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Trip to California

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July 10, 2012

We did an elongated trip to California that began shortly before Kendra’s Wedding and ended a week after. We had a lot of fun and got to see all sorts of friends. We cannot wait until we are back on the west coast and able to spend more time with friends and family. Hopefully we will be back within the next 12 months. *Fingers crossed*

When we were getting ready to pack, we pulled out our big bag and the cats both know that it means we are leaving, so they took turns on making it hard for us to pack.

After we flew in, we stayed at Ryca and Jon’s house in Belmont. We had a blast hanging out and we really enjoyed their view of the SF area. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After we hung out with Ryca and Jon, we drove up to Boonville for Kendra’s Wedding.

We spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Boonville with family. After Boonville, we headed north to Humboldt. It was the first time in 26 months that we had been there. We both didn’t realize how much we actually missed it until we went back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a dinner at Six River’s Brewery in McKinleyville on Monday night with a bunch of friends. We did the dinner because we weren’t sure where exactly we were going to be on the fourth of July.

Tuesday was spent doing nothing except for wandering around. We went up to Trinidad with Lorna and Steve to have lunch at the Eatery. Then we walked the trail to College Cove and Elk Head. It was green and wonderful!

We decided late on Tuesday that we didn’t really want to get back into the car and do a lot of driving on the Fourth, so we stayed in Humboldt and we enjoyed the Crabs baseball game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then wandered around Kendra’s Neighborhood and Darrell and Steve played on the toys in the park.

We spent the night of the Fourth hanging out with Liam, Sigrid, and Kearney and setting off fireworks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the morning of July 5, we headed back down to San Francisco with a stop at the Solar Living Center in Hopland. We also stopped at the Marin Headlands to get a different view of the Golden Gate Bridge. (Also to waste some time as we were a little early for our dinner since there wasn’t any traffic through Santa Rosa like we expected).

We had dinner with a bunch of people from Darrell’s days in Santa Cruz. It was fun hanging out and seeing some people we didn’t think that we would get to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then on Friday, July 6, we got onto the plane and said goodbye to California and spent some time dreaming about how it will be when we come back for good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall, it was a great trip and it was much needed for us. We got to relax and spend some time with each other and recover from our grief. The grief is still there, but it is nowhere near as prevalent as it was before. We know we are loved and thought about among our friends and families.

Thank you so much to everyone who made our trip special. 🙂

~S&D

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Kendra’s Wedding

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July 9, 2012

We flew to California on June 27 and had a wonderful 9 days of vacation. The main reason for going was to attend Kendra’s Wedding in Boonville. It was nice to visit all sorts of family at the wedding. Darrell was honored to play the bagpipes for the beginning of the wedding. Here are some of the photos we got.

We got into Boonville in the afternoon on June 29 and hung out for the rehearsal dinner and everything.

 

 

Then came the Wedding on Saturday:

 

 

 

 

Overall we had a ton of fun and we very happy that we were able to make it to the wedding. Congrats to Kendra and Lee on their beautiful wedding celebration!

~S

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One foot in front of the other

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June 9, 2012

This has been a very rough week. We are coping, but there are little things that make us hurt. One of the things we had been trying to cope with is now done. We have officially packed up all of the items that were given to us for Pixel. It was emotionally hard, but it was healing at the same time. (If that makes sense). It was hard because we had expected to need to use the items soon. Healing because we are putting them away for next baby, whenever baby arrives. We decided not to give any thing away because even though Pixel was with us for 7 months, none of the items we got were tied to him. I am at a loss as to how to explain it, but it is nice knowing that we will have stuff for next baby even if we wait until after baby is born to buy anything.

We talked to the fertility clinic and we have been benched for at least 3 months. We will be able to try another cycle in September at the earliest. We might wait a little longer after that, but we haven’t completely decided when we will try again. We did talk and decide that we would try 3 more times and if that doesn’t work, we might look into adoption. This is all down the road, but for us it helps to look forward. We are waiting until my postpartum appointment with Dr. Sinclair to see exactly what Pixel had and if there is anything we can do to try to prevent the cephalic disorder. I know we cannot do anything to prevent the amniotic bands except for having more ultrasounds and the pricier ones that give more definition of baby. We are also thinking about possibly buying a doppler so we can listen to baby every day or so. Next pregnancy will be hard and we probably won’t feel completely comfortable about it until we actually see our baby and hear it cry. I keep telling myself not to think about it and that it is down the road.

We also bought our tickets to go to California for Kendra and Lee’s wedding. We had originally only planned on leaving on Thursday and coming back Monday. Now we have decided to leave Wednesday and come home the following Friday. This gives us more time to spend with family and friends and we are hoping will help in the grief process. I still have a hard time talking about Pixel without crying, but I am getting better. Now I just tear up, but can still talk instead of not being able to talk at all.

~S

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Ultrasound and Vacation pictures

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January 7, 2012

I finally got all of our pictures on the computer. Then I realized that we actually didn’t take that many photos. I guess that means that we had fun right? 🙂

Here are the pictures of Pixel. The one on the left is of Pixel, the one of the right is of Pixel’s heartbeat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We headed up to Malibu on December 27 so Darrell could go surfing with Tom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then went to see Anders, our nephew:


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We spent New Years in Palm Springs with family:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also saw our niece Hazel:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that was pretty much it for vacation. We mainly just sat around hanging out. We saw a lot of other people, but like I said in the beginning, we were having to much fun actually hanging out that we forgot to take pictures.

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The Good and the Bad.

Filed Under: Holidays, Pregnancy, Travels by skrdflute — 2 Comments
January 4, 2012

Sorry it has been awhile since posting. we have been busy. We headed to California for the holidays and spent a lot of time visiting family. We had fun.

As many of you knew before we left, we have a bun on board. Our doctors appointment and first ultrasound was right before we flew to California. We were told that we were having twins. Baby A, who we are calling Bit, was measuring 6 weeks 3 days. Baby B, who we are calling Pixel, was measuring 6 weeks 5 days with a beautiful heartbeat. We were still on notice about Bit as there was no heartbeat. We told everyone we saw about them as we were excited.

When we returned back to Texas yesterday, we had a follow-up appointment to check for Bit’s heartbeat and make sure the babies were growing properly. Pixel is doing great and is right on schedule measuring 8 weeks 4 days. However, we have lost Bit. It was a little tough, but we are extremely thankful that we still have Pixel who is doing fabulous.

I will try to post pictures when I get them downloaded. Today is just a relaxing day while I recover from the traveling yesterday and the doctor’s news. Hope you all had a Happy New Year!

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