Tag Archive: Texas


8dpiui

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September 19, 2012

We have less than a week until we test. I have been trying not to read to much into symptoms because the Prometrium supplement gives the same symptoms as early pregnancy. I am tired all the time. I have been taking naps during the day, going to bed early and waking up late. I have had other symptoms, but like I said, I can’t attribute it to anything other than supplement right now.

I got a phone call from the hospital yesterday and they have Pixel’s pictures. They have put them in the mail, so hopefully I will have them by this weekend or early next week. I am really excited about that! It is a bittersweet excitement because I know this is the last thing I have been looking forward to getting of Pixels. After this, there is nothing else of his we will ever receive. *sigh*

We have two more days until we head down to Austin for the weekend. I am really excited about that. We have a hotel near downtown, so we are going to probably spend some time wandering 6th street and other downtown areas we didn’t get to see last year. We have three other friends going, so we should definitely have a blast!

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3dpiui

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September 14, 2012

Today is 3 days past. We still have 11 more to go.

The massive cramping that I got right after the IUI has gone away. It lasted for about 36 hours where all I wanted to do was lay around and watch movies. (which I did :P)

The weather outside has dropped from mid to upper 90’s to low 70’s and it has been raining for the last two days, so that has also fueled my desire to just lay around and watch movies. I love the rain and am glad that we are finally starting to get our fall. We are still a few inches shy of normal for the year, but every little bit helps.

Due to this rapid temperature drop, I feel sick. This is not helping my mood any. I am trying not to get sick, so I have started to take the vitamins the midwife recommended during the pregnancy in May when I got sick.

And to top all of this off, something happened to my right eyelid. I don’t know if I got bit or if I am having an allergic reaction to something. It has been a little sore since yesterday, but only when I rubbed my eyes. Today, it hurts when I blink and it is starting to swell up. I have no idea what could cause this. I am so not enjoying it right now.

Darrell has quite a few plans in place for tomorrow, so I will be on my own during much of the day. He is going to go play tennis with a friend, then he is going to hang out and play video games with another friend before we both go over to yet another friends house for a dinner party/hangout. Whew.

Next week we are prepping for a long weekend. We decided to go ahead and head down to Austin for another Bat Cruise. We decided this time to head down on Friday and hang out in Austin for the whole weekend instead of just for 24 hours. I think it will be fun. It definitely will give me something to do to keep my mind off this countdown temporarily.

That’s about it going on around here.

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Schlitterbahn

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July 31, 2012

We got a phone call requesting that we come spend a weekend at one of our resorts for our annual owners survey. We decided to go ahead and go to Schlitterbahn waterpark since we were going to be within half an hour from it. It has been something we were interested in doing since the first summer we moved out here and we saw commercials for it. So we invited some friends (only one was able to make it) and we headed out for a day of fun. The place was great and even though it was crowded, most of the lines weren’t that bad.

Because we hadn’t been there before, we went in the wrong entrance and then spent a good chunk of time walking all the way around the park to find the lockers for our towels and what not. We found the lockers and then headed to the bar to grab a drink before going to wait in line for one of the bigger rides, Master Blaster. Master Blaster is one of the rides that shoots occupants uphill. The ride was fun, but the wait was not. We were so glad that we had gotten the drink beforehand as we were in line for about 2.5 hours. They did sell water and beer at the top right before getting on the ride(at about the 30 minute wait mark), but it was a long wait until we got there.

The new side of the park was closed loop rides with treated water. We spent about half the day there and half the day on the original side. The original side uses non-treated water pulled from the nearby Comal River. It was really nice since the water was cooler and at the end of most rides, you were dropped into the river. Some rides you were able to float down the river for a little while before the end of the ride. We personally enjoyed that side more. There were a couple of fun rides on the new side, but we enjoyed the slow/fast mix of the original side rides.

So we had fun and it was worth the price once we figured things out. Neither of us got really sunburnt. The food in the park was actually decent. The drinks were ok. I’m not sure exactly what I think of a strawberry daiquiri made with wine instead of rum. It tasted good though. We might end up going back at some point if we are still here next year, but at least we can mark off one item from our list. We have a few more and haven’t decided when we will go ahead and mark those off. Knowing that we are coming up soon on our exit from Texas makes us realize that we need to do some of these things while we live here instead of traveling back here. We shall see. 🙂

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Front Entrance

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July 25, 2012

We have been working hard the last couple of weeks getting our front entrance set up and looking nice.

There are no really good before shots since it was a long slow process until we figured out exactly what we wanted to do. Proceed with obligatory before photos.

This is what it looked like in 2010 when we hadn’t done anything to it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this was when we finally realized what we wanted to do with it:

 

 

 

So we got started with Darrell digging out the dirt down about 4″. Then he laid the weed fabric down:

Then the fun part was ordering 2 yards of rock to be delivered. We ordered pea gravel and Mini Cobbles:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We started with the pea gravel for the bottom layer:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After we got the pea gravel in, we put the Mini Cobbles in:

When we finished with putting the first layer of Mini-Cobbles down, we called it a night since it had gotten dark and it was already 9 pm and we were both sore and tired. This is what things looked like when we called it a night:

 

 

 

 

The next day was the day we finished it all up. We put a second layer down and made sure it looked nice. We really like it:

So we are done with another project around the house. We have quite a few more planned. We shall see how far we get with all of them. 🙂

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June

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July 8, 2012

I know this is a little late, but we were a little busy the last couple weeks. For most of the month of June, we stayed home and found ways to cope with the loss of our son. We had a couple occasions where we got out of the house and did other things.

A week after we lost Pixel, we went to dinner with some dear friends the Hartley’s. They have been there with us from the beginning and know the pain involved with Infertility.

 

 

 

Darrell also had a gig with the Pipers for the Dr. Suess Parade that was going on in Downtown Abilene. He was excited for it because it was the first parade where they let him play the bagpipes and didn’t make him play the drums. It was only like a 3 block parade and it was for the Childrens Art and Literacy Festival (CALF). They did a good job and it was fun seeing a lot of downtown in Suess colors with Suess statues all around. I am mildly interested in seeing what they have planned for next year if we are still here.

 

 

 

They even had the cops wearing Cat in the Hat hats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other than those two events, we spent a good portion of our time just sitting in our backyard and enjoying the little bit of nice weather we had been having. The cats enjoyed the fact that we spent a lot of time outside and they were always out there chasing and catching the bugs and grasshoppers. Zedd caught a grasshopper and tried to take it into the house. Darrell noticed and we closed the door before he got there and he dropped the grasshopper and looked at us like “what did you go and do that for?”. I watched a lot of my Netflix and then D played a lot of his computer game (We bought him Skyrim). The cats did a lot of little funny things and I believe that it helped us cope by giving us something else to focus on.

The only other thing we did in June was to prepare for our trip to California. Darrell’s sister, Kendra, got married on June 30 in Boonville. I am working on some posts for that and I will get them posted in the next couple days. There are a lot of post ideas in my head and I am slowly working on them. Since we just got back late on Friday night, it might take me about a week to get them all posted. So keep an eye out. 🙂

~S

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