A Night at Grandma's

Tonight we went over to Grandma's (my Mom's)..... as you can see from the picture below, the babies were so excited to get there!!!!

And my grandma's dog, Patches, was so happy too!

Well, you might wonder why I took a picture of this tennis ball on the bottom of my grandma's walker??? Well my aunt was trying to cut these slits to put new tennis balls on the legs, when the knife slipped.......and she sliced her hand. So off to the ER, and after a couple of stitches....she was back, but oh the drama! But alas, Nana has new tennis balls on the walker.

Judging from her smile, she was happy.














Sweetness helped my mom cook dinner on the grill and after we ate, we decided to get our last good game of canasta before my Mom has her knee replaced next Tuesday. (There will be more about that later).

Maggie checking out the card game......

Kisses Grandma.........

And after a long hard game, Mom and sweetness kicked me and Nana's butt tonight. They were so humble (see above Picture).

Maggie then let Daddy know she was tired and time to go home...... Thanks for a great night Mom and Nana! I love you guys!

On the IVF front, still status quo, injecting my Lupron as directed. We are getting excited..... please keep praying. Tomorrow sweetness and I are going to my Dad's house for a cookout. They live on the beach and I will take lots of pictures and post them tomorrow night.

I love you guys! Keep the faith!

Ending with a scripture:

For you have been my hope, O Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth. From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you.
I have become like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.

-Psalm 71:5-7

Learning Medicine

So today was so crazy busy for me. But the best part of it was going to the RE for my Medication Teaching Class. I meant to take my camera, but I forgot. Sorry! But we spent 2 hours going over all the medications I will be injecting to mature all my follies for Egg Retrieval Day.

I was surprised to know HOW IMPORTANT it is that you inject the Lupron everyday at the EXACT same time. The nurse said even 15 mins late, they have had women ovulate. And in IVF world, ovulation is BAD. You have to completely cancel the cycle. So you better believe my cell phone alarm is set to go off at all these times so I do not miss a beat. I think when it comes to this stuff, it's good that I am a triple AAA personality type. Helps me stay on top of all this.

And as I hoped, there was another woman in there with out her husband, so I was not alone being a singleton. So the plan is still keep on taking BCPs until the 27th (only 4 left) and keep on injecting Lupron every day. The next big event will be on July 31st, its our baseline ultrasound (US) and consent day. It's also the day we give them all our money :):):) But when we see those sweet little heartbeats on the screen, it will have all been sooooo worth it!

Thanks to you all for the prayers. I can't thank my Liberty family enough. My church rocks! Love you guys. Remember: Pray for twins! Have a super night and will check back in soon.

Ending with Scripture-

"You are God's child, and God will give you the blessing he promised, because you are His child."

-Galatians 4:7

Let the IVF journey begin!!!!!

So let's get this party started peeps!!! I have actually been looking forward to giving myself this injection all day! I know, WEIRD!!! So here I am getting ready to do it.......

Getting more nervous.....
All done!!!! It really was not that bad. These are insulin needles used to inject Lupron, they do get bigger from here, but this part, I can totally handle!!!

So that was all my excitement from today! I do definitely feel much better today. Thanks for all the prayers and calls. Tomorrow is the Med teaching class, should be oh so fun!!! Sweetness is not coming with me, he is trying to save up all his vacation for the Egg retrieval and embryo transfer days. But I just hope I am not the only wife there alone :(

My mom came over for dinner with us tonight, and now she and I are downloading all me and Sweetness' finances onto Quicken! Oh so fun! Am I the only one who loathes balancing the checkbook?

Have a great night peeps, and here's to you Lupron!!!! Do your thang!!!

IV Therapy and A Blog Lift !!!!

So do you like it??? What do ya think of my cool new blog lift??? I think it is awesome. If you would like to get one for your blog, go visit my friend Jen here at JenGetsFancy, and she will fix you up!!!

On to the news of the day.....

