October Update

Here is a short updat of what has been going on in the dietetics life that I live. I pretty much spend my entire school hours with the girls in these pictures and they are awesome! We all have so much fun.

In mid October we went to Denver CO for the annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. FNCE was awesome! It was such a great experience to see so many dietitians all in one place! There were some really good sessions that we went to that taught us a lot. Currently I am working on a group project that is teaching a kindergarten class about unfamiliar vegetables and so we went to a class on barriers to teaching moms with childhood nutrition and a session that incorporated theatre into teaching children about health! They were perfect supplementation for our project! The picture with the giant Ensure was at the EXPO. It was HUGE! I think I spent a good 8 hours total in there and still didn't get to look through all the booths. We got tons of free stuff too! (see picture below!) All those bags were given to us from booths. We got tons of food, bags, trinkets, etc. Lunch boxes, full boxes of cereal, mugs, personally signed diet books, one girl got a bag of whole wheat flour and another girl won a whole box of red wine vinegar! I think it was 8 jars! haha We have the BEST profession for an expo. Seriously, what better than a bunch of free food? We also never had to buy lunch because you could just snack your way through the booths and be stuffed in an hour!


While we weren't at the conference or on the bus (a total of 18+ hours when your 30 weeks prego isn't real fun...), we were out having fun! On Sunday we weren't able to go to church, so some of our professors gave us a devotional that night. A few of us took a taxi to the church and I practically taught the 1st discussion to the taxi driver (I was sitting in the front seat) He asked us where we were from and such and just kept asking us questions. It was great! Too bad we didn't have a pass along card for him. haha

We also went to see the broadway play, Wicked! Oh my goodness, it is SO SO good! I absolutely loved it and I'm not a Wizard of Oz fan at all. I would recommend seeing it if you ever get the chance. Seriously, really good music and really good plot. :)


Next things next,
Annual Student Dietetic Association (with the Food Science Club) Halloween Party!
Every year we have this party and invite the food science club to have boys there too since dietetics is predominantly women... It was great fun this year and we had some pretty good costumes!
These were a few of the seniors (my classmates) that came to the party. Aren't we so cute!


The three costume winners! Erica, the "bubble bath", I actually don't know who the pumpkin is..., and Steph the "Jelly fish" So creative!

and LASTLY, Dietetics baby shower! So, when we started up the school year in September, we very excitingly discovered that 4 girls were expecting (out of a total of 30 in the class)! Holy cow! We went from no one having any children to 4 at once! Anyway, it's been very exciting.
Esther actually went into labor at FNCE when she was only 32 weeks! She did make it home and was fine but had her sweet baby girl a few days later. She is still in the NICU. :( Christa actually had her baby yesterday! We haven't heard any news yet! Then there's me (hopefully 2 more months still!) and Sarah was due this Sunday, but still hasn't had her yet!
So, I'm left in the lonesome. By the end of the week, I will be the only prego left. Everyone else is lucky and have their little girls. and yes, they all are having/had girls. I am the only lonesome with a boy. But I guess that makes me a little special! Anyway, The baby shower was great fun!

So, thanks for sticking with me. I guess this was a long "quick post". haha
Other news,
We went to our first labor and delivery class at the hospital-- fun stuff! haha

I got to start parking in the garage! I love having a garage and getting to use it and I am SO excited to not have snow on my car and ice on my windows in the mornings ever again!!!! woohoo!! Best thing ever!