Pathetic

It's true. I am a pathetic blogger. I claimed I would start posting weekly... and that didn't even last a week. I am getting back on the wagon. But it is going to take a picture overload to do so.

Milwaukee: We went up north and signed our lease (YAY!) This brought a big sigh of relief to know where we will be living in a few months, a cute little suburb only 10 MINUTES away from downtown! The suburbs up north remind me of the small town I grew up in- no sidewalks or lines on the roads, people just walk along the side of the road and wave to everyone. We were THE ONLY car on the road when we drove around to scope out some neighborhoods! Love it! We will start looking for houses as soon as we get up there and hope to buy this fall. We did this the last weekend in February. Since it is only 4 hours away we went up and back in one day.

After we drove around for a little while we went to our beach from this summer. We have been talking to Nate a lot about the move and we looked at pictures this summer from Milwaukee. Nate said he wanted to go to the beach while in Milwaukee. I knew it would be cold, but I was not expecting this:
Yes, that's ice. It was like a glacier. Chris and Nate went out and walked on it, all the way to the water's edge (yikes!). Chris said it was a couple feet thick. Crazy. I have never seen anything like this. Those little dots are Chris and Nate. And check out the rainbow bridge on the right. CRAZY!! This is the beach of Lake Michigan.

Next we went to The Domes, Milwaukee's botanical garden. They were having a Lego and train exhibit, two favorites of the guys in this family.

It was actually pretty lame. Chris thought it would be fun to come here to get ideas for plants for his writing (he has written 3 short stories this semester and is working on his 1st novel: fantasy/ sci fi) so we were glad we went and plan to visit again, it just wasn't the fun thing we were hoping to do with the kids to give them a break before we drove home.

So we went to Betty Brinn's Children Museum next. I knew this would be a hit because it was a favorite place to go this summer. Nate's favorite: the garage where he could change the oil, tires, put on a new muffler- you name it.

The weather has been yo-yoing. One day this week Nate opened the door and said, "Where'd the warm weather go?" We are trying to take advantage of the warm days we have mixed in here and there.



Andy will be 7 months this week! No, he still doesn't have any hair, but in his 6th month he has started to crawl, gets himself into a sitting position, prefers to sit like a tri-pod with one arm and both legs on the ground and then use the other arm to grab toys, and SAYS DADA. He says it allllll the time! That was both boy's first word. I can't blame him. He is a great dad.