Ringing in 09

Well, tonight officially ends 2008. A year that was filled with a lot of joy, challenges, and chaos. This year in a nutshell. We started our fertility treatment. Which has given us hope to have children but also has been hard on us. I have learned a lot about my body and what it is going through. We celebrated many, many weddings, vacationed in Mexico, made new friends, got in touch with old friends and grew apart from other friends, and we celebrated our 2 year anniversary in October. All in all we had a pretty good year. As we ring in 2009 we reflect back on all we have gained and all we have to be thankful for. We realized with all we have encountered how strong we are as individuals and as a couple. Our faith has been tested and has grown during these tests.

My hopes for 2009; of course to get pregnant. We are coming to the end of our Clomid cycles 2 more after this one we are just getting ready to start. Hopefully, in these three months we will get knocked up. I would also like to give more in random acts of kindness. I want to be a better in 2009, more positive, more giving. I want to get in better shape. I want to give more to my husband. I want to live and laugh more. These are my hopes for 09.

It is a new year, a fresh start!! Have a safe and happy New Years Eve.

Another Year Older, Another Year Ahead Of Me

I have been a bad blogger. I have not really had anything to report. Right now I am waiting for Wednesday so I can test and move on to the next cycle. I know I am not pregnant but my OB decided that I should wait til day 33 just to be safe. Which in a way is fine with me because I won't be all hormonal for Christmas. A new year, a new cycle and new hope for a 2009 baby.

My 25th birthday was on Thursday. This was one of the best birthdays I have had. My co-workers surprised me and brought food in (ok, this wasn't a surprise we do this for every ones birthdays) then I got home from work and Dan prepared an awesome dinner for me. It consisted of steaks, roasted potato's and a delish birthday cake. He worked really hard on this dinner and that means the world to me. We went for a drive and looked at Christmas lights then came home and relaxed together. Life has been so hectic lately it was awesome to just hang out together. On Friday (as I posted before) my parents took us to the B.E. Taylor concert. Somehow it was better this year than last. They do a lot of the same things year to year but it was amazing. We ended my birthday today with dinner at my parents. My mom and step-dad cooked dinner and we hung out and watched the Steelers game and movies. It was nice and relaxing. My mom gave me for my birthday my Grandma Hileman's wedding ring. This is so special to me. My Grandma played a huge role in my life as I was growing up and she means the world to me. It fits on my pinkie finger and I will wear it daily. I love it!!

Christmas is a few days away and I am really looking forward to the coming days. I have two days left at Williams. Christmas Eve morning we go out to breakfast every year with family friends and the celebrating begins. The next two days will be filled with family and friends. I love Christmas!! Merry Christmas blog readers!!!

Blessings!!

Just As I Expected.

I did not ovulate on my own. I mean come on, why would I start now? So, they called me in some provera and I will start that on the 18th. Happy Birthday to me. Another month worth of hormones and craziness. I remain hopeful!!

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year.

I am getting super excited for the Holiday Season! I love, love, love Christmas and everything about it. The cards, the shopping, the baking, wrapping presents, decorating and most importantly the family and friends you spend it with. It really, truly is the most wonderful time of the year. I love driving home from work and seeing every one's Christmas lights, running into old friends while shopping, everything!! Oh, and it also helps that my birthday is a week before Christmas. Every year over my birthday weekend my family always goes to New Castle to see B.E. Taylor's Christmas show. This is truly a phenomenal show. He is from the Pittsburgh area and tours throughout western PA and WV. If you ever have the chance to go see him, do it!!! If you don't leave in the Christmas spirit something is wrong with you. He always brings a Gospel Choir from Beaver Falls (I think) to sing a song with him, and a high school marching band that comes in and plays The Little Drummer Boy and he donates a lot of time and money to the Special Olympics and he always has some of the participants that compete in the Special Olympics come out and sing a song with him. The show is next Friday and I can't wait. (I didn't realize that I am working PR for B.E Taylor....lol)

Well, can you tell I am stoked for Christmas!!!

I hope everyone has a Happy Holiday and a blessed New Year.

The Results Are In!!

I went in for my post HSG follow-up appt and I must say it was an overall good visit. I wasn't sure what to expect when my day started out with a call from the office saying my normal ob was sick today would I mind seeing one of the others. I said that was fine but all I could think about was how busy it usually is and how long the normal wait is and now they will be dispersing all of Dr. M's patients amongst the other OB's I thought I would never get to work. That was not the case, at all. We walked into an empty waiting room, no sooner sat down and was called right back, the doctor came in within seconds were done before my actual appt time. It was a walk in the park.

Now, for the results. Everything looked good. My tubes are not blocked and there is nothing wrong with my ute, whew. Since today is CD 21 he had me get blood work done just to see if I ovulated on my own this month. Which I was happy he did that but not to optimistic about the results, I will find out Thursday. (It would be super cool if everything worked out on it's own that would make for the BEST.CHRISTMAS.EVER!!!) He did say that they see a higher pregnancy rate the first 3 months following the HSG. That got my hopes up.

MIA!!!

So, I have not updated this in a week or so. I am still here just have had a crazy busy week. With the holiday last week and catching an awful cold things have started to pick up. Not to mention that my night job has finally gotten busy with the upcoming Christmas season that it has forced me to work 13 hour days this week. Ugh. I have also been preparing for finals that take place next week. Over the weekend we put our tree up and finished decorating for Christmas. Now I need to think about shopping. I am quite the slacker this year in this department. Most years I am done and the presents are wrapped and under the tree. I also need to find time to make fudge. I so love the Holiday Season!!!

On Tuesday we go in for our follow up appt. to see exactly what the HSG showed and how we are going to proceed from here.