News!!!

**I am writing this on November 22, but not publishing until the day after Thanksgiving**

Saturday when I woke up this morning I made my trip to the bathroom to take another pregnancy test, of course I expected it to be negative so I took the test and crawled back into bed. 5 minutes later I looked at the test and thought I was seeing things! A second line?!?! Of course I shoved it in Derek's face(he wasn't impressed, hahaha) and asked him if he saw it. He looked at it and said there was no second line, then he immediately turned back around and said "there's another line! And it's pink!!" I almost died!! Can I really be pregnant??? I couldn't believe it!!

So when I woke up on Sunday morning I went into the bathroom again and took 2 more tests, both were positive again!! And AF still hadn't shown up so I got even more excited :) Derek has a pretty bad cold right now and kept saying when he feels better he will be jumping up and down with me ♥

This morning I woke up and took another test just to make sure again! and yes, it was positive!!! I have been using those cheap strips and for some reason in the back of my mind I keep telling myself it isn't real, so I have a First Response sitting in the bathroom waiting to be used, I feel like I will believe it when I get a positive on that test! But I am scared... I'm scared that these have been false positives and that I have gotten myself excited over nothing! So I keep putting it off, but tomorrow is the day!

We want to tell our parents and siblings on Thanksgiving so I need to know, for sure, tomorrow. I'm hoping to plan and exciting way too tell them that we are expecting so I will have tomorrow and Wednesday to plan!!

We are sooo excited! I seriously can't believe we are pregnant, and that it happened so fast!!! This time next year we will be planning our baby's first Thanksgiving!!! ♥

I do have some slight cramping but I looked it up and I guess that is usual in the beginning? Hoping so!!! I have also gotten a couple bloody noses over the past couple days and read that, that can also be a pregnancy symptom??? So weird!! The only other "symptom" I have had is sore boobs!

This Thanksgiving I will have something huge to be thankful for!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!


This is the best Thanksgiving we have ever had :) We are very excited to be sharing some wonderful news with our parents today!!!!!

Are you pregnant yet?

"Are you pregnant yet?!?!?"

That is how Derek woke me up this morning... talk about pressure! lol I wish I could find out that fast :)

I had a positive OPK yesterday and I actually can't tell if the one I took today was positive or not! I am leaning towards Positive but we will BD again today just to be sure.

I would so love to be pregnant for Thanksgiving :) It is already one of my very favorite holidays because it gives me an excuse to eat, eat, eat, and eat some more!! I can't imagine how much yummy turkey, yams, and pumpkin pie I will eat when I am pregnant!! My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Speaking of my favorite holidays, the Black Friday ads have started to leak and we are making out shopping lists!! We try to get all of our Christmas shopping done that say so we can relax and enjoy the Holiday season. This year we are buying for less people(because of the whole trying too buy a house and make a baby thing) so it should be that much easier to get it all done that day. Since we are the only crazy people in our families that go out on Black Friday we usually end up shopping for others too so we always have a big list and I LOVE it! 16 days!!!!

The one where I vent

CD13, CD14, and CD15 were all negative. I started letting myself get very frustrated and let myself get stressed out over a lot of things.

We are now in the busy season at work so I will soon be working 12 hour days and possibly 7 day work weeks for the next few months. They are already asking me for my holiday availability and if I will be able to work Black Friday and Christmas Eve!! So I will be very busy soon, but the awesome paychecks make it Okay :)

Their are certain people currently in my live that like drama a little to much and are basically nothing but stress! Unfortunately these are people who I have to have in my life so I try to limit my contact with them. Then there are those people that always look at me and talk to me like I'm some depressed or pathetic girl, or like they think nothing is going right in my life. They say things like "hang in there" and "how are you guys?" with that look in their eyes! I just want to scream "UMM I'M FANTASTIC! I HAVE A JOB, DEREK HAS A JOB, WE HAVE A ROOF OVER OUR HEADS, FOOD ON OUR TABLE, WE ARE PAYING OFF OUT DEBT, TRYING TO GET PREGNANT, LOOKING FOR A HOUSE TO BUY AND WANTING TO GET MARRIED!!! WHAT MORE COULD I WANT!!! I AM LOVING MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!!!" But instead I just smile and nod, and again try to limit my contact with these people. I just hate drama more than anything else!!

Derek was gone Friday night to a flea market and didn't get home until Saturday afternoon so I relaxed and read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(again!!) Once Derek got home we napped and relaxed the rest of the weekend :) It was wonderful and just what I needed!!

