March of Dimes... March for Babies...

this past saturday was the March of Dimes walk... our team the PREMIEre Program Families had the quads picture from the annual reunion party from October... my family came out for the walk...

here is my mom and my sister... waiting to walk..

my sister and brother.. still waiting to walk...

PICTURE TIME...

group picture... austin is wearing his cousins sunglasses... cool dude..

my family who came out to walk... my mom and dad... my sister and her girls... my brother, his wife and his kiddos, and us...

bobby's mom and his sisters boys...

still waiting to walk.. my dad and austin and seth..

dad and austin...

my mom and seth... my mom was such a trooper... she wasnt feeling her 100% self, but she still came out and walked... i could tell she wasnt feeling so great, but still walked regardless.. thanks MOM!!!!

evan and bobby.... still waiting to walk..

bekah and papa... posing and waiting to walk...

finally walking and my sister started off by toting bekah... we just started and bekah already looks tired from such a "long walk"...

this is my favorite picture... bobby and evan walking and my brother in the background...

now my brother is stuck toting bekah...

seths turn with jennifer...

daddy and evan having fun while walking...

at one point during the walk.. there was a polka band... they were playing the chicken dance... they had my sister dancing to the music, but i wasnt fast enough with the camera...

bobby and evan waiting for the rest of our group to catch up with them... the walk was held at Port San Antonio (Kelly AFB)... so they had this jet and all the kids liked looking at it....

finishing the race... notice now my kids are in Trey and Julie's stroller...

Finishing the race....

after the race... we look a little winded and STARVING!!!!

now we have to walk BACK to our cars so that we can go eat breakfast.. i heard Julie say " i thought the walk was over... why are we still walking?" i thought it was funny... and i couldnt agree more... HAHAHAHA...

as we are walking to the car.. i asked bobby.. "are you tired?" his reply.. "no not really, yea a little.."...

we went to breakfast after... ate a nice meal at cracker barrel... then went home... from what i heard we all pretty much went to sleep once we got home... us, my mom and dad, my sister, and my brother and his family.. bobby and i and the kids slept for at least 3 hours... yikes... usually naps make me wide awake at bedtime, but on this day i still fell asleep quite easily..

we had a fun time at the walk... and i am so grateful to all those that were able to come and walk...

i will post a history post later on this week...

me~

Outside FUN!!!

Well as i said at the end of the last post, this is a non-history post... We have our March of Dimes Walk this Saturday and thought that this week should post our recent "adventures"... My mom, my brother and bobbys sister and mother all chipped in money for a swingset for the quads birthday this past January.. We finally got it all set up and ready a couple weeks ago.. and the quads LOVE it... it is a lot fun... and watching them have fun playing on it, is even more Fun..

here they all are swinging on it... we added that rubber horse swing which we got for them at their first Christmas.. finally putting it to use...

Rebekah, Evan, and Austin all swinging and singing "wee-wah"... which happens to be the song i would sing when i was little when i would go swinging... ahhh...

Seth on the horse swing...

Rebekah getting ready to go down the slide...

Sepie climbing up the stairs to go down the slide...

Evan also getting ready to go down the slide..

and now Austin... i have come to notice that if one does it, then so do the other three....

and Austin is naked because he took off his own clothes... he is learning to dress and undress himself...

Daddy and Seth swinging on the "motorcycle" as we have come to call it...

and of course Daddy and Rebekah on the "motorcycle"...

here is Daddy showing the quads how to hit the ball...

now its Evan's turn...

and Austin's turn...

Seth's turn...

and even Rebekah's turn.. (the ball hit me on the right side of my stomach, i had a whelp and it stung for quite awhile..)

now Bekah's turn by herself.... look at that determination...

and now here are some pictures i took this morning... we got them some running shoes for the March of Dimes walk tomorrow... and we are stretching them out today so that the shoes are good and stretched out so our feet dont hurt tomorrow...

