When On American Soil, We Look Forward To...(#1-20)

1.                the pleasant smells of Christmas (evergreen, sugar cookies, wood fires, spiced cider, and a “roast beast”)

2.                fall leaves in full color

3.                Mint Oreo Blizzards at DQ

4.                playing at a playground with Micah’s cousins (and “like-cousins”)

5.                taking Micah to a baseball game (and splitting an overpriced hotdog)

6.                drinking 20 kinds of Root Beer and savoring all 34 flavors in a Dr. P. (Travis)

7.                exploring a children’s’ museum

8.                gaining 10 pounds (Travis), losing 10 pounds of baby (Andrea)

9.                singing “How Great Thou Art” with multiple congregations

10.            frying brats on a Charcoal grill

11.            Frisbee golf

12.            taking Micah to a fair or circus

13.            sharing a Biggie Frosty between the 3 of us

14.            pumping our own gas and paying at the pump

15.            rollerblading

16.            visiting the Botanical Gardens with my cousin (Andrea)

17.            long, hot, high-water pressure showers

18.            nice crispy bacon!

19.            fulfilling my fatherly role of “inspector” of Micah’s Halloween candy

20.            Subway’s footlong Chicken Bacon Ranch sub