Prayers needed!

I have a friend from high school who is in desperate need of prayer! We have a lot in common, it's really uncanny. We went to high school together but we didn't really hang out. While Kelly and I were in Mexico on our honeymoon, we noticed someone who looked like this girl we went to high school. Kelly and I thought "no it couldn't be, we are in Mexico!" She walked by our table at dinner and say hi to Kelly and then noticed I was there. She had no idea Kelly and I were even dating. We asked what they were up to and turned out they got married, here in Granbury on the same day we did and they were at the same resort that we were at! It was so crazy. So we hung out for a bit, unfortunately we ran into each other at the tail end of our honeymoons. Our husbands are a lot alike, they both work for their parents and are ranchers. How crazy is that! Just last year we found out that we were both pregnant and due around the same time! Just about a week apart. Our kids were born 5 days apart! I wish they lived closer, they are such wonderful people. They live in San Antonio so we don't get to see them very often. She is a stay at home mom now and it would be so nice to be closer. Her son was born a healthy baby boy, he had reflux (like Layla) but that got better, does have an allergy/sensitivity to milk protein (like Layla), but nonetheless seems to be a perfectly normal little baby boy. Oh and is always smiling! And I might add what a beautiful smile! Her name is Lindsay, her husband's name is Clint, and her baby boy's name is Case. We were all fortunate enough to get together the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. It was such a nice lunch! It had been way too long since we had all been together, I think it was the first time since our honeymoons for all of us together. Case had been sick a little, strep and scarlet fever but seemed to be getting better. Obviously since we had him and Layla around each other. The week after Thanksgiving we both had checkups for the babies. I texted her Tuesday morning to tell her hope all goes well. She informed me that Case was sick again, she was thinking the flu. Shortly after that I read on Facebook that they took him to the hospital, his oxygen levels were very low. Case has been in the hospital since November 29, 2011. For the first few days the doctors weren't sure what was going on with him. After many many tests they finally found out that Case has no immune system and will need a bone marrow transplant and a terrible infection in his lungs. Here's what she wrote in her blog that she just started for Case's progress:

"Tuesday [December 6] was the very worst day. The pulmonologist came in at 7:30 am and woke me up to tell me the most horrifying news: Case had no immune system. He would need a bone marrow transplant. Clint and I were numb. Then around lunch, the chief attending who is also on the team came in and said his lung infection and had gotten worse, and he could die from it. I wasn't sure if I could go on."

I wrote this blog b/c I know how powerful prayer is. I am asking everyone I know to please please pray for this family! They are such a wonderful family and I cannot imagine what they are going through! If you would like to follow Case's progress here is their blog:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/casemartin/mystory

Thank you so much for all your prayers, with God on their side they can make it through this terrible time.

My baby is growing too fast!

Well we went to the GI specialist and Layla is doing good! She was under dosed so now she is properly dosed and is doing awesome! She spits us from time to time but just normal baby spit up! She is growing up so quickly! Soon she will be crawling and sitting up. We bought her a jumperoo and she is in love!! She just bounces and bounces in that thing laughing! As of a few nights ago she is sleeping through the night from 7pm to around 7 am!! Not bad at all! Layla does great at nap time too! Kelly and I are falling in love with her more and more everyday! It's hard not to when she's such a good baby!! I'm really excited, next weekend we are getting our family pictures taken. Layla will be about 6 months. My friend Chelsea does such a great job, I can't wait to see how they turn out!!

I got an embroidery machine a couple months ago and am loving it! Two weeks ago my friend and I opened a little business on Facebook and in a local dance studio selling personalized embroidered shirts and onesies. Its going well! We had a lot of orders the first week and are now working on our Christmas designs. Hoping to get them all done by Monday! I am so excited about our Christmas designs! I hope they are as good of a hit as our Thanksgiving designs!

For Thanksgiving this year we are going to Oklahoma with my family and couldn't be any more excited about it. It's Layla's first Thanksgiving and first road trip!! We will see how she does! She does good in the car and I'm sure she will be great on the ride up there and back! Hopefully soon I'll have more pictures to post!! Layla is growing so fast! I cannot believe she will be 6 months later this week!!!

way too long!

Oh my! It has been way too long since my last post! A lot has changed! We are now in our new home and we had our BABY!! I cannot tell how much life has changed. I love my life and would not change it for anything in the world! I truly feel like this is exactly where I am supposed to be in life! I love my child, my husband, and staying home! I cannot imagine someone else watching my child grow while I'm back at work. I know not everyone is able to stay home, I truly realize this but even if we had to cut back on Internet, tv, and luxury items, I would just to be able to stay home with my child! We do have to watch what we spend a little more these days but totally worth it all!!

