One week weigh in

Well, almost. But close enough! I have lost 10 lbs!!! I am so excited and have really been enjoying my meals. Tonight (and last night and probably tomorrow night) I have been eating buffalo chicken salads. SO YUMMY!

I will keep ya posted on Operation Vegas (:

So here's what's new...

We booked our VEGAS vacation. So excited. We went last year for our 5 year anniversary and had so much fun that we are going back!

This time my brothers, Matt and Seth, sister in law Kim, her sister Sierra, and my cousin Josh are all going too! Also, our buddies Josh and Nicole are going with their families.. get this.. THE SAME TIME WE WILL BE THERE!!
We are soooo pumped, and are focused on looking our best. I have been working out 3-4 times a week, and working on increasing that. Matt has been working out 5-6 times a week. He is a machine I tell ya. He is doing P90X.. tuff stuff.
I went to the Dr. this week- one of those weight doctors that you pay "cash only" to, you get a prescription, and they tell you to come back in 30 days. This time was different because he actually spent about 30 minutes with me talking about food choices. We talked about my PCOS and how hard it has been for me to lose weight and he suggested I have my thyroid tested. I have many of the symptoms besides it being hard to lose weight.. cold hands/feet, bloating, fatigue, trouble concentrating.. etc. I checked all the boxes on their survey sheet that led him to believe, and then he felt on my throat and was pretty certain I need to be checked. He "warned" me that as soon as I am put on thyroid medicine I would need to start using protection.. HAHA. Yeah right. I told him we were all about babies, and he showed me his wall of babies of women who told him they couldn't get pregnant, and did because so many people are undiagnosed with thyroid problems. Also, I started a **no sugar** diet last week and it's going really really well. I snacked all weekend on stuffed jalapenos with cream cheese and bacon! YUM!! I have been eating sugar free jello, lots of turkey/cheese roll ups, and lots of eggs. I will let you know how I do on my weigh in next month. I am looking forward to Easter next weekend!! Yay for Spring and this BEAUTIFUL weather!! OH- and YAY for Flip flops!!!!

Still not pregnant.

Great title right? There has been a complete hault to our baby making just with so/many things going on lately. The holidays, work, personal things going on, my dog- Murray broke his leg, yadayadayada. I am better now, and ready to go at it full force. I finally got my first cycle since the clomid and I have been having some straight up hurtful pains in my ovaries. Cyst? I am sure so.
I am not saying I am taking a break, but I do want to have a few regular cycles before I start clomid or soy isoflavones again.
I still have not made my appointment to go see the different doctor yet, just waiting to get back on track. I think that is all they would tell me anyways, so save that $60.
I have been seeing lots of twitter infertility friends coming up pregnant lately, and that makes me really happy. Good to see that there is HOPE!
Matt and I have been talking adoption a little more lately. Something to think about-even if we do get pregnant on our own we definitely are keeping that option open.
I vow to be more loyal to my blog, to make more time for it. I am not saying by no means I will blog everyday, but for sure will try a few times a week.
Hope you all had a great holiday season! See you soon (;

Short Post..

I feel bad because I haven't written lately, but we have had SO much going on.
I promise I will come back and write more later, and I have some new pictures to post also. I just wanted to give a briefing on all the fun we have had in November..

Weekend of the 14th- met friends at the Nutcracker Market- first time to go- AWESOME!

Weekend of the 21st- New Moon came out and we went to Austin, TX for the UT game. Had the best time, great seats, great company, and my Longhorns won!!

Wednesday the 25th- Thanksgiving at work. We fried like a million (or 80 something, whatever) turkeys and provided the sides to our employees. Was fun, but lots of work. Well worth it though.

Thursday- DUH. Have you seen 4 Christmas's yet? Try 4 Thanksgivings. Oh- and UT beat A&M.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday- LOTS AND LOTS OF SHOPPING!!! Super fun with my little sister, mother in law, sister in law and niece. We were crazy to get out so early but I wouldn't have it any other way. Love it.

More to come!!

Hello... I'm Johnny Cash..

Well, I am not, but Matt was. For Halloween!

