Baby Molina

It is official...we are excpecting one little Molina! We are so excited and blessed to have this little miracle on the way. This last year has been crazy but the IVF process was really the icing on top of the crazy cake.

Yet, we feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to go through the IVF process but we know that our little sweetpea is nothing short of a miraculous gift from the Lord. Our little sweetpea is six weeks and five days today and this is a shot from the sonogram that was done three days ago. It was a great surprise to see our little blessing and an even greater treat to see the heartbeat! This week we have undergone a ton of test and everything has come back excellent.

We are ecstatic about this blessing of upcoming parenthood. I am having all the general symptoms of early pregnancy. This week I have welcomed the blessing of morning sickness all throughout the day. It may sound crazy but every feeling of uncomfortableness I am praising the Lord for as the Lord has truly given us the desire of our heart. I also started walking a little bit for some exercise which has been wonderful. Exercise is my release and I am praying that the Lord will allow me to be cleared for more than walking by the end of the first trimester. Until then I will be driving my dog crazy as she wants to walk faster than me at turtle speed.

God is so good! Thank you for all your prayers and support!

Ordinary People- Extraordinary God

Praise the Lord for His provision in so many ways over the last thirteen days. The preparation for IVF went smoothly and the Lord truly blessed the process. Charokee and I grew closer through the injections and frequent doctors visits. This time has been a tremendous blessing to our marriage and has grown us both closer to the Lord as we depend on His grace.

Today was both of our retrievals. The surgeries went well and we presently have eleven eggs/sperm that have been united. Tomorrow we will find out how many of the eggs have fertilized to become embroyos. It is so awesome to know that the Lord is in control and He knows how many will fertilize and develop over the next five days to the implantation date.

It is a miracle that we have made it this far in the IVF process with the doctors original prognosis. We have faith that the Lord will bless the desires of our heart. It truly is a testimony that we are ordinary people that serve an extraordinary God.

We are still alive!

So here we are approximately a year after our last blog update. It is so hard to believe that a year has gone by so fast. We have had a lots of crazy things transpire over the year in which we were blogless but I will pick up with where we are at this present time.

Charokee and I just celebrated our six year anniversary. We had always said, we wanted to wait until we had been married five years before we wanted to start a family. Well, after five years rolled by and we started praying for a baby. We were surprised that after months of trying we had not been able to conceive. Charokee and I went to see the doctor and proceeded with visits to the endocrinologist in our area. Through months of prayer and testing it was revealed what our fertility issue was that was hendering our ability to conceive naturally. God's hand of provision and strength had been upon us throughout this process and He had given us every measure of faith and encouragement that He knew we needed.

The Lord opened the door for us to enter into an Invetrofertilization cycle in August of this year. We have been astounded by God's faithfulness to provide for our every need throughout this process and we believe that He is going to bless our faith as a mustard seed as we embark on this IVF journey over the next month. It is our purpose in witting this blog to be transparent with those that we love about the circumstances in our life at the present as well as to glorify God as He has been so good to us throughout this last years experience. We pray that this experience for us will be a light to those around us going through similar situations or just as a testimony of provision. We covet your prayers as well that the Lord will continue to be merciful to us and a Psalms 37:4 say, "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart".

We will be updating daily throughout this journey that starts tomorrow July 22, 2010.

Blessings!