First Appointment Of The Year

This morning I went to the doctor's office. I had the feeling that I knew what was going to happen too...unfortunately I was right.

I also had to test myself to see if I was pregnant, which by the way, was negative. I had gotten a positive of the ovulation test that I have been taking. I was really happy when I got that and I started to feel like there was still hope in maybe getting pregnant this time. I guess I was wrong in a sense.

Anyways, after I finish the test, I started to finish to get ready for the appointment. I keep having this feeling that thing was not going to work out for me and that I would be heading to a specialist here soon. I kept pushing that feeling away because I was hoping that I wouldn't have to think about something like that. Dr. Wheeler and I were both getting to the office late but it was fine considering that my appointments don't take long. Even tho I knew what was going to happen...I didn't think that my thyroid would still be acting up. It got a little better but it was still too high so now I am back to switching 25mg and 50mg everyday. I guess I got some good news...the levels from the DHEA blood test came back normal. My body is no longer producing too much testosterone. That will help with losing weight a lot better. I told the doctor about the ovulation test being positive and she asked if I had tested to see if I was pregnant because today would be two weeks since than which I told her I did and it was negative. She than asked me to test again in the next few days to see if there are any changes. She even gave me an blood order to test that way. I have to decided sometime today if I should do it or not because due to the last pregnancy I will have to be put on progesterone to stabilize the pregnancy. And if it's still a no, I have to see a specialist.

Dr. Wheeler was fine with Dr. Leavitt being my choice for a specialist. He and his wife had fertility problems too. Plus she thinks he would be the best option out there for me. I plan on calling the Dr. Leavitt office tomorrow and asking for a consultation with the Doctor about what treatments he would think of doing and money wise. I can only hope that he will understand that I don't know how much longer I can keep going.

I also got really bad news tonight. My Great Grandma is dying...I cried for hours yesterday due to that and the infertility specialist. I still will be crying for a few more days. I am an emotional wreck and it's going to take me a while to calm down.

Anyways, while I was driving around yesterday I was listening to some christian music station...air1. Every time I jumped into the car there was this one song. It keep playing over and over again in my head. Not the whole song but just  a phase from it. "Hold on to the promises"....I have been promise many things from Heavenly Father and right now it the only thing I can do that is keeping me going. Here is the song. I figure I would let you guys here it to. It's a really nice song with a great story to it.

Weekend In Cali

Last weekend we made a quick trip to San Jose to visit Nathan, Katlin and the girls. It was a lot of fun. We left Friday night and came back on Monday night.

We ended up getting there an hour later than plan due to the fact that the flight was late getting here and they had forgotten to de-iced the wings on the plane. I felt really bad due to the fact that we got there an hour late because Nathan and Natalie came to put us up from the air port. Natalie was so tired...but she still talked to me half way back to their place.

Saturday was kind of an adventure for Logan and I. Most people know that Logan loves having fishes around him. He's always been amazing with marine life. Lucky for him, we got to go to the aquarium in Monterey, CA. We made a day trip out of it and rented a van so we could all fit in one vehicle. Before we went to the aquarium, we had lunch at Bubba Gump. I don't know how many of you remember Forest Gump but it comes from that movie. It was all about shrimp of course so I prayed that they would have fish or some type of chicken dish considering that I hate shrimp. I really enjoyed the aquarium. They had so many fish and marine life there. They even had fish there that was bigger than I was! I think my favorite part of the whole thing was the seahorses. They were so neat!


Afterwards we went home and ate. After my niece, Natalie, finished her ice cream cone she and her baby sister (Emily) were suppose to take baths so I helped Kat with the girls while Logan got some time with his brother. While I was helping Nat get undress I notice that she had a rash on both sides of her sides and middle of her back. I watched the girls while Kat when and call her sister (who is a nurse) and asked her some questions. After their bath, Kat gave Nat some medicine and sent her to bed.

The next morning the rash had gotten worse and had travel onto her face and neck. Kat and Nathan both decided it was time to see the doctor and a blessing. So for most of the day, Logan and I walked around their apartments and when and looked at Nathan work (he builds apartments). By the begin of nighttime, they came back. She was doing fine and Emily, who at the time was sick too had a treatment for her lungs. We decided than that we should probably stay home but we had planned on going to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner...lucky, they do take out.

Overall, I had a lot of fun with them. I really enjoyed getting my mind off of the stupid waiting game that I am in. Anyways, here are some pictures from the aquarium trip. ^-^

My Birthday

I never thought that I would spend most of the day of my birthday doing something like this. Anyways, here is the story.

One of my little sisters needed to switch schools from Bonneville to IF and the only one that could help out was me. We checked her out of Bonneville last Friday and went to see if IF was open that day to so that when school started yesterday, she could just go to classes there. Well, the office was closed so we had to wait until yesterday (my birthday) to do it.

So we got to the school about 11 o'clock yesterday and started the process...and let me tell you. I will never let my kids transfer schools unless we move out of town or state! It's such a pain to do. Anyways, we walked into the counselor office and come to find out that we need to get: copy of the release, shots, grades, any type of bill for address confirmation, and a note from Mom. So we ran back to the other school and got everything that we needed there, ran to my Mom's work so she could fill out paper work to get Brooke into school and the note and than ran back to Mom's house to get Brooke's shot records. We than waited until IF was done with their lunch hour before going back to the school.

