Saturday

I really don't have anything to say.

The day of giving thanks

Today is Thanksgiving.  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  Today instead of fixing or own meal, Carly and I went to Brittany's grandma's house.  We are so grateful that Brit's family allowed us to hang out with them today for Thanksgiving.  The food was flat out amazing and I'm 100% sure that I gained around 8 or 9 pounds today.  Carly and I are so lucky to have such great friends.  It can be hard around that Holidays without our family close by.  That said, I truly feel as if we are welcomed in a lot of places down here as if we were family.  Maybe third or fourth cousins but still family.  Long story short, Carly and I are very LUCKY.

OK, so Carly made crab dip today to bring a little "Maryland" to the Texas Thanksgiving feast...  That wasn't good.  Well, it tasted good.  It wasn't good because of how much of it I ate after we got home.  I kinda feel as if I keep getting pinched in my stomach by the 3 or 4 crabs that are crawling around in there.  I miss Maryland Crabs.

Rewind to yesterday, I went hunting again.  I was unsuccessful again.  Sitting in your treestand for 9 hours makes for a LONG day when you see 6 squirrels all day long.  At around 3:00, I looked through my scope at a bush because I swear it was moving.  I knew it wasn't honestly, I just wanted it to be a deer.  I did however catch a bass at the cabin during lunch.  Yippee! 

Tomorrow is only FRIDAY.  This is great news.  This means that we still got a 3 day weekend left!  I will NOT be going shopping tomorrow.  Hopefully I will be able to buy everything online again this year like I did last year.  If I can't, sorry people.  You ain't getting nothing for Christmas...

Oh yeah, we are in the 3rd trimester of Baby Baugher's life.  Carly is still feeling pretty good I think.  It's getting a little harder for her to get comfortable but all things considered, she's rolling right along.  She's kinda kickin this pregnancy things butt.  I can really feel him moving a lot too now!  It's a pretty amazing feeling.  Pretty amazing is somewhat scary though when Carly yells "Ouch!" cause he's kicking her in the ribs.  I'm thinking about letting her kick me every time the baby kicks her but there's no way for my to know if she's telling me the truth or not.  Plus I'd cry cause I'm kinda a wuss...

Saturday is the day that we've all waited for for a year.  It's the day that Michigan plays Ohio State.  I really can't believe that it's been 7 years since we beat Ohio State last.  Good Lord, I was 21.  I definitely had less gray hair and I was probably around 250 pounds lighter (OK 185 pounds).  I blame all 7 years on Rich Rodriguez even though he was only there 3 years.  Good luck at Arizona you big butt head.  I'll put a victory dance on here on Saturday night HOPEFULLY.  Till then Happy Thanksgiving, Go Blue and God Bless America.

Mary Land weekend

Well, I got to hit up Maryland for a long weekend and it was AWESOME.  I miss my family and friends up there so much!  Here's how it went down...

Friday night, get there.  See Mom, Dad, Brian, Leslie, Charlie and Daisy.  Tired.  Sleep.

Saturday, hunt.  Morning - Bucks chasin does like crazy.  See a couple of them makin love, seriously, it was pretty awesome.  Was going to go home at lunch and couldn't (sorry mom)  Slow evening hunt.  Thought my luck had run out.  Shot a doe 15 minutes later.  Excited.  I still got it.

Sunday, head to the McDonalds for Carly's baby shower.  Got to see the in-laws, Great, super, excellent.  Got to see amazing friends that I haven't seen in a long time.  Awesome.  Got tons of awesome stuff for Brady, thank you.  Leslie and Momma did a great job with decorations and everything.  A great time was had by all.

Monday, chill and fly back to H town.  Mad cause I had to go to work the next day but feeling so blessed from the weekend.

There is never enough time to do everything I want to up there.  I love you guys and really do miss you guys like crazy!  I feel extremely blessed for the time that we do get to spend together, even though it's always too short...    

Huntin again!

OK, so I haven't been keeping up with this as much lately.  For that, I apologize.  I'm sure that everyone is heartbroken.  That said, here we go...

So rifle season came in down here last week.  I got to go Sunday.  By 9:30, it was a great day.  At 7:30, I looked to my right and saw horns getting ready to step out.  Needless to say, I got nervous.  When he came out I realized that it wasn't a shooter down here.  He was a young deer but a dead deer in MD.  In a year, he is going to be pretty big.  He was a 7 point and had about a 6 inch browtine on his right antler.  These stupid antler restrictions.  Bucks are required to be out to the ears or 13 inches.  Good idea however, if that was the case in Maryland I would have killed one buck my entire life, MAYBE. 

REALLY?  That's like a once in a lifetime deer...

Anyway, I was happy because I had already seen a deer.  My buddy saw 2 does and then I saw antlers again.  He was on the same trail as the first one.  It was an 8 point at 25 yards.  I could have taken him with my bow.  He had no idea I was there so I took a deep breath and looked through my scope...

His antlers stopped literally about half an inch from the tips of his ears.  Now I'm frustrated.  I worked so hard all summer for this day and I can't shoot???  I let him walk.  I don't think I should have.  If I get the chance, he won't walk again.  Anyway we came out, shot the breeze with the guys at camp, ate a quick lunch and back in we went.  At about 3:30 I heard a shot that sounded like my hunting pal.  Sure enough it was.  I didn't see anything so about 30 minutes before dark I went to help with the trackin.  I found blood and come to find out, she only went about 10 yards in the woods.  Pretty thick so it was a pain getting her out but we got her.  Sorry coyotes, no food for you.  We tagged her, cleaned her up at the cabin and we were back home.  First weekend of rifle, 1 deer.  Nice start to the season and the start of stockin up the freezer!

In other more important news, we are getting baby things delivered to the house now.  I am so excited except I'm afraid that our home will never be clean again...  Toys are piling up!  I can't wait to say, "Brady, pick all this crap up!"  I'll probably say, "Brady, this is a mess but Daddys got it.  You rest."

Carly said that see can see him moving just lookin at her stomach and I am PUMPED to see this.  My boy is active!  Carly is lookin and feelin great and we are as happy as can be!