Harvest Day 2010

I am finally catching up on my blogging.

Our family always celebrates Potato Harvest by going out to the fields and seeing the tractors then going to the cellars and playing on the spuds. Since we grew up in Hamer and worked during spud harvest all of our growing up years it is something that we really enjoy watching instead of participating in.

This year was especially fun because we announced to the family that we were pregnant. We bought Wren a shirt that has owls on the front of it and then had it screen printed. The front said "Guess HOO..." and the back said "BIG SISTER!" We had dad take her jacket off when we got there and everyone was very excited once they figured it out! :)

Wren really really loved the potato field, she thought that it was her own personal playground and ate the dirt, the potatoes, the vines, the rotten potatoes... pretty much anything she could get to her mouth before I could stop her! She also really was loving grandpa because he took her on the back of the combine and let her "drive" his truck back to the cellar! When they got to the cellar, she thought that she could do everything that the bigger kids were doing, like climb the potato pile, she soon figured out that she couldn't and ended up trying to crawl through the metal tubes placed for ventilation. I had to block those off also. That kid likes to get into everything!

Pregnant and Resting

Wednesday, October 13, I took a pregnancy test. Well, actually I took one every two days for about a week and a half before that... but on the 13th I took one and it was POSITIVE!! See what happens when I go on a rant about infertility and what a roller coaster it is??

It is actually pretty amazing that I got pregnant this month simply because I was not on my clomid this month and I usually do not ovulate unless I am on clomid. I will admit that the ovulation issues have gotten better since I had Wren. Or at least I cycle more often than I did before getting pregnant.

I am so very excited to be pregnant. I am scared to death of having two kiddos to chase around, but excited also. I guess that fear of the unknown is okay - right?

BEDREST! That is what I am on right now. Wednesday, Oct. 20th I was over to Val's just hanging out and when I got home and went to the bathroom I saw that I was spotting. I called the doctor on Thursday and they had me come in to do an HcG level test and I will go in tomorrow and do another one. They also put me on bedrest because of my history of miscarriage. Just one little rant here: When I first called the dr's office and told the receptionist what was going on she told me "You're probably fine." HELLO! That is probably not the best thing to say to a pregnant woman who is FREAKING OUT!!!!!!! Which is what I told her, then told her I wanted to talk to Dr. Hall or his nurse... after which she apologized then put me through to the nurse :) hehe!!

Bath Time Fun

Wren loves bath time and LOVES bubbles. She thinks it is pretty funny when we put the bubbles anywhere on her. This night, dada was giving her a bath and thought she would look cute with a bubble mohawk - I would have to agree!!

Aunt Kathryn

Wren really loves her Aunt Kath! She gets pretty excited to see her all the time and sometimes walks around the house saying Thath, thath!! it is pretty funny to see! Wren loves Aunt Val also, but I don't have any recent pictures of them to put up here!

She climbed up onto the couch with Aunt THATH and just snuggled right into her, I think "thath" liked it a lot!

This is classic Wren when I tell her that it is time to go nite nite. So, whenever you need her to cuddle, just have someone ask her if it is time for nite nite!! Kathryn was having a bad day when she got to our house this day but I think she left a little happier!

Puppies

Wren is now 18 months old. I can't believe how the time has flown by. I am getting her pictures taken next week but seriously, this kid is just to cute!

She had just woken up when this picture was taken. She needs all of her "puppies" when she wakes up or when she is tired or pretty much any time of the day! All animals are puppies and sometimes even her blankie is a puppy!! I know that I should teach her what the other animals are but I just think that it is toooooo cute that she calls EVERYTHING puppy! Dolphins, cats, bunny's... everything! I really love it!

I love this girl!!

Bedroom Remodel

Jeremiah and I have been redoing the paint job in our bedroom. Since it was conference weekend I started moving stuff out on Saturday and Sunday we started painting while listening to conference. It was crazy and took way longer than I expected. The reason that we decided that we wanted to redo the room was because all of the paint in our house is warm colors and the bedroom was painted a navy blue with silver overlay on it. It just didn't seem to flow with the rest of the house and it was so hard to find bedding that really matched the color or our personalities. So, we went out and found the bedding that we wanted and painted to match. We used the money from the garage sale that we had two weekends in a row and it was about $500 for everything! sheesh, so depressing! So these are the before pictures:

and this is the after:

infertility

I just need to vent a little.

Jeremiah and I tried for 7 years to get pregnant before we received the blessing we named Wren Lorraine Martin. We are now trying to get pregnant again and I hate it. It is a terrible roller coaster ride aided with medication and lots of mood swings. I take two clomid each day which give me the symptoms of menopause - mood swings, hot flashes, night sweats... the list goes on. Then there is the metformin that I take which causes stomach issues, stomach cramps and diarrhea. Don't get me wrong, these are all things that I am happy to "deal" with most of the time but I hate month after month of waiting to see what is going to happen, am I going to get pregnant? am I going to have to continue the roller coaster? Each month I question why I don't get to be pregnant when I see people around me who are terrible parents getting pregnant, I see children going to homes where they are abused and unloved. It makes me sad and a little bit angry. Sometimes a lot bit angry! I know that I need to just be patient and realize that God has a plan for me and that I should trust in him. Before we had Wren I had a lot of anger towards God and once we finally got pregnant and it stuck (we had 4 miscarriages in those 7 years), I was grateful for the time that Jeremiah and I had to become a stronger couple and learn the things that we wanted to teach our child(ren) when we were finally blessed with them. I know that there is a process and that I will once again be grateful for the trials that I am going through when I see the bigger picture but while going through those trials it just sucks!

so like I said, just venting.