The Queen Of Cute Shoes

I think I am going to try out blogger. I really hate the way that you have to go to a different page to leave a comment but I love the way that I can change the background for my taste!!! So here is my new link.. Sorry I am moving again! Please update your blogroll or bookmarks Or your RSS feeds.

www.stephaniemackeys.blogspot.com

THank you so much for following me around while I try to get settled!

I FINALLY GOT MY NEW THEME UP AND GOING SO GO CHECK IT OUT. I LOVE IT!

Does anyone know of a good blogger template generator. I have my banner and I have my background images and I know all the colors that I want for everything and where I want to put them.. I just can't find a generator to turn all my mumbo-jumbo into HTML codes... anyone wanna help?

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Not all women’s shoes are created equal, but thankfully you can read lots of reviews of shoes online to help you choose between expensive designer affairs or a pair of Rocket Dog shoes for your particular needs.

I am thinking about switching back to wordpress.. I hate to move around this much but this blog is just not doing it for me. I want something where I can customize the background myself (and header) and I want to customize my sidebar. I've looked and looked and the only one I can find is this one except for the fact I can't change my sidebar. I mean I can't add HTML codes to it and it makes me mad. Wordpress is better in the fact that you can change the sidebar and customize the header... you are just stuck with your choosen background unless you pay money. I don't know what I am going to do yet, but I think I will be moving back. I just have to figure it out now.

The other thing that is driving me nuts is that with wordpress... when someone comments on your blog it will email you and you can email them back.. well with blog.com it WILL email you.. you just can't email them back because it is from Blog.com and it won't show you their email address, like it does with wordpress. So I have to go back to my blog and comment on there and for some reason even though I am signed in... it still wants me to put in a verification code to make sure I am not spam, which is extremely annoying.

So what do you think I should do? I am completely open to trying out new blog sites... let me know.

I am sorry to admit that I have to give another quick update because my computer is screwie right now. So please forgive the fact that I haven't stopped by your blog lately. I will be there soon!

We went to the doctor yesterday for an ultrasound to see if my cysts on my overies went down on their own and my left side is totally clear and ready to go and there is ONE HUGE one on my right side that hasn't gone down at all. Well the good news is that I only have one. I had 6 to begin with. The bad news is that this cycle has been cancelled because of that one cysts. Supposedly it can release hormones and cause my cycle to be loopy when they are giving me hormones telling it to do something else, does that make sense? So all we can do this cycle is what we have been for that past 21 cycles.. that, did i mention, HASN'T BEEN WORKING!!! Ughh I am frustrated but what can you do. So we have to go back on cycle day two of next cycle and get another ultrasound to see if we are set to go with that cycle.

Thanks for all the un-ending support from all of you. All of the prayers, thoughts, and well wishes have been great! Thank you again!

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It's more and more important for doctors to learn about women health issues as much as possible.

Well I tested this morning and it was a big fat negitive (BFN), and I had some pink cervical mucus (CM) so I wouldn't be suprised if aunt flow (AF) shows up today. I won't be testing tomorrow, but I will Monday if AF (aunt flow) hasn't shown up by then.

UPDATE: AF finally did show. We will be calling the dr in the morning to schedule our ultrasound for Monday. Since my follicles were so big this cycle (33cm instead of the normal 18mm) they want to do an ultrasound to make sure that the follicle cysts (once the egg is released.. a cysts is left over and it goes down by itself) have gone down. If they haven't gone down then I will have to skip a cycle until they do, if they HAVE gone down, then we will proceede with the next cycle. So until then... we wait, and cramp, and wait.

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Many feel that medical education needs to have more focus on women's health concerns.

Next Friday I am going on a church related camp trip with all the ladies of my church (from my old town) and we are going up to Ensign Ranch. We do this so often and we all bring a pot luck item to share, and we all bring our scrapbooking or craft stuff to work on while we are there. Here lies the problem.. My trip is about 4-5 hours long, so I need a potluck item that will be able to withstand a 4-5 hour trip that does NOT need to be refridgerated or heated.. got any ideas?

If you have any recipes or anything like that I will be accepting them all! Please email them to me at:

jeffandstephaniemackey [at] gmail [dot] com

Thank you so much!

I will also be bringing a Dried Fruit Coconut Oatmeal Cookie as well.

Here is a few things that are floating around in my head that I feel somehow need to be in my blog... but they aren't really made for single posts, if you know what I mean. Some good, some bad, some that are just rediculous. First, lets start of with the bad/rediculous..

I was minding my own busness this after noon checking my mail (mackeyblog@gmail.com) and I happened to get an email from a company, whom I will not mention because after you read this their business might go to crap. Anyway, I open the email and this is what I read:

"I am convinced that my children are out to destroy every piece of electronic equipment that I own. It all started 1 ½ years ago when my 3 year old dropped an 8 pound medicine ball on the laptop, shattering the screen. She shoved numerous DVDs into the 5 disc CD/DVD player, causing it lose all function except for the radio, which got poor reception. Monsters, Inc. was missing for months. One day it magically popped out of that DVD player! She pulled the 36 inch TV out of the entertainment center and was fortunate to avoid being squashed as it crashed to the floor. She spilled a Slurpee on my cell phone and destroyed the LCD display. My 2 year old yanked the tray out of our next DVD player. He colored a keyboard with a green Sharpie marker. He pulled the button and the tip off of the Stylus Pen and dropped it in a bottle of water. And we suspect that our 18 year old slammed the laptop (with a new $800 screen) shut and shattered it but he insists that it wasn’t him and no one will confess. It has been an expensive year and a half!"

