An unexpected blessing

I haven't written lately because there hasn't been much to say...well I always have something to say, but nothing on the starting a family front!  It's been a nice change of pace for us to be able to just enjoy each other and life, not worrying about what treatment or test is coming up, how much it's going to cost, or if we have the emotional stamina to do it.  Regardless of our journey, we have always been so thankful to the Cade Foundation.  If it hadn't been for the family building grant, the odds of us having done our cycle of IVF would not have been great.  This year, the Race for the Family was scheduled for last weekend so we marked our calendars.  One of our goals for the summer has been to ride 1,000 miles on the motorcycle together.  We have made a couple trips to Indy and ventured to Uncle Dirk's in Ohio, so I'm going to guess we may have been about 300 miles towards our goal.  Riding to Chicago put us 502 miles closer!
We ventured up to Crown Point on Friday night.  The plan worked out to spend the weekend with PJ, go to the Race/Picnic on Saturday, and see Kate's t-ball game.  We were looking forward to lots of family time!
Saturday morning we headed up to Lincoln Park in Chicago for the picnic.  We hadn't registered ourselves, we were just going to volunteer and support the Cade Foundation.  There wasn't a big turnout, but we made the most of it.  Joe and I joined Camille in sharing our stories with the representatives from Walgreens.  It was great just to be able to share our story and catch up with our Cade Foundation family.  A special thank you to Vikas Vohra, the representative from Walgreens, that drew the name for the raffle!  When he read my name, I was standing their speechless.  We had been talking about how this drawing would be changing a life forever, but totally didn't expect that we were going to be the ones blessed.  There just aren't words to express how thankful and surprised we were.  The one thing that was clear was God really does have plans for Joe and I!  Thanks to Stacie and Nick Vetor for discovering the Cade Foundation!  We had started supporting the cause because it was so close to home for us, then we applied and received a grant, and now we have another opportunity thanks to the raffle!  I really don't have more details other than the doctor is Dr. Morris and IVF1 is the clinic.  He is in Chicago, so that will require some travel but thankfully between Joe's mom and sister I will have a place to crash when I need it.  We will figure out the logistics, get records transferred from Dr. Bopp, and figure out what's next...in the mean time, we are just so surprised and thankful.  This was such an unexpected blessing!

Stay tuned for more updates and the new game plan!  Thanks for the congrats, the love, and the prayers.  

Love,

Sarah & Joe

Thanks to the Cade Foundation for another blessing!