The Now

I have been working on updating my blog more frequently so that I don't always have a huge amount to write about. Obviously I suck. Here is another novel...

Travis:

As I mentioned before, he is on his 4Th year of medical school. This year is different because he gets to pick and choose where and what he wants to do for his rotations. He has mostly stacked his schedule with anesthesia rotations. He is, however, doing an ER rotation right now and is actually really liking it. Some of the stories he comes home with are not blog appropriate, but I will just say that one night Trav had to console a guy who had castrated himself because he didn't want to be a guy anymore. That's a hard one to relate to. Trav is thinking ER might be a second choice if he can't get into an anesthesia residency. Things are kind of stressful right now because its time to apply. Trav is still his laid back self though... I probably stress more than he does, I just need to remember, "come what may and love it!"

Besides the med school stuff, Travis is fully committed to BYU football. I'm pretty sure he can relate to "that time of the month" because one week he is ecstatic with the team, then the next week he is depressed. Darn FSU!

Milli
I thought it might be an adjustment from Utah to Missouri, but I fell right back into the swing. We have such good friends who we go to the park, go swimming and stay busy with.
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The cool thing about a small city is that in those races, the annoyingly fast, tiny short wearing track stars don't usually show and and claim all of the glory; thus, I took second place in the female category. The best part was that I won 50 bucks! We can eat this next week!

I also wanted to show off some crafts I did in Utah. I made Avery a quiet book for churchThe reason that I am tooting my horn is because I am horrible in this area. My friend Rachel can tell you that when I attempt to sew, I get all sweaty and hot and it makes me say bad words. When I was a sophomore in high school, I got caught cheating in my ceramics class because I used my friends project from a different class. Not my best moment, but it just proves how bad I am at artistic things.

 Here they are, they aren't great, but I was proud that I actually finished them without any tears.

She has torn it up a bit but I'm just thrilled that it actually works, she is occupied for more than five minutes!

My next project was for TC and Anabelle. I wanted to make them matching aprons.

TC's

Anabelle's

My mom's cousin helped me with TC's, but I was on my own with the small one, with NO PATTERN! I was wearing extra deodorant during this project. Avery is the model.

The last project was the easiest. I just made leg warmers for Halloween. You just cut the feet off of the sock and sew the bottom.

It was fun, but haven't touched a string of thread since. One day I hope I will get a sewing machine.

Avery

This is what happens when you leave this girl alone for 5 minutes. Don't be jealous of our bathroom floor!

Where do I begin with this girl? She is 11 months old, probably one of the busiest little girls alive, and so so sweet!

Her favorite things are climbing up the stairs, playing in my makeup bag, swinging on the swing set, and ritz crackers.

Most everyone thought that she would be walking by now because she has been pulling herself up since she was 7 1/2 months, but she doesn't seem too interested in it. If you have seen her crawl, you will notice her amazing speed. It would probably slow her down if she started to walk, and if anyone knows Avery, you don't mess with her agenda or she will let you have it!

She is still pretty small, but filling out a bit. She has eight teeth now and will bite your arm if you aren't too careful. She can say "Mama, Dada, Doggie, Ah-Ow (when she drops something), Night Night, Bye-Bye" and "Kitty".

Every age she grows into quickly becomes my favorite. It is so neat to see when the light finally goes on and she understands a new thing.

So that is the latest and greatest. Hopefully I can get my act together and post shorter and more frequent posts. Things are good around here. This past week, our townhome got renovated. I will post pictures of that soon. We are excited that it is fall. In my opinion, its the best season in Kansas City!