October Potato Bar

Oh My! It's been a month since I have blogged. It seems as if everyday I get something piled on to do. I don't even know the last time I have woke up one morning and had absolutely nothing to do for the day. I guess that's what happens as you get older and man I'm really beginning to not like it. Really good thing I'm the type that doesn't let things get to me.

Let's see.... What's happened since last post. First off Steve Bowlen passed away from an accident. He had a really good turn out for his funeral which to me speaks immensely of his personality. I hope mine has that many people. I always feel sorry for people when I go to their funeral and there is hardly anyone there.

We had our Halloween party on a Friday evening this year. We had a better turn out than I thought we would. Still not as many as we have on a Saturday evening but with races that was impossible. We went in the house @ 3:00 in the morning. I was sober before I even went to bed. Had a lot of fun though.

I've been taking my shots for two weeks tomorrow. They aren't that painful but I do have some bruises. Good thing they are in my tummy so I don't look like a junkie. I have my ultrasound scheduled on November 8th and the IVF transfer on November 15th. We'll keep our fingers crossed. I'm hoping we don't have to go through a whole new cycle. Less expense this way. But the Lord willing this will work.

We went shopping in Edinburgh last Saturday and I got me two new pairs of tennis shoes. I was in bad need for those.

I've been creating templates - trying to get things ready for the Potato Bar at http://www.polkadotpotato.com/. This is my first time participating in one. If I didn't have to fight with the Xcart so much on this computer I would have been able to create some more. I was working on a Christmas paper kit and was wanting to put that on there but I did not get that one done. Maybe we'll have one in November and I'll save this for it. Otherwise I'll have to upload it to the shop.

I've been trying to find some more stores to sell my products but have only had luck with one. I've got to read the contract over for that one and decide if it's a good fit for me or not. If I knew more about the Internet I would create my own site to sell at but I'm not to smart when it comes to that. Anyway, I'll post some previews of what will be for sale on Monday, October 22nd at http://www.polkadotpotato.com/. You can also "Buy the Bar." Here they are:

Good News then Bad News

It's been a while. Things have been hectic. I really would like to be able to post here everyday but it just doesn't seem that it is going to be possible.
Anyway, last week we got the results back from our blood test. I have antibodies to 4 different things of Mike's. I was so happy that they finally found something. Now let's hope that this will help get me pregnant. I had to go buy baby aspirin and begin taking them daily. Then two days before the IVF transfer I will start Heparin shots twice a day. If I become pregnant I have to continue to take them for 36 weeks of the pregnancy. Small price to pay if it works. I will begin Lupron shots on the first day of my period. I take them once a day along with Estrace pills. Then two days before the transfer I start the Heparin shots also along with a Progesterone shot and two other pills. There will be a few days in there where I will take 4 shots/day. I'm just praying that Mike will be able to give them to me. Last time he wouldn't do it and I had to go to the neighbors to do it. We can't do that this time because those Heparin's have to be done every 12 hours on the dot and I don't think that's fair to have to depend on someone else. We'll soon find out!
As a design note, we just got a bunch of info from www.polkadotpotato.com that sounds very interesting. But I'm going to have to bump up my designing and involvements. I'm looking forward to that though.
Yesterday morning we got some bad news. Lisa's dad Bert passed away from a heart attack. He was only 52. I went out there last night to spend some time with Lisa. He was a very comical man. I remember several things from our childhood. The favorite one I remember though is when we went with him to some of his friends home to ride their horses. The horses hadn't been out all winter and were a little feisty. He took the feistiest one and I rode on the back with him, then Lisa had the other one. We were out along the trail and the one we were on decided to buck. I slid right off the back of it. That's not it though. After we were done and came back to the stables Lisa and I wanted to take them out by ourselves. So Lisa got on the feisty one and I took the one she had. We were riding through the quarries and all was well til we hit an open field. My horse took off running and bucking! I flew off the horse and landed with my butt up in the air and the wind knocked out of me. Some neighbors heard Lisa screaming and came to our rescue. We got back to the stables and Bert was upset because he thought for sure he was going to be in trouble since I got hurt. On the way home though I'm sitting in the truck bleeding, bruised and filthy and he stops at McDonald's for a cheeseburger and wants to know if I wanted anything. That McDonald stop is the main recollection I have of that day.
Another one is- every year for his birthday he rented a limo and before he and his friends would go out for the evening he would come get the kids and they could each take a friend. So I went on several of those trips. We went through McDonald's drive thru in that one time too.
Then there were my birthdays when we got older. Us girls wanted to camp out in the backyard of our home so Bert would bring his tent out to Dad & Mom's and set it up for us. I have some good memories of my childhood with him involved. He will be missed by many!

