The beginning

THE BATTLE TO GET THE BULGE


Where to start, where to start!? I guess the best place to start would be telling a bit about us. My name is Shawna. I'm a 32 year old Personal Trainer - one half of the couple fighting to get the bulge. The other half, is Dusty, my husband. He's a 31 year old construction worker and volunteer firefighter.
I should start off by saying how we met and became the couple we are today. Though most of you out there won't believe me, this story is true :) We met, through friends, about 10 years ago in a different town. Dusty being 21 and myself, 22. We dated for a couple months, but it didn't work out - I just wasn't ready for a serious relationship at the time. Oh, I guess I should also point out that I was a single mother of a gorgeous, just turned 5 year old daughter, at that time. Now that's a long story, to which I won't get into - or we'll be here all day. Anyways, we went our separate ways after only a couple months of dating. We stayed really close, in fact, Dusty was my best, male, friend for the next 9 - ish years. He'd come visit me from where ever he was living at the time, stay here, sleep in the same bed as me - and no, nothing would happen in that bed. Dusty had joined the military, as a firefighter, which takes us to where we are today. He got transferred to the city I live in now, Victoria BC, in July of 2006. Still to this day I can't tell you what brought us together again, but from the moment he moved here, we spent pretty much every waking hour together. Which, in turn, made me realize that I was falling for him again, so many years later. We've been inseparable ever since. See, do you believe that story? I remember telling my cousin, when he asked, about how we met. His exact words were: 'Right, bull shit, that only happens in the movies, now how did you guys really meet?' hahaha

It was only a couple months into dating again that we knew, without a doubt, that we were going to be together for the rest of our lives. After all, we had been best friends for a long time and what could be more perfect? We started talking about getting married and having babies. So, being the age we are, we decided not to wait any longer and start, right away, trying to get pregnant.

Who knew it would turn into such a battle!?