Trick or Treat

For the last few years I have wanted to take pictures of the trick or treaters that come to my door because some of them are so funny. I however do not because I am sure the parents would think that was creepy. So instead of pictures here is who I had ring my doorbell tonight.

• 5 middle school boys that as I was pulling into my garage and getting out of my car they ambush me saying trick or treat. I was not even all the way out of my car so I told them I did not have any candy. The one kid then asked my if he could have my gas can instead. Not sure what he wanted to do with that but I told him no and said if they would hang tight another 15 minutes then people will start turning their lights on and then they can start ringing doorbells. We actually ended up arguing about what time trick or treating started. Not sure why I was arguing with the kid except that most junior high boys annoy me. 
• Scary 5 year old Zombie. I open the door and the first thing he says to me is "two kit kats"" He must have really loved those because he forgot to say trick or treat. 
• 3 year old cute sparkle witch. It was her first time and she took like 8 pieces of candy. She was so cute i did not stop her but finally her mom gets her to stop and she decides she needs to come in for a little visit. She barrels right past me and right into the kitchen. The mom was mortified and said, she keeps going into peoples houses. I thought it was quite funny.
• Wizard or a least that is what I thought he was and S.W.A.T. Boy  - This was really funny because he had the entire getup. These kids forget what they say most just stand their and don't say a word.
• 2 high school girls all in black and one had a pair of wings on. Where are the itties at?
• Spider man & Strawberry shortcake. These two were the cutest and friendliest so far.

1% Chance

Ever since I met Luke he has wanted to name his first son Lucas James Sherman. I have always said absolutely no because that is just weird to name your kid the same name as your hubby (sorry to those that did) it is just not done anymore. I can not even imagine what our friends and family would say. Don’t get me wrong it is a great name but not something I want to do at all. You would not believe how many times that this conversation has come up and we actually have had fights over this issue. I say no every time and Luke says yes, it is a no win situation.

Last night we were talking about babies and I must have had a momentary lapse of judgment because I say “If we get pregnant this month and have twins and one is a boy then you can name it Lucas James and I will name the other one”. Now I know the probability is really slim and I did put a time limit on this statement but I said it.  I guess I probably have a 1% chance that I may have to follow through on through on this promise. Who knows what I will say next month, I need a filter! 

Grapefruit Ovaries

I have really not blogged about our infertility journey in a long time in hopes that the next time I posted I could share great great news. It is funny most people who get pregnant wait to tell until they are through their first trimester. When you get to the point where you are seeing a RE. having surgeries, taking gobs of medicine, injecting your self all the time in the stomach, doing progesterone suppositories and having many many doctor appointments and procedures the "not telling" is kind of thrown out the window. Everyone already knows you are trying and it is kind of awkward to not talk about b/c infertility is the biggest thing going on in your life. Maybe some people are way better than I am but if someone asks whats been going on I am not going to lie. I need people to pray for me all the time and if those who care about me do not know how can they do that. 

Right now I am one week into my 2WW following our first IUI. I really feel great physically but do not think that it worked. Maybe you never think it works when it has not for so long. The beginning of this cycle was sort of rough. They put me on this little white pill days 2-6  that gave me horrible migraines. Then days 6-13 I had to give myself injections at night. Thankfully those did not give me  as many headaches but it still freaked me out a little. The only thing that those did to me was make my ovaries hurt and grow like crazy. I felt like I had grapefruits for ovaries and they were being squeezed to death,weird I know but that is the only way to describe it. In-between that I had 4 blood draws and two internal ultrasounds  which are not my favorite.  Last Friday I had my IUI  done and after the procedure the P.A. said that this cycle was probably a bust. Dumb lady who tells an infertile girl who has been shooting themselves up with hormones that has grapefruit ovaries that this cycle is probably a bust. 

So that leaves me to today. I have had zero pregnancy symptoms yet. Supposedly on progesterone you are supposed to have tons of  fake pregnancy symptoms and I do not have even one. I have more symptoms on cycles that we have done naturally than this one. I am positive that this cycle did not work and I can not quite figure out how I feel about that. Kind of just wish it would get over already so we can move one. The plan going forward is to take a cycle off then do IUI#2 if that does not work take another cycle off do IUI#3 and if that does not work then I will have one more rest cycle before heading straight to  phase 3 which is IVF. I really hope it does not get to that point. I for one do not want to have to wait for another six months to move to the next  plan but also I am sure the meds and injections really ramp up for a IVF.

At the end of the day the reality is I am still thankful for the blessings in my life and I need to keep that at the forefront of my mind at all times. 

Drugged

I got the flu shot last Tuesday and even though I was super hesitant I went ahead with it. By Tuesday evening I had a scratchy throat and by the weekend I had a full on miserable cold. I am sure it was just coincidence that I got sick but the timing was really funny.

 Sunday night Luke coughed/ snored extremely loudly all night long. I knew he was going to wake up and be miserable. He did and me being the awesome wife that I was got up right away and hunted out some cold medicine for him to take so that he would be able to function at work. He called me around 9:00am and asked me what I had given him because he felt like he had been drugged and could not keep his eyes open. I was not positive but I thought it was just Dayquil.

When I got home that night he told me he was just feeling like he was getting out of the fog I had supposedly put him in. I checked the medicine drawer and pulled out the pills it was NYQUIL not DAYQUIL. I laughed out loud and then felt bad for him. Honestly he probably should not even have been driving yesterday. In my defense I did not have my contacts on yesterday morning when I went looking for meds. Funny thing was this morning he was a little hesitant to take any medicine from me without reading the label first. 

Update in Pictures

 I have done a terrible job blogging as of late. I will blame it on being so busy with swimming. I finally downloaded the last few months of pictures from my camera onto my computer. Below is a few pictures about what we have been up to this summer/fall. 

New stamped concrete porch.

BROKEN IPHONE  :(

Met this little sweetie in September!

SKUNK!! He fell down our window well and had to be "rescued".

Went to Vegas in October and Luke and Matt met Zack Galifiankis.