My baby is 4 1/2 months old and wow she is learning something new everyday! She has been giggling for me for awhile but just in the past week or so she is giggling for other people. Totally adorable! I bought her a new book that makes noises and has farm tails and she LOVES it! I also got her Sofie La Griafe! She is so in love with him too! Tonight I put together her jumperoo and cannot wait to put her in it tomorrow! I really want to wake her up now and see how she likes it...but of course I wont!

I know this blog post is very choppy but I dont know where to begin on what to tell you because I've been gone from this for so long. I promise I will update more often! The update on Layla and her health...

She still has reflux. We went to the doctor today b/c she has been spitting up a lot lately and I am extremely concerned! Well my motherly instincts were right and she has only gained 2 oz. in two weeks. She should be gaining way more! So we added a new medication and am supposed to schedule an appt. with the GI specialist. I'll make the appt next week. I'm glad her doctor is getting her the proper treatment. I've known for awhile now that she does have a sever case. She is still lactose intolerant but I do believe she is good on the soy now. We have been going to see an acupressure guy and it has helped but I haven't seen a huge difference to keep on going back especially if we have to go to the GI specialist I dont want to drag her from office to office.

She just woke up and is yelling for me to come feed her. I will update sometime soon. Hopefully this week since we just got good internet at the house now! I'll also post pictures later as well.

So once again a lot has changed since my last post. I am now 16 weeks along and our house is really coming along!! They say your second trimester you usually feel the best...well I beg to differ! I'm having morning sickness throughout the whole day. I am thankful it's not everyday and I have not thrown up, yet. Did I mention that when I sneeze my insides hurt?! It feels like I pull a muscle every time I sneeze! I know most people love being pregnant but man, I'm not loving it right now. My hormones are going crazy and I cry more often now of course. I hate complaining about how I feel and I hate taking so many different medications so I can function!

I don't take them everyday but I do have to have them handy at all times! My belly is growing and growing. Maybe next post I'll have a picture. Right now I can't figure out if I'm just carrying low or if it's just too many cookies that I have been eating. Sorry to rant, I am so so grateful to finally be pregnant and am so excited to bring this baby home! It is a dream come true! Making my own family and memories is what I've always wanted! Honestly I feel like the luckiest girl alive!! I love seeing how excited Kelly is getting about our baby! He is so cute!!! We have our next sonogram in two weeks and couldn't be happier. I still haven't decided 100% if we will find out the sex then or not. I go back and forth on if I really want to know or if I want it to be a surprise when baby Langdon gets here! I'm sure we'll find out but I'm thinking about not. I do want to get the nursery done before he/she gets here but they do stay in the bassinet for a couple of months. I could work on it after (with all my spare time I know I'll have. LOL.) Oh who knows what will happen!


I am so so proud of Kelly and all his hard work on our house. It's 7:42 on Saturday night and I'm blogging and watching tv while my wonderful husband is working on our house. We have walls, texture, paint on the walls, most of the doors up and Kelly is installing the plugs and switches right now! This week we are going to order the cabinets and get the tile for the shower. If Kelly, James, and Daniel work on our house monday-friday every week we will have it done in no time. James and Daniel framed our house and come back to work here when they don't have another house to work on. They are excellent, we couldn't get this house done without them!! I have a video of our house so far. I do have more pictures on my Facebook http://www.facebook.com/kristyn.langdon if you wanted to see more. Hope you enjoy the video and look forward with some more news soon!!


The video didn't work but you can view it on my facebook page!!

Update on the Langdon Ranch

It has been way too long since my last blog. I'm sure everyone would like to know how our house is going. Yes we are still building it. No it will not be done by my Christmas completion date. Kelly hasn't had much time to work on it the past few months. We finally got the insulation sprayed on the walls last week. It will save us so much money on our energy bill every month!! We are so excited about that! Hopefully next week the energy company will come out and hook up our electricity. And by the end of the next week they should start on the sheet rock!! We got smart and hired a company to sheet rock for us. It will save us,Kelly, so much time!!! So I'm looking at February or March as our move in date. It is starting to come together and I cannot tell you how excited I am!!










We are so proud to announce we will be having a baby at the end of May 2011! I am almost 11 weeks along. I've been so scared and very reserved about this pregnancy. I thought after my miscarriage that once I get pregnant again I will shout it from the rooftop as soon as I found out...I didn't feel like that. I told my immediate family and my department at work for the first several weeks. I thought after our first sonogram at 7 1/2 weeks that I would tell everyone then...not so. Finally after passing where I was when I had the miscarriage(10 weeks and 2 days) and seeing my baby today on the sonogram machine did I want to shout it. Our baby is doing awesome! I've been getting blood work often and every time it comes out awesome! Today our baby was moving around in my belly. You could see little arms, legs, the body, and a giant head! LOL. I feel everything is finally coming together again for us. I don't want to sound like we have never had anything. We are very fortunate and are very blessed for everything in our lives but with a new house(may I say an awesome one at that) and a new life inside my belly we are even more blessed! I really want to thank everyone who has kept us in their thoughts and prayers. Thank you thank you thank you! We knew God would answer our prayers somehow and someday, but wasn't quite sure when! So far I've been feeling pretty good. I do have some nausea every once and awhile but it doesn't last for more than 5-10 minutes usually. On my days off I'm sleeping around 10-12 hours. I am also so sleepy! Overall, I'm doing GREAT! Couldn't be happier! I thank God everyday for my wonderful husband and my amazing life here on the ranch!

