Anyways, with my new found time I decided to blog and catch you up on our exciting lives. Jordan is slaving away at school and work, doing them both full time. Bless his heart. He has been training chickens and rats so far this semester. It is very interesting. But it is close to midterms and we are still unsure of how to plan our lives. Grad school? Straight to work? Sit on our butts and try to last on savings? (This option of course would only allow us to last about a month. lol) He has a job interview on Friday for a job that he could actually use his major, but we'll see.
I am busy too. Lately I have had some friends of mine come out of the wood works and ask for family pictures. It makes me so excited to do them, I love more experience. My friend Mallory asked me to do her family (which consists of her and her husband), but I loved doing it. Here is just a sample.
I'm so excited to do my friend Courtney's on the 5th! Hopefully there are still leaves....
And of course the Hallie update. She is doing awesome. She goes to bed around 10 and wakes up between 7-8, takes at least one nap in her crib a day, has started sucking her thumb (only during nap time though. Very strange), smiles all the time. She is so fun to take pictures of. We are constantly shoving the camera in her face. Maybe she'll be really good for pictures when she is a toddler. Who knows.
Besides all of that, I need to share my new diet story. A couple of weeks ago, Hallie started having blood show up in her diapers. So we went to the doctor. We saw one of the other doctor's in the practice because it was a Saturday, but usually we see Doctor Moore. So this other doctor decided it was probably a stomach bug because she had had a slight fever, and if the blood continued to call them back. Well it continued. We went in a little more than a week later and saw the same doctor again. He was very puzzled. He sought out Doctor Moore. Doctor Moore told him it was probably a dairy allergy and that I needed to go without dairy for a week to see what resulted and then to come back. Well the blood in her diapers started going away. Relief. But think about it. A non-dairy diet. No milk, no cheese, no sour cream, no yogurt, no chocolate, no cream, no campbell's cream of chicken or mushroom, no ranch dressing, no anything!!! Basically everything that I like to eat is no longer available to me. Awesome. Besides being the hardest diet ever, add most inconvenient to the list. We had a family dinner on Sunday and Gail made everyone mushroom chicken, and had to make my own little BBQ chicken on the side. Sheesh. I am grateful for her to do that, but man it sucks. I love mushroom chicken! Hallie will be checked again at her 4 month appointment for red blood cells in her diaper to see if we need to see a specialist. If not, good bye dairy until Hallie is at least 6 moths old. Yay for me. At least I'll lose weight. :)
On to the real reason of the post! The pumpkin patch! Jordan's brother Spencer was here with his family and they made the suggestion of going to the pumpkin patch. I was excited, for I am the expert pumpkin carver. Don't let Jordan tell you different! We're going to carve them on Saturday, so I will post them later. The pumpkin patch had a train ride, corn maze, and other little things for the kids. Hallie is still too little, so we just picked out pumpkins. I decided that was alright because the first round of kids had Brant and Macy's kids in the train, and the conductor lost all of them on the ride and didn't notice for a while so all the kiddos were left by themselves! Yeah we decided to pass.
We decided to go look for pumpkins, so we left Hallie with Grandpa Sautter to watch her. It took us 10-15 minutes. When we get back, Grandpa Sautter is missing and Hallie's stroller (with her inside, and my wallet and things) is sitting there alone! AH! Panic! I think he forgot he was watching her, or maybe told someone else to or something but he was with Gail in the car leaving. Haha. Just thought I put this part of the story to give him a hard time:)
But overall it was fun. Had a great weekend with everyone. Yay for family!