Seth with his new running shoes...

Evan with his new running shoes...

Evan being silly while wearing his new running shoes...

My pretty little princess with her new running shoes... look at all that "bling" she recently has become a very girly girl and loves to wear necklaces, watches, bracelets, and her purse..

look at that "model" stance... such a lady..




and of course Austin with his new running shoes...

we are really excited about the walk tomorrow and i have already started to make my numerous lists for the walk... my whole family is going to be walking as well as bobbys parents... i will take my camera so that i will be able to post about it...

they have really taken off with their verbal skills i think... we sing happy birthday to pretty much everyone and everyTHING... lately it has been happy birthday Julie or Trey, or Maeghan... pretty funny... they are also learning who is a boy and who is a girl... Bekah will all of sudden blurt out "My Lady!" and we say yes, yes Rebekah you are a lady... then the boys will say that they are ladies and we tell them no you are boys... then they start saying " Im a boy!" or "Im a man!" or "Im gentleman!".. its very cute... and i do have proof... my sister was here during one of these conversations, and heard all of these things... so if you dont believe me ask her... they also like to sing their ABC's... and they get to at least "J" by themselves and then here comes "p" or "w"... and they sing "Jesus Loves Me".. that is really cute... and they are starting to identify numbers... they for sure know what is 8 and 2... sometimes 6 and 7... so i think they are doing pretty good...

my friend got me these cameras that we put in their rooms, they are kinda like surveilance cameras.. WE LOVE THEM!!! the other morning i saw Seth trying to take off his jammie pants, and saw Austin go over to him and help him pull them off then the sweetest thing.... I heard Seth say " Thank You , Austin"... ahh... then in Bekahs room Bekah and Evan were looking at books and i heard Evan say "lets sing songs"... then he started to his ABC's and then mixed it with Jesus Loves Me... so cute... it did my heart good, seeing them being sweet to each other... and helping each other.. not that they arent when they are up and playing outside of their rooms, but seeing it without my telling them sure felt good...

well thats pretty much it.. i will do another history post next week... and try to post pictures of the walk... thank you to everyone who has been praying for them, please continue to do so... i know it is through God alone that they are doing so well..

