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

Six Months of Wedded Bliss!!!!!

I can hardly believe that tomorrow will mark Sweetness and I's six month wedding anniversary!! It has with out a doubt been the best six months of my life! The Lord sure knew what He was doing when He brought him into my life.

I can not imagine my life with out him, his smile, his touch, his sweet kisses. Thank you babe for loving me in a way I needed, but never even knew! I can not wait to see what new adventures God has in store for us......


Below are some more wedding photos, some of my favorites out of the 1000 we have! I must give a shout out to my amazing photographer, Keith Cephus. He truly captured the essence of our day! Click here to check out some more of his awesome work.

My beautiful Maid of Honor (and BFF) Kate

and Kate's baby girl, Katianna....soooo sweet!

He was doing THE twist!!!

And who knows what I was doing???

This was the best day of my life!!! I will love you forever.

And then we were off to our honeymoon in the beautiful Colorado Rockies!!!! We had such a blast snow skiing, we did not want to come home!!

Update on tomorrow:

I had my pre-op visit at the hospital today. They got ALL pertinent information, and took my blood. I mean a huge pet peeve of mine is people asking the same thing OVER and OVER. I mean is there no congruity to the team? Every person you sit with wants to know what your having done (shouldn't they know that?), how old you are, your doctor etc. It gets so aggravating. THEN, the nurse from the anesthesiologist calls and asks all the same questions again, like 4 hours later!!!! UGHHHHH!

I digress. Surgery is scheduled for noon, I have to be there at 10 am. I will try to post a little update tomorrow evening after I sleep off the anesthesia.
Thank you to all my prayer warriors out there who are praying for us. We can feel it. Please pray this goes smoothly, and is a total success for our IVF cycle in 3 weeks!!

A Scripture for tonight:

"The heavens tell about the glory of God. The skies show that His hands created them. Night after night they make it known."

-Psalm 19:1-2

What's for Dinner Sweetness?

Wow!!! What a crazy day! I can not believe it is ONLY Wednesday! Sweetness went into work this morning at 3 am because he is taking off on Friday to take care of me after surgery. I am so blessed with such a wonderful man!!!!

Anyone who knows me IRL (in real life), knows how I HATE TO COOK! I mean it is really bad. I love to clean house and be super annoying about a clean house, but cooking..... not so much. Anyway, God in his infinite wisdom sent me this amazing soul mate of mine, who cooks dinner for us every night. I know ladies.....I am seriously blessed. So me trying to be the good wife, decided I was going to cook HIM dinner tonight, since he has worked 13 hours today. I head on out to Wally World to grocery shop, it needed to be done anyway, and among other things I picked up this......




We love to eat at the Macaroni Grill, so I thought I would try it out!!! Well surprisingly I can follow directions well (ha ha) and it turned out just like the picture on the box!! See check it out for yourself below.

But the real test was how it tasted. And judging by the smile I received, sweetness was a happy man. (It could have just been the fact that I cooked and he did not have to, but he said it was good.) I'll take it!!

So I would say dinner tonight was a success!

On another note, the New Hope clinic called today and told me I have to come in tomorrow morning at 7:15 am to sign all this surgery consent and paperwork, then go to the hospital and get blood work done. Yuck! I asked the nurse more questions today about what was really going to happen during surgery, and I probably should not have. Now I am very nervous about it, but thankfully I will be asleep so I won't feel any of it.

And I want to thank all of you who have viewed my first blog posting and sent me messages on facebook or called me to say you are praying for us on this journey into parenthood. It really means so much to know so many are praying for us, I know God hears every prayer on our behalf. Thank you all!

Ending tonight with a scripture.......

"We will find grace to help us when we need it."
-Hebrews 4:16

Always holding everyone else's Baby!!!

Me holding baby Katianna.....

Sweetness holding baby Autumn.....

and me holding baby Chloe.....

So why am I always holding everyone else's babies??? I guess it's because I have a HUGE family, and it seems it has never quite been my time to have a baby. When sweetness and I got married in January, we knew we wanted to start trying to have a family right away. Well life doesn't always go as planned.......

After 5 months of trying, I had a sneeky suspicion something might be amiss. So we made an appt with the awesome fertlity clinic here in our area called The New Hope Center for Reproductive Medicine. Well they have not completely nailed it down yet, so we have been labeled to have "unexplained infertility". Yeahhh now THAT is what you want to hear! But to make a long story short, we are in our first IVF cycle, and we are looking at target dates of egg harvesting on Aug 10th, with embryo transfer back on Aug 13th 2009. Hopefully by August 25, 2009 we will have a BFP and on our way to parenthood.

As you can see from the pictures above, there is never a lack of cuteness to hold in this family. But we so desperately want it to be us. We are trusting our Lord for this great miracle called life! I am trying not to get my hopes up too much but it is almost impossible! And is it me, or when you WANT a baby, every woman you pass in the store is pregnant! Geesh!

Oh, one last thing! I had a sono-HSG test done today at the fertility clinic, and they found 3 polyps in my uterine cavity. So I am scheduled for surgery to have them removed on Friday morning. Please pray this goes smoothly and no hurdles. Dr P said this will not affect my IVF cycle as I do not start Lupron injections until next Wednesday! Thanks everyone!

Welcome to my Blog!!!

Well I have toyed for some time with starting my own blog!! I am an avid reader of about 25 blogs of others, some I know, others I do not, but I thought it would be a fun way to keep friends and family updated with the goings on of my life with my precious husband, named Sean. But as most of my close peeps will tell ya, he is better known as "sweetness."



We have a lot going on in our life right now, so I will be updating often and trying to learn how my friends do all the things they do with their cool blogs! Thanks for coming along on this journey with us..... and hope to hear comments from you all soon :)