Wisconsin

We took our annual summer trip to Wisconsin last week. Matt's grandparents have a house on Lake Michigan that the family calls, "The Cottage." It was a very restful and relaxing trip...just what we both needed. We took walks on the beach, read our books, played Scrabble, ate delicious food made by Grandma Schaefer, and caught up on sleep!

We got there Friday night, and on Saturday the family threw me a surprise baby shower. Apparently Matt knew about it, but he did a good job hiding it from me. I was completely shocked! What a blessing! His aunt went through so much trouble to make sure everything was gluten-free! It was the sweetest thing! She even found a baker in the Milwaukee area that makes everything GF, so I even had a GF cake! It was YUMMY!


The only bummer of the trip is that it was COLD! For the first 3 days the temperatures barely reached 70, and it was eerily foggy. We were looking for a break from the St. Louis heat, but I was at least hoping for the mid-70s and some sun! We had to wear pants and long sleeves.

I swear it was perfect weather to shoot a horror movie!

This is Matt with the cottage in the background. Lake Michigan is directly behind me as I'm taking the picture. I think this is the day we went into Sheboygan (a small city about 12 miles north of the cottage) and walked along the boardwalk on the lake front. We found the cutest little shops to browse. One of them was called "Little Dickens" and they were having a big sale, so we managed to find a few "too good to pass up" deals for our baby girl.

This is a picture of the lake the morning we had to leave. It was the first beautiful day. We had sun and nice weather the day before we left, but it was still a little too chilly to hang out at the beach all day. Of course, the day we leave would have been perfect for that. Oh well...we'll go later in the summer next year. Overall, it was a great trip!

The Mugg Wedding

It seems like the only time Matt & I take pictures together is when we're at a wedding. We have SO few pictures of us together, it's unreal. For a long time it was because we didn't have a digital camera, and developing film was too much of a hassle. We finally bought a camera about a year ago, but we never remember to take it anywhere with us, unless it's a big event.

Anyway, we had a wedding to go to last night, so we remembered the camera. It was a special wedding, because the groom was the Mugg's son, Jordan. (The Muggs are a family at our church that pretty much adopted Matt when he worked at our church with the youth group. That's how he got to know their kids so well. When we started dating they got to know me, too...and eventually I was adopted in as well.) The wedding was beautiful and the reception was at the very fun City Museum...so it was a great stage for pictures. We pretty much had a photo shoot with our friends the Wilkins. Here are some of the shots that were captured. (We are by no means professional photographers, but I think some of them turned out pretty well.)

Check out my hot hubby in his summer suit! Pretty snazzy, huh?

Thanks Beth and Erin for the great dress! (It was a team effort!) It worked out perfectly!

A fun prego pic! I'm at 30 weeks now!

A very cheesy prego pic...can you tell that my hands are in a heart-shape around my belly? We were getting a little slap-happy...it had been a long day of wedding festivities.

I like this one a lot.

But this one is my favorite! Doesn't it look like we're sitting in a piazza somewhere in Italy? It's nice to dream!

Sadly, this is the only picture we have of the bride and groom. Again, we're just not that good at remembering when to pull out the camera.

Some of you may be wondering why they chose the 4th of July for their wedding. Well, when you're in the Air Force and the military controls your life, you don't have much of a choice as to when your wedding will be. You get married when you know you're going to have 3 days off in a row. They literally left the next morning and started driving out to California where he is stationed for the time being. They'll go on a honeymoon when the military tells them they can...which might be when he retires from the military! :)