Update

Nothing serious at the ENT, thank goodness. He's concerned about the fever but wants me to do a saline spray daily and come back in 2 months. If I get this recurring thing again, he said we may look into a CT scan of my sinuses but hopefully won't have to do that. He saw nothing obstructive today. :)

I'm kind of odd in that I like to do things (some things) by myself. On the way to the appointment this morning I was thinking how I miss that part of the drive when we made it for fertility trips: the anticipation of finding out more, exciting news and maybe the chance of our IUI working that trip. I try not to bother you all with the negatives of all of this. But I am at a point right now where I don't know what else to do. I don't want to do the "next step." I just wanted it to happen with what we've tried. I don't know what else to pray anymore. If I pray about it constantly does that mean I'm worrying about it and don't have enough faith? If I pray about it only a few times, does that mean I don't care enough to pray about it all the time? I don't know. And honestly I'm tired of praying about it. I pray the same thing. And I know God has to be shaking his head and chuckling at how ignorant I am!

So, I did a little retail therapy this afternoon. Not much, mostly just browsing but I love to do that by myself. So I got in a full day.

5K in the morning, Hogs game tomorrow afternoon. Busy weekend, but I like it.

ENT time

Well folks, tomorrow I'll be making the same drive as my fertility clinic; only this time I'll stop a mile or so before the clinic to see an ENT physician. I have had about a 24 hour infection every 4-6 weeks for about 6 months now. Each time I go to our local clinic, I get a different answer as to what it is. I've had (according to them): ear infection, sinus infection, possible tick fever, and respiratory infection. It all feels the same to me each month. Starts out with a lump in the back of my sinuses. Trying to get it out, I make my throat very sore. Then comes the fever, body aches, etc. I take sinus meds and alternate tylenol with ibuprofen and sleep for about 15 hours...and it's gone in about 24 hours. It's weird (and gross...I apologize) but as soon as I get that "lump" out, I feel fine. Is this weird or is it just me? I cannot go the rest of my life getting this every few weeks. It is not fun. So please pray that all goes well and it is not anything major.

It's starting to feel like fall out there...and I like the coolness but NOT the cold. Maybe it will just stay "cool" for awhile.

I leave you with this fine specimen. Found him in Wal-Mart :) He thinks he looks like Jay Gregory on the wild outdoors...

Have a fabulous Friday!

kick to the box and WPS!

I've done this in college, but this class is a lot more intense than a free college class. Charity and I have been doing kickboxing 4 nights a week with a ripped instructor. I like this because as I'm working out I sure am hoping I look like her someday. I mean really, killer legs. We jog after class and one day Lisa went with me instead of Charity. We did sprints, and I found out quickly I cannot do them. I sure do try to run fast but she smoked me. I don't do them anymore. It's for the birds.

I'll be glad when the hogs play a close game. Don't get me wrong I love to watch them (last week's game didn't come on tv, so we decided to eat at Hooter's and watch the game for free!). And, Hooter's is so not all it's cracked up to be. They wear 80's workout gear. Eww. Anyway, tonight we went to some friends house to watch the blowout game. Had some fine halftime entertainment by two lovely 4 year old's and a 2 year old. Love all those babies. They pretended like they were Selena Gomez and put on a fantastic show :)

Baby News:
None. Please continue to pray. Still taking a break. It's hard because I enjoy the time not worrying about days of ovulation and driving back and forth for appointments but at the same time really want a family. Pray God blesses our "break." :)

House News:
We decided to wait. Not knowing what we may be getting into with the fertility thing scares me. And we are content and blessed with what we have now.

toms

What started as a hobby has quickly turned into a small business. I've opened a separate checking account for my things I make so I can keep up with it better, and also to make sure I don't need to be paying in taxes on it. I don't figure I will but I sure do not want to get in trouble! And anything to do with taxes or IRS scares the heck outta me. So, here's my new logo. Switched to 323 Designs (Colossians 3:23). Like that much better.

If you know me, you know I HATE birds. But these mod birds and owls and cute little things I do like. Just not real ones. Least favorite thing when we go to the zoo, or Chicago for that matter. Those birds are everywhere and don't care if you are walking and they get in your way....enough of the birds. Just liked this picture. And hopefully it will be me, Kyle and baby Klober someday soon...hahaha!

Here is my massive to do pile, and that is just shoes. I have a canvas, picture frame and bin to paint also. So I'm going to take advantage of this long weekend. Priorities first; I'm checking facebook and blogging!!

No pictures today

Sorry, I have no pictures to share with you today, unless you want to see my homemade PECS pictures. (Picture communication for one of my kids) And I know you don't :)

I love my new job. Love the people I work for, work with, and the kids. Cute, sweet, and funny. I have to tell one story...A sweet boy (who was no so sweet the first day) started singing (I thought he was yelling) so I said, "Alright, ok, let's use our inside voices!" Then realized he was singing, "I love you, you love me, we're a happy family...." And he had a big smile at the end. Melts my heart. We sang it again together :)

Baby news:
Still on a break. Working on getting my body back into shape and ridding it of all the medicine. Taking kickboxing 4 nights a week and at times it kicks my butt. But I love going. I do feel a lot better and don't feel like I'm as crazy as I was. Kyle may beg to differ. I don't know! I really really want a family but I really really am not looking forward to the IVF process. So I don't mind the break right now.

House news:
No news here, we loved the house in a few posts back but would have to transform the formal dining room to a bedroom which would leave little kitchen space. And so we just kind of quit looking for a while. Theres another house that has plenty of room but it is $100/sq ft. and I think that's too much.

Happy Monday :)

Back to life, back to reality

Minnesota was awesome!! To be honest, I was wondering if we would have enough to do. But there are plenty of things to do! I could have spent a lot more time in the Mall of America, but I hated to drag Kyle in every store. So I tried to just hit the stores we don't have at home. And yes, we did walk around the entire mall, all 4 stories. Our feet were burning and our backs were starting to hurt. We found a store that had huge beanbag chairs and hung out there for awhile until we were ready to go again. I think that was on the second floor. We also went to the zoo, went downtown Minneapolis to eat dinner, got a massage, and went to a Twins game. There was a huge waterpark in our hotel, which we didn't go in but we have decided when we have kids old enough to enjoy this, we are definitely coming back! We have the whole transportation figured out if anyone is interested in going someday! :)

Here are some pics of our fun trip!! 

P.S. Weather was in the 80's the entire time. Awesome.

Finally...A Break!

My goal was to sleep in this morning. I don't feel like I could go back to sleep but I got a text from Kyle at 7:30 that says, "If you are a 50-63 day old chicken you probably didn't wake up this morning." ...what?! Took me a minute but then realized he was referring to work, and this terrible heat of 110 today with a heat index of 120! I just wrote back and said, "Good thing I'm not!" My husband should have been a meteorologist, or I could have been for that matter. I am informed of the temperature on several occasions throughout the day.

We fly out tomorrow for St. Paul! Yay!! I'm so excited and I'm not even for sure what all we are doing! We'll figure it out.

Sunday mom and I went to the movies with my best friends from high school and their moms (plus Charity and Audrey). It was so much fun- I think we will do it again! We got frozen yogurt from Pile High, and saw Crazy, Stupid, Love. It was pretty good! Here is a pic of all the gals/moms: