Birthdays

In our family, August and September are busy months. Jeremy & Kelli's Dad are both on August 17th, Kelli's Mom is the September 19th, her brother, Chris is the 22nd, and Kelli's the 28th. So it's back to back!

For Jeremy's birthday we went to Longhorn Steakhouse then to Frankie's Fun Park (Arcade, mini-golf, rock wall, bumper boats, go carts, etc.). It was his family & our friends, the Langdons.
Here are a few photos of birthdays!

Jeremy & his friend Chip at the arcade playing on motorcycles.

Heather (Jeremy's Sister), Jon (bottom) & Kat (Jon's Girlfriend) at the rock wall at Frankie's.

Jeremy feeding tickets into the counter. We all gave him all our tickets from any games we played. He ended up with around 2500 tickets. (Still a little kid at heart!)

Kelli's birthday was 6 weeks later and we kept it low key. On Saturday night we went out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner with Chip & Jenny Langdon (since Kelli's birthday was on a Sunday). Chip really doesn't ride the little bus, he's just a goofball--any wonder he and Jeremy are friends?

On Kelli's actual birthday, we had Family Dinner at Jeremy's parents like we do every Sunday. They made Lumpia & Guamanian Chicken with Middle Eastern Salad, Kelli's favorite dinner.

Jeremy's Mom, Cindy, thought it would be funny to reverse the numbers. Heather didn't know about it until they went to pick it up and thought they'd gotten it wrong. Cindy thought that was funny too. Gotta admit, I thought the cake was hilarious. But it tasted good!

Jeremy wore swimming goggles because the smoker was making his eyes water. What a nutcase!

Jon & Jeremy thought it would be funny to pick up Heather in a two-man carry. You can see she wasn't too thrilled. Would you trust a man in swim goggles?

Taking a photos with my new camera.
Takes pretty good pictures and is pocket-sized.

Sunrise on the Beach

It just seems like the thing to do when people visit...wake up before the birds and drive to the beach to collect shells. So that's what we did this morning with Kelli's folks and her brother, Christian.

After walking on the beach, Jeremy and Christian decided to go swimming and play frisbee. There had been a dog nearby for quite some time who decided to get in on the game. It was quite funny! She had a great time though! That is until she bit the frisbee in half. :)

Tonight we do fireworks. Fun day!

Post Op report

Well, Kelli had to have a D&C last Monday. All went well and the doctor has already mapped out a 'plan of attack' for our next try. But that won't be for a few months so that Kelli's body can rest. It's been a rough week physically, but everything is happening "normally" as part of the healing process. So we're grateful for that.

That's about all there is to report right now. We'll keep you posted.

Thank you to all for your prayers and words of encouragement. Emotionally we're doing well and still optimistic for the future. We'll get our twins yet! :)

Sad News

Jeremy and I got some bad news today. They did another ultrasound, and though the baby is still there, there isn't a heartbeat anymore. My doctors are waiting until Monday to see if my body will take care of it on it's own and if not, I will be going in for D&C on Monday or Tuesday. We appreciate all of your prayers and support to this point. We will be fine and get through this just fine but for the next few days, I can't say that I'll be answering the phone. Telling the story over and over again doesn't make it any easier. We are fine and don't need anything right now. Just time and understanding.

Thanks again for your support. And don't worry, we haven't given up on kids. We'll try again as soon as we can.

Fertility Fun

So we've been going through the fertility treatments. That's loads of fun! At least not for Kelli. Between the hormones and an ultrasound that had her up in a very uncomfortable position for an hour, It can get rather tedious. But we'll at least know, whatever way it goes, that we've tried our best!



Here's a photo from a recent wedding we attended of our next door neighbors'. It was a lot of fun! We laughed with Jeremy's mom & sister and danced the night away with our neighbors. Our stomachs hurt afterwards from all the laughing throughout the night.