No, that was not the whole email but that caught my eye and I couldn't read on. My thoughts are (in bulleted form, because you know how fun they are to read and how easy they are to create and they often make my thoughts make sense, HA HA!)

• Why in my Holy Heavenly Father's name would you allow your kids to do this?
• Where in the heck where you when all this was going on?
• Who lets their 3 year old play with an 8lb. medicine ball?
• What 3 year old can lift an 8 lb. medicine ball?
• How does a 3 year old pull a 36" TV off of the entertainment center without you noticing?
• What 3 year old can pull a HEAVY 36" TV? I can't barely pull mine to move it an inch.
• I totally understand how the whole slurpee incident happened but why weren't you watching her in the first place?
• Who gives their two year old a sharpie, a GREEN one much less?!?
• I wouldn't let my 18 year old touch my next laptop and I would make him pay for that one, but after hearing about the little-er ones and the damage they cause, I wouldn't put it pass them.
• and for goodness sake why wouldn't you move all the expensive electronics up out of their reach when you know of the damage they cause, or watch them more closely. UGHHH!

For another bulleted list, (because I love them so much cause I'm lazy and don't want to try to write everything out and make sense), that is on a much more happy note.. I feel loved again!!!!!!! Not that I didn't before or anywhere in between, keeping up with me? Anyway, I am in a goofy mood so you will have to excuse me if I sound like I am a drunkin pirate. I didn't know that so many people around the world visited me!!! Look at where they come from:

In order of frequency:

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom (UK)
• Australia
• Portugal
• Sweden
• Italy
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• New Sealand
• China
• Ireland
• Germany
• Ecuador
• Spain
• Denmark
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Japan
• Peru

Isn't that awesome!!!! I think so! So the next time one of you friends from around the world stop by... please say hello, so I know who you are! I would love to meet you!

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Now that I've let you all know that we may be pregnant with multiples, you all are wishing for me to have a ton of them. This is not funny people!! Like Goofy J said, "septuplets sounds good" NO IT DOESN'T! I mean I will take anything I can get but secretly wishing for me to have 7 at once is NOT FUNNY! I will be exstatic if we were pregnant with twins or triplets, so start wishing that for me, okay?!?

PLEASE?!?

If you don't want to ready about my journey trying to get pragnant.. then you probably shouldn't read any further... there is some REALLY personal info about me that you probably didn't want to know but this is my blog and I am sharing it anyways. :P 

Saturday Jeff and I called the dr because I still haven't ovulated (O'd) yet and she told us to go ahead and schedule an appointment for an u/s (ultrasound) to see if I have O'd or not. We went in on Sunday. Well the good news is that I haden't O'd yet so we can still proceed with the IUI, and I guess the better news is.. i have really mature follicles. Although I am not sure if they are on track or not. She said that they were rather BIG so she wasn't sure if they were follicles, she thought that they might be cysts, but the dr confirmed that they were, indeed follicles and that we could proceede with the IUI. Sorry for my spelling. The normal width of a mature follicle for being on CD 16, which is what I was on Sunday... is 18mm well mine were averaging 33mm!!!!!! YES.. I SAID 33mm!!!!! The nurse said that they were quite large and maybe that is why I haven't O'd yet because I needed that extra boost of HCG, my body is having a hard enough time as it is. So I got my HCG shot, on Sunday (in the rear I must add) and we went back in on Monday at 1:00pm for our IUI. Well Jeff went in at 1:00pm then I went in at 3:00pm. So wish us luck that all goes well and this is all the help we need.

The IUI went great. I had 6 mature follicles all ranging from 27mm and 33 mm and they injected 5 million of Jeff's sperm. Then I had to lay there for 25 minutes, before they would let me get up to leave. It wasn't that bad though. But they did MAKE sure to tell me that since I had 6 LARGE mature follicles and they did give me a shot of HCG, there is a higher risk of multiples, which I am totally fine with. Oh and she also came back in to mention to me that I do have a yeast infection, so I need to get that taken care of. I haven't had any itching or burning, just some weird cervical mucus and I only noticed it when I was in the dr's office pee'ing before my appointment, so I baught some yogurt and will take care of that tomorrow.

Jeff is already acting like I am pregnant, LOL! He doesn't want me doing anything!!!! He keeps telling me, "let me do that... you just go rest, you've got babies to make." It's too funny!

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A friend of mine, Mandi, has a blog called What Will Happen Today? and I think you need to go visit her.

She is a really great young mom to three beautiful babies. Her oldest is Cooper, who is 2 I believe, and boy is he a sweetheart. He's got the cutest personality and a captivating smile. Her two youngest are Ryder and Jorga, as you may have guest, there TWINS! They are super spunky and adorably cute.

She shares about all the fun adventures of raising 3 young babies, as the younger two are starting to walk. So stop by her house and send her a few words of encouragement... she'll need them with 3 kids under 2.5 WALKING!!