Hi everyone. I want to tell you all a little about myself. My name is Tami, and I am a married 21 year old female. My husband and I were married on May 31, 1997. Right away we started trying for a baby. I finally declared in December of '97 that I wasn't going to get pregnant until right before my 21 b-day. So we basically gave up on the trying. That New Years Eve I conceived.
The pregnancy was fairly good. Of course I had the 4 months of morning sickness. Why they call it morning sickness is beyond me. I was sick 24/7. :( Then a week before my due date I began to get pre-eclampsyia (I think the spelling is right.)! I had gotten internal hives and was itching for a week. Finally I managed to get induced. (I won't go into the whole pregnancy and delivery story because that is on my other web site.) On September 18,1998 at 1:26pm our beautiful daughter was born. We named her Tristin Lee. Both my husband and I loved the name Tristin for a girl, and Lee is my mothers middle name.
I then did something I always swore I could never do. I became a housewife/full time mom. The thought of going to work 40 hrs a week every week and not seeing/raising Tristin drove me crazy. I knew I couldn't leave her in daycare because I would never trust anyone outside of the family to watch her. So that left my family members, which they all work too. Every day and night while I was on maternity leave I was in tears over the dilema. Finally my lovely husband told me I could stay at home with her if I wanted to. I didn't need his permission. But I didn't want him to feel as though he never had a choice in the matter.
So here I am. Tristin is almost one year old, and I am going crazy at home. :) If it wasn't for how much Trissi lights up my life I wouldn't still be at home. To help me from going absolutely nuts-o I thought I would try making a scrapbook for Tristin. This is the first one I have ever done. And I am really proud of it. So along with Tristin's web site I decided to put her scrapbook on line.
I will be updating this site often. My goal is to have her scrapbook up to date before her party. We are throwing her a big party and I would love to have the book out for people to see. Also it will be easier to work on the scrapbook after the party, if I have it updated by then. I know there will be tons of pictures to add after the party.
If any of you have any questions as to how I did something you can email me if you would like. I am also really hoping for some suggestions. So if anyone has any suggestions or ideas PLEASE email me. I would love for you to sign my guestbook also, so if you would rather do that and put the ideas in there I don't mind.