Anyone know a good looking, single Wisconsin dairy farmer?

It has taken me forever to get this post done but I finally did it.  The first of June Kyle Adams and I flew to Wisconsin to see our friend Erin Hensel.  She had gone home for the summer and we thought it would be a lot of fun to have her show us her old stomping grounds.  It was a quick trip but we packed a lot in and we had a great time.  We didn't get there until the evening of June 8th so we had dinner (best bratwurst ever!) at Erin's house and met her family and then we did a little driving tour and got some frozen custard.  The next day is when all the fun began.  Saturday morning we headed out to Milwaukee.  When we got there we boarded a ferry boat and did a little cruise.  It told a lot of the history of Milwaukee.  It was a lot of fun.

Most of the bridges lifted up like this one to let us pass underneath.  I thought it was kind of cool.

View of Milwaukee from farther out in the water.

Kyle and Erin sticking their heads out the window.

From there we went to a Brewers game.  There is a sausage race part way through the game that we decided we would bet on.  The different sausages were out before we got into the stadium so we picked the one we were going to cheer for and got pictures with them so we couldn't change our minds.  My brother had warned me not to pick the Chorizo because the sombrero created to much wind resistance.  So I chose the polish sausage.

Aren't we a cute couple?

Even though we had been warned, Kyle still chose the Chorizo

Erin chose the Brat

Here they are getting ready to race!

As you can see, Erin won, I came in 2nd and Kyle came in dead last.  He should have listened to my brother. Kyle and I paid up by buying Erin some nacho's.

Right when we first got there we had found our seats and I had gotten my phone out to take a picture of where it said "Miller Park".  I was going to take a picture to send my brothers and brag about where I was.  Right as I was doing that the three of us appeared on the Jumbo tron!  I love that I got a picture but too bad my phone is in my face.  We were pretty excited though! So then I sent a picture text to my brothers and told them to look really close because there was something extra cool about the picture.

The Brewers didn't win, too bad.  Afterwards we went to Erin's favorite pizza place.  It is called Barbiere's. 
It was really good.  The garlic bread was different than any other garlic bread I have had.  I really liked it.
On our way back to Green Bay, we decided to take a detour into this little place called Cedarburg.  It was a charming place and kind of made me want to move to Wisconsin.  A lot of people were out on the streets and I don't think they were all tourists.  It was great to see people out enjoying the evening. 

There was a place that sold caramel apples.  I bought one even though I was so stuffed and couldn't touch it until the next day.  It was hard to eat but delicious.

The next day, June 10th, we drove up to Door County.  That is the thumb of Wisconsin.  One side is the bay and the other side is Lake Michigan.  On our drive up there we saw beautiful picturesque dairy farms.  It kind of made me want to marry a Wisconsin dairy farmer.  But just for his land of course.  

Driving through all the coastal towns was fun.  It is so beautiful there.  

One of the first things we did was rent some bikes and rode them up this trail that led to this lighthouse in Peninsula State Park.                                                                                                                                   

Then we stopped and played in the water.  It felt good because we were hot.

We climbed up this tower and saw some beautiful sights.

Then we saw the famous grass roof restaurant. They put goats on the roof to eat the grass and that is how they keep it mowed.  But the goats were not out that day.  We were sad we didn't get to see them.  It is a Swedish restaurant.  Kyle and I had met some people at the airport that said they knew a lady that worked there.  They told us to tell her hi if we went.  We didn't eat there but we did go in to see if the lady was there because we thought it would be really random to tell her hello from these people.  She wasn't there but we left her a note.                                                                                                                                              

Kyle and Erin were good sports while I searched for a decent priced, cute hoodie.  I finally found one and then we headed over to the Lake Michigan side.  It was cold there and our new hoodie's came in handy.

Kyle found out the water was pretty cold.

It was windy and the waves got pretty powerful.

Here's Kyle, being Kyle.

Kyle confessed his undying love in the sand.

On our way home we found a piece of Door county famous cherry pie.  We also stopped in Sturgeon Bay for dinner.  We had fantastic fried cheese curds there.  We were tired when we got back to Erin's house but had a wonderful time.                                                                                                                                

The next day, June 11th we went and toured Lambeau field.  Home of the Green Bay Packers!  That was my second stadium tour and I actually quite enjoy them.  It is interesting to find out the history of the teams and the facts about the facility.                                                                                                                     

Needless to say, Erin is a big fan.

Kyle decided to be a cheese head at least for the day.

After the tour we went across the street for a famous butter burger at Kroll's.  Pretty fattening but it was good.  We also had fried cheese curd again which I have decided I quite like. 

