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Dee, that is cute....baby's first concert! No jumping up and down!!!!! I am cleaning today, so I have been busy. So much to keep up with.....so much freakin' hair everywhere.

I keep forgetting to answer questions from previous posts.....Dee, I do not have a pic of Harley because, apparently, I am the last person on earth to get a digital camera. We were given DH's dad's old camera (not old, really good camera), but he couldn't find the cables and such that go with it, and we haven't had the wherewithall to go get what the camera is lacking. I will get that taken care of soon. Then you will see pics of both my kitties!

TRACY- LOL. thats right no jumping up and down.. wow. Have fun on all that cleaning.. How is the weather down there? It is muggy here. CC- Go 1st shot. I can feel it too... I can see many bfp's coming around this thread!!!!

Tracy/D..thanks for the encouragement! I hope you are both right, everyone left needs to get a BFP before the year is out. How wonderful would that be?! D, your baby will probably love Bon Jovi, just like its mama! : )

Good Afternoon. goah, i am going to be in bad shape next week when i cannot nap. i just got up. LOL. D, i can give you a list of things...do heavy lifting over 20pounds, no suana..hot tubs..jacuzzi and the list could go on. just use your best judgement. if you think should i do that...don't. TRACY, you are not alone in the digital world. we do not have one. my mom has informed that will be our "together" christmas present from her so she can have lots of pictures sent. LORI, i think it is even exciting that the potential and the ball is underway on your part for Zachary. CC, 1 shot down...yeah...so you gave it to yourself i am assuming. we are right there with you feeling your pain (when they get painful). when is next visit to RE? hello everyone else. me....my life is sleeping, peeing, eating, peeing, showering, peeing, watching tv, peeing, eating, peeing, napping, peeing, watching tv,peeing, eating, peeing, watching tv...LOL. okay silly i know. i just feel like i need to do so much more. i am such a bum. about BB...i have been confused ever since Kasyar did what he did. i still think Erika should have taken someone off and put Will up then. i would vote off Will just out of his luck running out. i agree with the editing comment so we get all worked up over something. i am just sitting back and kind of laughing at them acting like a big ass this year. but, cannot wait to see what happens tomorrow....well, dh just surfaced and is already asking about dinner. gosh i need to do some serious grocery shopping. okay, confession....i only showered and did not even get dressed and it is going on 4pm. talk about a bum. girls...check ya all out later.

LYNN- It would be great if you can email me that list. Thanks

Lynn, you arent a bum! Your pregnant!! You are allowed to be lazy right now! Like you said, now is the time to take advantage of the situation because once you start working again, and then have the baby there wont be time to just relax and do nothing. Enjoy it!! I need to do some serious grocery shopping too. I dont mind doing it, but for some reason, I hate going to the store if that makes sense. Once Im there, Im fine. My dh gave me my shot today. I have never given myself one since I started injectables. He is just better at mixing, the needles, etc. I feel better about him doing it. I dont mind needles, as long as I dont see it going in on myself Im good.

I'm right there with you guys on the grocery shopping thing. I just hate going alone all the time. I am not a cook, so if I don't get DH what he needs, he doesn't eat. I am going to start cooking soon though. I started cooking for myself when I started seeing the trainer, but it wasn't the diet for DH, so I just made sure he had wht he needed in the house. Since I hurt my back, I haven't been watching my diet at all, and haven't cooked sine then either. I am just not creative in the kitchen, unless I am making it look pretty!!! So, I have to go to the grocery store too, but right now I am just trying to watch the money factor since we are so broke. It's day to day here right now. A huge grocery bill is the last thing we need.

Hey everyone. CC, to answer your question we are holding off to see if Chris gets a job where we won't be able to use this RE before we get anymore tests right now. If he gets a job and we have to move we are just going to seek out new help...I guess. Chris actually interviewed for a job that would still be within driving distance, so if he gets that one then we will see the same guy. We still haven't heard anything about the blood tests yet. They told us it would be 3 to 4 weeks. Anyway, we took Kaelan bowling today. That was a nightmare. He had fun, but it wore us out. We were chasing him all over the place trying to keep him from getting run over by other bowlers. I think we'll just stick to the theater for another year or so. So, Chris and I have compromised, and insted of trying to have sex for about 20 days we have decided to go for 10 days starting on CD 11. I am very happy that (he works those stupid retail hours) he isn't working any late shifts during those 10 days. We find it really difficult to hit every day sometimes because he doesn't get home until midnight. You guys have heard me talk about that. I hate having to wait up til 1200 and then perform on command. It is hard enough without it being late at night. D, definitely watch the second hand smoke at the concert...enjoy the concert though. Try to do a ton of things now because your life is about to change forever. When a little one comes suddenly the social activities cease. I agree that you should change your OB if he is a dick. You want someone who you trust because you will be seeing an awful lot of them...and they will be seeing an awful (your entire body and places you've never even seen) lot of you too. My OB was wonderful in Florida, and he tried really hard to ease my mind when I had to have the emergency C-section. He talked to me the whole time too telling me what he was seeing and he kept telling me any second now. I could really tell that he enjoyed his work, and he really does care about his patients. Pregnancy and having a baby is such and emotional ride. Trust me if you think he is a dick now...you might want to kill him once you get into your third trimester. I also recommend for first time dads a book called The Expectant Father. Chris had never even been around a pregnant woman. We found the book helpful. Plus it reads very easily. I enjoyed it much more than the What to Expect books. I just bought one of my friends a gift off her Target registry. (Lynn, JCR you registered yet?) She only had 13 items! When I had Kaelan I think I had like 50 things! I really think I should call her and tell her that she is missing a ton of things that she will need, but I hate it when I sound like a know it all. So, I don't want to upset her. Her husband told me the other day that at her last appointment the doctor told her that she had gained too much weight. He said that he and the doc made a joke about it. (Yes, another first time dad with no clue what the hell he is doing or saying) I told him that he should never laugh at her because of her weight. He said that she didn't take it too hard. I think I would have strangled them both. Okay, well I guess I will go back into the living room with the boys. Chris has irritated me...it isn't really his fault. It is more his family's fault, but it is hard not to get irritated at him too. He was married for about 9 months before we got married. He was married in the Catholic Church, so he is trying to get an annulment. The last step of this process (that is taking longer than their marriage) is for 4 people to fill out questionaires. They have had them for about a month now and no one is finished. We got a "nasty" reminder letter that they cannot proceed without their cooperation. Well, he called his mom today, and of course she still hasn't finished...neither has his dad, his brother-in-law, or his sister. Yet if it was them they would expect us to get it finished. I just really hate that they are procrastinating something that is so important to us. Obviously it isn't important to them. I am not having Kaelan baptised Catholic if we don't get the annulment, so they aren't just hurting us. They are affecting him too.

