I stayed up late last night!

I was up till 8:30pm :-)

I am DEFINITELY pregnant. I become unconscious about 7-8 every night. Last night we watched a super cute movie (Stardust) so I made myself stay awake as long as possible... Joey was proud of me! But I like it cuz it makes me know I'm still pregnant!!

Also my final beta is on wed!

Maroon five

I normally listen to mostly Christian music (then country) but lately I find myself scrolling through other stations hoping to hear Maroon 5 :-)

It DOUBLED!!!!!!!

Praise GOD!!! It went up to 234 so in the 48-72 hour period it a little more than doubled. We are SO thrilled!!! I cannot believe how many million times a day I pray for this baby(ies). I never knew it would be like this! I swear praying for them has become like breathing to me!!

So thank you for your prayers... we need them :-) I go back one more time (hopefully) next week just to make sure they're still going up and then have my u/s the following Tuesday!!!!!

House for sale! or rent :-)

So... we have 2 1/2 months to sell our house! We need a MIRACLE!! :-)

So I'm spreading the word! We live in northern Minneapolis (a suburb not to be named on here...) in a townhouse:

3 levels
2bed
1 bath
family room
living room
laundry room (very spacious for storage)
1 car garage (tons of storage up above)
updated kitchen
partially updated bathroom
front porch/swing
walking distance to 3 parks and a lake
on a major biking/running scenic trails
1176 sq ft
ADORABLE :-)
$135,000 or $1050 a month for rent.

If you know of ANYONE who might be interested PLEASE pass the info on! We're meeting with the realtor on Saturday and listing it ASAP... but the more the word spreads the better!

I should add as well we're very sad to be leaving, we LOVE our house.. we considered selling it for a while and decided to stay through residency. It's very cozy, very quaint and we've been so blessed!

*living room



*updated kitchen (and back door)



*partially updated back

*Master bedroom

*spare room

*basement/family room

Beta went up but didn't double.

It was 106 on Tuesday and now 48 hours later it's only 174. I'm going in tomorrow for a third beta.
I know that it's mainly important that it doubles in 72 hours.. and it went up 70%... so that's good but today has been such a whirlwind of emotions.... I hardly feel like celebrating anything...

Holy CRAP we're moving to Chicago!!

So today is our 4th anniversary and we found out we're moving to Chicago!

We are in SHOCK!

I woke up thinking we'd be in this house for another 3 years only to find out we're moving! Oh. My. GOSH!!!

Don't get me wrong, it's exciting but I am SOOO close to our families that I can't even imagine being so far away (and pregnant!). Please pray for them, they're really sad..... and for us that this process can be smooth and not hard on the baby(ies).

Holy crap!



Joey's progression of reading the news...

can you tell he's shocked?

I couldn't tell if it was good or bad!

Us holding the match day letter... we look happy right? Still not sure how to feel!

Is this a good sign?

Okay I must preface this by saying I never claimed to have the flattest stomach in the land... but my stomach never looked like this :


4w2d

"Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and
opened her womb.  She became pregnant..." Genesis 30:22

Telling the family

Here is a short video recapping sharing our news.. unfortunately we couldn't get a hold of Joey's sisters right away and by the time they called back we didn't have the camera :-( Boo.....

Joy

PS. this song was on scrubs (our favorite show) when Turk and Carla tell everyone they're pregnant. We sat and BAWLED when watching it (Joey cried first!) I honestly thought we'd never get to do that.... but here we are!

Is it just me? Has time stopped moving?!

Okay, I've know I've been pregnant for 6 days and these passed six days have moved SOOOOOO SLOOOOOW!!!!! I feel like tomorrow will never get here, let alone my u/s in 13 days!

How can 30 months of TTC have flown by and now here I sit, each minute feeling like a day?!

I sure hope things speed up a LITTLE more :-) I might go crazy!

First U/S scheduled!!!!!

I scheduled my 1st U/S schedule for 4/2!!! I'll be 6w1d and then they might have me come back at 7 1/2 or 8weeks for another one before they ship me off to the OB :-)

(Grams did you follow all that? I'm having and ultra sound at 6 weeks!)

Poll results

We were dating 11 months before we got engaged and were married 10 months later... totally 1 year and 9 months :-)

Beta back 106!

Phew I'm really pregnant! I will go back on Thursday for a repeat :-) When is it going to feel real, I thought after getting a call from my dr saying I was pregnant would do it, but nope....

Talking to the babies.

So ever since we put the embies back in Joey's been talking to them. Well last night was the first time he did that since we found out on Friday we were pregnant. So he lowers his head to my belly and slowly draws out: "uh.. hi guys... how's it going?" I thought it was so funny! What a goofy way to address our future child(ren)!

Then the convo got more natural while he proceeded to bore them with the daily details of our lives :-)

well... now we wait!

I had my b/w done this morning and I should hear sometime between 2-4 what my levels are! I'm praying for big numbers!

Guess what? I'm pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been testing positive since my birthday on Friday (best bday gift ever!!) on 7dp3dt and wanted to wait to tell my family before telling the Internet world :-)

We're so excited! My beta is tomorrow but I have 6 +Hpts (obsessive?) including 1 digital! Here's the video of me telling Joey. It's not exactly what I envisioned, but it's a keepsake for sure :-)

http://tinyurl.com/37pagz

Thank you SO MUCH for the continued support and prayers through all of this!! I can't tell you how much it means to me (and Joey)!! It was so much fun telling our families this weekend and rejoicing in the life we created together!

We know we still have a LONG way to go (due date 11/25/08) but we're praying one day at a time :-)

Poll results:

My new favorite Caribou drink is the wildberry smoothie (Which I never even liked before!) with ORANGE ZEST!!! One word: YUM!!!!!!

You must try it :-)

Poll results

My favorite food is wild rice soup with ham! (and almonds)!! Yum!! And I think Ceaser salad would come in second, then pizza :-)

I want beer?

So last night everyone ordered a drink, and I'm not going to lie, I was sad I couldn't too... all the beer and wine being passed by me smelled so good! But instead I had 12 glasses of water (seriously, what's up with that?)

But Joey snapped this picture of me and doesn't it look like I'm just oodling over the beer?! lol.

I have a great feeling!!

I'm feeling really positive about our IVF.. and for more reasons than just that "feeling". I don't have any pregnancy symptoms (minus my newly very zitty face) but that's good, cuz the PIO shots can mimic pg symptoms, so I'd rather not have those.

But I've had two very specific things happen through the 2ww that MANY others who got bfp's through IVF had as well! So that makes me happy.

As for yesterday, I had such a blast at the children's museum with my sister, SIL, mom, Joey and the 6 hoodlums :-) They loved it, we loved it!

And I had so much fun out to eat with Joey's family! I miss them so much, we hadn't seem them since CHRISTMAS (just his dad)!!!! (mind you we were gone in all of Jan and I swear Feb didn't even happen between IVF and the adoption!).

We went to a place where you can sit and play boardgames before/after you eat! So we played games and were there four hours! It was so much fun!! :-)