March 2009 Archives

This past weekend we made yet another trip back to Oklahoma. (One more to go next month.) This time it was for Aiden's 2nd Birthday. They weather forecast was for snow, but we didn't really believe that. Snow in March, sure sure..... Wow were we wrong. We woke up Saturday to a nearly blinding snowstorm. We drove from Nikki's sister's house in Broken Arrow over to around Harvard and 244 to pick up the cake. The roads weren't bad but the visibility was poor. In the time it took to go in and get the cake about 3 inches of snow built up on the car. We made it out to Owasso before it got too bad. Unfortunately it did get a lot worse and Nikki had to miss the wedding shower she had planned on going to. The snow slacked up after a while though and almost everyone made it to Aiden's birthday. The snow did not last long of course, the roads were clear by the time we drove back to Tulsa that evening and it all melted by noon on Sunday.

Here's some phone-cam pics I took.

In other news, Aiden has finally settled on names for Nikki and I. I'm "Bubba" and Nikki is either "Nik" or "Neek." Our real names being a little hard for a 2 year old to say.

Also I've given up on the whole using nicknames on the blog thing. If you are one of the 10 people that read this site you know who we all are anyway.

Some of you may know some or all of this already but I haven't talked about any of it yet here.

If you've been following the blog you know that my wife and I have decided that this year is the year we will have children, that' s the plan anyway.

We've technically been trying for over 2 years without any success so we had recently gone to the fertility clinic. (Here's that story.) Well before we could even schedule the follow-up visit to the clinic we discovered that Nikki was pregnant! She had been feeling odd all week and the normal female processes had not yet begun so we were beginning to wonder. So on Friday (which was March 7th) I went and picked up a few pregnancy tests. After three positive results, we thought maybe we should get it confirmed by a medical professional. On Monday we went to the Doctor, and they confirmed that yes, she was pregnant.

We thought about waiting to tell everyone, but a few people already knew so we figured we'd just go ahead and let the cat out of the bag. We went out last Saturday for a celebratory dinner with friends and had a great time.

On Sunday, Nikki was feeling too well and was having some symptoms that caused us some concern. On Monday, we called the OB and after some confusion between their scheduling people we decided to go ahead and go in. The sonogram wasn't exactly positive but they told us to not get discouraged that the symptoms may all be nothing.

Sadly, the OB's office called Tuesday to tell us that the bloodwork showed a large decrease in the level of HCG in Nikki's blood, meaning that she was no longer pregnant.

We are very sad, but not discouraged. Miscarriages are fairly common and now at least we know we CAN get pregnant naturally. Hopefully, we will have good news very soon!

Today, March 4th is national Gamemaster day. A totally made up holiday to celebrate Gamemasters everywhere. It seems more to be an excuse to have sales at all the online gaming stores. I took advantage of a few, getting some new D&D books for myself. If you feel the need, all gifts of RPG books will be graciously accepted. Beer is also acceptable.

While driving to Oklahoma this past weekend I started listening to "Dune" on CD. I hadn't read it since high school and I thought it would be a good way to pass the time. My wife isn't really a fan but she sleeps most of the time anyway. I had forgotten how good it is. I only made through the first 4 disks in the car so when we got back home I immediately dug out my old copy and picked up where I had left off. Reading it again it really gets me how f'd up the movies turned out to be. The David Lynch film was so true to the book,with some scenes almost verbatim how Herbet wrote them. Then they had to go and add in all that extraneous crap like "heartplugs" and "weirding modules" and other crap that wasn't in the story. I blame David Lynch. The sci-fi channel mini-series wasn't much better. Somehow they took a great book and managed to make a boring movie . So, read the book it's great, skip the movies, or at least go into them realizing they are kinda crap.

Okay so I'm not going to blog about the fact that I haven't blogged in over a week. (Except I think I just did, that's like a thing right, mentioning something by not mentioning it?)

No more updates our journey down the path of parenthood. Our next appointment with the fertility doc is sometime later this month. They did tell my wife that she needs to get a Rubella vaccination, which is apparently not that easy to do if you are an adult. Our primary care physician doesn't give them. She said "Oh just go down to the Health Department." To quote my wife, "Wouldn't that be like getting a shot at the DMV?" She is looking into other options.

We spent this last weekend in Oklahoma visiting family. It was our oldest Nephew's third birthday. He is a a big fan of trains right now and received no less than 3 train sets for his Birthday. One of which was from us.

Okay that's all the normal stuff from here on out its gets geeky.

My brother and I got in a game of 40k on Friday. We used the new 5th edition rules. I also used a completly new version of my ork army. I was getting pretty bored with my old army. It was pretty much just as many orks as I could pack in trukks supported by copters and a HQ squad. It wins a lot but I wanted something different, so I made an ork shooty army. NOTE:orks are not shooty. Halo's World Eaters army pounded them pretty good. The game took about 4 hours because we had to look up almost everything in the new rules. And we still got a lot of things wrong.