Birthday week!

I'm a little bit late, but we just celebrated a fun week full of birthdays! It started out with BJ's birthday on Feb. 26th. We went to the Discovery museum in Milwaukee. It's a museum for mainly kids I think, but adults too. They had a ton of hands on activities and exhibits! It was sooo fun! Remember though, we are kids, even though we're a year older! Then, we celebrated with some of our friends! BJ and Jack (used to be Jon) have been writing fun songs and have been wanting to perform them at Lael's work. So, for BJ's birthday, he convinced Jack to reserve some time on open night at her work, a local coffee shop/eatery. It was a blast!! And they sounded pretty good, if I have to say so myself!

The weekend and week went by between my birthday where we still celebrated eating cake and doing whatever we wanted and then my birthday came!!! March 4th! We hung out with friends and then packed our bag and headed to Madison, WI. What a great place! We stayed at a bed and breakfast close State St. State St. is the happening street next to their campus, WU. It is blocks and blocks of restaurants, stores, etc. and surprising enough, the stores aren't ridiculously expensive! I told BJ that he is going to be in trouble when I can actually fit in those clothes again...because I WILL spend more time/money in those stores! Some to mention were Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and much more! Oh, did I mention that we stopped at an outlet on the way too?!?! Yes, it is located only 3o minutes from our house! This really excites me! I've never lived 30 minutes from an outlet mall! Anyways, back to Madison...it was a great trip and it ended our birthday celebration! No more cake...until next year :( Yeah right!!!

P.S-The picture of BJ walking on "snow" is really him walking on water! The lakes in Madison were totally frozen and there were a ton of people walking out on the water...there were even people a mile into the lake. I was thinking "what if it's not all frozen?!?!" I guess they didn't care. Also, I took a video of BJ and Jack singing, so that will be the next post, so all of you can see their talent!

Gettin' there!

Time is flying so fast! It's already 1/3 of the way through March. The weather is starting to become more pleasant...and the birds are back!! This could only mean...spring is on it's way! Which also means...something of ours is about to hatch! We are feeling really "ready" for the baby. We know that God's timing is perfect...so we are waiting on His timing. But we are ready whenever He sends her! We installed the carseat into the car, the hospital bag is packed, and I think all the other things are checked off of the "checklist". We have really, really been enjoying our classes, but we both discussed that we are ready for the baby and ready for a break from school. I don't think all of you know, so here are our summer plans:

Bert and Lyndsey are coming up mid-May to run the 1/2 Greenbay Marathon with BJ. Lyndsyey, Olivia, and I will be on the sidelines cheering them on!!

After that, June-we will head south to the Ozarks to spend that month with BJ's family. We are both excited to live there for a month. BJ was saying that he hasn't spent a summer in Arkansas since he was in high school! That's crazy!

July, we will head west to Oklahoma to catch up with family and friends in Oklahoma.

Then, we will go back to Wisconsin the end of July.

We feel so blessed to be able to get away and spend time with family and friends this summer. It's so hard to be away from everything that we've ever known. I know that it is a transition to what we will go through in a few years. But while we are here in the U.S, we are excited to continue to see people as much as we can. So, check your schedules and please make sure you see us sometime while we are in your area! We would love that more than anything!!