Clue #2

So I've decided to play with your minds a little bit. Muahahahahahahaha!!! Remember yesterday's post?? That's Clue #1. The picture below is your next clue. I will reveal the answer some time next week. Can you guess what I'm getting at??

Wordless Wednesday

Still waiting...

So I know I said in my last post that I was patiently awaiting the arrival of AF. Well..........not so much anymore. I really want to take a test. But then again, in the back of my mind I know that I already had a beta test done that was negative....but the beta test was done on cd21 so maybe it was too early....today is cd32 and I'm pretty sure I ovulated on cd14......so where is she? Should I take a test? Should I call my doctor to see what I need to do, if anything? I hate just waiting and waiting and waiting and having no clue what's going on down there. Any advice?

Baseball is over!

This post is about a week old, so I'm a little behind!! The boys did such a good job playing this year! And Reece was a great cheerleader!

This is Reece's-why-did-you-just-take-my-french-fry-face!


Only in Duncanville will you see a dog on a table that people are eating off of...


Griffin about to hit the ball.


Peyton saying hi from the dugout.


And as we were walking back to our cars, Mom and Doug happened upon these cute puppies!! We don't know what they are, but they seem to have lab in them. Let me know if you are interested in adopting!

And now to bring you up to date, this past weekend Brad and I went out to the lake with some friends and we got BURNT!! I mean, I look like a lobster. I hope my sunburn clears up by this weekend so we can go to the lake again!

In baby news, today is cd31 and still no AF...I'm patiently waiting-Clomid in hand...and wondering if by chance the beta test was done too early and I could actually be pregnant....

My books and Bella

To answer Anonymous's question, I have read TONS about ttc and pregnancy on the internet, as well as these books:



I'm pretty much an expert now! Ha! So far, my favorites are Nine Months and a Day and Belly Laughs. But I'm sure I'll change my mind once I actually become pregnant and more in the books will actually apply to me!

And as I was taking the above picture, I glanced down and saw this adorable little ball of fur:


Isn't she precious?!?!


She started getting bored with all my picture-taking.

And then she decided that she would try to avoid having her picture taken by crawling over to me as I was on the floor taking her pictures! That didn't work either my dear!

I am so excited that I get to see one of my best friends tomorrow! She lives out of town so I don't get to see her that often. We are going to a wedding out of town with two more friends from high school. It will be a little high school/Showchoir reunion for us! I hope you all have a wonderfully relaxing weekend. I fully intend to!

Bad wife!

Brad and I have been trying to save money lately. We got into a habit of charging things to our credit cards and we both really want to get them paid off. So we haven't been eating out as much (which is VERY hard for me because (a) I don't cook and (b) I grew up eating out almost every meal so that's just what I'm used to!) But I fell off the bandwagon today... I felt like I deserved a reward since I was so down Friday after I found out the Clomid didn't work this cycle. Friday I didn't even want to read one of my pregnancy/ttc books OR watch A Baby Story. I didn't want to even think about babies. So today I decided that I needed to get something (or somethings as it turned out to be) to remind myself to look forward and keep my eyes on the prize! So I bought this: (Not this exact one, mine's more damask-y. And it can be for a boy OR a girl!)




And this. I loved Tori's last book, so I'm sure I'll like this one, too.



And this. With all the hype surrounding Jon and Kate, I couldn't help myself. Plus I love hearing about how different woman with infertility were actually able to conceive.



I bought both the books at Barnes and Noble and while I was there I really wanted to find a good book on infertility. And I could. not. find. ONE. There were books on pregnancy, getting pregnant, even adoption, but no infertility? Maybe I wasn't looking in the right place. I joked to my sister that maybe we should have been looking in the disease section instead of the family section. :o)

And speaking of disease, I've been thinking a lot about my low thyroid level. I thought people with hypothyroidism were supposed to be really fat? I'm not pencil thin, but I'm definitely not fat! So I asked my Dad, health freak-religious protein shake drinker-135 pound-Dad, what was up. He said that hypothyroidism runs in our side of the family (noooow he tells me) and that the reason I'm not fat is because of my high metabolism. My next question was, "So in 10 years I'm going to be as big as a cow?!?" "Probably." Well isn't that freakin great. So I am going to try really hard to be more health conscious....that is, after I eat supper tonight at Brooke's. She's cooking me mini cheeseburgers and taco fries! YUM!

I'm ok.

At least for now. Friday I had my pitty party. I cried, I hyperventilated, I drank two Smirnoffs. Then Sunday I decided that I was ready for whatever my doctor wanted to do next. And I have no clue what he wants to do next, I'm waiting for him to call me as I type. But God has given me an unexplainable peace about this whole situation. A peace in knowing that May was just not our month. It wasn't time yet. I don't know when the time will be or if it will ever be, but I prayed yesterday with every fiber of my being that He would trust me enough to give us a child. And if it's His will for us to have a biological child, we will have one. So that's that.

I'll update as soon as I hear from my doctor.

Update: I just talked to my doctor and he said that I did ovulate last cycle. He wants to keep me on the same dosage of Clomid (50mg) as last month. Basically everything stays the same for this next cycle. I hope and pray that it works this time!! After thinking about it, I laid out for a good part of the day Sunday while we were at the beach (and I think I ovulated on the Friday before). I wonder if that affected me not getting pregnant....since you are not supposed to get in the hot tub or take hot baths while pregnant...what about sunbathing?