Birthday Celebration Weekend

This was a weekend full of celebrating birthday's. First, it was David's turn. We met his family out at the lake for a day on the boat. We cooked out and then went out to swim, ride around, and ski.

Then I had to leave the lake to head to Sarah's house to take pictures for her son Jaxon's 2nd birthday. They had tons of family there and I just went around trying to get pictures of everything. Jaxon looked like he had the best time at his party and his mommy Sarah did such a good job. I'll post some pictures from the party after I get them edited and to Sarah.

But for now, I'll post the invitation Sarah made using my pictures from the splash pad photo session of Jaxon.

I'm so happy that everyone loved the pictures so much.

In fertility news...today was my last day of taking the oral medication Femara and I'm really happy about that because I've had non-stop headaches the whole week on it. It starts about an hour after I take the medicine and it lasts all the way until I go to sleep. It's miserable!!! Tomorrow I start the injectable Follistim. I'm really comfortable with the shots and I'm ready because that means that I'm getting closer to my appointment on Thursday to find out how my follicles are doing!

Happy Birthday to my Mr.

Yesterday was David's birthday and I didn't do a birthday post because I was too busy spending time with him. For a week, I've been asking him what he wanted to do for his birthday and he would just respond with "it's just another day...". But birthday's are not just another day to me. It's the one day out of the whole year that's just yours and everyone celebrates you the whole day. So it should be special!

Well, I tried my hardest, but it's difficult when his birthday was on a Wednesday night and the poor guy is exhausted from work all the time. So we kept it low key and I think he enjoyed it. When he got home from work, he opened his gifts...a brand new gas grill and all the accessories to go along with it. I think he was really surprised because he never would have guessed I would have gotten him a grill. I'm so excited for him to put it together and fire it up! Maybe we'll grill something out this weekend...
After gifts, we went out to eat at Ruby Tuesday. We love the salad there and we haven't been there in a while and that's the place he wanted to go. Then it was home to watch Big Brother and then bedtime.

He wouldn't let me take a birthday pic, so to punish him...I'm going to post this one until he lets me take one...

David, I hope you had a very special birthday because you are really special to me. I love you so much! Muah!

Here we go again...

I had an appointment with Dr. Blackwell today for my baseline ultrasound and it's basically to check my ovaries and make sure there are no pesky cysts hangin out there. And everything looked perfect so we got the go ahead to try our 4th IUI this cycle.

They got my meds ordered and I filled my first prescription on my way home. I start the Femara tomorrow. It's just an oral taken twice a day for the next 5 days. Then I move on to the Follistim which is the daily injectible that I'm doing 3 days this cycle. After those 3 days are up, I go back in to see Dr. B. for my mid cycle ultrasound to check on my follicles and for her to determine when I take my trigger shot and when the insemination will happen. My guess is that the insemination will be next Friday. I'll know more at my appointment to check the follicles next Thursday. She did say that she is focusing more on getting the follicles to the right size instead of focusing on how many follicles I have. Her ideal situation would be to have 2 follicles around size 25. So let's keep our fingers crossed!

I was able to use my flexible spending account through work to pay for the previous IUIs and for the laparoscopy, but that money has now run out...I actually just used the very last $10.00 of it today for my appointment. So now everything is coming straight out of pocket and it's stressing me out. Before it just felt like everything was free because I didn't see the money coming out of the checking account. The money was being taken out before I even saw it on my paycheck, so it's like it was free! Not so much any more. Now I'm feeling every freakin penny come out and it makes the stress of it not working that much more. But I'm just going to have to get over that...