Today is CD 16 and I got a positive OPK!!! We are going to BD today and the next 2 days. Keeping my fingers crossed for a Thanksgiving BFP but if not we will try again in 2011. No more stressing :)


Now off to watch Dancing with the Stars!!!

CD12

Today is CD12 and nothing has changed. I'm still expecting a positive OPK tomorrow although I am hoping I don't get one until Saturday! That would be perfect! But, we all know we don't live in a perfect world :(

Temp ~ 96.23

No cramping.
No spotting.
No sore boobs.
No nausea.
No fertile CM.
No positive OPK.
No BD.

CD11

Today is CD11 and I got another negative OPK(as expected)

Last night we went to a new IMAX theater in the area that is having a soft opening, and offering free movies! They were taking donations for Leukemia, so for a small donation we saw Iron Man 2 in IMAX and got 2 free popcorns :) The movie was just as good the second time and IMAX is amazing!! We love movies and this is the first IMAX theater in the area so we wanted to check it out to see if it would be worth the couple extra dollars and it definitely will be! As soon as we left the theater we bought our tickets for the Midnight showing of Harry Potter. I am so excited for this movie!! I am currently rereading the book in anticipation :) Only 15 days left!

Also 21 days until Thanksgiving.
22 days until Black Friday.
51 days until Christmas!!

CD10

Today is CD10, and I had another negative OPK today.

I am getting a little worried that I will get my first positive on CD13 again, and won't be able to BD at all!! Derek has somewhere to be at 4:00PM on Friday and won't be home until around noon on Saturday!! I guess we can BD before he leaves for work in the morning just in case but I don't know if he will want to wake up early since he will have to be awake, in the freezing cold, all night :( I'm not very happy about this but I know everything will work out the way it is supposed to!

Back in July when we sat down and starting making plans(Read: start looking for a house, start TTC, and somewhere in there we would go to the courthouse) we got Chinese food, and when I opened my fortune cookie it said "Your present-plans are going to succeed" Derek opened his and it said the same thing♥ Ever since then I have had it taped to my computer and just keep telling myself that over and over. I know we will succeed. It may take a little while but we will!

CD9

Last night I had a "feeling" that I was going to Ovulate soon, so I used and OPK today and of course it was negative. I don't know where that "feeling" came from, but it was obviously wrong!!

I bought different OPKs this cycle and I'm not sure if I like them. They take forever to show any lines, so every day I think I have a defective one! Also they are hard to photograph(although that's not really that big of a deal)

Happy November!!

Happy November!!

I can't believe October is gone already and today is November 1st! Wow. Before I know it it will be 2011!

We had a very low key Halloween this year, usually we have some sort of party or movie day or something going on but this year we just relaxed, did some errands, carved our pumpkin and handed out candy to all the cute kiddos(and some teens that didn't even dress up!!) It was a good day :)

We only watched 1 horror movie while we carved the Pumpkin, Friday the 13th(2009 version)
and then watched the Halloween episodes of Extreme makeover and Desperate housewives(those and Americas Funniest Videos have become our Sunday ritual)

Some pictures from our day:

We always carve our pumpkin on Halloween so I can bake and puree it to use for the rest of the year :)

Our foster kitten Pepper :)

Milo ♥

Milo, Link, and Pepper ♥

The one with all the pumpkins.

Today is CD6, and AF came back this morning for a few hours along with some pretty strong cramps!! Ugh. Thankfully it only lasted a few hours and now the cramps are gone. 4 more days until I start testing and hopefully not to many more days until I ovulate :)

A couple weeks ago we had our annual trip to the Pumpkin patch! We didn't do the maze and all the other things we usually do because it was a last minute thing, but we still had a lot of fun! My mother wanted to come with us this year so we had to go on a day that wasn't very cold, so when we had a nice Saturday the 3 of us ran up and got some pumpkins and cider:)

Here is some of the pictures from the day♥

I thought he knew my mother was trying to take our picture!! Oh well


Beehive!

My baby milking a cow :)

Haha I don't know what he is doing :)



Picking out the perfect pumpkin :)
Queen bee!!!

CD5

Today is CD5 and AF is finally almost all done. This has seriously been the heaviest AF I have ever had!!! Not sure what is going on there but I like to hope that my uterus is cleaning house to make run for it's new tenant :)

I picked up some Vitamin B6 to add to my prenatal vitamins, and Derek says he is going to do everything he can to make sure it happens this month♥ I really want to give him his Leo baby so I really hope it does!!