me~

History PART II

okay so on with more history... yay!! right?? anyway.. We are in January of 2006.. my employer and doctor has now told me to stop trying and that he will refer me to a fertility clinic.. bittersweet... of course i want a baby and if that means with help, then so be it, but then it also means something must be wrong with me or its just not the Lord's timing..
so on January 9.. Dr Rath tells me to stop... it was on this day that i told him that i had prayed for quads.. whatever the Lord wants to give me... he said something like.. "I dont think you want to pray for that"... i did ask him if i got pregnant with more than twins if he would still deliver them, he said if i got pregnant with triplets and was doing good than he might, but they might also need to be airlifted for a NICU since the hospital that he delivers at doesnt have one.. he said anything more than that i would have to find a doctor who delivers at a hospital that has a NICU.. well needless to say i no longer prayed for quads but still prayed for at least one... im serious i maybe prayed for quads twice but thats it during my inferility, although if thats what the Lord wanted me to have ID TAKE IT!!! ...
i have an appointment scheduled for January 26 at a fertility clinic.. by the time we are going to the appointment i am seven days late... whats going on.. im never late.. my nurse did tell me that sometimes people come in and are already pregnant... HOPE!!! well they did a pregnancy test and sadly it came back negative.. they then scheduled me for a Hysterosalpingogram and Tubal recanulization... oh joy.. i remembered how my last one went.. im not looking forward to this one.. GREAT!!! so on February 6 was my procedure.. i was so nervous... VERY nervous.. bobby went with me because they, thankfully, we're going to give me some type of sedative... when the nurse was prepping me, taking my blood pressure, checking my pulse, she asked me if i wsa nervous, bobby looked at the machine that had the numbers and said my heart was going extremely FAST... she was very KIND and tried wholeheartedly to calm me down she got me warm blankets, because i had started to shake... and as she was getting the sedative ready bobby and i prayed... i guess i calmed down enough due to prayer and her prodding me that she was able to put the iv in... we went to the room that we were going to do the precedure... she gave me some of the sedative... she told me then that she likes to start with the most minimum amount and give more as i need it... so she gives me the minimum amount of sedative and im fine then all of a sudden its like im fighting sleep.... and laying there not usually in the most comfortable of positions and i am fast asleep... she came to up to ask me something and i was like " yeah.. i think its working.." i heard her chuckle... and then i was out again... the doctor came in... introduced himself to me, and i was like " uh huh.." so he started... and i was out again.. at one point he was like "mrs wright... mrs wright??? mrs wright wake up a little and lift your hips"... "okay".. and out with my hips raised.. then the next thing i knew he and the nurse come up to me and say they are done and that everything was good.. equal spillage and that he didnt think they were blocked to begin with... (of course i dont remember this, they later told bobby all of this too)... so the nurse is walking me out to get dressed and for me to see bobby... i see bobby right when im walking out the door... and im told i very loudly said " i didnt feel a thing!!!" both he and the nurse started laughing.. bobby and the nurse were talking as i got dresseed and she was amazed at how much the minimal amount of sedative affected me she never had to give me anymore than the first dose.. ... bobby took me to my moms house so that he could go to work... and as we were driving we heard a siren and an ambulance drove by and bobby taking advantage of my "drunken behavior" (i was later told)said " oohhh andrea look at the pretty lights!!" he said my reaction was "oohh pretty.." and then out again... i have never been drunk, but from what im told of how i acted it sure seemed like i was.. bobby said it was pretty funny sight to see..
so now we wait... we wait to see if we can do this one more time without "real" fertility help and to no avail we didnt... had another FC (fertility center) appointment on Feb. 22... i had started my period... they then start me on a fertility drug "clomid".. we decide that we are going to try one more month with the clomid but no type of procedures to get pregnant.. i have to go the fc now many times MANY times during my cycle... i go back three more times during this cycle which now has put us into the middle of March... March 20... negative pregnancy test... we're going to have to do a procedure now, again bittersweet...
so on my third cycle whilest going to the FC i start my period on MArch 22, go in to the FC on MArch 24 for my sono (not a fun pregnancy sono), start my clomid on the 26... am told i have two follicles (eggs) one 12mm and on 11mm, test my urine for a positve LH surge.. went in on April 2 for another sono... April 4 another sono... i am told that i have FIVE follicles.. April 6.. procedure day.. we decided with our Dr's advice to do IUI or AI or Intrauterine insemination or aka Artifical Insemination.. ... after our IUI bobby and i went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast and then to a movie and had movie nachos.. we saw a movie but i cannot remember which one right now.. but we had a fun time.. the theater was empty and we just enjoyed these little "dates"... had some bloodwork on april 12.. and on APril 19 a pregnancy test.. ... ... negative...
