10 on thursday

1. i spent an awesome weekend in phoenix with my mom and sisters. we saw wicked. it was amazing. we stayed with family (my mom's brother and wife). i saw my old roomie rachel. we ate yummy mexican food. we melted in the very hot phoenix sun. we went to the mesa temple. and like we always do, stayed up way too late talking.


2. jared and jace had a boys weekend and had a great time. they went to parks. ate pizza. watched movies. spent an afternoon at the carnival riding mostly the roller coaster. and my house was really clean when i got home!

3. jace told me on monday that his favorite part was "getting his mommy back." i'm glad to be back home too.

4. 7 weeks 4 days - our healthy baby girl. jace says she's just a speck and we should name her lightning (like lightning mcqueen).


5. we took jace to see ice age 3. he loved it. i fell asleep about half way through. we did score some free movie tickets because it took them 30 min. to fix the screen before they could start the movie.

6. jared's work bought everyone tickets to see the harry potter 6. i thought it was pretty good. it's been so long since i've read the book that i didn't remember any of the details just the main parts. although, i thought it was a little too intense at some points to be a pg movie.

7. i went to my first "normal" dr. appointment this week. i have a new ob and i think he will be pretty good. i go back in two weeks for another ultrasound.

8. i cooked baked potatoes last week and forgot to poke holes in them. when i opened the oven one of the potatoes blew up in my face. it made a huge mess. i don't think i'll make that mistake again.

9. i had some pictures of jace swimming but am having issues with my computer. he is swimming so good (for a two year old) after a month of lessons. he will swim under water for a little while and go to the bottom to pick stuff up. he loves it!

10. happy 24th tomorrow!

10 on tuesday

1. first of all i wanted to send a shout out to jared who has been a stellar husband, picking up the slack while i sleep the days away. seriously, that's all i want to do lately. he has been cleaning and cooking and not complaining.

2. besides being tired and hungry i've been a nervous wreck, over-analyzing and worrying about this pregnancy. does anyone else do this when they're pregnant?

3. enjoyed a gno with some friends i haven't seen for awhile. it was great to catch up with everyone and chat for a few hours. love you guys!

4. congrats to jason and tae on the arrival of their new baby boy, yuushi jay!

5. we went to provo's freedom festival for the first time this year. it was hot and crowded. the blow-up toys were to hot to play on and the carnival rides were to big for jace. the old cars were kind of neat to look at.

6. woke up bright and early on the 4th so jared could run the freedom festival 10k. jace and i saved spots for the parade while jared ran. we were there at 6:30 a.m. and pretty much got the last spot available. by the time the parade rolled down the street jace was tired and ready to go home. but we still love parades and enjoyed watching it. after the parade we took some much needed 4th of july naps.


7. enjoyed swimming and bbq with friends and family later in the afternoon. jace entertained everyone by dancing to the music and then jumping into the pool over and over.


8. we continued our tradition of watching the fireworks at thanksgiving point. i'm pretty sure they were smaller this year than they have been. lehi must have been cutting back. but they were still amazing for a two-year old.

9. we have our first ultrasound in a week. i'm anxious to see if everything looks good (and if there is more than one baby in there).

10. happy tuesday!

a couple more dandelion pictures

10 on tuesday

1. not much happened this past week. a little too much tv while taking it easy and laying on the couch. on friday jace told me that he didn't want me to be tired anymore and to get off the couch.

2. went to a parade saturday morning. i love parades! jace had a good time too. he would get so excited when they threw the candy that he would run around in circles and then all the candy would be gone. it's tough being two and competing with all the other kids. one boy was dressed as spiderman so he told everyone that spiderman kept getting all the candy.

3. jace got these tattoos at a birthday party on monday. he thinks they are pretty cool and wants to show everyone.


4. jared and i were released from our calling as webelos leaders on sunday. it has been almost two years and a lot of work but it was fun. we go to our last pack meeting tonight.

5. it is getting warmer everyday and we are loving it! jared and jace jump in the pool almost everday. jace is quite the little swimmer with his floaties or a noodle. it's so fun to have a pool in our backyard and it makes me rethink ever leaving the basement.

6. jace finally added mater to his cars collection. we have been looking for him forever and they finally stocked up at walmart this past weekend. he does love his cars.

7. only 17 mores days until i head to phoenix with my mom and sister's to see wicked!!

8. a new favorite of jace's is riding the scooter up and down hunter's skateboard ramp. he is getting better balancing on the scooter but is super slow. every time he goes up the ramp he says "clap for me mom."


9. golf. jared goes once a week and still doesn't think that's enough. this past weekend he got to go with his good friend matt who was in town from alabama. he is getting better from all the practice and he usually comes home so happy.

