Fall 2013

My goodness-how time fly's! Lets play catch up…AGAIN, someday I'll get batter at this whole blogging thing. Fall 2013 was a busy one for us, full of fun and trips to see family.

Luke loves the goonies of the pumpkins

Family time at the football game

We were able to enjoy our first ever Cowboy's Football game, the Cowboy's had a great start to their season, but like most seasons they dropped the ball and ended with a pretty sad season. Luke loved the game! He was so excited to hear the cannon go off every time the Cowboys made a touch down.

The best part of Fall 2013 was seeing Luke get so excited about Halloween. He loved carving pumpkins and picked out his own costume of "Mike Wazowski" from Monsters Inc. This was the first Halloween that Luke went out for "trick-or treating." I didn't really think about what Wyoming "trick or treating" entailed.  The night of halloween it was  -4 degrees! Thankfully Luke was ok with only doing the houses on our block- otherwise we'd freeze! Next year Luke's costume will be something slightly more warm-maybe he can go as the Abominable Snowman.

My stud-muffin ready for his interview

In November, Kevin's hard work for the last several years finally started to pay off. For those who don't know, Kevin has been working extremely hard while still working, being a father and a husband towards the goal of becoming a Pharmacist. The road to becoming a Pharmacist is not a n easy one. Like most Doctorate programs in the medical field,  the pre-pharm program includes a lot of  "fun" math and science classes, Kevin has also had to take the PCATs (Pharmacy College Admissions Test). Kevin decided that this year he would only apply to The University of Wyoming-School of Pharmacy, which is in the top 50 Pharmacy Schools in the nation as well as they only accept about 80 students a year into the program. We were super excited to find out that UW had invited Kevin to interview for one of those 80 spots- to only apply to one school and get an interview with them is a massive achievement that I'm very proud of Kevin for. As for Kevin being accepted into the Pharmacy Program- we recently heard that he is on the waiting list as he finishes his last semester of pre-pharmacy classes.

After the stress of Kevin's interview, we drove to Denver so that we could catch a flight to Sacramento, California so that we could spend Thanksgiving with my family. This was Luke's first time flying-he LOVED it!

Muhlenkamp clan ready for the Thanksgiving Feast

Sadly, my family isn't able to get together very often due to all of our various schedules. Thanksgiving 2013 was a special time for the Muhlenkamp clan, it was the first time that ALL the cousins would meet- and the first time that Kevin and I would meet our 4 new nieces and nephews that my sister Crystal and her husband Brad had adopted. 

My parents decided to rent a time share in Lake

Tahoe where we can all enjoy everyone's company.  It was a great long weekend spent with family- we were able to get an updated family photo, which even Luke's "MooMoo" made his photo debut.
While in Lake Tahoe, I was feeling kind of "off", as I thought about things-Kevin and I went to the local grocery store and got a pregnancy test- IT WAS POSITIVE! This was extremely exciting and kind of scary news for us, exactly 1 year prior I was admitted for emergency surgery for an Ectopic Pregnancy. While in Tahoe I called the doctors in Wyoming to get in ASAP to make sure everything was going well this time around. We now had one more thing to be Thankful for that Thanksgiving!
After getting back from California- we had a couple weeks back to reality of school and work before making another trip for Christmas. We decided to go to Arizona and spend Christmas with Kevin's family. Before we left for Arizona, we made sure our "little peanut" was doing well- thankfully, everything was going 100 % better this
pregnancy.
We had yet another wonderful time with more family over Christmas! Since being in Wyoming, this was our first time back to Arizona. It was a little warm for us over the 10 days we were in Phoenix- the Wyoming-ans aren't used to 70 degree Decembers.
While in Phoenix, Kevin and I decided to take a day to go to the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale where we had our wedding reception and spent our first night of our honeymoon. It was  so nice to go somewhere that was meaningful to us and enjoy a wonderful lunch.
On another day we took Kevin's mom to see the construction site of the Phoenix Arizona Temple. It was neat to see how the Phoenix Temple was smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
Christmas was a great time spent with Kevin's family. My mom even sent us our traditional matching PJs so we wouldn't feel left out. Luke had a great time playing with his cousins and his Nana.
We had a wonderful end to 2013- full of family, blessings, and new memories!