What's Next?

We would like to start by saying how grateful we are for our family and friends. We've been overwhelmed with the outpouring of love, prayers and support. Please know that we do feel the prayers and love. There have been so many ups and downs over the past year and a half and right now we're feeling pretty up. It feels great knowing that we have people in our "corner" and are fighting this battle with us.

We've had an unseasonably warm spring so far! Everything is sprouting, turning bright and colorful and the birds are chirping. It's been beautiful-everything just screams LIFE right now. That makes me smile : ) Plus it's March Madness which makes Josh and I happy campers. We love basketball season, mostly because for several years now that has meant a lot of quality time spent with his Grandma and Grandpa T. We love cheering for our Jayhawks with them (pssst Grandma has the best Pepsi ever ::drools::). We were able to go to a couple of games this season too which was awesome.

So as far as IF, things are moving right along. We're getting really close to our goal of  $15k which is unreal!!!! It once seemed so far away and impossible but now I keep thinking "we're really doing this?!?!". We've experienced extremely generous friends and family members giving to us out of pure love. Josh and I put in $5k in the beginning and all the rest as been from donations.

People love. And boy do we love our people!

On Monday, we have our follow up appointment w/Dr. Kim (our RE at KU Med) and have an IVF consultation. The appointment is at 2:30 and it takes us a little over an hour to drive there. We'll be discussing my latest blood work and 2 hour glucose level results (which they already told me I passed that), the condition of my ovaries since they're full of fluid filled follicles, and finally Josh's latest semen analysis. Then we'll talk IVF...we have lots of questions and I'm sure we'll be looking like this the whole time.

But the good news is that we are now just saving money for meds! We needed $9600 for our IVF procedure and we pretty much have it, praise God! We're hoping that on Monday they'll be able to tell us more precisely how much we'll need for medication. This will be the biggest factor of when we do IVF. We agreed though that even if we had all of the money right now, we want to wait until the end of May/beginning of June to start our treatment. Josh is wrapping up a really tough semester at school and the boy can only handle so much right now. He's such a great student, I'm always amazed at how dedicated he is. He's very smart and strives (and succeeds) at making A's.

So that's that. We'll follow up in a few days about our appointment. Again, thanks for the love and prayers...keep em coming :) We love you all and thank you for believing for Baby E with us ((hugs))