That day was also the day we had to leave.  I had strict instructions to bring cheese home or my brother might have disowned me.  So Erin took us to buy cheese before she took us to the airport.
For only being there three days we packed a lot in and had a really good time.  Now I just need to find me a handsome Wisconsin dairy farmer and then I can go back. :) Although I would have a hard time with the humid summers. 

Jazz Game and Ellie

A couple weekends ago I went to Salt Lake.  I had never been to a Jazz game and had been saying I wanted to.  My brother told me to come for one but what he really wanted was a haircut.  He then enticed me further telling me that his daughter could say my name.  I couldn't resist.  So Friday night the 14th my friend Natalie, my brother and some of his other friends went to the game.  Our seats were BAD.  No lie we were on the very top row.  It was still fun though. The Jazz were playing the Cavaliers.  The half time score was 70 to 50 in favor of the Jazz.  In the 3rd quarter it was a 9 point game at one point but then in the end the Jazz beat them pretty bad. The final score was 121 to 90.  The play of the game I thought was in the second quarter when there was consecutive around the back passes by two guys and then Ronnie Price hit a lay up.  Not to long after CJ Miles dunked it. 

This kind of shows how far away we were! :)

Natalie and I

The best part of my weekend was playing with my cute niece of course.  She is getting so big.  The first video is her saying my name.  The second one is of her singing the Elmo song.  You only need to watch the first 10 seconds of the second one.  The third one is her dancing.  She is cute!!!!

Isn't she darling!!!
That weekend I also went to brunch with my friend Julie.  It was good to catch up with her.  Saturday night I went to my friend Amy's birthday party.  I am friends with her whole family and they were all there except the youngest brother.  It was so good to see them all.  I had such a good time.  It was a really great weekend. 

Fun Halloween pictures!

I don't dress up for Halloween very often, but this year I was invited to a party and I found a creative idea online so I decided to make it.

I'm a box of tissue.  That Rubix cube is my friend Libby.

The party was at my friend Laura's house and she had some fun minute to win it games prepared.  We had a good time.  Here are some of the other people at the party.

Kacee was a bunch of grapes and Kyle was a hell's angel

I don't know the first guy very well but the "Slim Jim" is my friend Jason.  He is so funny!  (He has been featured on this blog before)  It just seemed like a perfect costume for him.

Then of course I couldn't leave out pictures of some of my cute nieces and nephews.

You can hardly see Bret, he was a ninja.  Marshal was a soccer player and Danny a skeleton.

I guess my Brother and his wife went to a party Friday and Saturday so they dressed Ellie up in two different costumes.  She looks adorable in both.

She is kind of pulling a funny face but this was the best picture of her sleeping beauty dress.

Crazy September

September was such a busy month!  Mostly good stuff, thank goodness.
-Found out I have a good judgment when picking a horse to bet on at the horse races.  I won 4 out of 6.  (Friendly betting with my friends. A dollar a race.)  I walked away with 11 more dollars than I came with! (Iron County Fair)

This is one of my winning picks!

 -Went to Time Out for Women with my sister and her friend K-Lee in Logan.  We had a great time and it was a great way to refresh! And got to see Ellie on the way home.

-Found out the salon I have been working at for the last three and a half years was going out of business.  Had two and a half weeks notice.  I had actually been expecting it.
-Found a brand new salon that would be opening right when we needed it too.  The new owner hired all of us from the old salon so we are all still working together! (pictures to come, it is really cute!)

-Skyfest was practically in my front yard!  I loved it!

 -Went to the Demolition Derby in Orderville, always a good time!

 -My brother and his family moving here.  So I got to meet my newest niece.  She's a red head and so very precious!

-Attended a fundraiser in my home town for my Uncle who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.  Makes me grateful for the small town I come from when you see everyone banned together like that!
-My Mom and Step-dad left on their mission to Nauvoo.  I am very excited for them but know I am going to miss them a lot.

You don't have to wait for the mail anymore. My Mom picture texted this to me. :)

-Nephew that just moved here's 5th birthday.

-On the very last day of September I packed up my stuff from the old salon into my car.  I was unemployed for the next four days.  The new place didn't open until October 5th.  It was kind of weird to not have a place to go work even if I wanted to.  Thank goodness it was only four days.
My four days of unemployment consisted of sleeping in, lunch with a friend, cutting hair in my bathroom, breakfast with a friend, going to Tuachan (which was rained out), driving to Provo and back in a day to see my Mom and Neal before they left the MTC, catching up on some TV shows, attending a piano concert, and then telling the boy that took me to the piano concert we would only ever be friends. Oops, think I made him mad!
Yep, it has been a busy month and a half.  I didn't even include the bridal shower and wedding of a former roommate/good friend.  Hopefully life will slow down a little.