IUI Poem by Me!

It's not very often I get in a creative writing mood, but the idea struck me silly. So thought I'd give it a whirl. Enjoy!!

Was't the week before the IUI, when my body's feeling hostile

Not a Letrozole was left, in the little yellow bottle.

The ovaries were full and ready to share,

In hopes that in a few weeks, a fetus would be there.

In bed the night before, I'm stressful and restless!

Thinking about cute names and pinning how to clean messes.

Dave notices, so he starts playing with my hair

All after we have knelt and said our heartfelt prayer.

In the morning we wake and get the cup ready to go

We have 60 minutes to get to the doctor’s office. QUICK! To the lab we'll show!

Now starts the waiting game while the prepping begins

We're in the waiting room. Dave's playing games, and I'm humming hymns.

The nurse takes us back, I'm gowned, then comes the ultrasound.

With the catheter ready, we are hopefully baby bound!

Now it’s time to be patient to see if it’s our time to be parents

Whatever happens, I am ready to be of acceptance.

-Hannah Cook

Adoption Blog

Hey!! So we started a new blog today. We have decided to get our name out there in the adoption world. I will link both blogs to each other. Please follow us along our journey! We are also going to start a online fundraiser (its in progress so we dont have a link for you yet) to help us with adoption. We cannot to this by ourselves, we need your help in every way, shape, and form. From prayers to networking to good thoughts to helping with our fundraiser!
http://daveandhannahsadoptionjourney.blogspot.com/

Pillows.

While I was making our bed this morning, it dawned on me how many pillows we use at night. I use one. And sometimes a body pillow. He uses 7. I just had to laugh.. Im very grateful we have a king size bed.

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Something old, something new.

So last week I sold our old table and bought a kitchen table from a friend of mine. Actually, she's the one that set Dave and I up. I waited all day anxiously. Then I got to work!
Here are some before pictures of day one. I sanded them a little bit more...






Day two, painted them...



Day three, antiqued them and added the finish and set it up...












It was such a fun project. I'm trying to convince Dave to let me do the entertainment center like this. :)

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"Do you want a family?"

Of course we want a family! Someone was asking me about it the other day. In my mind I was thinking, "Oh honey, if you only knew." We have been thinking about a few things previously being questioned about it, and making a "plan of action" for now while I am not working. And if you want to know the plan... While I'm not working we will be getting a second opinion from another infertility specialist and do some IUI's and see about my insurance and IVF's. While that is happening, we talked to a close family friend today who is an Assistant US Attorney Child Advocate and works very close with the foster care and adoption agency. So hopefully we can get that ball rolling. Just please pray for us and keep your fingers crossed. Also, if you know anybody needing to place a baby, please please please keep us in mind.

Forrrrrevvvvvr!

Since we have last talked a ton has happened. We moved back to Layton from Brigham City in August to be closer to family. We absolutely LOVE being back and we absolutely LOVE our new apartment. These pictures are pretty old. I have done a lot with the place since these pictures, but it kind of gives you a clue as to what our place looks like. Its 2 bed (each has a walk in closet) 2 bath, over 1000 sq ft. built earlier this (well now last spring/summer), granite counter tops, hard wood floors, tons of closets and a pantry, really high ceilings and it is sooo spacious. I some how deleted the other pictures, so here is whats left. Haha.. If you want to come over some time and see our new place and stay for dinner and a movie or games, we would love to have ya!

I changed jobs due to medical reasons with my infertility meds and then quit my latest job last week. I was also just called to teach Valiant 8. I am so excited!!! Right now I am trying to relax and go more in depth with my fertility issues medically and psychologically. So if you ever want to hand out or go out for lunch some time, I'm open. :) Dave is still working away as a Private Investigator, and has been super busy. YAY!! For Thanksgiving we went to the Cooks for Dinner. It was so fun to visit with them. Then for Christmas eve I had to work until 5. So Dave went with his family to Golden Coral until I got off then we joined my family at their house for some super fun games I put together for a Minute to Win It, various appetizers for dinner. It was a great night! The next morning we opened presents, then we went to his parents to visit and exchange gifts. Then we ventured to other family members houses on his side. It was fun to see everyone, but made for a long day. I am so excited for my next project. I bought a wonderful used table and chairs from a friend I'm going to repaint. Not sure on the colors yet, but i am so excited to get my craft on.

Summer underload

Our summer has been uneventful and full of work. We would love to take time off to do fun things, but we have decided that we need to be responsible and work for now to keep up on expenses for "fun" things like IUI's and other infertility possibilities, debt, moving expenses, etc. We definitely need to take a vacation, we were talking about that the other day. Were trying to come up with ideas and days we could take off. Hopefully we can go to Dave's parents cabin once before the festivities come to a close. We will see.. I cannot tell you how excited I am about moving. We are moving a week from today and I can hardly wait. I keep telling myself "a few more days till I have a whole week off to pack and move". I am just way too excited for this move, It is all I can think about. We seem to move a lot, but I'm serious this time when I say we will be in our new apartment until we buy a house. We love Brigham City, it is just too far away from my job, the doctor, and our families. Someday when we have our own family, we want to move back. It's so quiet and you don't have a lot of traffic. You aren't stuck having to go through a looong scary canyon in the winter time like the Logan people get to do. There are such nice views and the temple is GORGEOUS!!! Dave is pretty much gone until moving day. So my bestest dearest sweetest friend in the whole wide world is coming to stay with me for a few days and help me pack up my whole apartment. I'm thinking this is tradition now.. she helped me like this last time we moved. She is seriously the greatest!