Here and There

Sweet Rebekah in the car!

Rebekah liked eating my fingers at Outback!

Rebekah showing off her 1st pair of jeans!!

This was her first time in jeans!! She looked cuuute!!!

She sure does like those fingers!! Her so fresh and

so clean after her bath!!
A hard day of swimming and playing wore this little girl OUT!!

My favorite smile!!
Uncle Jeremy trying to settle a fussy RG while Mommy and Daddy

went to see The Dark Knight!! She loves her Uncle Jeremy!!

Sweetness!!!!

It is so incredible how we can love someone so small so much!! This little girl has come into our lives and has brought so much joy and love with her! I'm amazed at how much I love her and can only imagine the great amount of love I'll have for my own child one day! It's an incredible gift! I was so fortunate and so grateful to have spent a week with JR, KeithAnn, and "Little Bit." We loved every minute of it!! I wish Georgia and Mississippi were only 5 minutes apart!! That would be awesome!!

A Visit

Sweet time with Uncle Jeremy!! It's cute to see her light up
like this every time her Daddy walks in!!

RG gets ready for her cereal!!
Trying green beans for the first time!! She didn't quite know

what to think about it at first but she liked them!

Messy green beans!!
Sweet time with Daddy!!

I'm so glad JR, KeithAnn, and RG are in town!!

Our Family

Macy loves to get inside the Kroger bags while we're
emptying the groceries. She laid in the middle of the kitchen
and did not move until we were done! Little turd!!

Molly pre-bath! It took waving a raw-hide over my head to get her to pay attention long enough for me to take this picture! A.D.D dog!! But we loves her!!
Molly post-bath!!
Molly and Mosa post-bath! Mosa wasn't really into it!

Can you tell? Her gonna be a Mama soon!! (Hopefully!)

Wait...Rewind

In my post yesterday, I said that we have a pre-conception appointment in September. Rewind, I was wrong. After ensemble practice last night at church, I talked with a friend of mine who suggested an OB/GYN that she and many other girls in the ensemble have used. I looked him up and set up an appointment with him on August 25th. If all goes well, I'm going to use him instead of the guy I randomly found. I'd rather go to someone who is recommended than someone I don't know anything about. My friend, Kristy, told me that he is a Christian and a really great doctor, which are 2 things I was really wanting. I read reviews on him from some of his patients and everything was great! I feel more confident about this decision. Sooo....our pre-conception appointment is on August 25th and not September 8th.

Preparing for Baby Cochran

Ever since Jeremy and I started dating, we were both on the same page about having children. That page was...we wanted them and lots of them. Well, maybe just 3. We started talking about it more seriously when we were engaged and decided that we wanted to start trying for a little Baby Cochran (or Crying Carter Cochran, as KeithAnn says) immediately after we got married. After a lot of thought, we reconsidered and realized that we need some time to ourselves to enjoy married life and to really build a foundation for this little person we'd be bringing into the world.

We've been married a little over 9 months now and we're getting to the point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel for getting started. I have been doing a lot of research online and through reading about what I can do to prepare my body, as well as Jeremy's, and have been getting helpful advice from other mom's. We've officially set a pre-conception appointment with an OB/GYN I found up here in Woodstock for September 8th. I'm excited about meeting him because I've heard great things about him. Having a great OB/GYN is very important to me because they'd not only be caring for me, but they'd also be caring for our child. We're excited about working towards having a little Jeremy or Marie running around.

Although I'm very excited about being a mom one day, I'm also just scared to death. Of course, as a new mom and dad, one might be nervous anyway but I'm nervous about the pre part. With the difficult conception family history on my side of the family, I have that nervousness of something going wrong. I'm nervous that we won't be successful but I know that God is in control and everything will happen in HIS timing. It usually works out best that way! Jeremy says that if someone on his side of the family just looks at their spouse, they get pregnant. Hopefully he'll have that gene! ;o)

Through my fears and excitement, I'm thankful. I'm so thankful that I have such an amazing man in my life that wants to have children with me! I'm thankful to know that he will be such an incredible dad to our little ones. I'm thankful that he wants to provide for his family and that he wants to raise his children with Christian values. I'm thankful that he wants me to stay home and raise our children. Even if we never have biological children, I know that I am content with just being Jeremy's wife for the rest of my life. Plus, we would love to welcome in a child who does not have a mother and father. Either way, I'm blessed and I'm excited about beginning this new chapter in mine and Jeremy's life together!

Please pray for our journey to wellness before baby and for success while we are trying for baby. I pray for our future kids and hope that I can be the best mom possible! It's amazing how much I already love them and I can't wait to know how it feels to love them so much more when they're here with us!