My Thoughts.

So as many of you know I'm on Instagram and I follow "Fat Mum Slim" who has a monthly photo a day prompt. Well today's prompt is "enjoying life." This has pushed me deep into thought. Haha. And no, I still have not decided what the photo will be. However, it did make me think about life in general. What do you do to enjoy life? What makes you happy? I have a little list I thought I'd share. These things are why I enjoy life: spending time with family, moments with great friends, good conversations, helping those in need, listening to others problems, hopes, dreams, desires, brightening up someone's else's day, giving gifts no matter how big or small. As you can see my happiness comes from acts of service. I would say I have a soft, sincere heart for people in general. I hate to see anyone hurting.

So that's when it came to me. F&C are seriously making MY dreams come true. I felt a calling to surrogacy. I cannot tell you how exciting all this is to me. All the things above that make me happy are rolled into this surrogacy. Now can you feel my excitement?? I get to make new friends, learn new things, brighten their days, have good conversations and help make a family! I don't think it gets much better than this.

Acts of service. Making others smile. This is what I enjoy. It doesn't matter if it's my own child, husband, friend or complete stranger. If I'm bringing joy to someone else - my mission is accomplished!
So big huuuuuugs and a huge thank you to F&C for bringing joy to my life in more ways than one! I couldn't be happier to be doing this for you! And my husband!! He's such an awesome and supportive husband to stand by me through this as well.

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Katy
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Moving On!!!

So last night I emailed over the signed copies of my contract to my attorney, and today I sent the full and final contract back to Circle. Wahoo! Let me tell you what a relief it was to get that out of my hands. That thing stressed me out. I'm not they type of person that like negotiations, I am thankful my attorney knows ropes and what was the norm - she made suggestions and I listened.... I didn't like to discuss this stuff, although I know I had to think about myself for a minute, it was hard. I didn't want anything I went back on to offend my amazing IP's. Not a fan of that part at all. BUT we are done, and we are moving on!

Big step forward from the paperwork today was a call from the fertility clinic in LA, and they scheduled me for my screening. Joe and I will be flying out of here bright and early on July 8th and returning home early afternoon the following day. This is just a quick trip to get a medical screening and some IVF information. Hoping to have some time to glance and step in the ocean for a bit before we leave. I should just cancel the hotel and sleep on the beach. But Joe would be too afraid a shark would eat him, so we better just check in to the hotel. Haha.

Still in touch with F&C. Their hometown sure does sound amazing. I NEED to get out there one day to take in the beautiful GREEN sights, smell some rain, drink some good wine, and eat delicious food. Pretty much sums up my favorite things right there haha. Cheese. Yum. I have visions of C and I hanging out in the pool chatting one another up! Such a sweet couple. Be thinking of us! So happy we are finally progressing!

Still Here!

We are still here, pushing forward. I know it seems like we have stalled in terms of progress, there is just A LOT of paperwork going on behind the scenes right now. And I have much less to do than F&C do! I hope they are getting some sleep between paperwork, work, and life! I'm sure we will be moving forward shortly. I sure hope so, I'm not a very patient person haha. But this is definitely well worth the wait!

Be in touch shortly!
Katy

Spreading the News

Well, word is now getting around! I told my parents just before we matched with F&C. I knew I would need to give them time to let it soak in. I completely understand their reservations, and concerns of the risks of such a decision. I'd be concerned for my own child as well. So before I went and spread the news to everyone, I gave my parents time. We also told Joe's Mom, and I spoke to my  Aunt about it a week or so ago. All my mama group friends and a few others know- everyone is happy for me!

Yesterday one of my aunt's contacted me and said she had heard the news. I am glad my parents were able to talk about it with my grandmother. And I am glad my Aunt called to talk to me about it, and ask questions, and understand WHY I am choosing surrogacy. So thank you! From there I told the rest of my Aunts and some cousins. The response so far has been very positive, and I thank you all for your support! Family and friends are so important to me! I would appreciate thoughts and prayers for my family as well as F&C. This is an emotional and exciting process for everyone involved! I've been wanting to shout it from the rooftops since I have been talking more and more to F&C. I am beyond excited to help them realize their dream.

I love you all,

Katy

Egg donor!

Everything is moving forward!

Now we found our ED and she confirmed she would be happy to help us!

That is great, everyone is so kind with us.

In fact it took two or three weeks to find our ED, because even if circle has a lot of donors, it is quite difficult to find an available donor who corresponds to us. So for us, we found our surrogate Katy very quickly compared to our ED. I think that most of the time it is the contrary.

We are now very impatient to really start the process, and most of all, we are very impatient to meet Katy in US. We hope it will be soon...the sooner the better!

We cross fingers!

F-C

It's Arrived!

It has arrived! The first draft of contracts. I spent a good amount of time this afternoon and tonight reading all 36 pages of it, a couple times. I'll discuss with Joe and speak with our attorney about it all soon. More progress for us! Yay!

Been talking with F&C on and off this week. It's been wonderful getting to know them even more. C is very crafty and bakes delicious creations! They have a beautiful home and wonderful family as well. I even got some photos of their get together with family. They are so wonderful.

Quick post but I'm heading to bed! Hoping to hear from the clinic soon. All in good timing of course.

Katy

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About Me

I thought I'd post a little bio about myself and my family here for those of you that do not know me. I am sure my IP's will be sharing this blog with some friends and family too, so I thought it would be nice to introduce myself.

I'm Katy! I've been married to my husband Joe for 9 years. We met back in 2002 when I was a senior in high school. Joe just so happened to be one of my brothers buddies. They were car guys. All drove their mustangs and muscle cars. I too drove a cute little 6cyl GOLD mustang. I tried to be "cool" like my big brother, only I wasn't haha. Anyhow, Joe was over one day at my parents working on cars with my brother and that's when I first met him. After that we aol instant messaged for awhile and he asked me out on a date. Long story short, we've pretty much been together since. We've had ups and downs but couldn't be more thankful for where we are now. In June 2010 we had our first baby girl. Sarah is going to be three in just a couple weeks. And in March 2012 we had our second daughter Allie.

We lead a very busy lifestyle. I started a mommy and me group when Sarah was four months old and we keep very busy with all our friends. Could not be more blessed with the friends we've made through this group. I also do a little photography on the side. Joe works full time and also attends UNM engineering school. We enjoy everything outdoors. Hiking, fishing, camping, snowboarding, lake trips. We do spend as much time with our families as possible but schedules do conflict and time is crunched. We do love our families very much and enjoy spending as much time as possible with them.

I was so blessed to have amazing pregnancies and healthy deliveries. I thought and thought about having more babies, but Joe and I believe two is a good number for us. We enjoy traveling and we want to be able to take our family on vacation often. Our family feels complete.

Im sure you're wondering how surrogacy came to mind. I did talk about this in my first post but I'll briefly touch on it again. First off I love being pregnant. Sure it has its hard times, but overall it's so amazing. Second, I don't know what I'd do if I didn't/couldn't have children of my own. I know several girls who have and are currently struggling with problems conceiving. It's a very emotional thing for me, so I can only imagine how these couples feel. I know without a doubt that I'd be in search of someone to help me accomplish my dream. So here I am. My hope is that I can give the greatest gift to my AMAZING IP's. God led them to me and I couldn't be any more happy to be doing this for them. I feel like I've found my calling. I want to help. And I'm very excited.

So there is a brief bio of me and my family. F&C have posted their story from the start of their journey too. There are are a few posts that are back dated to specific dates, so look back and check out their posts too. I hope you all will follow along with us! It's gonna be life changing!!


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