Thankful and Blessed!!!

We had such a great Thanksgiving!!! Even thou we drove most of it and were so exhausted by the end- it was still great to see the majority of our family! So after 3 houses and 12 hours later.....we were pretty ready to get home.

All in all we had a pretty wonderful Thanksgiving and we do have so much to be thankful for. Even through our hard times the past few months we still have so much to be Thankful for and know that we are truly blessed!

I started my hardcore diet and workout today- did my 3.97 mile walk this morning! (yay me!!) I also went and took my accuplacer test today at TCC- next step is to go thru new student orientation so I can register for classes that start January 15th!!!

Today is also the birthday of my late friend Jessica- I still can not believe she is gone- there is so much that I want to talk to her about and I know I can talk to her any time I want to- but I would like to be able to pick up the phone and hear her voice on the other end of the line. Miss her more and more every day!!
Happy birthday pretty girl you are missed more than you know!!

I came home from taking the test today to a surprise in my mailbox- A very good friend from high school Haley had sent me this plaque with the serenity prayer on it (see picture below) Haley is such a God send, she does not judge, or only see outer beauty, she only sees the good in the core of everyone! God truly is using her to better the lives around her! She knows the hard times David and I have had while going thru all the treatments the past few months and she has been there for me every step of the way! I could not ask God for a better friend than her!!!

So until next time everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

A game plan, new floors and baby girls!!!

Such an odd title for this post....but that is what it is all about!! LOL

We went in to see Dr. Kaufmann yesterday afternoon- we did a blood draw to make sure my HCG levels get down under 5 ( I will know what my levels are sometime today when they call me). We also had a consult with Dr. K, we needed to set out a game plan for us to see what what we are going to do next. Pretty much he is wanting us to repeat the HSG test that I had done a few months ago- since he was not sure if the pregnancy was not in my tubes (he just knew it was not in my uterus) he wants to make sure that my tubes are checked and make sure there are no blockages or anything abnormal before we start everything again.

Once I have this done then the following month we will start treatments again- I tell you, I'm really nervous going into this again. After a miscarriage, and now an ectopic pregnancy, I will probably be a wreck, but I know I will have to give it all to God and try my best to stay calm. A friend shared a passage with me back before we tested it is "Phillipians 23:20-do not be anxious about anything but by everything with prayer and petition present your requests to the Lord and the peace that transcends anyone's understanding will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus name." This always puts me at ease and a calmness comes over me after I read this. I know that God has a special plan for David and I, and I can not rush things or think I can make things happen as I know this is all in God's hands and he will bless us with a child when he sees it to be right.

I have made some calls and sent some emails out to the college here, and I go speak to a counselor on Friday so I can get a "plan" set up so I can start classes this next semester!! I think after talking it over with David that the best thing for our family is for me to pursue a career as an Elementary School Teacher. I think I would like to teach 2nd or 3rd grade!! I'm so excited to get back into school, but also scared at the same time, it has been 10 1/2 years since I have been in school....gotta get the cobwebs out of my brain that is for sure!! LOL

Last week we had the contractors out to tear up our old floor and lay the tile in the kitchen and the wood floors in the living room and 2 hallways- below are the before and after shots!! I absolutely LOVE them!! This next weekend we are going to get our new front doors- we need to be able to let some light into our living room since we don't have any front windows in there- we are getting a glass storm door for the outside then a new glass front, front door- the plan is to leave the front door open and keep the storm door closed so we can let some light in. :-)

This is the kitchen floors before:

Here is the kitchen with the new floors!! The last few are with the furniture and appliances back in-

Here is the living room before:

Here is the living room with the new floors, the last few are with our furniture back in it! So happy with them!!!

I also did a photo shoot for a friend of ours- she has the most adorable 2 month old little girl!! We had some fun during this shoot!! Here are a few.....

