Sweet little baby...

You are really in there! We found out Friday June 17th that we were pregnant, but the HCG levels were low. On June 21st we did a second blood test, and it was so good! Our levels jumped from 49 to 548!!! We are trchnically considered 4 weeks and 5 days pregnant, and you are due on February 24, 2017. This has been one crazy adventure, with so much more to come! Your Aunt Hailey made you a little announcement video. I hope we can keep adding to this and show your whole journey of becoming ours. We have our first ultrasound scheduled for July 12th to hear your heartbeat. I can't wait. We will also find out if there is just one of you, or two. We are obsessed with you, and maybe have already gone a little overboard!

I can't begin to express how thankful we are for all the prayers, fasting and support. Miracles happen. Ours in underway! Thank you thank you thank you! I am also so thankful for our Heavenly Father sending this sweetie to us.

Enjoy the movie!

https://vimeo.com/171368343

Egg Retrieval and IntraCytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)

This month full of needles and wonder is just about over. We find out today if any of our eggs and sperm had a good time last night in the petri dish. Here's what we did yesterday:

Fun huh? We got 5 eggs. We were hoping for more, but 5 is good. Since they got my eggs, this has happened:

Now we are waiting for a phone call to know whether or not our eggs and sperm have created any good embryos.

We have our 2 plans made for if it works and if it doesn't. Plan A) All goes as planned and we get pregnant, and the cutest baby is born in March-ish. Plan B) Give ourselves 2 years. 2 years to maybe finish school, decide on adoption or IVF again, get our finances on track to try again.. etc. Maybe God has a Plan C though that's better than both of our plans. We are just hoping so much that this works. We have come so far. We would do anything to build our family. I just don't want to feel like this was all for nothing. If it fails though, we did learn a LOT! And we would do it all over again, it would just be this whole rollercoaster part all over again that is so tough. If it was a guaranteed pregnancy, I seriously wouldn't even mind the shots and hormones. Problem is that it's never for sure. 

Here is what my belly looked like after all the shots were over:

Here are all my needles and some drugs:

43 to be exact. 

Colten gave me every single one of those, except the last 5 shots.. Kassidy gave me 1, and Stefanie gave me my last 4. I'm so thankful that they could give them to me. It made it easier for me.

The baby shoes in the middle hopefully can get some use in about 9 months! 

We will know later today if we can move forward to embryo transfer for Monday or Tuesday. 

Thanks for all the prayers and support.