Memories...

My goal for the month of April is to get all of our digital photos organized. I have been working on this all day and haven't even finished 2 of the 6 years I have to do. But let me tell you, looking through all the pictures has made me laugh and cry. I want to share some, since I have nothing else of interest to blog about.

This is how Igan spent most of June/July/August of 2004. We got her fixed and she ripped all the stitches out. I thought I was seeing intestines and called Jenn at work bawling, but it turned out just to be folds of inner skin:

This picture is just cute...taken when we went to Gettysburg:

Before Minne hurt her hip she would wait for Jenn to come home on the top of the chair:

Look! Jenn has a barrette in her hair!:

Minne and I like to play soccer while I am cooking dinner:

Igan has a thing for plastic bags:

Me and Martin Yan:

Me and Alton Brown:

And now my personal favorite.....drum roll please.....

JENN IN A DRESS:

I love the weekends!

Saturday (well I worked of course...) we went to the fireworks that one of the outlet malls by my work puts on. This is first 4th of July tradition that Jenn and I started ourselves. We always spend a night with Elissa and family at their house, and with Lyz and family at Chris's family's farm... the night at Rockvale Square is ours. Lyz, Chris, Avery, Joni and Dennis (Lyz's mom and boyfriend) were able to join us this year (Elissa and family had other plans) and we had fun. Part of our tradition is getting dinner and having a picnic.

I will admit getting a little teary, as I remember having the conversation with Jenn that we would be missing fireworks this year. I mean who wants to drag a poor two week old out to the loud fireworks??

Avery was so sweet when the fireworks started!! We weren't expecting them and she just shook her whole little body, but within two or three blasts she was giggling and enjoying the view!

Joni and Dennis:


Picnickers:




Fireworks:(I call this one Fertilization, it looks like a bunch of swimmers heading towards an egg...a sign maybe???)


Lyz, Avery and I watching the fireworks:



(I do have one comment. You should always turn off your car alarm before fireworks. Lyz and I were very VERY angry at this one car...it was driving us bonkers and ruining the ambiance.)


Sunday of course was IUI day. I admit to being quite afraid to go. I'm scared to death to be pregnant again. I will not enjoy it. I don't mean that, of course I will enjoy it, but I will spend the entire time absolutely scared out of my mind. So I was a bit of a bear to get out of the house--Sorry Jenn! But, totally worth it, especially if we are pregnant. We changed type of specimens from ICI to IUI and are totally pleased with the results. With an ICI specimen we were averaging around 5 million swimmers....today 13 MILLION!!! It's actually quite gross to me, but awesome that it will help up our chances. Not that I need help getting pregnant, obviously that works, I just need help keeping it.

We went to breakfast afterwards, and by the time we left breakfast I started ovulating. I could barely stand up straight. This makes me very happy as this way I know we have timed it right. But man does it hurt!! I could barely stand up straight!! A quick nap and all was well!

Today (I'm extending the weekend here) Jenn went with Chris and Avery to the driving range in the morning so that Chris could give Jenn some pointers. You see Jenn did well enough last week, that she has been invited back. She is thrilled!!! So excited to be invited back with "the guys" to go golfing. I'm so very proud of her. It really makes me happy that she enjoys golfing.

It's weird, but now that she is unemployed and her stress level has been taken down several notches, I've got my old Jenn back. The Jenn before we lost Blue and depression took over. Yes, she got help, but I can see how much of a role her horrible job played into her depression. I know people think its really odd when I say it, but her being unemployed is really the best thing that could have happened.

Anywho, back to golf. Chris semi-made fun of her wearing tennis shoes, and using a batting glove while they were golfing last week. So, I gave her permission to go out and buy some new golfing gear. Yes, I'm weird, but her golfing just makes me so happy. It'll be fun next year (hopefully) for mothers day to get her a few new clubs, or SpongeBob balls. It's perfect, like the little dreams I had in my head of my future spouse!!

I'll pause here to explain why I'm writing all over the place. Today at work, by sitting down of all things, I totally jarred my back. I can barely move, so I've taken some drugs and when I do that I become hyper and can't think straight, so I start wandering, and apparently I'm over wandering right now. Sorry!!!

K, back to Jenn. So we went out after I got home from work to the Nike outlet (god bless the outlets) and for less than $75.00 we got her a new pair of golf shoes, a new golf shirt, a visor, and a golf glove (do you know how hard it is to find golfing stuff for someone who is left handed???) She is so very proud of herself. I can't even begin to explain how excited she is to go golfing!

After that we went to dinner at Isaac's which is one of my favorite places it eat. I mean the place is decorated in flamingos!!! I ate three bowls of their pickled veggies. I heart them. Here I am 1dpo and Jenn has decided that by eating three bowls of pickles I just have to be pregnant!

After dinner we went to the driving range again, Jenn wanted me to hit a few (I think so she could laugh at me.) With my back being the way it was I only hit two. She did really really well!! I was proud of her. She just can't stop talking about the golfing. I love to see her so excited about something.

Pictures, of course.

Me: (please note that the ball is still on the tee. I missed it.


Jenn: (I'll post a video too, cause I'm a dork like that, and oh so proud of her)


So, here I sit at 1dpo....waiting for 13 more. There's not a pregnancy test in the house. Don't know how long that will last.

10 weeks 5 days-11/27/2007

We got to see Blueberry again yesterday. It is so wonderful to be able to lay there and see the little munchkin swimming around. Blueberry is looking much more like a baby, and way less tadpole like. Every time the ultrasound tech would try to pause the screen he would back-up just enough that we couldn't see him.

Here is a picture, it's a little fuzzy because I took a picture, of the picture with my camera phone, but I think you'll get the point.



Blueberry is in the black part, head towards the upper left, kinda looking at his feet. The four white dots are hands and feet. That is an ear at the bottom of the head I believe.

Yes, I keep calling Blueberry a boy. No one can tell us what he is yet, but I'm going with boy. Which makes me very happy, but we are unsettled on a name. It was going to be Broderick Marshall, but I'm already tired of the BM comments, so we are rethinking. If Blueberry was to be a girl we'd be all set, as we have had that name picked out for at least 5 years. She'd be Cavanaugh Jenna. (Jenna is Jenn's cousin who passed away from Cystic Fibrosis--Cavanaugh, well that's a long story.)

I'm still liking Orion. But that seems a little out there. (semi pun intended) Jenn likes it, but would prefer it as a middle name. But we also both want Marshall (my lil brother) to be the middle name. I'm not going to release the current boy name to the public, until we've both slept on it a few more nights. But so far I can't think of any bodily functions that the initials will spell.

8 weeks 6 days-11/14/2007

Okay, gonna try and post pictures...if they don't come through, I'm sorry! You can email me and I'll forward them to you heidimingo@gmail.com