June

June felt a little bit better. It seemed like our chests were not quite as tight all the time. We were able to have some fun and get things done. We've had a lot of hard times too though. We will always have those I think. But overall June was a good month. We're always as busy as it gets. And lately it really helps us get through each day.

I know I post a lot of these pictures. Just remember; we have ONE child. Only one. And he is not a cuddler. He never snuggles or kisses his mommy anymore. And he doesn't even let us kiss him when he's asleep! But we can still snuggle him and get some much needed Josan.

This...is how are blessed we are. That's how full our garage was for a few weeks. We had so many donations for our yard sale fund raiser. Our garage couldn't have hold anything more.

Our big boy had to earn some extra money to get a battleship. :)

Getting focused before batting

Run to first base!

And waiting on second

While we're proudly watching

A big part of June was Josan's Kindergarten graduation. He did amazing this year. I was able to volunteer at school and it was awesome to see him learn and grow and be the best he can be. He's always a good boy; but at school he's just amazing! We were so blessed to have Mrs Moffett as his teacher. It was her last year before retiring. Josan loved her. And so did we.

Adam's cousin Amber and Bryan got married too! From the place to the cake along with the decor and especially the bride; everything was beautiful.

We went to Hogle zoo with Jay, Lisa and Trey. They had dinosaurs up and it was way fun!

What a big boy! He's changed so much this school year!

And this neat pile of pills and needles is all the medicine that I had to take so we could have a successful egg retrival. My body actually ended up responding too well to all this and my ovaries were over stimulated. Which means that, instead of being the size of cherries, they were both the size of grapefruits. So we had to "shut down" my body and bring everything back to normal. The 17 (yes 17!!) eggs were fertilized, 12 were successful and 7 reached the blastcyst stage and were able to be frozen. 4 were able to reach it first, and then another 3. 6 of them were perfect and 1 was good but not the best. So all 7 little embryos were frozen since I needed 2 weeks of rest and more time to restart my cycle. This was yet another test for our patience as we were not able to do a fresh transfer. But we keep on counting our blessings and feel very hopefully through everything

We had a play date at a splash pad. Josan sure has a pretty hard life! :)

Josan and his favorite brother...

Last Tball game for this big guy!

Time to feed the ducks.

Jack has been Josan's friend since he was 3 years old. They love each other...and apparently they also love the same kind of bike gear!

Keeping it all cool in the car

Daddies/kids playing catch

Father's day was a little tricky this year. Our InVitro bills taking most of the extra money that we get right now, I didn't want to spend a lot of money. So we just got a few treat and I made Adam this pallet sign to hang in his office! I also made Mom's signature Cream Toast for the boys.

THEN...Josan had his first sleep over at his cousin Jackson's house. He had so much fun! But night time was a no go for him; he barely slept at all cause we weren't there.

More fun stuff

Handsome boy doing scriptures in Primary

Here's some of the updates that we had towards the end of June. On June 24 we had our egg retrieval. Most of the day I was home resting and doing well. They were able to get 18 eggs which is great as they like to retrieve at least 10. My body has been doing amazing through out this entire process. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. They have been felt. On June 25 I  was in bed most of the day recovering again. One concern did popped up. Dr was worried that I had hyper stimulated ovaries from all the medicine I had taken the last couple of weeks. It caused me to feel extremely bloated and to have sharp cramps. This could cause the procedure to be put on hold for a few weeks to give my body a break. On June 28 we had an ultra sound. It showed that I did have hyper stimulated ovarian syndrome. Basically means my ovaries are about the size of a grapefruit at this point due to all the medicine I did take. This led to great egg retrieval, however, the dr has determined that they need to shut Annie down for a while to allow her body to recover. Because of this, the transfer could not take place at the time planned. We had to wait 9 weeks before this could take place. I have been feeling very bloated, tired, and uncomfortable. This just means baby Fox will be delayed a few more months 

I love my Josan. He always pop out random funny stuff like this one as he climbed up in bed:
"I'm so glad that baseball is a sport"