Until next time :-) have a Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

Update from blood draw yesterday, and other news

So I went in yesterday morning for another blood draw- they wanted to see my HCG levels drop 15% from our Thursday draw. When I was finally able to get a nurse to get back with me today she had told me that my levels were up in the 300's last Thursday and were down to the 130's yesterday. My mind was filled with guilt and doubt that we didn't give the pregnancy longer before we took the drastic measure to end it. I called my mom (my sounding board for a lot of things in my life) she assured me that we did the right thing and that my levels were still not as high as they would have needed to be, and to not let the devil come in and place the seed of doubt in my mind about the decision. That if God knew what we were doing was wrong that he would have put it in my heart last week to not let them do anything. I thank God everyday for my mother, with out her I don't know what I would do, this advice instantly eased my heart and my emotions about the whole situation. That we had done everything we could do to ensure that the pregnancy was not going to be viable before we took any measures to end it. With then going in with the scope looking for it in my uterus, and could not find it I knew that she was right, we had done everything, and if we didn't do something soon it was going to endanger my health and body and future babies.

We will go in next Monday the 14th for another blood draw and for a consult with Dr. Kaufmann to kind of regroup and get a game plan set out for what we are going to do next. He did say he wanted to repeat the HSG test I had done a few months ago, to check my tubes and make sure there is no damage or blockage that would hinder our next pregnancy.

In other Chancellor news: We are having our new hardwood floors and our tile floors put in this week! So s of today I have no living room or kitchen LOL, I will post pictures of the before and after shots once they are all finished, I'm so excited to have them done before the holidays since part of my side of the family (my dad and his wife and the kids) will be doing Christmas at our house this year!!

The past few years I have had the desire to go back to school- but could never decide what I wanted my major to be- I have 3 that I would like to do- social worker, teacher, NICU Nurse- with in the past few weeks I have felt God really pulling on my heart strings to start the process to get my degree. So I have started filling forms out for financial aid and whatnot- please pray that whatever it is that I'm supposed to do will be laid on my heart and help me make this decision.

This past Sunday morning we went to the Fort Worth Water Gardens with my best friend Tifanie to take some pictures- I needed some for our Christmas card that did not have us in our wedding stuff or people in the back ground things like that- I came home that evening after doing a Pampered Chef show at my sister in-law's house and did the editing on them and ordered our Christmas cards!! So excited!!! Below are some of the shots we took- I also got some great movement shots of the water- I really am having fun with the camera and editing of the photos!!

Enjoy!!!

This is one of my best friend's Tifanie AKA our photographer for the day!

Some of us :-)

This pose David did not want to do in his words it was "so retarded" but they actually turned out to be some of the best! LOL

Some more of us

Here are some of the water shots

Blessed thru the Stress

I just wanted to share just how blessed my husband and I am- first- I'm extremely lucky and blessed to have such a wonderful man in my life that I can call my husband! The song "God gave you to me" truly fits him! I'm so lucky that he chose me to be his wife! I'm not sure where I would be right now if I didn't have him to lean on thru our difficult times!

We have truly the best friends and family members ever!!! I can't express just how wonderful they all are! Weather it was just a text to see how I was doing, a facebook post that would make me smile, or a phone call to see where my head was at! These small things mean more to us than anyone can ever imagine. Also wanted to thank everyone for the prayers, they are very much appreciated and felt on our end- it seems when I get in a dark spot something seems to change me attitude and my spirits are lifted out of it and I start to feel better- I truly know this is the prayers and the Lord at work with us and helping us heal.

There is no real news to share at this time, I went in this morning for a blood draw- I did happen to catch Dr. Kaufmann on his way out to Surgery (or on his way back from one, couldn't tell) and he told me that I would not know if my levels are going down until Monday, and he didn't expect my body to do anything until possibly later next week once my HCG levels started to drop off and ultimately go back to 0.

So right now I'm still tired all the time and have all the other pregnancy symptoms (and I really think this is just not fair that I still have to have all of these) So I'm starting my walks again, and once I get the clear from the Dr I will add in my weights to my walks (With the Methotrexate I'm not supposed to do any heavy physical activity until my HCG levels go down) And I'm trying to keep myself busy and my mind off things and get back to normal every day life- and get ready for the holidays!

David and I did go to Hobby Lobby on Monday evening ( I needed to get out of the house and that store is one of my favorites!) we got some more Christmas decor and I got some stuff to make some fall decor- check out the photo of what I did! Quite proud of myself.

I also got out yesterday and went to visit a friend of mine, she had her son at weeks and got to bring him home last Friday- so we did a lil mini photo shoot with him. I'm really getting into this photography stuff- so below is the photo of the fall decor I made and then some of baby Jase!

Enjoy!