Merry Christmas!!

We hope this post finds all of you enjoying the cold if you are here in Florida, or staying warm wherever you are. It has been bitterly cold here recently, like 40s and freezing at night! I know several of you reading may think that's nothing but for us thin-blooded Floridians-it's COLD!

Scotty and I just got back from our trip to California, we had an amazing vacation. It hadn't been since our 1st anniversary that we went on "vacation" just the two of us. We usually use our vacation time to visit family or go on family vacations but it was really nice to just be with each other!

Our application for adoption was approved! So if you are a scrapbooker I need your help! I'm starting to work on our portfolio and I am soooo indecisive. It took about an hour last night to choose the scrapbook paper for each of the pages! We start MAPP class in January and will start paper work to apply for our home study during that process.

We are also continuing on trying to get a diagnosis on our "issues". My biopsy came back and showed that, in short, my lining is not maturing fully. So my test done on day 28 on showed that the sample was matured through day 24. If you want to know more details on what that could mean get in touch with me, I have lots of theories.

Knowing this, we are starting Chlo-mid this month. It is a fertility drug, I will also be on progesterone which is a hormone that helps sustain pregnancies. My doctor said if they'd known about the immaturity in my uterine lining (I couldn't help but giggle that he called my uterus immature-how dare he!!) they would have tripled my progesterone during IVF. Why didn't we do these tests before IVF???? That is an excellent question!

It may sound crazy to pursue two very different routes, but Scotty and I know that God's plan is going to become clear very soon. Whether it is getting pregnant or adopting and getting pregnant-we just want His will for our life, and our baby's. And yes, if we were to get pregnant in the process of our adoption, we'd continue with our adoption if they'll let us. Babies are blessings, right? I hope some day I'll be looking back on these posts thinking, "would I have ever thought I'd be sitting here?" with all my kids sitting around me :)