Week 16

Despite being 'football-less', or as they phrase it "Undefeated since 1954", Milligan holds its Homecoming in the Fall like every other 'football-ful' academic institution. This past weekend we enjoyed the festivities and the beautiful Fall weather that finally hinted that winter will be coming soon. Once the parade processed down the center of campus and the new name of the Milligan buffalo was revealed (which is Brutus, by the way, much better than the previous 'Buffy' which makes you wonder what took them so long) we enjoyed, what I now believe, is the 'make or break' component of any outdoor Fall festival.......Kettle Corn. And let me tell you, it was gooood (made in the big cast iron kettle and everything)! We ran into one of Dave's students while we were munching on the good stuff and he asked to take our picture, the result is to the right (sorry about the big white space...don't know how to get rid of it...).

That evening we attended Valerie and Damon's reception for their wedding which was held in Jamaica several weeks ago. For anyone local reading this, it was held upstairs at Carter at Main and the food was delicious! Everything, especially the beautiful couple, was lovely. This is me with the blushing bride, or shall I say Jamaican tanned!

Sunday we were off to Asheville. The boys hit a round of 18 (with Dave incidentally hitting the 'best shot of his life' (insert golf clap here ....)) leaving the girls some much needed time to catch up. It was not only Anna, myself and our two new additions, but also Alison (Ulrich) Hadden (friend from Wofford, now living in Kansas, with her own new addition due in April!) in the mix. Oh and we also brought our dogs. So the grand total for the day was six dogs, two babies, two nursing women, one pregnant woman and two new dads....does this equal fun or what?!?!

We all set off (sans dogs) to a pumpkin patch and apple orchard.... note to self, three days before Halloween is probably not the best time to pick pumpkins. The 'off the vine' variety were a bit scarce, but it was the thought that counts. We grabbed some great pics, a baby pumpkin for Lily, and one authentic cup of hot apple cider.....not much beats it....except perhaps kettle corn.

As far as the week picture goes, yes I know she's not looking in either of these, but take my word for it, her eyes are still big and still blue.....it was quite a day battling the wicked mid-afternoon sun....we did what we could. For more pics of the day you can visit Sam's Flickr page

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samharrelson/ .(I know, soon I'll be owing him commission or something) It was so great to see Alison, we wish her and Kyle a healthy uneventful pregnancy from here on out, you can visit her blog at http://alisonandkyle.blogspot.com/.