Loved the Beautiful Weather! While it lasted…

Living in Utah we have to take what we can get in the Spring!  Yesterday the high was 74, today we woke up to snow.  Boo!  But we did enjoy some days outside while it lasted :).   Mike works right across from a huge park, so we loaded up our picnic basket, picked him up from work and headed out!  The kids seriously had SO much fun.  So did Mike and I! 

 

Not a bad picnic basket for 12 bucks from Walmart, eh?!  I promise there really was more in there than just the Baked Cheetos. 

Madi was so funny, she was throwing as HARD as she possible could.  Those ducks had to watch out or they’d get pelted with bread.

There was some serious football-playing going on. 

I need to remember to take my better camera on outings like this!  I forgot and then I can’t stand how long it takes to actually take the picture!  There’s such a delay between pushing the button and the picture snapping.  Drives me crazy! 

For FHE we took the kids bowling for the first time.  Lots of fun!

My handsome boy in his new church clothes from Grandma Murray!  And yes, I know.  His shirt should be tucked in.  We tried!  But it kept coming out every 5 seconds :)

Since we’re living up here in Davis County we decided it would be fun to do Lagoon passes for the season.  They’re a pretty good deal considering the fact that if you were to go to Lagoon just twice, the pass is paid for!  My family is also getting them for their kids so it’ll be fun to be able to just head over for a couple hours, play with the cousins, and then call it a day.  Much better than feeling like you have to stay there ALL day!

This picture is blurry, but it shows how much fun he has on this ride.  He seriously grins ear to ear on it! 

My little tooth-less Max and my handsome hubby :)

I have never been at a Lagoon on a day like yesterday.  I was maybe 65-70 degrees and NO ONE was there.  It was EMPTY!  So nice!  We basically walked all all the rides, and the ones we did wait for weren’t long waits at all.  The kids LOVED the new Bombora ride!  I did too.  It’s a way fun roller-coaster that kids can ride, but it’s not so tame or boring that it isn’t fun (Puff the Little Dragon, anyone? :).  Definitely took some bravery for the kids to ride, but they did great! 

All in all, we’re so glad spring is here!  Now if it’d just stay for awhile… :)

Madilyn Turns 5!

The big day finally came.  After weeks of waiting, she finally made it!  And boy was she EXCITED!!  She had such a fun birthday party with family (a few days before) and then we took the kids to Disney on Ice the night before her b-day.   And then on her actual birthday we had another small party with just us at home.  So it felt like a birthday WEEK!  Which was so much fun :). 

I didn’t even get a picture of the decorations.  Crazy me.  She had a BARBIE party.  It was really cute!  Kinda funny that she chose Barbie.  She NEVER plays Barbies.  Ever!  She just doesn’t like them.  So I was surprised when that’s what she wanted!

Disney on Ice.  They had SO MUCH FUN!

Riding the new bike!  She’s done great at it. 

Maybe this will be therapeutic?

So I’ve never really mentioned this on here, but we’ve been struggling a lot with infertility.  In the past I had to go on Clomid to get pregnant with Madi and Max; but this time that just hasn’t been working.  We’ve always hoped to have 3 kids, but it looks like that may not happen.  I feel like the time of “trying” is kind of drawing to a close.  It’s been a little over 2 years now with no luck.  I know that many people try for way longer than that, but I just feel drained.  I want another baby so bad, but if it’s not going to happen, I want to just move on find peace with it.  In our situation (because of the endo), we either have to be “trying” or “preventing” at all times.  Simply because I need to be on the pill to control the disease.  So it’s not like we feel like we can just keep waiting and see what happens.  I feel SO blessed to be a mom.  I know that many people can’t get pregnant at all, so I’m not trying to throw a pity party or anything.  It’s just hard. 

I’ve known about my endometriosis since we got married.  I went on Lupron for it then (horrible experience) and then was told I needed to be on birth control to manage it.  Well, because of how long it takes me to get pregnant, I’ve been off of birth control a majority of the time.  Which makes my endo worse.  It’s kind of a catch-22.  You can’t get pregnant on birth control; but having your endometriosis keep growing makes it hard too.  I recently had surgery and the doctor was able to remove the lesions he saw.  So we’ll see if that helps. 

As for now, it’s another month on Clomid and Metformin.  The Dr. Office called today and is increases my dose to 100 mg this next month.  Maybe that will help?!  Who knows.  If we get a baby we will be BEYOND thrilled!  But I kind of think it might not happen.  It’s hard to imagine that this part of my life is already drawing to a close.  Where does the time go?  I hope this doesn’t sound too depressing or bitter.  I don’t mean it to be.  I feel incredibly blessed and I trust in the Lord.  I have no doubt that His hand is in my life and there is “wisdom in all things.”  He knows the desires of our hearts, and now we just need to accept His will.    We’ll see how this next month or two goes.   Maybe we’ll get lucky and we’ll get another precious little one in our home!   But, if we don’t, I still consider myself the luckiest girl in the world.  I get to have my sweet Madi and Max and they are healthy and happy; what more could I ask for? 

If only we could order kids as cute as these two from Amazon!  Now that would be a fun package to open :)

Behind?

I was just feeling like I had gotten way behind on my blog.  When I realized it’s been more than a month since I posted, I started thinking, I really need to get on there and update it.  I’ve been trying to use it as a journal/family scrapbook.  So I’m determined to try and keep it up.  Anyway….I looked through my picture folders to see what I needed to add to update, and there are like barely any pictures.  Haha.  I guess that’s what happens in January?  Not much?  Oh well…here’s a brief update. 

This girl loves chinese food.  Or course she has to dress like a “china girl” when she eats it :)

Madi’s preschool has had a lot of fieldtrips. This one was to the Treehouse museum.  I hadn’t ever been there before but it was really cute and fun!

Puppet show!

Mike’s sister Ashley had her baby.  They named him Andrew and we were able to go see him yesterday and take some pictures.  It’s been fun having Mike’s mom in town too.  Her and Tyson had a sleepover on Friday night.  It was lots of fun and Grandma spoiled everyone. 

Our nephew Tyson

Family of four!