Feeling Good

So, since I last updated, I have been a busy girl.  First things first, my nurse had me come in last week for bloodwork to determine if I could just go straight on the pill (they wanted to see if I had ovulated yet).  Turned out that my progesterone was elevated, indicating that I may have ovulated.  At that point, she told me that if I didn't get my period by the 11th (yesterday), that we would have to wait until the June IVF cycle.  Ugh, that was defeating to hear, especially since I wasn't exactly sure when I ovulated. 

No worries though, my body finally came to the rescue and did something right.  I got my period on Tuesday!  Yay!!! 

So I called the nurse and told her so she could get me scheduled for my med's inventory appointment.  It was at that time that I also found out that stims will be starting a week earlier than I originally thought.  April 30th is the day!  So basically, I am only going to be on the pill for 2 weeks.  Plus, since we are doing an antagonist protocol, I don't have to start any injections until April 25th.  Another awesome truimph...the less bruises in my stomach, the better!  :)

On a side note, I have been doing so well with working out and eating right!  I'm starting to notice a difference in the way I look.  Granted, I've only lost 3 pounds in the last 2 months, I seem to be wearing my weight differently.  I have been consistently sticking to working out 4 times a week and it is really  making me a happy girl! 

Last Saturday I got a fantastic workout when we helped my parents all day at their summer home.  They own a cottage on the Kankakee river that is kind of dilapidated and got water in it a few years ago when the river got out of bank.  They decided last summer to demolish the house and build another one (only raised higher).  They had to have some huge oak tress cut down by a logging company and then they wanted our help to cut up all the wood.  Oh. my. gosh.  it was such an all-body workout! 

This was one of the stumps.  We had to cut up 3 trees this size....oh and you can see my dad in the background. 

 Most of the logs that we cut up were put into this pile for future firewood

This last pile were all the really large logs that will be cut later.

My dad and brother were there when the loggers cut down one of the trees that had to fall on the house because of the lot restrictions by the river.  This is the video: