Father's Day Fun: Hope that all of the past, present, and future fathers had a wonderful Father's Day on Sunday! We decided to share the sexes of our babies on Facebook on Father's Day. Everyone is VERY excited and can't get over the fact that we're really getting 2 of each. We had a very jam-packed Father's Day weekend - with a good mix of productivity and fun. Friday night we visited with my sister's family and then went to Home Depot to pick out paint colors for our soon-to-be guest room (formerly known as the office). Saturday we headed to Troy to see a couple of our nephews' baseball games and visit with some of my husband's high school friends that we haven't seen in awhile. Sunday we wished Pastor Casey and Matthew well (as they head off to new adventures at their new church) and then went out to lunch for Father's Day. My parents showed up in the afternoon with a U-Haul truck full of boxes/furniture that they are moving out of their house to help stage it to be sold. So proud of them and how much work they've done to get their house ready for sale. We put the majority of the stuff in my sister's basement - but have a few things in our basement as well. My sister and I felt pretty helpless since we couldn't help carry anything to help. Normally we are pretty good work horses. My favorite father-to-be also painted the guest room on Sunday - too bad he had to work so hard on Father's Day, but I'm guessing next year won't be much different. ;) The room looks great and I'm anxious to get the guest bedroom furniture moved into that room - so that we can start getting things set-up in the nursery (which is the ex-guest room). We are so lucky that my friend, Elphie, is an AMAZEBALLS interior designer. She's going to help us with our nursery design and I already love a lot of the ideas she's been sharing with us. They are WAY better than what I was thinking.
My husband and I got married in 2005 and tried to start our family back in January 2008. We started our 1st round of in-vitro in December 2010 - which is when this blog was started. Despite a near perfect cycle, it resulted in a negative pregnancy test in February 2011. We were fortunate to get 6 extra embryos from that cycle that were frozen. In March 2011 we started a Frozen Embryo Transfer cycle. Despite another great cycle (on paper), all 6 of our frozen embryos had to be thawed to get 2 good ones for transfer - which failed to result in a pregnancy. In 2012, we took the first half of the year off and then tried a couple rounds of IUI with and without fertility shots - still no baby. In 2013, we did our 2nd round of in-vitro with my sister offering to be our gestational carrier. We ended up transferring 2 embryos into each of us and were blessed to welcome 4 babies in October 2013.