We bought a new car, or should I say "new to us" car. It's an Excursion that seats 8 along with fitting just about anything our hearts desire to transport. We took it camping in September and it was so nice to not have to worry about fitting all the things we needed to take with us. It's a Deisel so it gets tons of miles to the gallon and fortunately our garage is about 2 feet deeper than most so it just barely fits lengwise in there along with Cory's Mazda. Cory built this awesome shelf so we have storage while being able to park in the garage. Yay!!!
The kids are back in school of course. This year Alyssa is in Fifth grade, Wyatt in 4th, and Darion started Kindergarden. Audelia will be staying home with me for another 3 years since she has a September birthday. I told Cory the other day that if I had to pick someone to hang out with everyday for 3 years she's at the top of the list.
On the first day of school Audelia and I rushed to get to her allergist for an appointment at 9A.M. to do a Soy challenge. They gave her a Tablespoon of Soy milk with 20minutes between doses. They proceeded to watch her to make sure she didn't have any allergice reactions and Luckily she didn't. After her last allergy testing her Doctor thought that she would be able to reintroduce atleast a few things. So, we originally did a challenge in June with Milk but despite her levels being as low as they were she failed the test miserably and started to go into anaphalaxis. After seeing her reaction the Doctor only proceeded with the Soy challenge because she never had an anaphalaxis reaction with Soy, she just had gastrointestinal reactions. Her blood levels that show the likelyhood of a reaction never were very high where as the levels of her other allergens had been high but dropped dramatically. For now we are going back to our old plan and testing her blood every year but as it is the doctor isn't willing to take anymore chances with challenges based on the results of the Milk challenge.
We had a lot of fun camping and boating with Brandt and Sarah Litton for my birthday weekend. It was so relaxing and just what we all need. Because of my surgery we didn't get to take any vacations this Summer so this little 4 day weekend in September
was our belated Summer trip.
We got there a day before the Litton's and played in the water most of the day after got set up. I layed like this for hours.
Cory and the kids playing in the water.
This is the view from our camp site.
The view of our camp site from the water. We were right next the boat dock which turned out to be really convenient.
This was our first trip in the Excursion. The kids and all our stuff is ready to go camping.
Cory and I had a little smooch and the kids went crazy begging us to stop. This is us having a good laugh at their reaction before getting up on the knee boards.
Audelia turned 3 on September 29th. She is getting so big and she knows it.
This was the first cake Audelia had since her 1st birthday when we didn't know about all of her allergies and she reacted because of it. Now that she can have Soy I was able to make her a cake using Betty Crockers Gluten Free cake mix which is also free of everything else she is allergic to. I added Sprite as a substitute for all the other ingredients and
it turned out great!
