Because of everything they’d been through, she wasn’t optimistic. “As the deployment got closer, and each month passed with another negative test, we figured God was telling us now wasn’t our time to be parents,” she wrote.
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After finding out that she was pregnant, Lindsey immediately emailed MJL AK Photography to plan the ultimate way to tell Ben he was going to be a dad. “I actually saw the idea online and I knew I wanted to tell him in a big way,” Lindsey tells CafeMom. “I thought it would be so awesome to be able to have the moment captured!”
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