Yay! It was my birthday yesterday. It was so wonderful. The hubby sent me flowers at work, sent sweet text messages all day, got me a beautiful necklace, and took me and our son to dinner at Pearls Lakeside by the Lake- it was gorgeous! We'll be going out Friday night with all of our friends for one last big hoorah before I get preggers. I don't know how I'm going to make it sanely after that, having to wait until testing the third week of July. My temperature is going down so I should be starting AF around the 21st. We'll see.

June 10th- Tommorow is my birthday! Yay! So, I forgot to take my basal temp this morning. Oh, I was so mad at myself. I took it about ten minutes after I got up, so I still charted it, though I'm not sure how much off the darn thing will be. I read that you're supposed to adjust it 1/10th of a degree for every thirty minutes you waited.

June 9th- Mother left yesterday. I did an opk test yesterday and it showed a postitive LH surge. That's just great! I was wrong on my ovulation date-five days off. It would make sense that I ovulated on Saturday too since my basal temp shot way up that day-almost a whole degree. I know...woohoo right-a whole degree? Yeah, well it's a lot in basal temp world. It looks like next month I'll be more sure about my cycle and O day. So if I'm correct on the updates of my cycle, we'll need to BD the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of July to TTC a girl on O day-the 6th. If I start that dreaded AF on June 21st then that will confirm that I ovulated on Saturday the 7th. We'll see what happens I guess.

June 6th- My mother is here visiting, and staying with us, so no bd for us for a while. The hubby is like, I need your lovin, and I'm like, well I don't want my mother to hear our lovin, so lovin in on hold as of now. Only 11 days til that dreaded AF. Only 11 days? Argh!

June 5th- No Making Love out of Nothing at All

Another night has gone by, another basal temp has been recorded, and lo and behold, I think I may have given myself a yeast infection with that damn douche I read I was supposed to use to push the odds of ttc a girl in my favor. Oh, to be a woman sometimes. I am not on a very good road right now. (sad face)

June 4th- The hubby is mad!

You know, the funniest thing happened last night. The hubby wanted to....well, you know, and I actually said no. Said it would mess with our schedule. This is when the hubby gets up and storms off into the other room, shouting at me how this just isn't fun anymore. Can you believe that? Like this is supposed to be fun, ha! I mean, I'm keeping charts and temps and track of mucous for goodness sakes. Like I have time for distractions!

June 3rd- Am I ovulating or Not? That is the question.

Hmmm, so I'm so new and confused to ovulation cycles and cm that I think I'm losing my mind. I thought today was my ovulation date, according to my cycle schedule, but my basal temp is still the same and my cm is definitely not EWCM. I guess I'm not on top of things like I should be-darn me. So I'll just keep charting everything and maybe I'll get lucky next month. Since we're trying for a girl, I'm limited on what days I can BD.

June 2nd- Trying to make a Baby?

So, hopefully if I'm right, I ovulate either tomorrow or the next day. This will definitely help with being right on next month on my ovulation day if I'm correct this month. I'm trying to keep up with my basal temperature to see if it goes up any time soon and stays up. Perhaps I'm not checking my CM correctly or else I'm wrong about when I ovulate, because as of now, it still seems far from EW like. I guess I'll just keep watch.