Happy Birthday Dad!

Today was my Dad's Birthday so we went to Kemah to eat at the favorite restaurant, The Flying Dutchman. This is where we always go when we go down there to eat. We had a good group and good conversation. Niki of course kept us all entertained with her hilarious stories. You never know what that girl is gonna do. Tim and his girlfriend Alyssa came. And of course, Terry and I. I took a couple of pictures, Courtney took the rest.

I took this one of Courtney, but the budding photographer herself took the rest of these pictures.Tim and AlyssaNiki

Terry

Me (she actually pose me in this one)

and the birthday group!!!

We had a great time. I love you Dad!!!

As for me, I am feeling fine. Not sure if that is a good thing or bad, but praying for the best. I'm still cramping a little. I hope that is a good sign!!!!

Bed Rest = Boredom

I thought I might enjoy forced laziness for a few days. Well, I was wrong. Why is it when you are forced to do something you enjoy, it takes all the fun out of it? Normally I have no problem laying around all day, but after 3 days of it I think I might lose my mind. I am sore from not moving around very much. Even after today I will still be afraid to do to much, just in case. I am still feeling some cramping which makes me think SOMETHING has got to be happening in there. Oh well, I'm bored so I just thought I would take a few minutes to blog.

Frozen Embryo Transfer......Check!!!

So we got up early this morning to get ready to go to the Doctor's office. I was pretty nervous but in good spirits. I haven't been nervous about the actual transfer procedure, just what it entails over the next two weeks. So we finally get called back and they have me put on a gown and beautiful hat. They also had a hat for Terry and some great shoe covers. Terry was trying to put the shoe covers on and they were WAY to small. The nurse walked in and he showed her his feet and she said, "I ordered X-Large". I'm thinking that's weird because he doesn't have huge feet. So I'm sitting there reading my instructions and I keep looking at his feet. I told him he had to have put those things on wrong. He insists they are fine and they are just to small. Then Dr. S walks in to tell us about our PERFECT embryos, and Terry looks at her feet and says, "Mine don't look like that." She starts cracking up and has to help him put them on the correct way. It was pretty funny and she got a big kick out of it. Turns out Terry was the second husband this morning that had done the same thing and it was only 7:30. Who knew you actually had to have a PHd in order to put on surgical shoe covers. Anyway I laughed pretty hard and it was a GREAT distraction. So they finally got me back into the "sterile" room. Dr. S came in and took some blood and gave me some vallium. She put it straight into my vein so I was suddenly loopy. Terry was right beside me the whole time. They turned the ultrasound machine around so we could watch as they put the embryos where they belong. I was trying so hard to concentrate on it but I was quite out of it. All of the sudden Terry says, "There they are." And sure enough you could see the embryos hanging out in my uterus. They gave us a picture of it and when I can sit at our desktop computer I will scan it in and post it. It's pretty cool. NOW this does not mean that I am pregnant. The embryo(s) have to attach to my uterine wall before that happens. The odds are definitely with us but there is no guarantee. We will not know anything for two weeks. So the next two weeks will be pretty rough. I am on bed rest until Saturday and even after that I have to be on pretty much "light duty" until the pregnancy test. As of now I feel great. I have been feeling some cramping which is completely normal. My emotions have been "pretty" good today. I have only teared up twice. Once at the end of the procedure when I realized that they were in my belly and once this afternoon when Terry was talking to my belly giving those embryos a pep talk.

Our prayer for the next two weeks is that God will help those embryos figure out how they are suppose to attach and stay there, and that they are HEALTHY little babies.

They are healthy embryos and Dr. S was very impressed with them. They both got scores of AA so they are already GT kiddos!!!!

Happy Birthday Tim!!

