We've officially started our IVF cycle! I must say this whole process is pretty crazy, exciting, scary and not without its share of painful moments. Giving myself 2 shots a day in the stomach just isn't all that fun. Not to mention all the blood draws, ultrasounds and the ever dreaded egg retrieval. Thankfully I have a great doctor and an amazing husband to help get me through this. Hats off to Chris for being able to put up with my wide range of hormone meltdowns! With a little luck and a big blessing from up above, we should hopefully get a positive pregnancy test sometime in late March. It's been a long, hard journey to get here and I know how truly blessed I am to be able to do this.
FYI....I won't be posting a lot of details about this whole process on this blog site. So if you want to read all the nitty-gritty details, feel free to read my IVF blog. The link is on my 'Friends and Family' blog list.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Our Cruise
On Feb. 6th, Chris and I left for our 5 night cruise to Cozumel and Progreso, Mexico. What an awesome trip! This was our first 'real' vacation together and we had a great time......for the most part. We left from Galveston, TX which was really convenient because it's only a 3.5 hour drive away. The port was totally disgusting and smelled like oil, but to see a cruise ship for the first time was amazing. We spent 2 full days at sea and I still don't think we had enough time to fully explore the boat. It was really neat to wake up in the morning and look out the window and see nothing but ocean. We went to a beach party in Progreso, snorkeled in Cozumel, show several really neat shows on the boat, went down water slides, ate tons and tons of food, met some news friends and spent a lot of time just laying out on the deck enjoying the fresh air. The snorkeling was really neat. I've never seen water so clear; it seemed like you could see forever! To see tropical fish up close was amazing. The only bad part about the whole trip was the way back to Galveston from Cozumel. We had really rough seas and the boat was rocking back and forth soooooo much!! It was so bad they had barf bags set up everywhere and the cleaning crews were pretty busy cleaning up after people. Even some of the crew were sick. We spent most of that day in our room to try and minimize the sea sickness, but I still got sick and spent most of the night hugging a trash can. I couldn't wait to get off that boat and onto dry land!! With the exception of the last day we had an awesome time. I really enjoyed getting to spend so much time with Chris. (No cells phones or computers, how nice for a change.) This vacation came at the perfect time because 2 days later we started a whole new adventure.
Who's ready for vacation?
Enjoying some fun fruity drinks before we left port:
The pool deck at night:
The inside promenade:
We did this waaaaay to much:
I conquered the water slides and it was really cold!
The never ending dessert bar, so good:
Cute towel animals:
At the beach party in Progreso:
Our ship in port in Cozumel:
Heading back to the boat in Progreso:
Snorkeling in Cozumel:
Say cheese:
Chris diving down to get the fish:
A lobster under the coral:
Who's ready for vacation?
Enjoying some fun fruity drinks before we left port:
The pool deck at night:
The inside promenade:
We did this waaaaay to much:
I conquered the water slides and it was really cold!
The never ending dessert bar, so good:
Cute towel animals:
At the beach party in Progreso:
Our ship in port in Cozumel:
Heading back to the boat in Progreso:
Snorkeling in Cozumel:
Say cheese:
Chris diving down to get the fish:
A lobster under the coral:
Sunday, February 21, 2010
House Projects
Thanksgiving weekend we randomly decided to scrape the popcorn ceilings in the kitchen. We've been talking about doing this since we moved in 4 years ago but I never wanted to tackle the mess. Some how Chris convinced me it would only take a few days to scrape the ceiling, repaint, clean-up and put it all back together. So, Chris, our friend Jason and I started a project that quickly got out of control and took a lot longer then Chris thought. Part of that was because we also decided to take out the old lights and replace them with recessed cam lights. Tom was a huge help with doing those! All in all, the project took over a week but it looks 100 times better then it did and the new lights look awesome! We still have painted it yet.....
This is how we lived for a week!
Bye bye popcorn
As if that wasn't fun enough, some how Chris again convinced me to scrape the ceilings in our living room and formal dinning room. I don't know how I was so stupid! But during our Christmas time off from work we took on this new challenge. And again we decided to not only do the ceilings but to also demo our fireplace and put in tile and repaint the mantel and to finally mount our rear speakers in the ceilings. This project did start off easier since we learned a better technique and process from the last time. We had the ceilings scraped in no time and were ready for sanding, mudding, sanding again and texture. We soon found out that our vaulted ceiling had lots of problems and it took many days for Tom and Chris to fix the seams and tape, float and mud the ceilings. While we were waiting for all that to dry we worked on mounting our rear speakers in the ceiling. And again it took a lot longer then we thought. Poor Jason ended up spending many hours in the attic, but we did finally get them in and I love it! No more speaker stands for the dogs to knock over and no more speaker wire! The fireplace was pretty fun to demo and only took about an hour. We even got to use a jackhammer! When it came time to finally paint everything we ran into a few problems. Apparently we bought 2 different colors of white and didn't realize it until we had already painted everything. The ceiling, mantel and the beam all got 4 coats of paint. We still need to paint the ceiling in the kitchen and formal dinning room, but I really have no desire to get into that mess again! We're also taking break from scraping ceilings!
Prepped and ready to go
All the spots are from the dust in the room
The fireplace after we took off the limestone and the new box we built for the tile
I don't have any after pictures yet, but I will post some soon.
This is how we lived for a week!
Bye bye popcorn
As if that wasn't fun enough, some how Chris again convinced me to scrape the ceilings in our living room and formal dinning room. I don't know how I was so stupid! But during our Christmas time off from work we took on this new challenge. And again we decided to not only do the ceilings but to also demo our fireplace and put in tile and repaint the mantel and to finally mount our rear speakers in the ceilings. This project did start off easier since we learned a better technique and process from the last time. We had the ceilings scraped in no time and were ready for sanding, mudding, sanding again and texture. We soon found out that our vaulted ceiling had lots of problems and it took many days for Tom and Chris to fix the seams and tape, float and mud the ceilings. While we were waiting for all that to dry we worked on mounting our rear speakers in the ceiling. And again it took a lot longer then we thought. Poor Jason ended up spending many hours in the attic, but we did finally get them in and I love it! No more speaker stands for the dogs to knock over and no more speaker wire! The fireplace was pretty fun to demo and only took about an hour. We even got to use a jackhammer! When it came time to finally paint everything we ran into a few problems. Apparently we bought 2 different colors of white and didn't realize it until we had already painted everything. The ceiling, mantel and the beam all got 4 coats of paint. We still need to paint the ceiling in the kitchen and formal dinning room, but I really have no desire to get into that mess again! We're also taking break from scraping ceilings!
Prepped and ready to go
All the spots are from the dust in the room
The fireplace after we took off the limestone and the new box we built for the tile
I don't have any after pictures yet, but I will post some soon.
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