Prayers needed!

I normally don't blog up to date info about our fertility issues but this month I am super excited and need everyones prayers. First off the doctor doubled my clomid so now I'm taking 100mg and I'm getting the HCG injection today which triggers ovulation and I'll ovulate within 36 hours of the injection! We went to the doctor yesterday and there were two mature follicles on my right side! One was just barely mature so the doctor told me to come back the next day (which is today) to get the HCG injection. Let them grow one more day! The sonogram tech and the dr told us to really think about going further bc we could have twins or more. The chances of that are kind of low I feel with my previous experiences every month of not getting pregnant. But you never know! Twins would be awesome and scary all at the same time. I go back and forth on if I want twins or not. I will take whatever God gives me!! Regardless of multiples or not, last month I only had one follicle and this month we have two. double the chances! AND... I had one mature follicle on my left side but they are thinking that was from last month and that he is just hanging out. Crazy. So if that's the case, my follicle never dropped last month, I'm really glad I'm getting the HCG injection. It makes all the mature eggs drop! Once the sonogram tech told me I have two mature follicles and could have multiples, she left the room and I just cried! Kelly asked me why I was crying and I replied "I just want a baby and we have such a great chance this month!!" I know it will happen someday but I'm ready, I'm so ready!! So I really really need everyone's prayers this month please! I'm a lot more relaxed this month than I was last so that's in my favor too!!!

Still Going...

So it's been a little over 3 months since I had my miscarriage. Seems longer than that though. We are on our third month of trying, second month on Clomid. This is harder than I ever thought it would be. I feel like I have absolute no control over my emotions and hormones sometimes. The other day I just had to leave wherever I was and go home b/c I couldn't control my emotions. The tears just kept on rolling down my face. It was awful. I was embarrassed b/c I feel like I need to accept what happen and be okay. But I sometimes just can't! I see the doctor in about a week for my sonogram to see how my follicles are doing. I should be ovulation that day so that will be really nice to see. This will be the first time I see MY doctor since my miscarriage. I have a HUGE list of questions to ask!

I am so lost and not sure how to calm down sometimes. I feel like I've tried a lot of methods to help, a nice glass of wine, thinking good thoughts, I even bought some stress reliever lotion and use it every night! My job is stressing me out and I'm scared that isn't good for me conceiving a baby, but then what do I do after I quit?! I can't quit and sit around on my ass and do nothing. I know there are a lot of things I could do but would I be motivated enough to do them?! I wish I could take a leave of absence and take off about a month to get myself together (maybe see if an anti-depressant would kick in). I don't feel that is very fair to my co-workers. BUT a FAMILY is more important to me than anything in the world! I will do whatever it takes to complete my family! That is in my list of questions to ask my doctor. See what she recommends medically.

Ever since I had my miscarriage my feet go numb way way quicker than they did in the past. I feel like I've never had great blood circulation but its horrible now. I literally cannot sit on my knees for more than two minutes without my legs and feet hurting! Also in my list of things to ask the doctor.

I was very spoiled with my periods BM (before miscarriage). They would last 3 days max. Usually the first day was extremely light then second day was normal, then the last was another light day. It was awesome. Those days are gone. Now it's a normal-light day for the first day, then the next 3 are normal to heavy days with two days after that being light. I hate it!!! I want my old period back!!

Last week Kelly and I started working on the house again and it's really coming along now! It's so nice!! I'm hoping in a week or two(no longer than two weeks) we'll be ready to spray in the insulation. Then sheet rock soon after that!!! I cannot wait! My hope is to have our Christmas party at our new house!! We will be in the new house by Christmas but not sure if we'll be in there with enough time to move in and throw a Christmas Party. But I may make it happen somehow! We will see.

Yesterday I held a month old baby for about two hours and I loved it! I truly feel that this is the plan God had for me, to be a wife and a mother! It was an awesome feeling! Our day will come and I could not be anymore exited!

It's been an extremely hard past few months but I'm still going and I'm still making it! Just bare with me b/c some days I really can't do much! It's not very often anymore but I do still have my days I truly cannot control my tears!