Bullet time!

• It literally is bullet time for Dustin, the Wildlife Department for the tribe I work for donated a three day hunting excursion with a guide for the Learning Center, Austin's school, to raffle off to raise funds for scholarship tuition.  We bought a $100 ticket and they drew Dustin as the winner.  So Nov. 4-6 he will get to go hunting for a mule deer on the reservation.  The tribe sells five day hunting excursions for $3,500, so this was a great deal!  He is so excited and going to go site his gun this weekend.
• My knee has been hurting for a few weeks now.  I don't know that I exactly did one thing to injure it, but I have a history of bad knees stemming from a car accident that I was in when I was 11.  My right knee took the brunt of the injuries in the wreck and I am missing a ligament in that knee.  The left knee has always had to overcompensate though, so it's in pretty bad shape too.  I went to the doctor today and she said my knee is full of fluid and that I have a Baker's cyst, a fluid filled sack that swells out the back of my knee.  In adults these are either cause by arthritis or torn cartilage so she ordered an MRI that I will have on Nov. 4.  
• We are planning our trip to Iowa for Thanksgiving.  We are going to attempt to road-trip it  for the first time with Austin.  We will stop at my Mom's on the way out and we may take the southern route home so Dustin can attend a conference in Albuquerque.
• I will be traveling for work the week of Nov. 14-18th to Santa Fe, NM.  I will be attending the National Tribal Water Quality Conference hosted by the US EPA. 
• Austin is so rambunctious these days and some times it's completely exhausting.  He has gotten to where he stalls when it comes to bed time.  I stay on him, but he tries every trick in the book.
• Austin knows his shapes now.  We have a book and he can name circle, square, oval, rectangle, diamond, star, and triangle.  
• We bought a Halloween costume for Austin this weekend.  He is going to be a football player. 
• I have been sewing like crazy and am getting very close on the top of the quilt.  It is turning out really great and I am pleased with the design.  I just wish there were a few more hours in the day so I could sew on it more.