A shotgun weekend...

At my work, we do a lot of business with OC Tanner. Our sales guy invited me to a pheasant club last Friday, with some of his other clients, to go on a pheasant hunt. Since we've already established that I'm a manly-man and don't believe in blogging, taking Twilight quizzes (I'm a Jasper, btw...), or buying sweaters for myself at the Gateway, I'm not too ashamed to tell you that this was my first pheasant hunt. In fact, I bought my shotgun a week before the hunt and loaded it for the first time just a couple of hours before I shot my first bird. I was a little concerned that I wasn't going to hit anything, but as you can see, it all worked out ok. Nicholas thought it was the coolest thing ever, Ethan didn't want anything to do w/ the birds. I ended up taking them w/ me on a campout w/ the scouts and having them for dinner that night. In case any of you need to know a quick & effective way to clean the birds, let me know! It involves stepping on the wings & pulling the legs... ;)

Sheesh...

President Obama & the Utes beat TCU... is there any reason to go on?!? Surely these must be signs of the end of the world! No, I'm only kidding... (kind of!)

While I am disappointed that my candidates (McCain & Palin, for those of you don't know me) aren't going to be in the White House come Jan. 20th, I fully support the process and the office of the President. I've been telling the boys for months that if Obama wins, we're moving to Taiwan! So on the morning after the election, the boys were asking Jana if we really were going to move and if Obama was going to take away our guns... (with sarcasm) I have no idea where they got that idea!! ;)

Other than that, what else is going on... Halloween was kinda weird. I mean, I know by nature Halloween should be weird, but come on... 70 degrees, a warm rain & mosquitoes?!? A week or two before that, we had 6 inches of snow! A few days after Halloween, more snow!! I went out w/ the boys & Josh Peterson, and I gotta say, they did an excellent job of canvassing the neighborhood. This was the first year that we got around the entire Perry Homes subdivision. They had a great time... Jana sat on the porch handing out candy, and then sent Ethan over to dance on Ken Hargis' lawn. He puts his speakers in the window, plays disco music, & makes funny comments over the mic. I see a karaoke competition coming up at our next neighborhood BBQ!!

Jana's doing well w/ the baby thing. No throwing up so far! There have been some close calls though. Typically when I'm going over train tracks, making left turns, making right turns, going straight, going slow, going fast, breathing, existing, etc. Pretty much anything and nothing can cause a wave of nausea and cause Jana to put out her arms, close her eyes, breathe deeply and say, "Stop [insert any action/activity]! It's making me sick..." In fact, we were coming home from Highland a few weeks ago and I decided that I needed to clean the windshield. Jana was asleep in the front seat. I pulled the windshield-wiper-stick-thingy to pump out some fluid, and as the wipers jumped across the windshield, it made an awful, scary noise. It scared Jana so badly, in fact, I'm still trying to find an animal noise that compares to the sound that came out of her, but scared her right in to nausea. Oops... my bad. Anyway, overall Jana's doing great!