We're Home!

We are home and we had a fabulous vacation! I am working on posts to update everyone about our vacation. We have lots to tell and plenty of pics to share. We made it home on Sunday night and had a nice relaxing day today. It is always nice to come home and sleep in your own bed! The dogs and cats missed us and are glad we're all home and back together again! Be watching in the next few days for a bunch of updates - I am breaking them into separate posts...

On the TTC front, I took my last BCP last night and am now just waiting for my cycle to start. I would assume that it will be in the next couple of days. Then we jump on the crazy TTC bandwagon again. To tell you the truth, I am scared to death. I am so afraid that the BFP will come again and it will all just end the way it did last time. We'll just keep thinking positive and remember that the doctor has faith that my body knows what to do and I can get pregnant again.

Glad to be back!

Miss Us???

Do you miss us yet???

We'll be back in just a few more days and can't wait to catch up on what has happened with all of our blog friends!

Not only will we have our vacation to tell you about, but we are also gearing up for our first TTC cycle since the miscarriage. I'll stop my BC pills on Friday and we'll be back in the swing of things next week. We are following the exact same protocol as last time, however, I am going to insist that we start the prog.esterone immediately following IUI. (We didn't start it until after the second beta last time.)

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Just wanted to wish my (Carrie's) mom a very happy birthday today!

Happy, Happy Birthday, Mom!

We love you very much!

June Quilt Blocks

I just realized that we haven't posted our June quilt blocks that we made and it makes for a good post while we're on vacation!

Here are the two sets of fabric that we had for this month.





This triangle paper is the best stuff ever invented! You pin it on top of your two pieces of fabric, sew on all the dotted lines, and then cut on the solid lines. It saves from having to cut out individual triangles and sew them all back together. It cuts the time down incredibly!



Here are the finished projects!

NY Wedding

Last weekend we went to a wedding in New York. On the way there, we watched the most beautiful sunset! This isn't the best picture, but it is pretty good considering we were in the car traveling at 70 mph! It really was gorgeous, and this was the end of it - I wish I had managed to get some earlier pictures.



This is where the wedding was supposed to be - outside, however the skies opened up about a half hour before the ceremony and when I say opened up, I mean opened up!



Check out this video of how hard it was raining (you can even hear the thunder in the first few seconds of the video)! We had a great time though, and by about 3:30 in the afternoon the skies cleared and it was an absolutely gorgeous rest of the day!



Here are a couple more pictures:

The Bride - Desirae and her dad - David


Mom - Brenda and Sister, Deedra


It was a great weekend away - Congrats Desi and Andrew!

Off We Go!

And we're off on vacation! We are driving to Minnesota to visit MJ's mom, her brother, and his wife and kids. We are very excited!!

We are taking 5 days instead of 3 to get out there because we are stopping in the Wiscons.in D.ells to be cheesy tourists for a couple of days. We are camping the whole way out because there is nothing better than sitting by a campfire at night to unwind from a whole day in the car.

We are bringing MJ's mom back with us and we are going to camp on the way back too. Her mom is way too excited about it! We are going to take one extra day on the way back to stay in NY and do a Fing.er L.akes Wi.ne Tour - should be lots of fun!

I have cued up a couple (really, not that many!) of posts for while we are gone. We will have limited to no Internet access which really is a nice thing to let us just get away from it all. We'll have lots to update when we get back in a couple of weeks!

The Good and the Sad

The good:

We finished out summer job today. We were contracted until Thursday, but we got everything done by 3:00 today. The best part - we get paid for Wednesday and Thursday even though we don't have to work!

Summer vacation has now officially begun! We leave for vacation on Thursday - more details about that in a later post......


The sad:

Today would have marked 20 weeks in our pregnancy - half way through. There are days that the emotional wound is still so raw. We really, really miss our Chicklet. They say time heals all wounds, but this wound is going to take a long time to heal.

We get to jump back on the TTC wagon in 3 weeks. It's hard to totally invest yourself for fear of miscarriage again.

Tomorrow will be a better day!

The Week

We've been working, working, working this past week. The job actually hasn't been all that bad and we only have 3 or 4 days left, so that will be nice.

We're off to NY for a wedding this weekend - leaving straing from work tomorrow afternoon. Should be fun!

Next week the real vacation starts as we will head west to visit MJ's family - then her mom is riding back with us for another 10 days. We're looking forward to it.

We'll post more of an update on Sunday when we get back - the doggies are excited as they get to spend the weekend at the farm with my parents!

Rest of the Fourth

The rest of the day yesterday was busy, busy, busy. We had lots of crafts to do so, we started out with the foam girl that had to be sewed together:

Then made an Owl that Olivia did a great job following the pattern for:

After that, we took some wooden bead necklace kits into the living room to have a little "rest" before the evening festivities. As you can see, I think Sadie needed more of a rest than anyone else!

The necklaces were super cute when finished!

Once the rest time was over, we decorated the cookies that were baked earlier while dinner was cooking.

After dinner we had time for one more craft - a foam monkey:

Then, we headed out to watch the fireworks which were awesome!

What a great day!

Saturday Morning

The most exciting thing about this morning was this:



I could hardly believe we actually blue sky AND sunshine. I almost didn't know what to do with myself!! However, we are currently in the midst of pouring rain and a thunderstorm, but they do say it should clear for fireworks tonight - I sure hope so. We are planning on meeting my parents later to enjoy the festivities!

So far this morning, we have watched Pinocchio (she had never seen it!), gone swimming in the pool:

and we also made cookies for the occasion with our Fourth of July cookie cutters. We need to decorate them later.

We're getting ready to have some lunch and then we are heading to the basement to do a few crafts.

We'll update later with the rest of our fun day!