We Love the Wisconsin State Fair!!

Well Wisconsin does not mess around when it comes to their fair. It is HUGE. It lasts for about two weeks and they have every type of fried food you can imagine. They do deep-fried oreos, snickers, mac and cheese, cheese curds, pretty much anything you can think of =). But they sure do taste yummy. It was lots of fun and we got our fill of flavored milk, livestock, and fair food.

Lots of Rain = Flooding

We rode our bikes down to this little stream that goes through Milwaukee and it was so high and really flooded. Kinda scary!

Storms make us a little nervous =)

Nauvoo Trip!

We went to Nauvoo with our friends Phil and Tiffany. It was alot of fun and it was a good way to start out the summer. Nauvoo was a neat place, but the temple was definitely the highlight. I have never been in such a beautiful building.

Carthage Jail



Herbie lives!!
The Beautiful Nauvoo Temple

Our comfy little tent. The campsite was actually pretty nice. They had bathrooms and showers, so we weren't roughing it too badly.



So on the way over, we had a little detour. We missed an exit, so we decided to turn around across the median. Unfortunately this was during the flooding, so the ground was quite moist. And we hit the mud perfectly. Our front tire got stuck and it was stuck good. We called AAA to get a tow truck and while we were waiting, this nice guy below came and pulled us out of the mud. He was really funny and we were so grateful to him. It was quite the adventure. We didn't get to Nauvoo until 1:00 am. Then we had to set up camp- it was a short night=)

We made the best out of the situation and got some good laughs over it.

Blog Catchup

Alright I have been a slacker so sorry to put this on all at once. These happenings are a little old, but better late than never right? There are more to come, I'm just workin on it little by little=)

Tornadoes??? What?

So two weeks ago we had the craziest weather. It would be beautiful in the morning and then at night it would get really stormy and these sirens would start going off which meant...tornadoes! I have never seen it rain so hard in my life. We got soaked running from our car to our apartment where we had to camp out in the basement for a little bit. We thought it was kind of lame staying in the basement, but then there was a spotting of a tornado like a mile away from us. Even the mall had everyone get in their shelter. Here are a few pictures of our basement stakeout.

These pictures don't do justice. The clouds are about 10x darker than the picture shows and the clouds were moving so fast toward us. It was scary, but really cool. Don't worry though-we survived!

Co-Workers

These are some of the people I work with. Carissa is a fun girl (brown hair) and Jessica is my supervisor. We always have a good time at work. I feel so blessed to have a job that I like and coworkers that I love. We all went to a restaurant nearby to celebrate another coworker's retirement.

Some more of the girls. Linda is the one with the black hair in the back. This lady is definitely one of hte most unique people I have ever met- she wears fake eyelashes, and a fake hairpiece. She drives me batty at times, but overall she is a very interesting lady.

Fun Summer Night

We love having our bikes! It's so fun to go out and ride them at night. We rode them over to our friend's Judd and Haley's house and we had a little BBQ. It was lots of fun and it is so nice to be able to do things outside.

Sweet helmet huh? I die laughing everytime he wears it.
"Man Gossip" at the grill