expanding our set

With immense joy and humility, I am excited to share that we are expecting our third little Shafer!  We are due in September, and we couldn't be happier to be expanding our family.  Andrew and I feel overwhelmed with gratitude to be in this position.  There was a time when we thought we might have no biological children...now we are preparing to welcome our third.  I am not sure why our lives have been written in this magnificent way, but I am grateful beyond measure.

Thank you all for following along and supporting us as we started our family two years ago.  I know and am thankful that you will extend that same love and support to this next child.

And now, for your clarification, here are the answers to the questions that we continuously hear right now:

Yes, it is one baby.  We are absolutely sure.

Yes, we are excited and very much wanted this child.  

No, we did not do IVF again.  Our frozen cycle in December was not successful, but the process and meds we used helped us get pregnant the following month.

Yes, we realize that we will be extremely busy with two barely two-year-olds and a newborn.  Life will be chaotic, and we are totally okay with that.