Plane Rides, Picnics and Babies :)

Not much news since my last post...just living life day by day...I've been working a lot, and counting down the days till we leave for New York (only 4 full days!!) Andy and I are both looking forward to a much needed vacation! I only have 2 more work days till we leave too...so that makes things even better!!

Lets see...I don't think I did much last week..just caught up on household stuff Monday, then Monday night Andy and I went up to Everett and met Katie for dinner at the Roadhouse. After dinner we met Phil at the airport and he took us up in a little Cesna for a flight! (it was my birthday present from them!) It was so much fun to see all the gadgets in the little plane and fly with a friend as the pilot...and he is great at it I must add! Although I got a bit of motion sickness, I still enjoyed the scenery and Seattle lights at night! I hope that someday he will be so kind to take us up again, although I'm sure it's pretty expensive.

Tuesday night/Wednesday we babysat my friend's daughter Avery. We had a lot of fun with her again, took her up to Bradley Lake park then to McDonalds for lunch. After her nap we blew bubbles outside and she helped me water the plants, it was so cute!! :)

Saturday was the annual Walczyk Family Picnic in Montesano. So Andy and I both had the day off and we enjoyed catching up with some family we hadn't seen in a while and eating some good food from the potluck! :) And of course all the fun games (egg toss, money in the hay for the kids, BINGO). Saturday night was filled with drama that I'd rather not get in to...we'll just leave it that my mom and Dean's relationship is pretty much done for good now and my mom is living with us for a while. So just a couple weeks after Andy's little bro moved out after staying the summer my mom moved in! At least we'll make some extra money...lol...

Today I finally got over to Keren's to visit!! I can't believe I hadn't seen Norah since the hospital..almost a month ago! She's grown so much already, and she's beautiful!!! (See the new pics below) Keren and I talked about getting together...hopefully sooner rather than later, the four of us always have a blast when we get together, and now Keren can partake in the drinking of alcohol too!

Moving on..

So...after finding out my hormone levels went up, my doctor put me on 100 mg of Clomid to see if that started ovulation for me...we went back to the dr. on Wednesday for an ultrasound and found out that the medication didnt work. I wasn't too surprised since the dr. hadn't seemed to optimistic that it would work when I talked to him. So...this means our next step will be moving to injectible medications, but since my insurance doesn't cover them, we are going to take a break and wait until October when i can be added to Andy's insurance. Until then the dr. has put me on an estrogen patch to increase my estrogen hormone levels and hopefully at least start 1 period for me (since it's been almost a year!)

So..that's the latest on me...medically at least! Other than that..it was a pretty busy week..I worked 6 days in a row and was exhausted on my 'weekend.' Wednesday Andy and I went with my friend Brad and his kids up to Lake Tapps for a few hours..we had a lot of fun hanging out in the sun and playing with the kids in the water :) After that we came home and got ready to meet Toby for dinner and drinks at the Ram. We had a good time visiting and we treated Jon since it was his last night staying with us.

Now another work week has started, but I have tomorrow off on a trade payback, so I'm excited to spend the day with friends! Until next time..

Andy helping Avery swim

Andy and the Snodgrass girls at the Lake :)

Finally moving forward

The end of July is here already...where has the summer gone? The last week has been pretty eventful. Wednesday morning I had another follow-up appointment with Dr. Dudley (the RE). We talked about what my options are since I won't be able to get into the neurologist he wants me to see until October. I was excited to find out that he's going to let us get started on some treatment!! Finally after 10 months of waiting we will hopefully be making some progress soon. After talking to him I was slightly taken aback by his decision. He told me with my hormone levels so low, I wouldn't respond to oral medications so he wanted to start us directly into injectibles and IUI (intra uterine insemination). Luckily he said we wouldn't have to go straight into an IUI though and we could try 'naturally' with the injectibles for a couple months. Considering the cost of the medications and IUI this was a relief...and neither of us felt like we were ready to jump that far into treatment yet. So I had some more bloodwork done and they told me they'd get back to me within 24 hours. Needless to say by Friday morning I still hadn't heard back from them so I gave them a call. The nurse left me a message when I was at work that said the dr. wanted to call me personally with the results...so I was a little freaked out by this!! And of course he didn't call me Friday so I had to wait all weekend for what he had to say..but I finally got the call this afternoon and he had some good news..my hormone levels have increased since my last blood work!!! So instead of going straight into injectible medications he wants me to start on 100 mg. of Clomid and to make things even better he had the prescription called in and I start my first dose tonight!! I will go back to the office a week from Wednesday for a follow-up appointment and another ultrasound. So we're praying that this will work and we won't have to go into any stronger medications or treatment.

After the doctor appointment, Andy and I went to visit my friend Keren and her new baby Norah that finally arrived the night before!! So we stopped by the hospital and I held the baby while we visited with Keren and Steve (and Steve's parents). Norah is sooo precious and tiny :) CONGRATS Keren!! I will upload some pictures as soon as I get my camera back!

Wednesday night we went over to our friend's Brad and Katie's for a bbq and some games. Brad made us some delicious mojitos and I had a few too many..but we had a great time hanging out with them and Lindsey and Chris. We played Apples to Apples and Guitar Hero :) We decided we definitely need to hang out with all of them more often!!

Sunday was another busy day. Andy's parents flew in for the day. Since I had worked till 2 a.m. Saturday night, Andy and Jon got up and picked them up, then came back to get me before we went out to do something. We took them up to Seattle and walked around the waterfront and Pike's Place. Then we had lunch at Red Robin which was delicious, as usual! :) After Seattle we decided to stop at the new and improved Southcenter/Westfield Shopping Center in Tukwila. They had the grand re-opening this weekend with like 80 new stores and several restaurants! Unfortunately there was an insane amount of people, so it was too crowded to enjoy the shopping and I was pretty tired from my lack of sleep anyways. After the mall Andy's parents were pretty tired, as were we, so we dropped them back off at the airport to try to get an earlier flight and headed home.

We got home and relaxed for a bit before heading over to my best friend Katie's parents house to visit her twin sisters that are both in town from Alaska and England!! It was great to see both of them again, as usual it's been way too long! We hung out and visited and watched everyone sing karaoke before we came home and called it a night!