Middle America

I loved living out of the country and getting to experience so many cool and different things, but it feels so good to be back in the states too, especially during the fall.  And Josh and I have really only lived in the west, so it has been really fun for us to experience something different.  Sure, I have grown up visiting other places in the east my whole life but it is just different when you live there and really get to know the whole vibe and feeling of a place.  And I know some people don't like it, but to me Saginaw just feels like an all-American town.  I love running through the streets of our tree-lined neighborhood (heck I just love the fact that we even live in a neighborhood!)

 

I have started playing this little game where I will count the cars that pass and see how many are foreign. (We've already established the fact that I'm a nerd, right?)  It is easy to do because I can usually keep track of them on 1 hand.  I usually count 100 at a time and you know how many of those are usually foreign?  Six.  These people sure have pride in home grown things, I sometimes feel like a traitor with 2 foreign cars in our driveway! (But I love them).   Our neighbors are so nice and down to earth, the houses are older but well-maintained and are all so different.  And no, we may not have a city life or great shopping or things like that, but let's face it we can't really afford stuff like that right now anyway so the simple traditions and home town festivals are great for us.  This week we went to a pumpkin farm (where the pictures came from) and we had fun looking for pumpkins, petting animals,

finding some of our favorite characters,

walking through nature trails, eating donuts and cider, and Shane's highlight was watching  them launch giant pumpkins hundreds of feet from that trebuchet in the background.

 Who knows where we will end up (and we're not ruling out here) but we are loving all the places we get to experience on the way!