I really went around the world and back with that post. Sorry girls!

EMM, good plan to wait for further testing to see what happens w/ dh's job hunting. I know the job is priority, but I would be frustrated to have to stop now, once you got the ball rolling, or be faced with starting over. Patience really is hard to come by when ttc issues are present. At least for me its been. So am I understanding correctly that in order for Kaelan to be baptised Catholic, your dh needs his 1st marriage anulled? Wow..that would tick me off too, that his family is just sitting on that, in order to help you out. You need to light some fires under their butts! Maybe you could go over to their house's and "help" them fill out the questionaries. TRACY-I feel the money pinch..us too!

CC, we can have him baptised as Catholic, but they will not recognize our marriage unless he has his first marriage anulled. Then we have to have a ceromony with at least a witness and a priest. I am not having my son or other children baptised if I am not recognized as Chris' wife. We are going to become Episcopalian if it isn't anulled. We have been planning as doing it kind of like reniewing our vows. It isn't a sure thing though, but we'll never know if they don't finish those damn questionaires. Oh, Tracy, CC I will definitely joint the money or should I say lack there of club! I am disappointed about slowing the RE stuff, but like you said, CC, I would rather wait then have to have things repeated that aren't necessary. I feel like the blood thing shouldn't have to be repeated, so we are just trying to wait and see what happens.

hello...D, read my last post and it should say NO lifting over 20 pounds. sorry. i will look for the list i got at my blood test and e-mail it to you. The two big ones that keep getting stressed are the smoking/2nd hand smoke and caffine. it is to limited to 2 - 8oz glasses. Caffine has been the hardest for me. CC, i think i have the same thing about grocery shopping. once there i am determined to finish but it is just getting there. glad dh isn't too freaked out by needles and all. i gave the follistim shots to myself but dh gave me the HcG shot. he loved sticking a needle in my butt. EMM, wow..on the in-laws. i always hate the fact that people do not give the same consideration for things. i always try to treat people as i would but sometimes my MIL makes that a difficult challenge. ANDREA, good luck tomorrow and i hope things go well. TRACY, did you get that book finished? i so wish i could get into reading adult books. maybe i will make that a mission instead of spending so much time in front of the tv. LORI, how was your day today? SHAUNA, VAL and JCR...how ya doing girls? well, i am happy to report that grocery shopping is finished for hopefully a week or so. i do have to say it is nice that i convinced dh to go along. i kind of talked about not carry all the groceries myself and i needed to get cat littler and all so if i stopped and got him a sandwich at McDonald's would he go. it worked and we spent over an hour getting everything. at least i got off the couch and did something. now i have no excuse not to cook. TRACY, i do not cook homemade elaborate meals. i can make pasta, chicken wraps, pizza, grill burgers, hot dogs, steak, chicken....stuff like that. i add a little frozen veggies (cooked) and sometimes fries from oven and bingo...dinner. dh does not complain about most dinners..he even sometimes says "hey, that was good." what kinds of things does dh like? a quicky chicken meal is boneless breast and cream of chicken soup. i get my corningware..spray some pam inside. mix chicken soup and 1 can of milk in a bowl. add my chicken to corning ware, dump soup over and cook in oven on 350 for 2.5 hours. that is it. Eric (dh) loves it. okay cooking show is over and this is probably long so check back later.

hey...i am in the no money club also.

Well ladies - I am, although unfortunately, probably the president of the no money club! I called the bank today for a checking balance... lets just say that there is not even enough to pay the mortgage on time "again" this month!!! Oh well, such is life! As far as shopping goes... I plan meals for two weeks and make a list then shop for those two weeks. Usually the only thing I have to go to the store for is milk or bread. And the cooking... I do it... not that I like it... I make a killer roast beef, and a yummy chicken and rice dish! ANDREA - good luck with your appt tomorrow. CC - SO EXCITED to hear that the IVF journey has officially begun!! LYNN - What is going to go on at your Dr. appt on Friday? Hate to cut it short again, but gotta get a little one to bed. Have a good night!!

I am still in such shock. i just cant seem to realize that I am actually pregnant. My bb's have really started to hurt now. Really the left one, no so much the right. It is an overexaggerated version of pms bb's hurting.. But the best part of all about it, is that I am enjoying it. I don't know what the next 9 months are going to bring but I say bring it ON!... I have OGITA again TRACY!! LOL... I am sorry everyone seems to be having money troubles on here. How is everyone tonight. I am trying to catch up but I just wanted to post that above to let you all know how I am feeling about it all.