Yahoo! Finally a plan!

Well let's keep our fingers crossed. I went to the doctor yesterday, FINALLY! I started my period Tuesday morning. Mike couldn't get off of work so mom & Angalene had to go with me. I was kind of disappointed but that's okay. Anyway, we both have to go get blood work done Tuesday morning in Beech Grove at St Francis hospital. We might possibly be fighting one another and they will put our blood together and watch it over a course of several days to see if that's part of the problem. That will take two weeks to get the result of it. So this month is out on doing any fertility work. Then what he is going to do is use the two frozen embryo's that we have left and thaw them to use. It would be incredibly awesome if those will work because then we won't be out alot of money. AGAIN! If that doesn't work then it's off to prepare for another IVF cycle. He said the success rate is 60%. Better than nothing so we'll see. We are going to do the implants at Evansville because their success rate is higher and the cost is cheaper because he owns the facility. That will mean we won't pay the hospital also which saves about $1400. Hey at this point $1400 looks pretty good to save. That should be the cost of at least 3 shots. Now to figure out how to pay for all of this. I've been getting several calls for photos so hopefully that will keep up and I can use that money to help out. If not I guess it's max out the credit cards! :-( I have faith though the Lord will keep his eye out on us and lead us in the right direction. It is all in His hands!

It's been a long time!

Wow, I didn't realize I hadn't posted since July 17th. Where does the time go? I have been very busy. I have had cake classes, photo shoots and the time here at works seems to be flying.

I'm busy working on a new template pack. This will be 4x6 in size and I think I will include 20 templates. I'm going to use them as a brag book for my photography business. For my personal use I'm going to print them out and glue them to a chipboard album. I'm thinking cute Christmas gifts. Here's a sample:

I think they'll be cute!

That's it for now!

Monday Monday!

Today is Monday and what a Monday it has been. Today is the due date for the water bills and I think everyone waited to pay today this month.

Saturday, Mandy, Jason & Eli came over to get Eli's pictures. Talk about a cute kid. He lifted his head up so good and cooperated so well. I'll try and get some pic's uploaded tonight or tomorrow. I either outdone myself or the kid is very photogenic. Probably him! :-) LOL

I ran around Saturday evening pricing the directory for the church. I'm going to have to keep looking because it will be anywhere from $450 to $900. And that is only for 50 books.

Yesterday, we rode around town on the cycle. We were going to go to Mooresville but when Mikey started the bike it started smoking. We decided we'd better stay around town, which was fine with me cause I don't' like to go to Mooresville. If we go there that means we have to go visit Tommy, which nothing against Tommy I like him but I don't like standing there for hours listening to men talk.

I found a wall of graffiti that I wanted to go look at. It was in an alley so I didn't want to do it by myself. We rode the cycle back there and it would be some really cool backdrops for pic's. I'm thinking of using it for Kyle's senior pics. Then we went to the shop to get a part for Christie's jimmy and went and fixed it.

We then went home and I got in the pool for a couple hours. Man was it hot!!!

