If I see one more baby picture on Facebook....

I'm gonna have to HAVE a baby!

For real though.... Baby fever is real disease. It's worse than the flu.  It consumes you!!!  Hunter and I have an active case of baby fever. Sometimes I carry Dale around like a baby and swaddle him in blanket.  By sometimes, I mean about 3-7 times a week. 

Let me preface this post to my ENTIRE family that wants me to have a baby... we are no sooner to having a baby at this time!  So just calm down now.

In all seriousness, I'm obsessed with babies and having a baby.  Hunter and I know that we aren't ready for a little bambino just yet though. So we are just going to let everyone around us have a baby for us this year! (AHEM... Leslie, Melissa, Chelsea.... everyone else that's super pregnant.)  DID I MENTION I'M HAVING A NEW NEICE/NEPHEW THIS SUMMER!!! (YAY!!!!!!)

My friend, Holly gave me the BEST slogan that I'm living by this year, "Baby free 2013!!"  This year Hunter and I are gonna focus on US and spending time together growing as a couple.  As a newly married couple there is ALWAYS pressure, "when are you guys going to have a baby?!?!!?" X300 times a day. 

However, Hunter and I are so happy and content right now, we just don't have room for a baby right now! We love the heck out of our dogs, treat them like the furry children they are.  Plus, we have so much on our "before were parent's" bucket list, we HAVE to stay baby free till 2014!!  We have a very exciting vacation we are planning this summer (EEEKKKK can't wait to tell!!) to celebrate our 2 wonderful years together.  Also, I want to take a cooking class and baking class so I can feed this said human.  Ultimate goal is to put off this babymaking thing until I get my CHT for Hand Therapy... but that can't happen for 5 year minimum... and I don't know I can wait 5 more years! (Did I mention I have babyfever?!?!) 

I'm sure sooner than later we are both going to wake up look at each other and be like "OMG let's have a baby!!"  Which is actually something we say frequently, but the idea fades by bedtime when we like going to sleep at 9 AM.  But when we are ready...I think the feeling will stay! Or...we just may get a lil surprise! Who knows God's plan and what's the point of trying to figure it out?!

Until then, we are in family planning mode!  I'm eating healthier, working out, taking Juice Plus, and even reading books about how to prepare my body to make it an awesome 9 month apartment for Lil J.  Hunter is also on the get healthy for baby train and is working out, eating right and taking Juice Plus with me.  I haven't let him read the books about growing a baby because it always ends with how the baby comes out and I just don't think he is ready for that kind of reality.

Anyone out there in blogland... What did you do/are you doing to get ready for starting a family???  How did you know you were ready to start a family??