Weekend Recap

Being a natural-planner, I usually try to have an idea of what the weekend will hold for us by at least Wednesday, Thursday at the latest.  Based on the time of year I usually have an idea of what we have in store, usually.  This weekend was no different.  With the birth of our sweet nephew last week we had decided we would go down for a quick visit to meet him and see his parents, too!  Thanks to Hawks extended vet stay, those plans were starting to look a little dicey by Thursday afternoon.  Friday morning we found out Eric's Dad would not be able to go (he was supposed to ride with us) because of an illness, however our plans were still to head down Saturday morning.  And then Friday night happened...I ended up staying home from the football game (it was an away game about an hour from us) because I had just picked up Hawk and did not want to drop him off at the house Friday and take off Saturday morning.  The first half was back and forth and ended up and was tied at 28 at halftime...too close for comfort if you ask me.  And then the bottom fell out.  In the second half we only scored one more TD and kept on ending with a final score of 49-34.  Eric was exhausted and beat down by the time he got home.  He takes losses very personally.  I don't know that I've seen him that upset about a loss since he played.  To make matters worse, when we woke up Saturday morning (early because we were planning on heading out pretty early) he had a horrible cough; on top of every thing he caught a cold.  That was the last straw because the last thing we wanted to do was bring nasty cold germs into the house.  Cue a sad auntie and uncle.  We called and told them we would have to reschedule our visit for another weekend, that will be in the very near future because I do not want to miss out on little bitty baby time!

1. Right after I sprung him from the puppy hospital...so happy to be outside!

2. So glad to have both my boys at home.  

3. Apparently he missed being able to sprawl out on the bed...can't to that at the vet!  You can see where they shaved his face to attach the drain in this pic.  I have to call to get the culture results today, so send me happy thoughts and prayers that they've kicked the infection please!!!

So at 8am Saturday morning we were faced with something we had not been faced with in quite a while....a wide open weekend with zero planned activities (well until 1pm Saturday when Eric had to be at football film). We started it off in due fashion with a breakfast trip to 1220 Cafe, duh. After that Eric and his buddy headed out to the hunting land to do some work.  Apparently the state of Alabama went and changed the first day of hunting season on me to Oct 25 this year, but only for half of the state.  Basically if you hunt south of I-85 or Highway 80 in West AL where there is not I-85 (with a couple of exceptions) they've moved deer bow hunting season back 10 days. Eric is in a unique situation because we live north of 85, but the place he hunts is just south of it, meaning they can't start hunting until Saturday the 25th.  As much as I am sure he would have liked to hunt, I know he was glad to have another weekend to prep everything.

Once he headed off, I figured I needed to find something productive to do, so I called up Eric's buddy's girlfriend and we headed off to the booming metropolis of Loachapoka (population 135, normally) for Syrup Sopping Day 2014. It's basically a giant arts and crafts fair in the middle of no where.  The website claims the population can reach as many as 20,000 that day.  I am not sure there's THAT many but I will say there were several thousand people there for sure. The only thing I had on my list was a bag of kettle corn per Eric's request, but I managed to find a few other items I've stored away for Christmastime, which is by the way less than 10 weeks away!

Fun day and Syrup Sopping!

I made it home just in time to watch the kick-off of the Texas A&M slaughter at the hands of Alabama.  It was so bad that I left somewhere during the 2nd quarter to get the stuff to make some potato soup for dinner.  We finished off the night with another fire pit and a few more football games.  It was a glorious fall evening and apparently my tater soup hit the spot because there was barely one bowl left for my lunch Sunday afternoon.

Loaded potato soup and a campfire...it doesn't get much better than this!  

Eric did manage to get a little bit of hunting in this weekend.  He went hog hunting Sunday morning and brought home a HUGE one.  He hung it up, cleaned it, cut it up, and threw it on the grill for dinner.  It doesn't get much fresher than that ladies and gents.  He chopped the butts up when he got home from film last night and we had some delicious nachos with fresh pico de gallo for dinner while we watch Peyton Manning break Bret Favre's TD record...so awesome!