Big Day!

Well, tomorrow is the big day! Tomorrow we go up to the doctor to have the IUI performed. Late late late last night, hubby gave me my Ovidrel shot. I decided I just wasn't brave enough to stick myself and he was more than happy to volunteer to do it! Ha! He did a great job though and even gave me a bandaid for my boo-boo! :-)

This morning we were at worship service at our church, North Ridge, and I felt it. "It" was my body ovulating!! WOO HOO!! I felt the first one at 11:25 a.m. It felt like this sharp, slightly painful, burst in my right side. It caught me off guard and I jumped and grabbed my side. John jumped too and asked me what was wrong. With a big grin on my face I said, "I think I just ovulated!" Later after service, we told our pastor, Dean, and one of our prayer warrior couples, Dr. & Mrs. Lennon, about our procedure tomorrow and they assured us they would be praying for us! We believe in the power of prayer and believe that God can and does work miracles--and will work one in our lives for us to have a child!

Then we went to Walmart to get some groceries for our Sunday Supper with our friends, the Soto's! We've started getting together on Sunday afternoons and playing with Julianna and then enjoying nice, homemade suppers together! This afternoon was extra fun because the Soto dogs, Maggie & Toby, came to play with our dogs Semper & Maggie Rae! As we were picking up the few groceries we needed for Mozzerella Stuffed Meatballs (YUM-O!), I felt another burst--this time on my left side! This was about 12:30 p.m. It hurts just for a split second, but the feeling of something "bursting" inside is just bizarre. On our way back home from Walmart, around 1:30 p.m., I felt another burst on my right side. And that was it for the day. The great thing about that is when the doctor did my follicle study, she said there were 2 sizeable follicles on my right side and 1 on my left. So hopefully those are the ones that released the eggs.

So now hubby and I are eagerly waiting for tomorrow to get here so we can have our procedure done which will hopefully bring us our first baby Griffin! I feel very good about this procedure. I struggled for a long time with the thought of having a procedure to have a baby. I just didn't feel like it was the natural way that God intended it to happen. But I then realized that God gave our doctors the minds and the knowledge to devise these medications and procedures to help us. If I were having a heart attack, I wouldn't just lay here and say God will make me ok. I have the faith that that can happen, but lots of times the way He helps us is through other people.  John and I have both come to terms with the fact that there is no "right way" to have a baby for us. But we know that we are going to be great parents to the baby that God blesses us with! And we know that we will have that baby--no matter if he or she is conceived naturally or via medications/injections/procedures! It doesn't matter the path we take--as long as we end up with the result of having our own baby to love and cherish, that's all that matters!

So wish us luck and lots of sticky baby dust tomorrow! We would love for this to be the month that we FINALLY get to see those 2 pink lines!!