Fall Is Here

Fall is finally here. The stifling heat is getting less and less. Fall is my favorite season, so naturally, there is a lot to be thankful for. 

1. Family: I'm grateful for living near family. I'm glad that we get to bake bread in a brick oven, eat lunch, and watch Ellie grow up. I'm so glad that everyone has chosen to live in Indy, and we can do life together.

Ellie is crawling and cruising like a boss. She is everywhere!

2. Living In An Apartment: A weird one. I definitely don't want to live in an apartment forever, but at this stage it is perfect for us. Our refrigerator had been making a terrible sound for months, and after having it looked at once with no fix, I put in a ridiculous maintenance request and they fixed it the next day. I know we pay for it in rent, but it feels really great to have someone that you trust come fix things and not have to pay a bill. Bonus: they replaced the light in our kitchen...turns out that one of the bulbs had been burned out, and we were too lazy to fix it.

3. Jordan: I'm so thankful that he is good with kids and will be the best dad. He babysat Ellie for a few hours last week, and had no reservations or fears, he jumped in head first and did an amazing job. He is the best.

4. The Hampsch Kiddos: I have missed these kids so much. Sometimes you miss people, and don't realize how much until you see them...this was one of those moments. It was so fun to watch Malachi run and spend time with Holly and Pam. These kids are growing up so fast, and it makes my heart hurt. If they ever read this, I hope they know how loved they are.

5. Day Dates: Jordan and I finally had a day off together during the week. (I know this makes us sound like complete divas, I know, but time is important to us.) We wanted to "go" do something and have an adventure...for cheap...in Indianapolis ha, a somewhat tall order to fill. We ended up stumbling on the Indiana Medical History Museum. For $10, we had one of the coolest, nerdiest, most interesting medical experiences we have ever had. To hear how medicine has changed in the last 100 years is fascinating. I'm so glad that Jordan and I share the passion of medicine and have so much to talk about.

The Medical Plant Garden was ahhhmazing! So cool to see where so many of our drugs come from!

These are the plants where taxol and vincristine come from-so cool! I was nerding out!

The researcher who tried to cure tertiary syphilis by inducing people with malaria. The high fever caused by the malaria would kill the spyrochete that caused the syphilis. Fascinating.

Every nerve of the human arm, tedious to say the least.