St Patty's Day Weekend

Scotty was not on call this weekend... so automatically it was a great weekend- plus we seriously celebrated St. Patricks Day, seriously. On Friday night we hosted a green dessert party. The Halls, Neilsons, Logans, and Matty and Kim came over and we had a great night catching up and eating.We did our usual get together night- all the girls sat on the floor and laughed hysterically over something for hours while the boys got the chairs and talked med school. Scotty was so excited to have Irish music playing via pandora. Unfortunately I didnt take any pics.. again, except for my Mtn Dew cupcakes that surprisingly turned out delish. Jess made green sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting and fruit, Kim made breadsticks with a pot of gold (cheese dip), Danielle brought mint icecream, and Alison made shamrock shakes. Needless to say.. my baby was freaking out the rest of the night, total sugar rush. Luckily he calmed down around midnight after everyone left and I crashed on the couch.


On Saturday we slept in and then drove down to Chicago for the festivities. It was very adventurous of us since I'm prego but to spend the day with my hubs in the city was so worth the tender, swollen feet. We found awesome parking (only $6 for the day) and started walking down to the parade scene. It was crazy insane to say the least. There were swarms of green... most were drunken youngies (yes I know they were prob our age) but there were also lots of families with strollers and surprisingly some small babies. Of course we got slurpees at the first 7eleven we saw (there is seriously one on like every corner.. love chitown).

We made it down to millennium park to attempt to see the parade... when we got down there Scotty (not me, surprisingly) had to pee so bad that he made his way over to the portapotties. Since he left his cell phone at home I told him I would wait right by this tree... 45 minutes and one anxiety panic attack from me later he finally came back. By then the parade had already started, a drunk girl had puked by the tree, swarms of partiers had invaded the trees to get a better view, tons of livid families leaving, a group of skank girls doing green jello shots in the middle of the park and one overheated pregnant lady, already tired from standing. Ridiculous. The weather was gorgeous.. 80 degrees! Girls were in swim suit tops and shorts and everyone wore flip flops. Crazy. Once scotty finally came back, we gave up on the plan of actually "seeing" the parade through the crowd and walked to the park were it was more open. Or so we thought. Everyone had the same plan as us apparently because they had to block off the bean due to crowding. I reached my breaking point and told scotty we had to get out of there!! I could only protect my belly so much while hooligans tried to hop the fence to the bean, only to be chased by the cops. It was out of control. 

We got lunch at johnny rockets and it was so nice to sit... and eat.. and people watch. Then we went to the river- I couldn't believe how neon green it was dyed. So amazing to see- made it all worth it!

We spend the afternoon walking michigan ave until I couldn't hide my exhaustion in my expressions anymore. I did pretty well all day and was really proud of myself. Despite the crowds, it honestly felt good to have a mini vacay with the hubs before I go home this week. I'll be back in Utah on the 22nd!!!

cheers!

Happy Valentines Day

{I will always love you}

We celebrated this year on Sat since I have young womens tonight and Scotty has studying. We had plans to go to pf changs but I've had a cold all week and while we were waiting there I started to feel super sick and had no energy to wait an hour longer... so we went to 5 guys. Romantic huh? Hey, when you are craving hamburgers and fries it sounds way better then chinese food! It was delish. It was fun to have a date night with the hubs and reminisce about past valentine days. We saw The Vow after. Kinda expected more but it was really good.  I love the two actors... they are so cute together. Scott liked it too since it wasn't a typical cheesy chic flick. Totally a movie I will own later.
After we went home and ate chocolate covered strawberries  :)

I love you babes!! xoxo

candy cane lane

every year Scotty and I take a drive down

Candy Cane Lane

Its not really a lane...but rather an entire block of houses that are decorated like crazy. Santa is even there and hands out candy canes when you make a donation to some charity. Since we don't have snow yet and it still hasn't hit me that's its December... it was a great night to get us in the Christmas spirit!!

and my favorite.. the penguin house

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

Although we don't have any pictures to prove it, Scotty and I had a great Thanksgiving break :) Some holidays are just not the same living away from home but we made the most of it by getting together with friends and enjoying a fabulous meal. Since we didn't host we spent the morning putting up Christmas decorations and watching the Packers game. We ate at the Jackmans with some other couples and we all went over to the Logans to meet up with more couples for desert. Everything was so delish!

Scotty and I spend the rest of the weekend decorating, shopping and relaxing! We have so much to be grateful for at this time. Just to name a few of our many blessings...

amazing friends

scott being a 3rd year med student

my job

the convenience of my job

our health

loving and supportive families

our time we've been able to spend together this semester (this will change in a few months)

our apartment (it finally feels like home)

our car (even though we only have one, at least the one we have works and hasn't been stolen)

our supportive church members

our safety (we recently got a new girl in young womens who is from Mexico and came here to live with her aunt & uncle because of the violence in her neighborhood... makes Wisconsin not seem as dangerous)

clean water 

peanut butter and jelly sandwich's (my staple for every lunch) 

leave in conditioner

zumba & yoga

woodmans (a less expensive grocery store so we can get the most for our limited amount of $)  

cells phones

skype

imessage (so we can text through his itouch when his phone doesn't have service)

an amazing husband 

Our life right now is seemingly perfect and with only a year and a half left in Milwaukee we are making the most of our time and looking forward to our future.

Life is good