Looking forward to 2010!!!!

Our 2009 in a nut shell!!!

We were able to look into expanding our family this year. With the Lord in our hearts as we took each step. Trying 3 IUI's this year and even though we didn't get pregnant. We still have our Faith and Love in Him.

Knowing that this blog isn't only about our infertility, but also about our ride with the Lord. So we decided to start blogging more.

I've done a lot of traveling back and forth this year.

Being there to see Taryn walk into her first classroom. Watching her and Sande get ready for her 1st day of school.

Moving into a new home. Spending time in Cannon Beach for my Birthday. Finding a great place to sneak off to for dinner. Great place to do some hiking and picnics.

Taking each day the Lord gives us and making the most out of it. We've been taking small drives around the area and embracing the beauty of what the Lord has given us. Sitting and watching the waterfalls and eating our lunch.

I was given a great gift this year. A ticket to fly to North Carolina to spend time with Aimee & the kids. We had a lot of fun. Definitely a vacation I'll never forget. The hike that had me face my biggest fear. A Bear. It was a crazy 1 1/2 hour hike back to the car. LOL...You had to be there!

Ending our year and beginning our 2010 with the loss of my Grandma. We called her Nana. She's was the best Nana we could have asked the Lord for. She loved all of us with the true being of her heart. I was able to be there to experience my culture when a love one passes. Spending one last night with your loved one. Then 9 days of prayer. On the last night sharing a great fest with your family & friends.

We are waiting to see where our ride takes us next.

Our Move & More

Well for those of you who don't know we've moved. We got a call from our realtor and our landlords needed to move back into their home. That was in the middle of Aug and by Sept 12th we were in our new home. It's been a crazy couple of weeks, but we made it. I sent you all our new information but if you need it just let me know.



When we got the call(the move) we had just had our third IUI done. Everything looked good. My mom got to be with me during the procedure. It meant alot to me that she was there. I wanted her to see and understand what an IUI was. After almost 2 weeks with us we spent most of the time looking for a house to live. After 2 weeks my mom and I left for CA. I wanted to be there for my niece Taryn's first day of school. After a few days I went to spend some time with my best friend and her family. It was then I knew that our IUI didn't work. I was upset at first. I started to pray. I went into the bathroom and prayed to the Lord to show me our path. I wanted to know where to go. What was our next move Lord. I called and told Jason that it didn't work. He was very upset. It was hard not being with him. Being 800 miles away was so hard. I just wanted to feel his arms around me and pray with him. I could tell by his voice that he was upset. So that night we both prayed separately, we both asked the Lord what should we do next. The next day I called Jay on my way home. I told him I didn't want to do another IUI. We had talked to the doctor a few weeks before our 3rd IUI and told him we would try 4 IUI's. Jay felt the same way. We both felt like we needed to wait. We decided that we would do IVF in the fall of 2010. It sounds like such a long time. I just think of how much we will grow this coming year. I love the fact that I get to see the Lord working in our lives. I get to see the love of our family and friends. We are still going to start looking into adoption. We are just trying to catch our breath.

Our History

A friend of mine passed this great idea along to me of blogging instead of sending emails. I thought to myself, that's perfect. This way if you want to read you can do so on your own time. So here's a little bit of our history:

Jason and I were married in May of 1997. Both of us wanted to have children right away. We were upset to say the least when results were not favorable. After 2 years of trying we decided to go to a doctor for advice. After our money ran out we decided we would have to keep trying on our own.

Fast forward 5 years to July of 2004. A new and exciting opportunity presented itself and we moved to beautiful Pennsylvania. Once we were there we kept tryingto get pregnant, then again that was always the goal. Once in PA we met so many loving friends with open hearts through the guidance of the Lord.

This is where our Ride begins!

In 2006 the Lord started working in our lives. We were invited to attend Easter Sunday Service by a neighbor around the corner. That day we both left New Life Community (NLC) with such peace. We decided to start attending NLC and our eyes were opened to the glory of Jesus. With our family being 2800 miles away, they became our family. We have always looked at our Journey as being in the back seat of the car and letting the Lord navigate the way. At times we found it hard and we found ourselves wanting to take the control of the wheel. Today we are just enjoying the ride and eachother. We felt a calling to move in a different path to expand our family. The adoption process began. At first we wanted a new born baby, thinking it was going to be easy to locate one. Finances played a roll again, so we eased up and let things run their course. Maybe we didn't need a new born baby, just a child. We talked to our adoption agency and started looking for 0-5 year old. We were considered for a little boy named Ny'ere. Information came to us and we instantly became attached to him. Even though we had never met him. The State of Delaware had to approve our home study first. After waiting a few days and getting the news that they decided on another family for Ny'ere we were heart broken. I can remember sitting on the phone with our adoption agent Cindy and crying my eyes out. I just asked her how can I be so upset? I've never met him or seen him in person. I only seen pictures of Ny'ere. How can we keep going and getting the same result? How do people do this? She said to me, "The Lord, Christina" I remember sitting there upset at myself for not trusting in him. I got off the phone and prayed for the family and Ny'ere. I have to say I still think of him often. We still have the toys we bought for him. We were told he loved buses. I have the buses sitting out, they make me smile when I walk by the room and see them. I knew the Lord had a plan for us. It just wasn't the right time for us. A few months later we got the chance after many weeks of praying to move back to the West Coast.


In Oct of 2008 the Lord answered our prayers and brought us closer to our families. We moved to the State of Washington. Oh yeah, back to the West Coast. This is where a big part of our infertility woes started of affect me. In 2008 we went to see our families for Thanksgiving. We had a great time and on the way home(12 hour drive) I broke down. I had just realized that we had to start over and that scared me. If we wanted to try on our own or to adopt we would have to start from the beginning. The beginning meant that Dr's would want to do all of the tests themselves to build their own game plan or classes for the adoption process. I felt so overwhelmed at that moment. Later that same week we found a Church in our NEW home town called New Heights North and started attending regularly after that. The first time there I was going through the bulletin and found a support group for Infertility. The group is called Hannah's Hope. I remember crying when I read the words like they were speaking to my heart. I looked up at Jason and just pointed to the group. I couldn't speak, the Lord was speaking for me. I felt Him there with me and a weight was lifted. He was telling me it was going to be OK. Talk about feeling His arms wrapped around you, WOW!! I started going to group and have met some amazing women. With a new sense of peace we started trying again with the help of some doctors. After appointments and blood tests they couldn't find anything wrong with either of us. We were then refered to Oregon Reproductive Medicine and Dr Hesla. After meeting with Dr Hesla and going over a plan,we started the Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) treatments. Our plan was to try 4 IUI's but stopped after 3. We both felt like the Lord was telling us to wait. We both prayed after the 3rd IUI failed and came to each other with the same plan. Let's hold off for now and regroup, enjoying eachother and building OUR relationship. In Aug/Sept of 2010 we will try In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). We decided to start the adoption process in Oct/Nov of this year.

This is a short version of our Life in the past 13 yrs. We are enjoying our ride with eachother and the Lord!!!!