Miami for New Year's ... a month and a half late

I never posted after our spontaneous trip to Miami for New Years - when we hopped in the car with our friends Goran and Dijana from DC and stayed with them in their friends condo for a couple days. Of course it turned out more expensive than we had hoped - but it was also more fun. And we both really loved South Beach and want to go back sometime for a longer stay.

Many of you saw some of these pictures on facebook, but I wanted to go ahead and make a post here - for the record!

Us on Ocean Boulevard enjoying the lovely weather!

Miran reflecting at the pretty impressive Holocaust Memorial in South Beach (I knew about this project and dragged Miran and Goran to see it one afternoon - a bit of a downer on our fun trip, but I'm glad I got some pictures and got to see it.)

On our way to dinner on New Year's Eve ...

At dinner, with Goran and Dijana ...

Miran enjoying himself and his new hat ...

 

Blog Privacy ... for our Baby Quest

Hello family,

I've made our blog private and by invitation only because I want to start blogging about the "Makas Baby Quest" (title borrowed from the Andersons).

I already had our blog hidden from search engines, but now you'll have to log in to read it. We don't want the whole world to know every intimate detail (and I'm trying to downplay the whole trying to get pregnant thing at work), but we did want to share our experiences on this latest adventure with our close family.

As most of you know, we are off in two weeks to the city of Brno, in the Czech Republic, for an IVF treatment. Brno is about 2 hours southeast of Prague  and is actually closer to Vienna and Bratislava.  We'll be flying in and out of Prague though and renting a car to get to Brno.

We don't leave for the trip until a week from Saturday, but today is an important day because I started my medications this morning. Lucky for me it just involves a lot of pills, but no injections.

We're feeling optimistic and keeping positive, but the success rates for these treatments are only about 50%. So we're also mentally preparing ourselves for a possible unfortunate outcome!

Finally - a little snow for us !

We just has a rather sudden blizzard. In the past twenty minutes we went from freezing rain to where we can barely see the grass. We are excited to finally be getting a little snow - here is Miran enjoying it right after it started.

And a few more pictures like 20 minutes later

Christmas Decorations

I enjoyed seeing the decorations in Staunton and Bruce on everyone else's blog so decided to post ours.

An overview of the tree with the presents so far. I say so far because none of these are for me so I'm hoping some more are added before its time to open gifts!

A detail of the new golden glass bird ornaments I bought myself as a present this year:

Also new this year - a garland with lights I added to the top of the book case to display Christmas cards received.

And our stockings - Azra's is also new this year as she wasn't able to go to Bosnia this year and will be with us for Christmas, her birthday and New Years! I know she'd rather be home, but I'm excited she's here!

Miran, the Actor!

Miran and I went to a holiday play at the Actors' Theatre of Charlotte. Miran ended up being the star of the show after being pulled up on stage. He was absolutely thrilled and on the drive home suggested we should go again and sit in the same seats because he wanted to do it again and felt he could do better if he was prepared.