Halloween

It was cold the day of Halloween. North had a bad cough. There was more dressing up at the YMCA party we went to.

Busy!

This is really what I've been up to for the past couple months. Mixing medications, injecting myself, learning how to assemble syringes. It's been a learning process. True, there has been Thanksgiving and Halloween, but fertility medications are super time consuming. I have to wake up at 6 am to get to the dr. (which is 30 min away) and wait to get blood work and internal ultrasounds done every other day. They then call me with the results and any adjustments to make with my medications. My response the first month wasn't that great, but the second month (this was early October) I had two follicles and Tyler's counts were great. So we gave it a great shot. The best we could do. But it didn't work. It's been a few weeks since we found out it didn't work. And I've just been settling in to what that means for our family and how it is going to grow. 

Really over the past few years I have "matured" but in a way I feel like the innocence of trying to conceive has been lost. All my naive notions of having an "oops" baby are gone. Laughing and being trite about how many children we have. Each one is a true miracle. I don't know how they got here to be honest. I used to cry every Sunday about trying to conceive. I don't anymore. All those emotions have been tempered. Which is good! This is a good thing!

Life goes on. It never occurred to me that some people when they can't conceive just say, "Okay, that's fine! Life goes on!" Wow. I am NOT like that. Or at least I wasn't. 

Now we are pursuing Foster Care and Adoption through the state. We have always known this was the plan for our family, we just didn't know when! So onward we go. I am not a quitter! No matter how hard it is!

Tree!

Our tree turned super early this year. I saw no less than four people stopping in their cars to look at it AND TAKE PICTURES! The girls had fun raking. (I have a picture of the tree that is still on the camera. I'll update this post later)

Hoot Scoot and Daddy Daughter Dance

The girls school is amazing. As they get older I realize how great it truly is. They are both academically doing VERY well. I am hard on Ava sometimes (well, probably too much) because I expect her to be perfect, but you know what I saw when I visited her class? She was amazing, and perfect. And so is Violet. Somehow they turned out wonderful.

Every year they have one fundraiser and raise over $20,000. Last year the principal had to sleep on the roof of the school. This year he is getting dunked in a dunk tank. The school has smart boards (the electronic version of a dry erase) and iPads in every classroom. Here are the kids running around outside. North and Oscar the Owl. And Daddy took his girls to the Daddy Daughter Dance. Apparently he was ditched by Ava the second he got there, but he still had his little Violet to dance with and meet some of the other dads.


This picture is a classic. Every time I look at it I laugh. :)

So blessed

I am so blessed. Here are some pictures with captions. Here's North asleep on a chair. He has gone through a really rough transition with the girls being gone. Finally he is sleeping and not just crying and flailing around all day.
 
 Shhhh. Don't tell my sisters. :) (Good thing my blog is private so I can post hilarious pictures like this)
 
The girls are both doing soccer. Tyler coaches Violet's team and assists on the other. It keeps us VERY busy on Saturday. The fall season is about 8 weeks long and it has been super cold. I have a feeling we are going to be wearing snow pants by the time the season ends Nov. 3.



North covering uncle Spencer with toys. I have no idea why.

 

 New clothes!