movement

Things with my pregnancy are going well. I have been feeling pretty good lately (except for some back pain this week). The fun part, though, is that I started feeling the baby move last week. There have been a couple times before when I thought something might have been the baby, but last week it started to be more obvious. Generally, I only feel it move at night when I chill on the couch in front of the tv. Last night, Matt even got to feel it "kick" once. Yay! I'm pretty sure that it was much later before he felt either of the other two.

that's about right

new plants

Our front flower bed was looking pretty sad so Nathan and I picked out some new plants the other day. We got some Snapdragons and Mums to fill in the empty spaces left by non-evergreen plants. We also bought some new plants for the pots that sit on the porch. I think things are looking much nicer now!

redneck Georgia boy?

This past Saturday, we all went down to Jennifer's dad's hunting land that he is leasing with a group of other men from church. Everybody brought their families for a cookout and a bit of work on various things to get ready for deer season. Last year, my in-laws got me a camo hunting suit after I had asked about going hunting sometime. It didn't work out to go last year because it was so late in the season. I am going to go this year, though. I am taking the required hunter education course at the beginning of November.

After we got done at the cookout, we drove to the firing range at the Ocmulgee WMA to sight in the rifles. I will be using a lever action .30-.30. My father-in-law has a scoped semiautomatic .30-06. We shot at a target at 50 yards. Unfortunately, we could not see where the rounds were hitting, even with the binoculars I had brought. After shooting the .30-.30, I shot a few rounds with the .30-06. It is more powerful than the .30-.30, but both kick pretty hard. Certainly harder than my 12 gauge shotgun with birdshot. This was my first time shooting a rifle other than a .22.

This is my target shot with the .30-.30. All eight rounds hit fairly close. I was happy with it given it was my first time and I was using open sights.

I guess I will officially become a redneck Georgia boy when I go deer hunting. That is, if I don't already qualify otherwise.