When Life Gives You Lemons

This was a pretty routine week for us. Accordingly, here are a few highlights.

Fall has started! Nicole is super excited about this. She loves the way the air smells and the cooler air. The leaves are just barely starting to change. She is also looking forward to diving into her scarf collection. She also loves pumpkin and is craving pumpkin pie and all things related to pumpkin.

Clayton finished his first month of law school. He loves it so far, but he hears that things are going to start getting tougher. He also turned in his first graded assignment.

Due to Nicole's super human sense of smell, we now switch bedrooms depending on which one smells better. Luckily we have two bedrooms. Often after we lay down to go to bed, Nicole decides that the room is too smelly and we switch.

The new trick is to carry a lemon around with her. She heard that her grandma used to do this and she never threw up when she was pregnant. She sniffs it and it helps to block out all the other smells. She scratches the lemon to make the smell come out more. The lemon helps to reduce or eliminate the nausea. Nicole thinks that smelling the lemon causes her body to focus on the threat of eating a lemon rather than the threat of throwing up. Does anyone know if you can get high off lemons?

For some reason this week, the steam from the shower keeps setting of the fire alarms. So every once in a while, we wake up the whole house by taking a shower.

On Thursday Clayton came home early from school. We went out and got some ice cream. This was the highlight of Nicole's week.

We went to Panera on Friday. Clayton was less than impressed with the chick food, but Nicole really liked the Mac'n'Cheese. There was a movie theater near by so we decided to see what was playing. Instead of going to see a movie, we decided to make up our own.

On Saturday our land lord came down and checked out somethings that are wrong with the apartment. One of the baseboards in the kitchen was mildewy and on further inspection it turns out that the whole wall is mildewy. Our landlord removed the baseboard and we are trying to dry the wall out with fans. No wonder Nicole was unable to go in the kitchen.

Clayton got Nicole out of bed early today by making crepes. Church was righteous. Nicole has friends in the ward and is happy.

Shout out to Regan. Congrats on getting the learners permit. Try not to scare or scar your mom with your new driving skillz.

Also shout out to Liesl, on getting a silver medal at her first figure skating competition. Clayton wants to know when you will see the light and get skates without a toe-pick. Nicole wishes we could have seen it.