Update from Gillette!

Holy crap, it's been a while! Life happened! Babies happened! Jobs and moves happened! Where do I start?

Biggest news, we had Baby R! He's kind of approaching the not-so-baby stage of becoming a toddler here. He's 15 months... whaaat? You can read the super-belated story .:here:.

Oh my goodness he looks like his Daddy! I could write for hours and days on how fun this little man has made our lives. But because I've been terrible at journal-keeping, I'll just have to start from here on out.

I left these wonderful people at Sheridan Memorial Hospital because Austin found an incredible job opportunity especially for a new lawyer, here in Gillette. We tried the whole commute thing and miserably failed. Ultimately, it came down to family and I know God blessed me with this job in Gillette doing my dream job still! I'm working very hard on learning the ropes and am making a "Surgical Bible."

Before I left, I also found out (the hard way after an ICU visit for throat closure) that I have food allergies like none other! Milk, Wheat, Soy, Peanuts, and especially Eggs... along with Juniper (the thing that sent me overboard and into the ICU) and Kentucky Blue Grass. I spent my first Mother's Day thinking I was gonna die. Pfft. But now we know!

This has made us explore different ways/styles of cooking and has upped our cooking skills! We recently discovered the amazingness of vegetarian and vegan cookbooks. Especially these two! If you want to up your veggie game and switch up the ol' meat and potatoes, go to the people who know it best! Just buy the darned books already too, everything we make is from them! And we have been going to traditional roots, creating Pho straight from beef bones, roasting spices, you name it.

I've also been sewing lots, it keeps me sane and artsy! Recently, I made scrub caps for fellow OR nurses at Ivinson Memorial, and I have the overly-ambitious quest to finish our Scandinavian quilt bedspread this year... or next year.... sometime, haha!

There's lots of holes and gaps here in our story, but I figure I'll fill them in as I commit to writing again. We are happy, healthy (finally!), and growing in more ways than one with our careers and parenting.

-xoxo

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