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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Lunch with Grandma Connie

Today has been a Saturday full of chores. My Mom's side of the family is coming to our house tomorrow for a late Christmas get together. That means lots of chores and lots of wash today. The house has to be clean for the family. We also hung the drapes we got for Christmas today. They look great! Love them!!!

Little by little I'm going to do updates of events that have taken place for the past few months. I'm actually starting with some of the most recent and working backwards.

On Wednesday Riley and I had lunch with Grandma Connie. Riley got her Christmas present from Grandma, an Elmo "live". Which she loves. We on the other hand might find him to be a little bit annoying.

Here's Miss Riley, drowning herself in ranch dressing, hey, sometimes it's the only way to get her to kind of eat something, sitting next to her new Elmo.



Here Miss Riley on the way home. Watching Backyardigans as usual. And, I broke in and let her have "Binky and Bunny" on the ride home since she was late for her nap. Typically she only gets them in her crib for naps and bedtime.



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2 comments:

K J and the kids said...

Very cute !

January 3, 2009 at 11:38:00 PM MST
Stacey said...

Our Riley's are so similar. Our Riley also loves dipping sauces of any kind. It's a great way to get them to eat!

Riley loves Backyardigans and it's one of the DVDs we have in the car. I like them too.

January 16, 2009 at 12:58:00 PM MST

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Our Conception Story

After eight years together we were pretty sure we'd spend our life with our four legged kids, doing lots of camping, and traveling the world. On August 12, 2004 that all changed with the birth of our God Daughter Tate. We immediately fell completely in love with her and soon began to re-think our decision of not having kids.

In October 2005 we began the process of trying to conceive. As soon as we started trying Shelly began having very erratic cycles which made the process that more complicated. After four tries over six months we decided to schedule a consultation with the a Reproductive Specialist. We were desperate to conceive and on a limited time frame since Shelly had just turned 41. Dee was 35 at the time but not able to conceive due to a medical procedure.

Our first appointment with the Repro Man was May 2006. He suggested we try IVF using Dee's eggs and Shelly as the gestational mother. He felt this scenario would give us the highest chance for success of a healthy pregnancy. We spent a short amount of time weighing our options and decided this was the best choice. We began our first IVF cycle in August. They did the Egg Retrieval and Fertilization on 8/31. Three days later, 9/3, they transferred three embryos into Shelly. Then the wait began.

Shelly promised not to begin the home pregnancy test too soon. Dee had to travel out of state for business a week after the transfer and asked Shelly to please wait to test. BUT, the wait was too much for her and she started testing after a week. At first there was no line. But after a couple of days testing a faint line started to appear. When Dee came home from her trip Shelly told her, "I know I'm pregnant." Dee didn't believe her and insisted the line wasn't dark enough so she tested herself to compare. There was absolutely no line. She began to believe Shelly was pregnant but still had doubt. Dee went to the store and bought another brand of testing strips. After five home tests, we were convinced we we're pregnant due to all positive results. A blood test at two weeks confirmed it; we were going to have a baby!