Surprises are always fun to give!

So I surprised my little niece (she is like my little sister) and she is flying with me out to Fort Worth, Texas to see one of my sisters and her family. My niece is soooo excited for this adventure and I am sooo excited to share this experience with her. She hasn't seen her little cousins in a while so she is ready! She doesn't have any sisters, like I did growing up, so I love to spoil her with sister-like moments. She also has never flown before so that will be fun for her! My mom gave her her own rolling little suitcase so she is so excited to roll it through the airports! haha.

She is very mature for her age (11) and is so much fun to talk to. You don't have to talk down to her level...she just holds conversations like she is an adult. She also is very entertaining and has an awesome personality so I can't wait to have her all by myself with out her little brothers. I love them, of course, but having girl time is always fun:)

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend. I always pray on planes so I will be keeping you in my prayers;) Is it pathetic that I have to write my prayers down so that I don't forget them!! haha. Yeah, that's my wonderful mind of mine! 

HUGS

God, my Father,

  I thank you for all that you are, and all that you do for me through your son Jesus Christ. I praise you for my life, for your mercy and for your Eucharist. In Jesus' name, Father, I place myself entirely in your Heart. I surrender to you my whole self, my hear, my mind, my memory, my imagination, my will, my emotions, my passions, my body, my sexuality, my desire for human approval, my weaknesses, my desires, my sins.

I surrender every person in my life to you. I surrender every situation in my life to you. I surrender every relationship I am in to you. I surrender every concern I have to you. I surrender every fear I have to you. I surrender every doubt I have to you. I surrender all confusion I have to you. I surrender all sadness I am experiencing in my heart to you. I surrender all the woundedness I have to you. I surrender all anxiety and worry I have to you. I surrender all that deceives me in my heart to you. I trust you to care for me and others ina perfectly loving way.

As I have emptied myself, and surrendered everything to you, I ask you now, Father, to fill me with your Holy Spirit and all the gits and fruits of your Spirit. Holy Spirit you are the source of love, hope, joy, peace, patience, goodness, gentleness, tenderness, faithfulness, humility, and self-control. Purify my desires. Help me to open my heart to you. Help me to become perfectly receptive as a pure child. Help me to believe in your love for me. Help me to hope in your love for me. Help me to receive from the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus all grace and virtues necessary for me to become the person you created me to be. I ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, God Almighty Father.

O'Most Holy Immaculate Virgin Mary. I entrust this prayer to your Heart, and ask you to press it to your wounded heart and intercede for me to your Son Jesus. Please help me to be as you are, a perfect disciple, an obedient servant, a true child of God. Amen

**This eloquent, ever so perfect prayer, was written by my priest Father Alex. My mom showed us this prayer in church. After church, my husband and I searched through the pews to find us a few copies. We are now going to pray this daily. I hope you can enjoy it as much as I do. Blessings:)

Dr. Hilger's question???

Last night DH and I went out for pizza and beer. It was such a fun casual date...love those kind! While we were enjoying our beer waiting on the pizza he asked me this question and I told him I would have to ask and let him know. Question:  If Dr. Hilgers finds something wrong, that is fixable, while he is doing my exploratory laprascopy, will he fix it or will he sow me back up and fix it another time???? Meaning, if I have a bit of endo, will he get rid of it then, or wait until he tells me, then go back and get rid of it??? If you know, let me know. If not, I plan on calling PPVI and asking them.

Happy Sunday morning:)

Happy Friday:)

DH and I are grilling out tonight and enjoying some vino! Nothing like steaks and vino on a Friday night! DH is so funny. He had to go to store to buy mushrooms and onions to go with his steaks....can't go without those topping in his mind! I'm pooped after this 2nd full week of teaching teenagers. Nothing important to say in this blog but just wanted to wish you blogger ladies a happy weekend.

Tomorrow morning I am planning a big breakfast and I can't wait. Looking more forward to this than the steaks. I'm planning grits, canadian bacon, eggs and toast. YUMMY! I love Saturday and Sunday breakfasts, along with reading the paper!! It is just sooo relaxing and enjoyable:)

After breakfast, we are headed to the outlets to do a little fall shopping for DH. He needs more work pants and shirts. I swear, he always manages to stain his shirts to the point that stain remover won't get it out! How is this possible ALL the time. Silly DH! It's supposed to be a rainy, gross day so it will be perfect for shopping. (more like window shopping b.c saving for Omaha). I say that...now I just have to live that out!

Hugs and off to prep dinner with DH! Enjoy your Friday too!

SURGERY scheduled!!!!

Well it's about darn time:) I got the call from PPVI! OCTOBER 27th is my special day! We have to coordinate times/people around work. My DH owns his own company and my mom and dad own/run their business together so they can't be gone for too long....so tentatively speaking, here is the plan:

My dad, DH and I will be flying out to Omaha on Monday, Oct 25. My appointments will start, Tuesday the 26th, then my surgery will be Wed, Oct 27th. Friday, the 29th, my dad will probably fly home. Then Sunday, Oct 31, DH  will fly home because he will have to get back to work. Then my mom will be flying out Sunday to spend the week of Nov 1-6th. That week is the week Dr. H will do my ultrasound series. Ladies who have gone to Dr. H, what all goes on during that u/s week???

I am so super excited, I can't stand it! I honestly feel so relieved that I finally have a date set and I can look forward to that. I am really going to start focusing my prayers on Dr. H and pray that the Holy Spirit give him the knowledge that he needs to diagnose/treat me. But don't worry, I'm also keeping many of you bloggers in my prayers as well:) Can't forget the ladies who have been so wonderfully supportive!

St. Gianna...you are the bomb! Keep praying for me and all these IF women....we feel you at work!

They called!!

So today during my faculty meeting at school, I looked down and saw my phone lighting up with PPVI on the screen. I swear I jumped up like someone poked me with a needle and I ran out of the room to answer...pretty spastic but I couldn't help the excitement! haha. They got this months cycle info and average cycle days. She was going to look at Dr. H's schedule according to what days my charts say is best to come out and call me back tomorrow to schedule my appointment time out in Omaha! THIS IS PROGRESS! Now I'm not going to sleep...I told DH that I am going to have my phone attached to my hip tomorrow and even if they call in the middle of class, I'm answering!

P.S. I still think it is quite amazing that I get excited that my infertility doctor called to schedule my infertility appointment out at an infertility institute in Omaha.....never thought these words would relate to me and when they finally did, I never knew I could get so excited about such a matter.

DONE!

I'm done with the blood draws! The blood shipped and made it to the lab in Omaha safely!!! Soooo glad I am done with that! I don't look like a heroine addict after all. I thought for sure that I would have an ugly bruise but they did such a great job over this period of time and I only have a tiny bruise. As for now, I'm just waiting on my appt/surgery to be scheduled and then waiting to get my results in a few weeks from my blood series.

So to celebrate, hubby took me out on a sushi dinner date (which was yummy) AND today I am going (in 10 min) to get myself a pedicure:)