Enjoy the Time 3:20am insight Enjoy the time when he wakes you up in the middle of the night, just needing just few more rocks and cuddles Enjoy the time when he wants the pacifier
Riley Still Looking Up I won't give up on us Even if the skies get rough I'm giving you all my love I'm still looking up, I'm still looking up. I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz
Riley Family Tree When Andrea gave us the Luke Isaiah Tree, she sent us with an assortment of small birds, so that we could add and update it. We've added a new tiny bird for our
Riley HCG Graph So, I made a graph. Because, well, what else do you do when you have continuous data observed over time? And here's a view of the story of our Riley, told in numbers.
Riley Here Again On Saturday, I stayed strong until Jessi went in for the emergency surgery, then I walked out to the lawn outside the surgery center and cried. What else could I do but cry,
Riley This Could Be It Jessi just called me with fantastic news! Her HCG is all the way up to 350! That's a huge improvement over what we'd been seeing and a very good sign that this pregnancy
Riley Catching Up Today I stepped out from a meeting to received some good news from Jessi! Her HCG is continuing to rise and it caught up to the threshold they were looking for. They were
Riley Transfer Day Today’s the day! It’s Transfer Day! Today’s the day we’ll go in and get that embryo transferred over from the waking station into Jessi. It’s a super fun
Hadley Musical Encouragement The Lord definitely ministers through music to me. I listened to a lot of 90’s Christian music and there’s so much that’s relevant. It’s so helpful that I already
Hadley Here We Are Again And again we have no new answers, no fresh understanding, no enlightenment to ease the pain of our sorrows and our trials. Here we are crying out to the Lord. I went to
Hadley Evan Finds Out Here's my journal entries from the day of finding out (the post image is just prior to our conversation with Jessi's mom): Today's the day! 7:57am Today's the day that we find
IVF Mixed Injections Whew! I just gave Jessi her first mixed injection. The first few days we were doing the Lupron injections, there was only one medicine, so I just had to put the syringe into
IVF IVF by the numbers Jessi and I can be very analytical people. We made and used extensive spreadsheets to help us with other life-altering decisions. Spreadsheets have helped us choose an internship and a post-doc position, and
IVF Pioneering This Sunday at Nightlife, we had a special guest speaker, the powerful and eccentric Andre van Zyl, from South Africa. He preached a message about having a Pioneering Spirit. His emphasis was on
Hayden Father's Day Reflections Today, I took a walk down to Calvary Cemetery to visit this tree that I've visited before. It is special tree in a special little place, alone in a small clearing. I came
Hayden A Tough Brofest This year's Brofest was a tough one for me. It was a continual tug of war on my heart, my mind, and my emotions. I was getting up early to go to the
Hayden My Birthday My birthday this year was a rough one. As you've read from Jessi's article, we spend the majority of it in the hospital, on a frightful ride of news from the doctors. I'm
Avery Avery's Welcome Welcome. This blog was originally intended to be our baby blog, chronicling our journey through the process from the first positive pregnancy test forward. Sadly, the story took a different course than we
Avery Love Poured Out Since telling people of the miscarriage, Jessi and I have been incredibly blessed by a pair of sisters in law who each brought us food to last for days while we’re dealing
Avery Week Seven Week seven was the last week we took of pregnancy photos, so it wasn't a very long run. Jessi had wanted me to go back and do something for week five, then photoshop
Avery Week Six Jessi had always wanted a chalkboard, and I had always wanted to get into chalk art, so we went out and bought one for making taking Pregnancy photos with. I had to warn
Avery Our Squishy We've each had friends who have had special fetus nicknames for thier babies, including Brock and Melissa Weston's Squid. We thought it would be fun to have one to, so we quickly identified
Avery Week Five We weren’t sure what kind of pregnancy reveal presentation we wanted to do or what clothes we’d want for the growth pictures, so we took 19 pictures of different clothes and
Avery First Baby Gifts At the end of our Skype session with Jessi’s parents on Wednesday, Miss Juli ended with, “Okay, I gotta go, there’s some things I need to go, there’s some things
Avery Telling Emily Friday morning, after the ultrasound, we were scheduled to have a Skype session with Emily. We called and told her that she could be Auntie Em, but not having seen The Wizard of