So today my little brother turned 26 today. YIKES!! Considering that I just turned 30, I'm not liking that very much. It's hard to believe that we are all getting as old as we are. And we aren't even old!!! We had a great dinner with the fam. I got to see Braunsen (14- almost 15 y.o. cousin), I hadn't seen him since Christmas. I really miss that kid!!! He has grown up so much and is such an absolute joy to have a conversation with. I just want to eat him up, he is so precious. Can't believe he is going to be a Freshman in High School this year either. I remember when he used to run around the house in a diaper and wake me up in the middle of the night. He would run into my room screaming "EM". Of course at the time I didn't think it was funny, but now I'm glad I have those memories to look back on of him. Courtney was her normal sassy self, as usual. Lesli and Buddy were there. It was good to see them. I haven't seen much of them since Christmas either. Everybody is so busy and I have been a little preoccupied lately. I find myself lost in the sea of people around me. I have to try to snap myself back into the reality of where I actually am, and not in my fantasy world of...what's going to happen on Thursday? and Will this transfer work? I wanted to be present in the conversation, but when I am not directly involved I tend to mind wander. I'm worried and scared, happy and excited, and cautiously, cautiously, cautiously optimistic. I know that when this is all said and done that all of this will have happened for the perfect reasons. And truly I can't wait to find out what those reasons are. I pray every night that it is God's Will for us to be parents. And I promise to be the best parent I can be. I just hope He is ready for us to take on that roll. So as I sit here less than 36 hours away from those tiny little embryos being put back into my uterus where I can HOPEFULLY grow and protect them, I pray that this is God's timing and He is ready for us to take on this adventure.

So this post totally detoured from the title, but as you can see I am pretty one track minded right now. So Happy Birthday Tim, I love you!!!

IT'S A GO!!!!

I had another Dr.'s appointment this morning. My lining is still great and the nurse just called and said my Estrogen is 665. This is very good news for us because it means we are definitely putting those embryos back on Thursday. I will go in at 7:15 and get it all done. I'm so excited but extremely nervous at the same time. I also have to start those HUGE intramuscular progesterone shots tomorrow. YUCK!!! But hopefully it will all be worth it. We are going to be doing some serious praying over the next couple of weeks.

UPDATE!!!

I just got a call from the Doctors office. My Estrogen is not quite where they want it to be, it is 222 and they want 350, so we have to give it two extra days. Good grief this is a roller coaster. The new unofficial transfer date is July 26th!!! So just add 2 to all the dates I gave before. I will go in on Friday to "check" me out once again. Hopefully we can stick to this plan, but all things considered, I'm not bankin' on anything.

I know.....I'm a SLACKER!!

Since I have received several phone calls and messages reprimanding me for not updating my blog I figure it probably is time to do just that. I will say that I am still working on my blog from the river trip. It has taken me forever to upload all the pictures. So that means that when I finally do finish it the date on it will be July 9th because that was when I started it. I also must not lie.....I have been quite lazy the last couple of weeks and you will not hear me apologize for that :)

So here goes on the Frozen Embryo Transfer update.....

I started Lupron on July 1st. Had a few mood swings but nothing horrible. (Terry may have a different story). I hadn't really had any major hot flashes until night before last. That was AWFUL!!! I woke up dripping wet at about 3 o'clock in the morning. I literally had to take a sponge bath. BUT as of tomorrow NO MORE LUPRON!!! Well hopefully. I went to the doctor this morning and my uterus of course is beautiful. The lining is perfect so depending on my estrogen level I will be off of the Lupron as of tomorrow. I should get a call in the next couple of hours about my blood work. So that puts those little embies back in my beautifully perfect uterus on July 24th at 8 a.m. Then bed rest until July 26th. I'm recruiting visitors as I will probably be bored and I need conversation to occupy me so I won't stress out thinking about what is going on inside my body. So if you are not busy on July 24th - July 26th I won't be either. Although I will say that on the 24th I will probably be a little out of sorts because they will give me vallium before the transfer to make sure I am completely relaxed. I will probably sleep a lot that day BUT the next two days.. come on by!!! So that is pretty much all I have right now. Just say some prayers for us over the next several days as the countdown has begun!!