Last plane trip before D-Day

As the end (or beginning) is nearly, I boarded a plane for my last trip before Baby D comes.... and a long flight and a week trip to Belgium.  Luckily when I booked our tickets I was able to score exit row seats so I could easily get up as often as I needed. And the flight wasn't too bad, but the baby decided it was a great chance to party for 8 hours straight.  It kicked and turned and flipped and rolled.  He or she was having a great time but made for a miserable flight for me.  On the positive side, the baby was moving so I was couldn't complain too much.

At HQ, I had some great meetings, but some longer nights than I am used to.  I missed my bed, my hubby, my normal food (not that the food there isn't good, because it's really good).  By Thursday, I was ready to come home, but had to wait until Saturday.  We went bowling on Thursday, and I was pretty proud of myself by beating all the guys in my office except one.  Let's just say I think I crushed their egos losing to an almost 8 month pregnant girl.

I got to enjoy a couple waffles while I was there too!  :-)  My favorite.  Flight home was just as smooth but the baby had another party.  I am now continental US bound for a while.

Honeymoon Weekend

Ryan and I decided to do a honeymoon weekend at home and just relax and enjoy being married.  Well we accomplished that.  Friday, we took the day off.  Dad came down in the morning to deliver Norm (who had gotten fixed up) and then to take back his gator.... we were secretly hoping he'd forget about it, but he didn't.  We also got to take Dad out to lunch for sushi.  Great lunch!  Ryan and I then ran some errands - got our joint checking account set-up and changed my name at Chase.  Made some returns to Target and Home Depot.  Then headed to Milan to check out this meat market someone told Ryan about and it was a find!  We got some amazing western potato brat, hot Italian sausage brat, and a chicken and spinach and feta chicken brat.  So yummy!!  We also bought some bacon that was a good 1/4 inch thick and a couple rib eye steaks.  After we left there, we went to Original Gravity so Ryan could enjoy a beer :-)

Saturday, we hit the road about 10:30 for a road trip to antique.  Yes, definitely my idea, but Ryan was game.  We stopped in Jonesville quick and got to see Karle play softball and return a few items left from the wedding. And we were off to Allen, the antique capital of Michigan or something like that.  Well we quickly realized that antiquing in Allen means old crap and sometimes not even that old crap that people don't want.  There was more tea cups, figurines, toys, shoes, clothes... I mean really!  There needs to be some standard for what qualifies as an antique.  We did have a great lunch at Outpost Grill and finally in our last stop, we found what I was looking for!  An old sewing table that matches the one we have. 

Then we headed back and decided to stop at all the places we say look really cool and wish we had more time to stop.  Well today we did! First stop, Cherry Creek Winery on US12... cute little place and okay wines... we did buy a bottle out of courtesy but probably won't go back.  Then for Ryan's highlight of the trip... Randy's BBQ!  And it was great!!  We have ribs, pulled pork and brisket.  Tasty!  We will definitely go back there.  Then a couple beers at Dan's in Clinton.  And finally back home for a little campfire... which didn't last too long as our friends Jason and Christy called and asked if we wanted to go to the OG for a couple beers... so off we went!

Sunday was a great day.  Beautiful morning for church and for planting our unity tree!  We picked our spot and started to dig (well Ryan did) and wouldn't you know it... right in the middle of our hole was the sprinkler line!  So we started digging again and moved the hole over just a little.  It looks great!