It's Fall Y'all

Oof I'm falling behind! Life has felt so crazy lately. Just yesterday I had an MRI done on my head and let me tell ya, those are not fun. I'm hoping it was a once in a lifetime experience. I can't remember if I shared much on here about my health lately, but basically ever since my septoplasty surgery back in July my overall health has not been great. I've seen two family doctors, two ENT's, a neurologist, been to urgent care, and spent way too many nights debating on if I need go to the emergency room. I've had four blood draws, an EKG, MRI, nerve tests, thyroid test, and have been unofficially diagnosed with severe anxiety. Some of the things I've dealt with on a fairly regularly basis the past few months are lightheadedness, fatigue, low (and I mean low) energy, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, loss of feeling in hands/arms/legs/head, loss of vision, tingling sensations, chills, headaches, nausea, head twitching, panic attacks, shooting chest pain, heart palpitations, muscle weakness, hyperventilation, and I'll randomly feel like I'm going to pass out. Oh and a lot of medications I've never reacted to in the past now give me horrible side effects. Some days I feel mostly normal, and others I'm convinced something is terribly wrong because I can barely function. It's been a frustrating journey and a lot of the time I feel completely hopeless. I'm hoping that the MRI will give me some sort of clarity. I'm having a hard time chalking all of this up to be only anxiety related because I can pinpoint the day it all started. UGH I WILL GLADLY TAKE BACK MY DEVIATED SEPTUM, THANK  YOU.

Anyways that is not what I wanted this post to be about, but that's my life lately and I do think it's good to document. I'm hoping that one day I can look back on this time and be grateful that it's something I've overcome. I'll keep praying! But let's move on to the good stuff. I have so much to catch up on so this post might feel a little scattered.

- My 28th Birthday -

I normally don't blog about my birthday but this was a good one. My mom, sisters, and Karlie took me out to Village Baker for lunch. I loveeee having them all so close! Jason came home from work with some birthday flowers. Debi watched the kids that evening while Jason and I went downtown for a date night. We ate at Cheesecake Factory, walked around Salt Lake until we found this sign, and did some furniture shopping for the new house. When we got home Emmett sang me the sweetest rendition of happy birthday and we ate cake. That Sunday we celebrated with the family and I must say my mom's cheesecake takes the cake for best cheesecake!

Am I really only two years away from 30?? I don't believe it.

- Hee Haw Farms -

We kicked off October going to Hee Haw's with the family + Hailey and Jack. Brielle loved the fresh cinnamon donuts and Emmett was obsessed with all the animals. He probably hugged every goat there haha. Tay and Nae were in town that week too. It was fun to have all the cousins reunited! One of us must have caught something while we were there because a good chunk of the fam was sick for the next two weeks. BOO.

- Loveland Living Planet Aquarium -

We got aquarium passes not long after we moved here and it was definitely money well spent! We've gone five or six times so far, but if it were up to Emmett we would go everyday. His obsession for sea creatures is REAL. We made sure to make an aquarium trip while all the cousins were in town. Gigi helped Emmett touch a starfish and an anemone and now it's all he ever talks about hahaha.

- Halloween -

We moved out of the townhome and into our house Halloween weekend so I didn't have much energy to put towards halloween decor or activities. I let the kids pick out pumpkins at the grocery store and we painted them with some dollar store paint that may or may not have washed off the next day in the rain. I'm still calling it good! It was a buuuuusy weekend. We packed up Thursday, moved in on Friday, trick-or-treated in Britta's neighborhood on Saturday, and deep cleaned the townhome on Sunday. We also had company in town, my health was nooot good at the time, we were all still a little sick, and it was a holiday. 10/10 don't recommend.

^^ I'm glad I snapped this picture of Emmett with his full costume on right when we got it. He had zero desire to wear the mask on Halloween. Emmett realllly wanted to dress up as a spider but I could not find a good costume that was reasonably priced, so we settled for spiderman ;)

Supergirl didn't care to trick-or-treat. She was content with her bouncy ball.

And that's a wrap for fall, y'all!