4months...5....6months strong

Even when we are sure we are finally getting to a point when life will start slowing down we find ourselves fighting for more free time. We made it back to Minneapolis in late September to visit friends and family and to also join one of our best friends, Adam Anderson and his fiance' Lindsey at their wedding back in Iowa. We got to see all Jenn's mother's family at a BBQ hosted for our visit at Denise's home. We also got to see Nate, Jamie & Madeline for an evening. The leaves true fall colors were just starting to show signs of the shortened daylight and the winter soon to come.

Once we returned from our too short Northern Exposure we hurriedly made it back to FL to join in another wedding for our friends Janet and Fred in Salt Springs, FL. Don't they look good together. They had a great wedding setting at their "tree house" on Lake Kerr and a nice reception that followed.

After a quick week's travel to NC and back for work, I made it back just in time to meet Jenn's very good friend Scarlett, her husband Brandon and their two children Carter and Campbell. They were visiting FL for a family occasion and decided to hang out with us for the weekend. Our main plans were to just relax and enjoy the weekend and go to a pumpkin patch with the children. Though these are great plans, Brandon and I conspired to enjoy a little time on the dark swamps looking for red-eyes. I promised you all a follow up to a past post on this blog.....even Luke was ready for a gator too. We lucked out and arrowed a 8'0" gator around 5a.m. that next morning. Lucky us, and at least we got to spend part of Saturday catching up on our 28hrs without sleep.

Well, one pumpkin patch wasn't enough, so the next day we all (the Schleif/Raulie/Renberg families) went to the pumpkin patch nearer to our house to enjoy another photo session with Luke and Baron.

The Halloween spirit is alive, now that the unforgiving heat has subsided some and the chill is back in the morning/evening air. We had a good time at the local pumpkin patch and took lots of photos. In the spirit of Halloween Jenn and Luke visited Angie and Baron and they got to dress up for a little photo action at the Renberg's.

Since we haven't yet had a break we looked at the calendar and realized that this next weekend we'd be spending the majority of it at a dog trail in Jacksonville with our local retriever club. It was a nice weekend and we had great "cool" weather finally pushing in from the places where dreams come true(up north;) Luke informed Jenn and I that if we were 'real pro trainers' we would have a cool Polaris Ranger like our friends Mark and Kraig were using.

Luke's latest visit to the Dr. provided these stats:

18lbs....50%

27".......75%

He recieved his 6mo shots and his 1st flu shot for this seaoson. I'm sure he was playing it off that the shots hurt worse than they really were just so he could get a warm bottle of milk.