When we got back, we had to wait for a lady to put Brooke into the system so she could go finish getting everything done. While we waited the secretary started lecturing Brooke about her grades. To let you know what was going on was that Bonneville got all these new teachers there now and most of them don't know exactly how to teach it to the kids which led Brooke get back grades. And it didn't help that the school just put her in honor classes without asking her either. She tried to change them at the beginning of the year but they wouldn't let me. Anyways, the lady came back and got Brooke into the system and sent us to the 9th-grade counselor. This part was the longest of the whole day!

The counselor was so confused on her credits that he tried to talk my sister into going back to Bonneville which Brooke and I both said no. Then he told her that she will need to got to night school until the 3rd trimester...Brooke and I both looked at each other and thought really?? We then told him no again and so he started to put together her schedule which he had so much trouble with that too! He finally called for one of the other counselor to help out and that one had everything figured out within 5 minutes! I will never understand some people but I do wish that they would know how to do their jobs sometime! That took a total of about 2 and half hours.

By this time Mom had got to the school and we checked to see if there was anything else that we need to do. The secretary asked mom for a copy of her license and than said that we could go get a locker and a parking pass. After finishing at the school, I had to go with Brooke and Mom over to the DMV so Brooke could take her written test for her driver license which she didn't pass, missed it by one point, and has to go back on Thursday to take it again. After that I just went home because I was so tired and hungry for food since I didn't get anything to eat besides breakfast.

When I got home I did nothing! It felt good...but now I have lots to cleaning to do and getting ready for out trip to Cali to visit Nathan, Kat and the girls for the weekend.

New Year (2013)

We didn't do much for the New Year. We was still so tired from Christmas. So, we decided to have a night to ourselves at home and watch Disney movies to pass the time. After midnight, I got really depressed when I realize that it's a start of another year and I still didn't have a child or one on the way. Actually it lasted for a few days because everyone was announcing that they are pregnant too. But I eventually was able to get pass it.

A few weeks later, my friend Brooklin, told me that it was our year! We will cut down all the extra weigh and I will be able to get pregnant this year. I really do hope so because I don't know how much more longer I can do this. Anyways, most posts for this blog and other ones too.

Christmas 2012

Christmas was a little different this year. My family decided to get together here at our place considering that my Dad is living with us for a while so he can find a new place. Also all of the siblings had gotten together and did pictures...in freezing weather.

So our Christmas really started on Sunday. I had thought of getting Dad a family photo of all his kids with their families would be nice. He had always loved the thought of doing family photos and we hadn't done one in years! We had also did photos for my Mom, Trina and Nana & Papa (some family friends that kind of adopted us into their family). We had trouble getting everyone there for the photos too, considering one of my brothers was in the Marines that wasn't going to be back until that  afternoon. We kind of winged the color scheme too. I wished we had more time to plan it a little more but all we could do was what we did. They turned out great but there was some bad ones due to the fact that my niece wasn't cooperating with us. We got the photos done in 2 hours and than we went back to my place and picked what photos we wanted give them. Here are the three photos:

For Trina and Lints (Nana and Papa)

For Dad

As for my Mom's photo...it was a pain. When we got back the actual photo from it being printed it looked so bad!! I had no clue if it was because it was from my end or Walmart's end because my computer ended up losing the edited photo. So I edited the same photo and sent it in and it came back with everyone having yellow teeth! But here is the third time...hope it works like a charm.

For Mom

After the photos were picked we went to Logan's Mom's house to plays some games with her and Nathan, Katlin and the girls. They were here for the holidays so we figured that we should get some time together with them before they have to go back to Cali for a while. We kept playing Acquire because Katlin really wanted to win, which she did on the last game.

On Monday, Logan had to work for part of the day and Dad had to go to the doctor's office for therapy for his back. As for me, I had to make dinner for that night when everyone came over (I'll post the recipe on my health blog here soon). Along with that I had to edit the photos so I could get them into the store to be printed off but I couldn't do that until I went and took some pictures for Amanda's family and this time Taylor ended up doing what we wanted her to do. Here are some of my favorites from her session.

Taylor and Oaklen

Steve and Amanda

I love how this one turn out to be.

After that I spent most of the day editing pictures so that we could get some printed off before Walmart closed for Christmas. Somehow I made it. By the time I got them in it was time for everyone to start arriving so I left Logan to host. When I got there I waited for a few minutes and when to get them...well, here is the thing. Out of the 4 orders, I only got one of them. The other three was lost in the process so I had to go back home and re-order the other three. While we waited for that, we had dinner with everyone and opened presents. About an hour before the store closed, Logan ran and got the pictures. Dad really enjoyed his family picture. He almost cried. I don't usually see him cry. But everyone was jumping Dad to see the picture because no one saw the end results.

We were supposed to go up to Oma's and Opa's for the Christmas get together but the roads were pretty bad until you got up on the hill. Amanda went home instead because of it, so Logan and I got a ride from Dad because his truck has 4-wheel drive in it. We was up there for about 2 hours. Logan and I ended up buying one of the last two clocks that Opa makes. After the party, we went home and opened presents here because Shami and Brea was being picked up at 9 in the morning. Dad also pointed out that we was opening presents at the same time as people in Germany do. It was pretty cool. In the morning the girls opened their stockings while Logan and I slept a little. (I only slept like 10 hours those 3 days.) Before the girls left, we got up to see if they enjoyed their stockings and helped them get their things together. Around 1, we headed to my Mom's for Christmas. We ate a little and opened presents. After that we went to Logan's Mom's house to open some more presents and spend more time with them. Carolyn and Joseph wasn't here this year but they said that they will be here next year.

I also have to say that I am pretty proud of myself. I only gained a pound during the holidays. ^-^