Well let's just say that today has been rough. Since my surgery last Friday, I have felt okay, but not great. But by Sunday night, I began to throw up and have not really stopped since. I got so weak today, that I HAD to go to the doctor. I was dry-heaving right in the waiting room in front of all these strangers, I mean HOW EMBARRASSING!!!!

So they started by taking some blood, DID A PREGNANCY TEST (haha), and then decided to give me a liter of saline fluids, along with 2 doses of Zofran to stop the vomiting. Of course, in true Heather fashion, no one could get an IV started!!! Finally on the 4th stick they managed to get it. Right about that time, my sweetness arrived, and sat beside me and held my hand, while we patiently waited for the fluids and meds to do their thing. After about 40 minutes I was turning the corner. The jury is still out on what exactly was the issue. The NP thinks it was an allergic reaction to the Percocet (which I told them I could not take; but that is a whole nother story), the RE thinks it is a virus (but sweetness is not sick). So we do not know what is wrong, but I am feeling 1000% better now, and am at home resting.

And I have to be ready because tomorrow IS THE BIG DAY!!!!! We finally begin injections to lead us down the road to parenthood! I begin injecting 10 units of Lupron for the next 8 days, while finishing the last 5 BCPs. I am so excited I can hardly stand it!!!

As promised yesterday, below is the picture of my own personal pharmacy that has arrived at my house!! Even complete with my very own little sharps container (for you medical folk out there). The small white bags in the front are filled with all different size syringes, to inject all this stuff you see in the boxes.

That is about it for tonight! Thank you for all the prayers as we begin this journey, God is faithful, even when we do not understand, HIS timing is perfect.

Ending tonight with a Scripture:

"Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good."

-1 Peter 2:1-3

Well Don't Make a Spectacle!!!

Sweetness is blind. I mean without his glasses or contacts, my babe is 20/450!!!! Now coming from someone with perfect vision, I feel for him. He always is searching for his glasses etc. Well when we started dating, he actually got more comfortable around me and decided not to wear the contacts I was so accustomed to seeing him in. His glasses were so hideous. They were like "Buddy Holly" type! So after 6 months of wedded bliss (which includes a daily dose of these glasses), we decided to go get him some new spectacles!!!! We waited 2 long weeks for them to come in, and finally.....

Tonight we picked them up, and he does look HOT!!!!! I think he thinks so too, based on his posing for these shots!

They are from none other than Trump. Donald Trump. At least sweetness does not have that awful comb over!

Then as I was taking these shots, our fur babies wanted in on the action with their Daddy. Anyone who knows Maggie, knows how in love she is with her Daddy!

And of course our "special needs" pooch Baxter. He does not know how to pose, he just rolls over!!!

And one last attempt at a Daddy and Baxter shot..... a face bath!!! But he loves his Daddy too!


Well there is not much else going on in Sweetness land tonight. I have a post-op appt on Wednesday afternoon at my RE office. We also have our injection class that day as we start injecting Lupron Wednesday night. I can not believe all the needles and drugs that have arrived at my doorstop!!! Geesh! I will take a photo and blog more about that tomorrow!

Ending tonight with a Scripture:
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart."
-Jeremiah 1:4-5

A Whole Lotta Cuteness!!!!!

Well one thing I love is fat little chubby baby feet. Last weekend Sweetness and I got to hang out with my cousin's kids, Ethan and Chloe. Chloe is 4 months old now and she sure is filling out from the tiny thing she was when she was born!

Sweetness was trying to get in "Daddy Practice" He is so cute when he holds babies, just a bit awkward, but he will get the hang of it soon.....Check him out!

So here is Chloe and me doing a little talking......

Then she was about to have a bit of a meltdown, that's was Sean's clue to hand her off!

Here is my sweet Mom who worked her magic and rocked her to sleep. Now doesn't she look like she needs sweet grand babies to hold? I totally agree!!

This child is so adorable, that she lets you talk to her in her sleep and she smiles too!

