Get to know my family - From the beginning

My little families story has many chaotic periods of how we all came to be but, It's our own magical story that I love!

Let's start from the beginning, way back in winter of 2018.

Quentin, my husband, had just returned home to southern California from serving a mission for our church for 2 years in Honduras. In the words of my sister in law, he was "weird and so awkward" so she made him download a dating app! I was living in Utah at the time and was going through a silly teenage heartbreak when my friend told me to download a dating app to get over this boy.

By a miracle and with fate definitely on our side, we ended up matching!

States apart and having our location range set to just our towns, we somehow found each other!

Being so young we thought we would never meet, but we loved talking to each other. It felt like we had known each other our entire lives, so we decided to just keep being friends and texted or facetimed everyday. The holidays come around and Q tells me his family decided to visit his uncle who also lives in Utah. This uncle so happened to live 10 minutes from my parents house!

We finally met and our families were pretty scared with how fast we moved but, we both knew! We both had finally found our forever best friend. And the rest is history!

In true Mormon fashion we got engaged 3 months after dating long distance, and married 5 months after that haha.

One thing I feel like everyone tells you when you get married young is marriage is hard so be prepared.

I hate that saying. I think lots of things in life are hard but, we get to choose what kind of hard we want. Working out is hard but, so is being out of shape. Being married is hard but, I feel like only if you both make it hard! I'm so grateful to be married to my best friend that makes marriage never feel hard!

Our first year of marriage was during the pandemic and that was so crazy and scary times but, we are both so grateful to have found each other before then because quarantining together wasn't so bad when It's with your best friend!

A couple months after the pandemic we decided to buy our first home together! And wow was that an adventure. With the market being as competitive as it was for first time homebuyer's and investor's constantly competing, we got lucky with our 14th(!!!) offer. We moved in and after a few months we decided it was time to grow our family!

Someday's I wish I could go back to those naive and innocent Emily and Q and tell them it'll be hard but oh so worth it and don't lose hope.,

We had our first miscarriage in that home. And it was brutal. That pain and heaviness I wouldn't wish upon anyone. I still catch myself some days wondering. Wondering what our family or life would be like with that angel baby in our earthly home.

We grew so much together during that time and once we both were ready, mentally and physically, we decided to try again.

Christmas eve, I get a phone call that my lab results don't look like they should and to come in for a quick scan before they close. Quentin had covid so he wasn't able to come to the appointment. We learned that we had lost our second baby. That year, our first christmas in our new home, we spent it just the two of us. Quarantined and miscarrying.

The new year came and we knew this year would be different but we didn't know how or what to expect.

We decided to go on a cruise vacation with Q's family before summer started and get out of the late snowfall and our empty home.

Planning to share a big announcement on this cruise with everyone was so hard to keep a secret!

We had found out we were pregnant again and our labs looked great!

On the boat we were getting ready for the 'fancy' dinner and I started miscarrying as I was curling my hair. Long story short, that was one of the hardest things I had to actively go through while keeping it a secret.

A couple months go by and Q is offered an amazing career opportunity in New Mexico! We had never been there but we felt like it was where we needed to be, so he accepted and we listed our home for sale! We signed our closing selling documents on the one year anniversary of our buying date.

While in New Mexico, we had 2 more miscarriages, still with no answers on why this keeps happening to us.

We decide to try one more time before we move on to IVF, and we find out we're pregnant again. Our 6th pregnancy. I start showing concerning signs so I was told to go be seen in the ER. While we're there we are once again told we lost this baby. But then we get a follow up phone call a couple days later about my lab results....