Today was a good day...we picked our donor! We searched through many to get to the right one. We were able to narrow it down to 8 donors, then we looked deeper and found one of the donor's that we really thought sounded sweet and he had great characteristics. So..we were able to actually look at the baby pictures of two of them and decide from there. We picked one based on his profile, apparent personality, and it helps that he was a cute kid too! This was a different bank than we used before and it was kind of nice to be able to see a baby photo, that made the decision a lot easier. Our biggest fear in a donor...no chin. lol I know it sounds crazy but you know like beaker from the muppets had no chin? we worry about that! With the ability to see a baby picture we are assured that our donor has a chin and will hopefully pass that on to our child/children! lol

Donor Shopping

Yesterday I emailed all of the necessary information to the attorney and our surrogacy agreement should be under-way shortly! Our surro also opened up her bank account...this is getting very real! 8 weeks from now we will (hopefully) be finding out if we will be parents. That is the craziest thing to think about. Now for the donor: so the two donors we tried before are no longer available through the sperm bank we used. So...we had to go shopping! (I love shopping for anything lol) We switched banks and are now narrowing down. The things we want: intellectual, sporty, outgoing, diverse interests. Really not a lot! lol Oh and Blond hair/Blue eyes. nbd. Our sperm bank also has this nifty thing where you can submit an up close picture of the person that you want to match, and they will try to match your features to those of the donor. That would be kind of awesome. Somehow we, well I, decided that Shorty should be the one that we take the picture of and try to match. (She's so cute, I would love our baby to look like her) I think we have the donor narrowed down to at least 5...we have to decide quickly though. A couple of them have less than 12 vials available! I think every day we will look at the donors we have narrowed it down to and see if there is something new that stands out to us, good or bad, and either pass or fail them. If that doesn't work...Shorty says we will draw out of a hat! I love her

My oh My...

Wow, I last sat down to write in our blog 8 months ago. I wish I could say that all that time had been used brewing a bun in the oven, but no. So, here we are again blogging about a journey that seems to be taking forever. Since my body apparently does not want to carry a child, we are now taking a new route-a surrogate. We have an amazing surrogate that has agreed to help us. Right now, we are trying to get contracts with attorneys complete and dr's exams done etc so that we can begin Clomid with her February cycle (the end of Feb,so we do still have some time.) Shorty and I are feeling like this is the real deal. Our surro has had a child of her own so we know she can carry :-) Right now...these contract negotiations are crazy! first of all...the expense of having an attorney prepare the surrogacy contract is outrageous-$2000! Isn't there a basic form that all you have to do is go in and fill in the blanks? (I'm sure it isn't that easy but it should be lol) So, between work, school, and life, I will be attempting to revive our blog and keep posting about our experience leading up to being pregnant and of course when we are pregnant! Thanks in advance for your well wishes, prego thoughts, and prego pixie dust sent our way! xoxo Kandi