I was June Carter Cash of course, and Murray and Presley were our Folsom prisoners. Too cute!!! We dressed up for work on Friday the 30th, and then we went out on Saturday night. This was my first time EVER to go out on Halloween night, besides the usual Frat party thing- which was always fun, don't get me wrong. I had to do some arm twistin' to get Matt out there, but we had such a blast. First we watched the Texas game with family and friends at my Dad's house. My brother's friend, hell, he is my friend too dangit- PAUL!- sang with my brother at half time and they were unbelievable. He has the most amazing voice, gives you chills!! Afterwards, we went to Crockett Street in Beaumont with Matt, Kim, Seth, Amanda, Seth's friends, Matt's friends, and my Dad and Deb. Crockett Street is a few bars, clubs, resturants all together in a little strip center and they had a street dance type thing on Halloween night. The costumes were AWESOME. We saw anything from "Rock of Love" to "Oompa Loompa's". We came home and started immediately googling costumes for next year. We will have to bring it if we go out to Crockett Street again.
As far as baby making news goes, I really don't have any as of yet. I did try something new this month. It's a natural version of clomid, called Soy Isoflavones, which I took 200 mg of it on CD 5-9. Supposed to do the same thing clomid does. It did indeed help me ovulate on day 15, where I wasn't sure if Clomid ever had my ovulate, even with the trigger shot, but we shall see. I am definetely not getting my hopes up this month, but my temps have stayed up (it's CD 19 right now) and I will start taking my progesterone tonight *just in case*. Those little lines on the OPK sticks went from light to dark pretty quick. It was neat to see that, since I have yet to see that happen after all the years peeing on those things.
I do have a IF buddy, who is also a real life buddy who has been trying to get pregnant for quite a while and just announced on Facebook she was pregnant with TRIPLETS!! I am so happy for Meredith and her hubby. She is a wonderful person and will make a great mom to those sweet, sweet, THREE babies!
Hope everyone is having a great week so far! I work 5 days this week, 4 days next week (Taking off for New Moon, yes I know I am a dork) and 3 days the next week for Thanksgiving!! Yayy!!!

Paranormal Activity

I love movies, and even more, I love scary movies. Even more than that, I love scary movies that could be real. So when I heard about this movie from my obsession with social networking (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) I had to research and find out WHY I had not heard about this? Normally, I know the dates of all movies that are coming out that I am so excited about. I plan weekends around movie premiers. I found that this movie did little to NO advertising and was actually an independent film from a year or so ago. They previewed it to a "test audience" which consisted of teenage and college kids and the movie trailer that they used for youtube -and I don't remember ever seeing this on TV- was solely the reactions of the audience.. screaming, jumping, hiding their face, you get the picture. Obviously, I had to see it.

We went Friday night, got there a little early because we knew it would be packed. I am funny about my seating when I see scary movies in theaters. I do not want to sit somewhere where the whole theater can see me jump, because I am super jumpy and hate that. I found us a spot kind off lower, and off to the side and was super frustrated when in 5 minutes we were surrounded by annoying high school kids, all boys, who were loud,cocky, crude, hollering at people they knew/didn't know across the theater. Thank goodness they zipped it up when the movie started. I will not tell anything about the movie, other than it's about a couple, Micah and Katie, who have been experiencing some activity in their home. They buy a video camera so they can try to capture it on film and find out what is going on. Most of the movie takes place at night when they are sleeping. It was so scary, and they right when they say it was the "scariest movie of all time". It is very Blair Witch-ish as in, "Is it real", or "Is it fake?' But either way it scared me, Matt, and all the high school boys. The whole theater was jumping, people were screaming, and some lady had to leave with her toddler who was crying because she was so scared. Why was she there anyway? Late, Friday night, at the scariest movie of all time?

I will tell you that they had wood floors all throughout their house, and even on their stairs. Matt had been wanting to do our stairs, and after seeing this movie, not no, but HECK NO. Go see it!You will see why I could not pee alone when I got home, and why I let my ginormous dog sleep in my room that night, and why I was never so happy to see the sun come through my window bright and early on a Saturday morning.

Saturday with Family!

I had such a great day yesterday. It was so nice to take my mind off things, have a change of scenery, and visit family. I can honestly say I did not think about any infertility issues the entire day, with the exception of me taking my temp. early in the morning. I normally don't do that, but I am going to for a few months just to see if it's consistent.
Soooo, I got up early and tried out a new (new to me) macaroni and cheese recipe that I got out of the Sun Coast (the company I work for) cookbook. I wanted to bring it to my mom's house because she was making a ham, potato salad and green beans. Everything was so yummy! I heart my mom's cooking in a big way. I needed it after my emotional week. Sometimes you just need your mommy.
Isn't that picture adorable? That is my mom of course, and that is her puppy Bevo on the left, and my puppy Murray on the right. They are brothers, and had the biggest time playing together. Oh- and my step dad gave Matt the coolest shirt. His very first UT shirt!! I cannot believe he went straight to the bathroom and put it on. I said... "Who are you????". He is a HUGE OU fan, and so is his family, so you can see the importance and urgency of taking this picture ASAP..
We went to my brother and sister in laws after we left there and watched a little bit of the Texas Game. Once I felt comfortable that "we had it" and we were winning by quite a bit we headed home, but managed to get a few great shots in before we left.
What a great day! We even brought two dogs with us and they were on their best behavior. Love Saturdays!!! I can't wait until the next one because it's HALLOWEEN! Their will be a special post/pictures for this one of course. Have a great day!