Big news!

We've got some exciting news! Brett has been offered a job in Wisconsin, that both pays better and includes some infertility coverage in their insurance! We're very excited for this opportunity, especially as it means we will (hopefully) be able to start our family sooner than we projected. It's hard to leave our families, and the area, but we feel this is the right move for us.

We're working on either selling or renting our house, and are trying to find someone who would be willing to watch our dogs for a year or so, until we can get a place out there where we can have them. Please tell one of us if you know of anyone that is looking for a place in Logan, or might be able to watch our dogs!


Here is the listing for our house. Please share it!

https://www.ksl.com/homes/listing/35637158

Yard Sale Success!

Thanks to everyone who helped out at and stopped by the yard sale, we have officially passed the halfway mark! Yay! Thank you to everyone who had a part in helping us! Hopefully it won't take us as long to save the second half . . . .

Our Puzzle

Every person that has helped us get closer to our goal is now a part of our story; a piece of our puzzle. We want to have something tangible to show our future kid(s) how many people showed us their love and helped us realize our dream of becoming parents. So we got this puzzle, and we'll have it at the yard sale. Everyone who donates $10 or more will be invited to sign the back of the puzzle. After the yard sale, with each donation we will write that person's name on the back as well. Once we have reached our goal, we will preserve and frame the puzzle (we're hoping to find a double-sided frame so we can show both sides) to show our children. Thank you for being a part of our journey!

Yard Sale/Craft Sale!

We're doing a Yard Sale and Craft Sale to (hopefully) get the Baby Fund closer to our goal! We've got the date set for June 20th, and we're praying that the weather will be good. We've gotten quite a few donations, so we have a large assortment of things to sell, and I've made a bunch of things to sell for the Craft Sale part. If anyone has a folding table or two that we could borrow, that would be very helpful - we don't have any. If you have anything you want to donate, or have a table that we could borrow, let us know! We have this flyer that we'll be posting in a few places around Logan, but we're hoping to get the word out online. Please share!

A Couple Quick Updates

A few people have mentioned that’s it’s a little difficult to find our account at the credit unions. We have added a Paypal button to our “How You Can Help” page, to make it easier for those who want to help, but don’t live near us. Thank you!

We are in the process of gathering and sorting through stuff for a big yard sale in a month or so. We are trying to decide where to do it. Our house is a little out of the way, which isn’t ideal, but if we advertised heavily it could work. Another thing we’re trying to look into is the weekly yard sale behind one of the antique stores in Logan. If it’s one of those things where you pay a fee to use the space, it might be worth it. We’ll see. If you have any ideas on how to make it most successful (or know someone who lives on a busy-ish street in Logan that would let us use their yard) let us know!

Insurance, oh how we hate you. . . .

Our work is about to switch over to a new insurance provider, and we were hoping that they might have some sort of infertility coverage, but I guess that’s just too much to ask for. Yet again, fertility treatments are elective, like cosmetic surgery. Because apparently, having a kid is equal to getting a boob job, not an actual condition like diabetes. Yeah, that makes sense. PCOS is a diagnosable, generally treatable condition, but because it relates to (and often causes) infertility, I’m not covered. Utah passed a bill last year that was supposed to let those of us who need help to have kids use the $4000 adoption credit to pay for fertility treatments. The people working on the bill talked to the major insurance providers, and they all said they were on board with it. However, EVERY SINGLE ONE of them has opted out of letting people use it for infertility. We’re hoping that those who helped get the bill through in the first place will be able to add something that requires the insurance companies to let us use that money, but we’re not holding our breath. People just don’t get it. Because the next drug that we are going to need – Femara – isn’t technically meant for fertility treatments, the new company will cover that, which will save us about $70 each month we use it. After that, we’re on our own. A doctor visit starts at around $300, and instead of a reasonable copay of $35, we have to pay for the whole visit. Each month, we’ll have to have several doctor visits, for testing at different points of the cycle. They add up quick! If the Femara doesn’t end up working, we’ll get into the injectable drugs. Those cost over $1000 a month, and that’s in addition to even more frequent doctor visits because a small difference in dosage can mean the whole cycle will or won’t work. Once we’ve done a couple months of that, the baby thermometer will be back down to $0. If insurance companies considered infertility an actual condition, even if all they paid for was doctor visits, we could probably start treatments now.

Long overdue update

We’ve been pretty MIA from the blog for a while. . . It’s hard to give updates when all that’s going on is us trying to save!  But the thermometer is slowly but steadily going up, thanks in no small part to the generosity of family, friends, and strangers that have heard our story. To all of you – You have no idea how much it means to us. We’re over $8000 now! We’ve been brainstorming ideas on how we can get that number to grow faster, but we haven’t had many ideas that are easy for us to implement. We’re getting stuff together right now for a big yard sale in a couple months, and I’m working on building up my crafts inventory to sell at the yard sale and our fireworks booth (if we do it again this year). Other ideas we’ve had are a benefit concert (there are a lot of musically talented people on both sides of the family), a silent auction, and an online fundraiser. We haven’t figured out a way to make any of those ideas happen yet. If you know a way, or can think of anything else that could work, let us know!

P.S. We’re going to start putting some infertility-related comics on here, because sometimes you just have to laugh! Forgive us if they’re a little bit snide . . . .