so start another cycle i went in on April 24 for my inital started clomid on the 26.. test urine for positive LH surge... go in MAy 3 for my first sono to check follicles.. May 5 our second IUI... we again went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast went to the movies saw Nacho Libre and ate movie nachos and again enjoyed our time together.. go in on the 11 for bloodwork... May 14.. the HARDEST mothers day i have ever had... so SAD.. i cried the whole time at church.. one of my friends, Rebekah, came over and hugged and prayed fro me the whole time i cried... my sister sat beside me holding my hand and cried... my mom sitting by my sister saw me and cried.. my poor husband sitting beside me sat there with his head down feeling lost and not knowing what to do... was afraid to put his hands on me for fear it would tear him up as well.. (i am crying again while i write this) May 18... pregnancy test.. ... .... ... negative.. each time i would get the call that my test came back negative i would call bobby crying and say draw out some more money from the bank.. and he would calmly say its okay baby.. it'll happen... dont worry... and i love you... it got to the point that if he saw the call was from me and then heard me crying he would say "ohhh... its okay.. well try again.." such a sweet and awesome husband... such a patient husband.. so we wait for my next cycle to start...
May 23.. start my cycle.. May 26 go in for sono.. 27 start clomid.. JUne 2 start testing urine.. June 3 sono for follicle sizes we have 2 follicles.. schedule the IUI for Monday June 5... But on Sunday JUne 4 as bobby and i are sitting at our house I CRY.. and i cry hard.. this will be our third IUI if it doesnt happen this time my doctor is saying we are going to have to do something different.. different drugs, different procedure.. something different.. GREAT.. in my own mind.. i have given up if we dont get pregnant, im not going back, but not just that.. i want to quit my job too, it is getting TOO hard seeing all the pregnant girls come in and out.. it was during my infertility i knew of at least 23 girls (that i know personally that got pregnant) not mention all the ones i saw at my place of work.. it was too much... in bobbys own mind, he has given up, but we dont say anything outloud, me because what if i change my mind and want to try another cycle, bobby because he doesnt want me to know hes lost hope.. so we go in on June 5 for our IUI.. go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast go to the movies see the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Dead Mans Chest.. i remember this because one of the creatures i thought was ugly and would close my eyes whenever he was on the screen, and actually through some of it fell asleep... i go in for some bloodwork on June 12 for my Progesterone and Estradiol levels.. June 14 my stomach has this VERY tight feeling... June 15 2 years after we have decieded to try for a baby, and still no baby.. my stomach though is still feeling very tight.. kinda like a TIGHT bloated feeling.. June 16.. still feeling the tight sensation.. June 18 Fathers Day... at our church they have a baby dedication on fathers day and although it was hard on me and i still cried.. Mothers day was the hardest.. June 19.. pregnancy test day.. .. ... ... POSITIVE!!!!!! my number is 643... i was at my moms house waiting for the phone call... my aunt and uncle and their boys from El Paso we're down visiting when i got the call.. they didnt know where my mom had gone that morning (she went with me whenever bobby didnt to the FC)... so i ran to my moms room, went into her closet and took the call.. My favorite nurse who went through most of this time with me called me. Marisol.. I WAS PREGNANT.. I call bobby there in my moms closet.. im thinking im going to joke around and say that he needs to draw more money out of the bank for another cycle, but once i hear his voice im crying he hears this crying and thinks of great.. not pregnant... than i tell him.. IM PREGNANT!!!!! he says "really???" and i am so happy im laughing and crying and saying YES.. (although i do have to go back in two days to make sure my numbers double) but Marisol said i was pregnant.. so my mom hears my crying and is starting to come down the hall.. and i run out of her room, she sees that im crying but that im smiling... we go into her room and cry right there in the doorway hugging... IM PREGNANT... i call my VERY good friend who prayed and advised me through ALL of this Becky, then my pastor Mr. Biddison as he and his wife were praying for us as well... and my other friend Rebekah (who comforted me on mothers day)... and then my brother, my sister, my dad, then go out and tell my uncle and aunt... we still have caution because my numbers HAVE to double in two days.. so my mom and i go back on June 21... as we are waiting for the phone call, my mom, my sister, my aunt and uncle and the boys go shopping... i get the call as we are shopping that my numbers are 1666.. more than.. double... i again call bobby and tell him i am most definately pregnant... my numbers more than doubled and then start all my phone calls again to tell everyone that my numbers DID double... I AM PREGNANT!!! VERY HAPPILY AND EXCITEDLY HAPPY!!!

well this concludes History PART II... i know that this is really more for me so that i dont forget, but i do hope you enjoyed it too... PART III will be the pregnancy.. PART IV will be birth and a day in the life of quads..

i will probably post a non-history post this week, so watch out for it...

me~