Lest we forget the first born Ethan..... What a ham he is. This is him doing his "Minister of Music" impression. I wish I had gotten it on video, but he went on and on with this for about 15 minutes, swinging his arms and singing to the Lord!

Then he decided to have a picnic with my Mom's cat, Oreo.

It was such a sweet day, and until I have my own little ones to blog about, I have to show off my family!

I have spent the whole day in bed, resting up so I can go back to work tomorrow. I did way too much yesterday and really was feeling it this morning. But I am doing well and can't wait for Wednesday to get here so I can start Lupron injections, and feel like this show is gettin' on the road!

Hope all my peeps have a great week, and I will check in soon.

Ending tonight with a scripture:

"And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."

-Romans 5:5

I went under......and I'm back!

Well my surgery went well today. I will get to all that in a sec, but I am laying here in bed, trying to sleep but I have slept sooooo much today, I feel like I am going stir crazy! So I thought I would go ahead and blog about our day.

My precious Mom had an outpatient procedure this morning at the same hospital as me (go figure), so I went to the hospital with her and my stepdad at 730am. After they took Mom back for her procedure, I headed on upstairs to see a wonderful friend of mine. Yvonne is one of those God-sent friends, I know you all have at least one of these.

This woman is the most Godly and funny person you could ever meet. As she and I caught up for a bit, and I told her we were praying for twins. Her response was "you better name them Yvonne and Yvette!" Sooo funny!

I had not seen her in 6 months since our wedding. She is just one of those people that makes you feel so good when you are around her! This woman has prayed for me about major events in my life in the past 8 years I have known her and I am so thankful for a friend like this. I love you Yvonne!

Well on to the big event of the day. I had to leave mom to head on over to the Ambulatory Surgery Center for my procedure. (Mom was doing great by the way) Sweetness and I walked in at 10am, and they took me right back. Of course I am such a "hard stick" they tried 3 times to get in an IV, and they finally had to call the anesthesiologist, Dr Wilder, and wouldn't you know he got it first stick! That is actually surprising to me, because usually doctors can not put in IVs anywhere near as well as nurses. But hey by that point, 3 sticks with a 22-gauge needle, I was just about over it!!

They then went and got sweetness so he could sit with me, and he took this lovely picture of me below. (I look so thrilled .)

Well we continued to sit there after signing away my life on all these consent forms, and I continued to get more and more anxious. So my sweet nurse Cathy got permission to give me some Versed, or as she called it "Happy Juice."
After about 10 mins, I was feeling much more relaxed, and I then looked like this....


Not long after, I was taken on back. And I awoke to people trying to get me to wake up! That really is the best sleep. Seriously, you do not want to be bothered. But they kept insisting after I was out cold for over an hour and half in recovery that I WAKE UP.

Dr. P told sweetness they actually only found 2 polyps in there today, not the 3 they thought I had. He showed him all the pictures (which of course I missed :( ). He also cleaned/scraped the entire cavity and Dr. P said that he thinks we will have a GREAT chance of getting pregnant with IVF in 3 weeks! So this was probably a blessing in disguise!
So I have 10 days of BCPs left, and I begin my first injection (Lupron) next Wednesday, and I can't wait. I think once I start all these injections, I will really feel like we are going to do this!

Thank you all for the text messages, emails and phone calls today. Things really could have not gone any better, and I am so thankful for all my wonderful family and friends out there praying for us. Other than some expected cramping, I actually feel pretty good this evening!

I would like to ask you guys to stop by my blogging friend Sarah's site by clicking here. She and her husband are in a very rough patch as they have just gone through their 5th IVF!!! She is pregnant currently, but they think she may have a chemical pregnancy, as her beta numbers are not rising as they should. Please leave her a comment or offer up a prayer to the Lord for their sweet baby inside her, that they want so desperately. This is such an emotional roller coaster. But we know the Lord can do anything, and he can have that beta number triple in time if that is His Will. Praying for you sweet Sarah....

Ending with a Scripture......
"Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart."
-Psalm 37:4