Around 4:00 we rode into Scotty's to eat. Mikey was craving some fried pickles. I got me a side salad and that sucker was huge. Even after I picked all the junk off it was still huge. I got a burger that I had never gotten before and it looked gross but it was awesome.

Grandma got home Saturday evening so we went down there to visit. She got us all Hard Rock t-shirts from Barcelona. She also got me two shot glasses, one from Rome and one from Marcelona.

Friday night was the races and Mikey finished 8th again. That's 7 races in a row finishing 8th. He broke the streak though Saturday evening and finished 9th. They messed with the car and I think they messed themselves up.

Tomorrow night is my first cake class! I'm excited, I hope I like it and I'm good at it.

Til Tomorrow!!!

Photo Busy

It has been a busy week for me. Time has flown and I have forgot to post to my blog. I had to just let it go though otherwise it's just another chore.
Let's see! Last Thursday my cousin Mandy called to have me take photos of her 3 month old son. K, no biggie. Friday I get home and Faye called wanting to know if I was available next June to take her wedding photos. Still no biggie, I knew that one would be coming. Then Monday I get home and I have a phone call from a friend of Tricia's wanting a quote on taking some family portraits for a 60th anniversary party. What the heck!!! I have gone since early spring not taking any pictures except for Kayla's. Then get this! Dad went to a board meeting for church Tuesday evening and when he got home he called and they are wanting to do a church directory and want me to do it! Oh my lord!!!!! It is so weird how stuff goes the way it does. The Lord definitely looks out for you. I was getting pretty tight on money cause of some medical bills and we know we are definitely going to be strapped tight here before too much longer when we can finally start fertility treatments. He always brings me money opportunities when I'm needing them. Well now I have an idea to send out letters to everyone I know and invite them to come have their portraits done with no sitting fee and a free portrait sheet in exchange for a model release so that I can use them in advertising. He has given me the talent of being able to take portraits and I need to investigate the opportunity a little more. So we'll see, if it doesn't' work then all I'm out is my time and a little money. I'm hoping that the latter won't happen.
My templates are finally up on Polkadot Potato. I'm so excited! I quit designing them until I seen them up on there and now they are and I'm ready to start designing again! I need more time in the days, I have so many creative ideas running through my head and not enough time to do it all. I don't know what's up with that either. Within the last year I have been very creative and yearning to learn. I guess there's nothing wrong with it just strange that it is so strong of a desire at this point.

Catch Up

It's been a few days since my last post so let me recap.
Friday I was messing on the computer and looked up www.ancestry.com. I found quite a bit out on my maternal great grandmother's side. I printed it out and went home to compare to my book on the history of our family. I found that the tree from the net and the book matched as far back as the book went. If everything is true from that site then I got one side of the family back to 1290 to a Lord H. Von Questenberg & Lady Von Questenberg from Germany. It's pretty darn cool. I started this a long time ago before Grandpa Richard died on the Anderson side and then I quit cause it sure does take a lot of time. It seems though that this site has come a pretty long way since I first did this. So I'm going to take what I have and try this site out to see how far I can get.
Saturday, Mom, Michelle, Riley & Kayla came over to swim. When they left I went to pick up Christie to go to Dawnna's bday party. Then when I got home I watched a movie.
Yesterday I got up and laid in the pool all day. Done a pretty good burn job on me but I about got the Paula Deen book read. It's a pretty good book especially for an autobiography. Mike got in with me and swam for about an hour and a half which was very nice. That's probably his "one time a year" swim. The pool was awesome though.
When we got out we grilled burgers and watched the Travel Channel. They had episodes on Alaska cruises so now Mikey is wanting to go there.
I have to go clean Angalene's house after work and then I need to go home and water some flowers. It's suppose to rain tomorrow but it's not a very good chance and they really need it.
I need to also go to the funeral home tonight for Phyllis Naylor but I don't know if I'm going to or not. Not that I knew her very well but I know all of the kids. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to go.
Well that's it for now, off to work on the family tree. :-)