More Deer Hunt Photos

I decided to post a few more pictures of the deer hunt. Josh Peck took these pictures.

From left to right: Shay, Austin, Tyler, and Lee.

Here's a picture of Austin.

Huntin Report

Well, we're back from the hunt. It was a good hunting trip for me. I shot a four point. It is the biggest deer that I have shot. Thank goodness for a family that will help even if you are the idiot that shot a deer at the furthest point possible from any road. Really, it took us about 3 hours to drag it to the road.

I'll give you the readers digest version of what went down. Me, Lee, Shay, Austin, and Josh Peck went out Monday morning. I had hiked quite a ways from where we parked, and had spotted a buck one canyon over. I hiked over to get a better look at him. When I got closer I could see a spike and two point. It was about 9:00 am and I was checking them out when I glanced down below them and spotted a four point that had just come out of a group of pines. I got one shot off at him, and thought I hit him (this turned out not to be the case). He ran back in the pines. Lee was closest to me, so he hauled the mail over to where I was sitting. We checked out the hillside for about 30 minutes to see if the buck would come back out. Since I thought I hit him, Lee offered to go over and rummage through the pines to see if he could kick him out, or hopefully find him dead. I've got to hand it to Lee, this was no little hike. The group of pines was two very steep canyons over. It took him about 45 minutes to work his way over there. As Lee worked his way through the pines the four point came out. I shot again, and this time I really hit him. This was about 10:30 am I really would have been in trouble if I hadn't been hunting with Lee, Shay, Aust, and Josh. It was really steep, rocky, and thick. I would have never gotten him out without their help. Anyway, I have posted some pictures below for you to check out.

Here's a picture of the buck.

Me, Hillary and Justin. Gotta get a picture with Justin and his first buck.

Here's Lee. He did all the hard work. If you look real hard, you can see a road down there. That is where we had to drag the deer.

You have got to start the training early. Here I am with Justin and his toy gun that makes real gun noises that Hillary just had to buy at Walmart.

IVF Results

Ok, so it's not so good news. The pregnancy test was negative. I know the next question you are going to ask is "What now?" Well, we don't know.

A little bit of everything

This post is going to be a little bit of every thing.

So when I was on bedrest last week Tyler decided to round up some blaze orange for Justin for our hunting trip this coming weekend. He couldn't find an orange vest small enough to fit Justin at Walmart so he decided to buy some orange fleece and make one or two vests himself!! Tyler has been waiting for years to have a little boy to wear orange around camp on a hunting trip!Tyler is quiet handy. I did have to help him just a little with the sewing machine! Thanks Tyler! They will be awesome!

Grandma Sing (my mom) gave Justin a grocery cart the other day. Tyler put all of our extra tomatoes in the basket and they delivered them around the neighborhood. It was so cute. Justin thought he was so big pushing his cart up and down the side walks.

Last but not least, yesterday when Tyler checked on Justin during nap time this is what we found.... sound asleep

Poor little guy, Mom just had to get a picture before Dad could lay him on his back.

Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who has wished us good luck! I it is wonderful to have all of the support and prayers.

A recap of today... 3 of 3 embryos survived the unfreezing process and were viable for the transfer. AMAZING!! They say that it is about 50% chance that a given embryo will be viable after unfreezing and all 3 of ours survived! We put all 3 back in!! Now that doesn't guarantee anything, so don't get too excited. With Justin we put 2 embryos back in and got one awesome little boy. We will take anything and will be happy.

I do know that Heavenly Father is in control and that things will work out how they should. I have faith in that.

Thank you again for all of the prayers and support.

PS
Diet update...I am proud to say that this morning I was .2 lbs below my goal weight to do In-Vitro!! What a great day! That makes it a total loss of 61 lbs since February and 100 lbs since Justin's birth last June. :) I will try to get some before & after shots posted soon.

Transfer Day

Transfer day is finally here. We have survived a week of progestrone shots! Tyler has become quite the good little shot giver. I think I will have to start calling him Tyler-the-RN. Anyway, today is the day. This is how it will go - Transfer, 2 days bed rest, back to normal routine. We have to wait 2 long weeks before we can do a pregnancy test!

Liz, I have meant to call you (sorry I am a slacker) and wish you luck with the last days of your pregnancy! I hope you have a baby soon but not until Dave gets home, of course. Good Luck!