December..

December is usually my favorite time of year. I love Christmas and everything that comes with it. This year was especially fun with my nephews being a little older and them understanding who Santa is. We decorated the outside of our house with lots and lots of lights. We ended up using 35 boxes of little lights on the trees and 12 strands of C9 around the house. We had so many lights that we had to add an extra breaker and run a new outlet out front. We also bought a set of 3 trees that play 5 Christmas songs and the lights that "dance" to the music. It looked totally awesome!!! To bad the pictures don't do it justice.

It was also fun getting to see Lizzy again. She came home for 2 weeks and it's been a long time since I've seen her. We had a couple of movie nights at our house with the new TV and had a good time. BTW... the new TV is also totally awesome. We got a Samsung 50in LCD with 1020htz technology. It makes the movies look like you're right there. It's amazing how great the graphics look. I always love spending time with the family and it's great when we can get all of us in one place.

Chris and I both got iPhones for Christmas and we love them. We have spent many hours playing with all the fun features. Chris also learned a valuable lesson: it turns out that you can break the screen by dropping your phone on concrete. It's really easy to tell our phones apart now.

This month was also supposed to be the month we officially start our infertility treatments. Who knew it was going to be such a specifically timed process? With ultrasounds on day 2 and 12, taking clomid on day 3 until day 7, testing for LH surges on days 13-18 and the having the done IUI within 24 hrs of the surge. It turns out that it only takes 1 staff member giving you incomplete information to mess it all up. When we finally got the positive Lh surge, we followed the directions given to us and called the office to make the appt for the IUI. Well we called to late and we missed our little window. The staff member forgot a very important detail about the hours the lab is open on the weekends. So, we would have to wait until next month and do it all over again. Talk about an emotional roller coaster!!! That all happened between Christmas and New Year's, so that put a damper on our festive spirit.