I just ordered 40 more OPKs, and will start testing on CD10, and the only thing I will change this cycle is I will BD the first day I get a + OPK instead of waiting until the day after.

Now I must get back to my sweet foster kitten :)

Lot's of baby dust needed!!!

And I'm out.

Saturday morning I woke up and took a pregnancy test right away, I figured if it was negative I wouldn't get to upset since AF wasn't due for another 5 days and it could still be to soon. The test was a definite BFN. I didn't let myself get upset and of course D was so sweet, telling me it was still to early and that he "knows I am pregnant"

I had trouble sleeping that night because I had hurt my arm earlier in the day, but I didn't want to take Motrin PM since I know it causes my temp to drop and I didn't want to mess up my temps so close to AF being due. Well at about 3:30 AM when I was still awake I gave in and took some.

When I woke up at 6:30 and took my temp it was 96.63, I didn't let myself freak out because I just figured the Motrin made it drop. Boy was I wrong. last night, on (what I thought was going to be) CD 25, AF showed up, and brought all her nasty friends! So I had a 24 day cycle?? What?!?!? What is going on with my cycles!! I want my regular 28 day cycles back!! Ugh.

This means my LP was only 10 days. To short again.

I got upset.
Cried.
Ate a huge bowl of ice cream.
And now I'm moving on.
Onto the next cycle.

It was only our first cycle of actually trying, we learned some things we shouldn't do, and some things we will do next time. It hurts that it didn't work, but like Derek keeps reminding me, we aren't giving up. It wasn't a one time offer. I am now on CD2 of our 2nd cycle and we will keep going, until. I. get. pregnant!

We will try again this cycle, skip December, and start trying again after the holidays.

Here we go again!! Bring on the baby dust!!

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ETA: I spilled coffee on my keyboard and it started typing crazy(see above)!!! I would press 1 letter and 2 or 3 would pop up! I thought it was dead forever, but when I turned it on the next morning it was typing fine :) sooooo happy!! The last thing we need right now is to have to pay to repair our laptop!!

5DPO (according to me)

Right now I am 5 days past ovulation if I go by what I figure out, but if I go by fertility friend I am 6dpo which would mean I ovulated on CD13 and not CD14 like I thought, this would also mean we didn't BD in time and we missed it :( Here is why I think fertility friend is wrong:

They are saying me temp jumped on CD14(Wed) but when I don't get enough sleep my temp is high in the morning even if it shouldn't be(I think I proved this with my 3 hour night sleep that gave me a temp of 98.5!!!) On Tuesday night our foster kitten slept in the room with us and screamed the whole night! When her screaming wasn't keeping me up, her jumping on the bed and freaking out when she realized we were in it was.

So when I use the temp I actually got in the morning it says I O'd on CD14 but when I knock it down just a few tenths of a degree it says I O'd on CD15, which is when I believe I O'd! This is the day I had slight cramping, fertile CM, and just felt like I was ovulating! Ugh, I will be so upset if I missed the day :(

It is killing me waiting to test!! I just want to know already. I know some people get true positives 7dpo but I don't think I want to try that soon. It will devastate me if I get a false positive and I don't want to upset myself with a negative when it just might be to soon! I plan to wait until at least Saturday. I will still be only 10dpo but I'm hoping I can get an accurate result.

As far as symptoms(I think it's way to soon to feeling any) the only thing I have is sore boobs, but, I am taking this as a sign that it didn't work because they always get sore a week or so before AF shows up :(

So now I wait! 5 more days until I can test!!

CD14

CD14 and I got another positive OPK!!
We picked up Mucinex and I started taking it last night.
I am also having some slight cramping on my left side :) Mittelschmerz? I think so!!

Here's hoping everything works and this little egg sticks!!!!!

Temp ~ 96.76
Slight cramping.
No spotting.
No sore boobs.
No nausea.
No fertile CM.
Yes positive OPK!!
Yes BD.

CD13

POSITIVE! POSITIVE! POSITIVE!

CD13 and I have a positive OPK! I'm so excited :)
Now I should ovulate tomorrow or the next day and I plan on testing on the 26th as long as AF doesn't show up before then!!

Temp ~ 96.50
No cramping.
No spotting.
No sore boobs.
No nausea.
Possible fertile CM.
Positive OPK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No BD.