Oceans, Mountains, & Leaky Waders: Almost Time For A Baby

               Between school and work I haven't been able to update the blog very often lately. We have been keeping fairly busy. Allison has been doing great but tends to get tired a lot easier so we have to break up our activities a little bit.
               Last week work wasn't exactly stressful. I only had to work Mon-Weds. Thursday I played in a Coast Guard best ball golf tournament. It was a lot of fun. It was teams of 4 and the guys I played with made me look like I should be in the PGA. I did shoot the best ball of my life though, I was 35 or so yards from the green when I whacked my ball, I got a good hit on it and it landed on the green and rolled into the hole for a birdie. I was pretty pumped and the guys I was playing with couldn't believe it. We finished the day +12 so we defiantly didn't win but it was still a real good time. Friday my shop volunteered to paint a wall in a park in Grand Haven so that some middle school students could paint pictures of dogs on it. After we painted we had a nice BBQ and socialized for a little bit.
                Friday night Allison and I had a real nice little bon fire. We did it early so that we would still have time to get inside and watch the Sons of Anarchy before we got to tired. Saturday morning started out nice and easy. I made Allison and I some egg sandwiches, coffee, and hot chocolate while we watched some hunting shows (I think Alli likes them more than I do). We went to our hometown Autumnfest here in Whitehall, It was pretty fun. They had a little market downtown where local craftsman sold their wares. We walked away with some homemade beef jerky and a homemade teething/rattle baby toy. The guy we bought our teething toy from also makes "name trains" so we think we will pay him a visit once we have the baby. After Autumnfest we went to Lewis Farm Market www.lewisfarmmarket.com . We walked through their corn maze and I'm pretty sure set a land speed record. It was pretty large and took us about 40 minutes to complete. The market sold apples and other goodies. I got 2 pieces of their homemade fudge, Allison got a donut, and we got some delicious looking apples. Due to the drought they didn't have the option to pick your own Apples this year. Good thing we will be here for a while. Allison said she is going to make me some Apple Crisp for dessert tomorrow so I'm pretty excited for that. The farm has a petting zoo, pumpkin chunking, an apple gun that you can shoot at a target and some other fun activities for kids. After the farm we decided to drive around on back roads exploring a little bit. I had no idea how much awesome farm land is located in Michigan. Our ride was beautiful and I'm really glad we did it. Tonight we are staying in, the SC Gamecocks game is on so we will be cheering them on.
               After last weekends baby shopping spree we have put the babies room together and are pretty much all ready to bring our little bundle of joy home. I am pretty nervous but mostly excited to meet our wee one.
              Only 7 more days till Duck season, waiting for opening day has been like waiting for Christmas. It can't get here soon enough.