The Ingram’s – Our saying has always been when it’s right it’s right and when you know, you know. And we knew we were meant to spend a lifetime together immediately. We live on the TN river in Rogersville, AL, and are true to the core “river rats”. We absolutely love spending every minute possible in and on the water with friends and family, and we are very blessed that our families live close to us. We enjoy anything outdoors- wakeboarding, surfing, skiing, fishing, hunting, and traveling. But we also both share the same dream to have a family. I remember when we were doing our pre-martial counseling with our preacher that he asked us how many kids we wanted to have and we said 4. And yes we would still love a house full, and we still have hopes for 4. But it appears that we will be very blessed if we are able to have just one. So far we have experienced a very emotional and physical journey trying to see our dream of having children come true. But this is our story-The Ingram’s River Ride, and we wanted to have a way so that all of our friends and family from near and far could have a way to keep up with what was going on with our baby journey. So sit back and enjoy our “river ride”. I want to be sure and say first of all that if it wasn’t for the following I wouldn’t have made it through all of this # 1 God and the faith and hope he provides # 2 Jason– he is my rock- the love and care he gives me is so amazing to me and # 3 The love and support from SO MANY who we are blessed to call our friends and family from near and far. We are RICHLY blessed to have so many people who care about us and pray for us and please know that we are so grateful for each and every one of you. I have tried to go back and capture everything that has happened in the last year so I am sure I will forget some things. And I might as well apologize ahead of time if the blog seems as though a 4th grader is submitting the posts because I have a hard time putting my thoughts on paper and that along with my “kuntry lingo” should be interesting. :)




Friday, December 25, 2009 - Merry Christmas!!



Happy Birthday Jesus!  Celebrate CHRIST!!!!  This is absolutely without a doubt the most special and best Christmas ever for us!  We woke up and checked our stockings first.  Jason had overfilled mine with all kinds of thoughtful sweet things and candy!  Then we opened presents and he did huge with mine!  He had got up in the middle of the night in the freezing cold, pouring down rain, and high winds (which made it very difficult) to unload my new deck furniture from his parents van and carry it upstairs to our deck so it would be there for me to see first thing Christmas morning!  Isn’t that just the sweetest thing!  And they were very heavy pieces.  But I LOVE them!  He also got me too many other goodies to name.  His big item that I got him was a Glock 9 mm pistol.  He was totally surprised and didn’t have a clue he was getting it!  Next is Christmas at Nanny and Granddaddy’s with his family.  We are SUPER excited about how we plan to tell them b/c none of his family have even known that we have even been trying to get pregnant much less what it took to get to this point.  After eating and opening gifts we told everyone that we had a game we wanted to play.  We had been playing it up for a couple of weeks so it wouldn’t look suspectful.  We had ordered scratch off cards online that were so cute-I posted a pic of one.  The cards said “A special gift from Jason & Sandy Christmas 2009” and then each person scratched off the gold part.  We ordered two of the cards to say “It’s a Winner!” and the rest to say “Try again next year”, and we intentionally gave his two parents the winner cards.  We had two identical gifts wrapped for the winners-a box with a diaper in it filled with chocolate pudding and a note saying “You better get used to changing these!”  I wish you could have seen Jason – he couldn’t even put the pudding in the diapers without getting grossed out! Ha ha ha!  He says that when the time comes he will have to wear a gas mask ha ha!  But anyway everyone scratched off their cards hoping to win the wrapped gifts, and of course his parents win and are so excited.  So we hand then their gifts and tell them they have to open them at the same time and that they are fragile.  So they open them and just kind of sit there looking at it and we’re thinking well do something…  Then his dad looks at me with this look like are you serious and nodding wanting to me acknowledge and then his mom started screaming!  Everyone was TOTALLY surprised and excited.  I think within the next 30 min his parents had called everyone they knew.  So it was well worth it to keep if from them all of this time.  Madeline said that she thinks it will be 2 boys since the boys are out-numbered.  ha haNext we went to my Mom and Dad's house (we are so blessed to have them in Alabama with us now).  All of my family from MS was there, but they already knew the news so we just enjoyed a great meal, fun times playing dirty santa, and great company!  Family - a great place to be!
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