10. we're pregnant!

green balloon

after the dandelion we tried some balloon pictures. he only lasted about 10 minutes but i still liked how they turned out. now i just need to start printing his pictures and hanging them on the walls or putting them in a book. that part is so hard for me.

(more pictures here)

dandelions

we found some huge dandelions the other day so of course we had to take some pictures. the morning light was beautiful and we had fun trying playing with the dandelions. jace couldn't quite blow them but if he shook it they would fly away. he's a good sport to let me take pictures of him all the time.


(you can see more pictures here)

10 on tuesday: a day late

1. watched UP for family night. cute movie. jace's favorite was the talking dogs.

2. had a great visit with jared's mom and sister. it's too bad we don't get to see them more often. jace loved all the extra special grandma attention.

3. we went to kneader's saturday morning for some yummy all you can eat french toast and was pleasantly surprised when they told us that dad's eat free for father's day! it may have to become a tradition.

4. jared, grandma m. and jace went to the carnival wednesday night. jace loved it! his favorite was the flying saucer that "went so high in the sky." he also rode on the dragon roller coaster. he told me this morning that he wouldn't be scared of the dragon roller coaster next time he went to the carnival. he has obviously been thinking about it for awhile.


5. we've had two swimming lessons so far. jace is getting more comfortable with his teacher. she does a great job with the boys and they have a lot of fun. last week he went down the slide and flipped over and hit his nose on the edge. when we were getting ready for swim lessons yesterday he said "i think i want to go down the slide and hit my nose again today."

6. jace can recognize two letters of the alphabet. j for jace and y for byu.

7. took some pictures of my sister-in-law, katie while she was here.


8. grandma m. taught jace to sing "you're a grand old flag" everytime he sees an american flag. now he wants me to sing and keeps telling me i've got it all wrong. apparently i can't just dodo and lala the tune. i guess i better learn it now.

9. took jace out for a few shots this morning. the light was beautiful.


10. a big thanks to my mother-in-law who took care my family while i was on the couch. i never had to worry about them. and thanks for the numerous times you cleaned our house. we love you tons!

jace and grandma m.

transfer

one more post without pictures. we left the picture for this post sitting on the floor at the doctor's office.

the transfer went well yesterday. out of the 12 embryos that were biopsied we had 4 affected, 2 unreadable, 1 carrier, and 5 normal. the champ embryo was the carrier. we chose to put in the carrier and the next best (which also happened to be a female). both embryos looked really good and the doctor was very optimistic and excited about them. we froze the remaining embryos.

we chose the carrier because it was the best embryo, it will still be healthy and even though it's a pain who knows where the medical community will be in 20 years. we felt like it was the right decision for us this time.

so now i am lying on the couch until tomorrow. my back is already sore from staying in the same horizontal position. and because my ovaries are still oversized the doctor wants me to stay down as much as possible for the next couple of weeks. good thing i'm stocked with some good books to read.

we head in for our pregnancy test in 12 days. fingers crossed that all goes well. and if we are pregnant it's gonna be a girl! how many people get to know the gender of their baby before they know if they are pregnant?

10 on tuesday

1. the retrieval went well on friday. i don't remember a thing but jared says i participated in the conversation the whole time. and i didn't get sick at all this time!! we got 23 eggs, 18 were mature, 14 fertilized and 12 were biopsied. we head in tomorrow morning for the transfer.

2. i went to a good friends reception on saturday night. she looked stunning and i got to see some great friends from high school. love you guys!

3. picked up grandma m., great-grandma c. and aunt katie from the airport on sunday. they had quite the ordeal...delayed flight, damaged luggage and lost bags.

4. had a birthday party for aubrey sunday night. there were a ton of people here and lots of good food. after dinner jared disappeared to his room to get away from everyone. it made me feel happy that he does this to his family too and not just to mine.

5. i'm finally feeling like myself again - energy levels, emotions, etc. i'm down to one shot now. progesterone. jared gives it to me each night in the hip. one night jace was watching and i explained to him that we need to do this so i can get pregnant and we can have a baby in our family. after the shot he asks, "so are ya pregnant now mom?"

6. my dad had is guns out and jace asked "can i shoot you grandpa?" of course the answer was no so he asked "well, can i shoot the lamanites then?"

7. our cilantro is growing like crazy except i'm pretty sure it's not cilantro. it doesn't look or smell like cilantro. not sure what it is so if anyone is good at identifying plants head over this way.

8. jace is in grandma heaven right now. he does not want me or jared to help him with anything, just grandma. they play together all day and jace is lovin' it.

9. i haven't picked up my camera for almost two weeks. but i'm going to today so i can have pictures on the blog again. there's just too many words right now.

10. happy tuesday!