Now what?

After being diagnosed with "unexplained secondary infertility" we decided to continue to try on our own with high hopes of being able to conceive naturally. In my head the 2 year mark was sorta my magic number. If it hadn't happened by that time then we would try to take further action. (Never really believing it would come to that) Here we are now though, one month shy of the 2 year mark. So, what now? We have a few options, we could keep on trying naturally, try with help from our reproductive endocrinologist, or consider looking into adoption. I have been praying and waiting, and waiting and praying on what to do. Lately, the only thing I can make sense of is trying with an IUI. I can't figure out, however if this is my impatient self wanting want I want now, and trying to control the situation, or is this the Lord prompting my spirit and leading me in that direction. I can come up with handfuls of guesses and reasons why God would have us go through infertility treatments, and I can do the same for the contrary. I guess it's not really my job to predict His plans for the future, but rather trust that He knows what they are, and they are good. Nichole

A Comeback?

I have been thinking about coming to my blog for a while, but just don't know. Maybe this will be a test post. When I look back at older posts, I realize I wrote about things that I have since forgotten, and it's nice to be reminded! Plus, it has now almost been 2 years that we have been walking through secondary infertility. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have the blog to layout all I think and feel going through it. I'm not always sure I want anyone to know all about it, while other times I wish somone knew every detail. Since only 2 people read my blog when I posted regularly, and that was 2 years ago, I suppose either scenario could be possible. Also, I worry the blog could just become too sad if all I talked about was secondary infertility, while there are a lot of support groups and blogs and articles that talk about infertility, the majority is about primary. There is little to be found on secondary. This could be the first post of many, or could be the last for 2 more years. Until next time (whenever that may be) Nichole

Picture Update

Here are a few pictures from Addie's 1 yr old photo shoot!!!

Enjoy!

Santa Baby

I totally saw something similar to this on pinterest, and tried to make one for myself!!

Its a Santa Tutu Dress :)

It turned out okay, so I had to take some pics of Addie in the dress, and then I had to play around with Picasa and add some edits, just for fun!!!

Weekend Recap

We had a very busy and fun weekend! (mainly saturday)

Saturday morning we woke up bright and early to head to the Dewberry farm with lots of family. We came home and I made some snacks for the kiddos. That night we had our annual Delcampo family pumpkin panting and carving.

Let me overload you with pictures of the day!! :)

Pumpkin Patch at the Dewberry Farm

 Apple Nachos and Monster Munch

(Apple Nachos are super delicious and super sticky - Perfect for kids... and grown ups :) )

Kids getting ready to paint pumpkins

 Addie painting her pumpkin

This is fun.

U sure I'm allowed to get this messy, mom?

Addie's finished pumpkin.

Yay, taking pics with all our pumpkins :)

 

Wait, why is ev1 screaming "cheese" so loud??

The Indian Game

Addie learned how to play the Indian game and LOVES it. It started with me patting her mouth one day while she was making sounds. She thought it was hilarious, and I tried to teach her to do it herself. She learned but uses the  back of her hand instead of the front!!! So Cute!!
I tried to capture a little video of her doing it. She usually does it a lot more, but was distracted by the camera. Here is a little bit of what I could catch.

Side note: She loves watching videos of herself, so we have sat here and watched it a few times as I'm posting this!!

A Day of Crafts w/ the Mom to Be

Ashley Kivch and I spent a wonderful day together today. We started off with a pedicure and lunch at Jason's Deli. Then we headed over to Hobby Lobby for some supplies for craft making.

I'm normally not much of the crafty type, but had a lot of fun today learning to make some things. As it turns out they are all really easy, and I may just be becoming a Do it Yourselfer.

First we made Tutu's. I made Addie one to go with her "My First Halloween" onsie.

Isn't it cute, and it was so easy, we were done in minutes. I'm thinking she needs tons more, right?

Then I made her a Bow holder. Currently they have all been in a Bow Basket. This is much more organized. All of the bows that are sewn onto headbands and the plain headbands are still in the basket, until I get a hook. Here is the Bow holder I made her.

Before I put the bows on and After.

"Princess of Everything" :)



Ashley also taught me to make hair bows. I only had time to practice on one and it didnt turn out as well as I'd hoped. I need a little more practice before I finish one and post it, but it really wasn't too hard!!

Nichole