New Pics of the zoo and Minocqua

At the zoo!

He was biting my arm!!
Mat thinks he can match up to the gorilla!
Cute!

My sister and Luke in Wisconsin!

Mat and me!
The really cool stone "zoo" thing at the entrance of the St Louis Zoo.

Busy Weekend

Well this weekend was pretty fun. Mat and I went to Six Flags in St Louis. It was awesome. We drove down there early Saturday morning and we went to our hotel to check in at 11, which is what it said on the internet.... Well, come to find out, check in was not until 3:00pm. So we went to Six Flags and it was AWESOME!

We started off in the water park and went down a ride called the tornado...it was so scary - but very cool too. I love water parks! We were going to go down some awesome slides, but the lines were just too long for 10 seconds of fun. So we went back into the roller coaster and other area. Mat bought us the FLASH PASS and it was so worht the money! We got to skip every 3 hour line and enter thru the exit, and we got on the next ride! it was AWESOME!!!

Oh, One thing you should know about me, I am deathly scared of roller coasters... Roller coasters are a HUGE part of six flags. So I told Mat I would try it... and the first one I went on, because I knew I would be so scared and not go on another, was Batman. SCARY!!!! It went up, down, circle, side ways, oh man was it bad! I am so glad we did not wait in the long line for that! We were able to use our flash pass and just walk right up the back way and we were on it in about 5 mins. And I did not go on any other roller coasters the whole time! haha

Mat was a good sport though. He didnt want to leave me alone, so he said he wouldn't go on anymore, but I told him yes! So he went on Mr Freeze and maybe another one?? But we did go on the log ride together, the white water rafting one, Tony Hawk mini roller coaster, and that Tornado water one. -Oh the coolest thing ever now they have is a video of you on the ride... rather than just a picture! We bought the video of us on the Tony Hawk one - it was soooo coool! I love it!

Mat won me a prize too! He did the game where you hit the spot with a hammer and the lights go all the way up the thing to ring the bell... and guess what, he got it all the way up there! surprised? not me! haha

So we were exhausted after that awesome day and just went to our hotel and fell dead asleep. We were soooo tired! We woke up around 9, got breakfast and we were going to just head home when we, at the last minute, decided to go to the Zoo! We both LOVE zoos so we said, "why not??" The zoo was really cool. I will post some pics once I have them uploaded. We bought a cheesy frame to put a pic of us in, and we bought my nephew Luke a stuffed animal too. It was really a good day at the zoo!

We finally were headed home around 1 or 2. We got home, and guess what - didnt stop there! We went and saw StepBrothers with Will Ferrel - its HILARIOUS!!!!

So that was my awesome weekend! More later!

Lil bit of everything

Happy Summer! This is me and my baby at a party! I love this picture!

I don't even know where to begin. . .

My summer has been awesome so far. It is almost over and I am not looking forward to that.

work:

I love where I work, but lately, I have not been too busy. I am getting annoyed at people in my office, and it is just not as fun as it used to be. I think I am ready for a change, but I need to talk to my supervisor about that before I start looking elsewhere. My main concern is "Am I going to find a job where I can work as little as I am going to be able to with my school schedule?" I am really in a bind on what to do. Oh well, I will figure it out... always do. :-)

School:

Oh man - do I even want to open this can of worms? All I am hearing about is school! I feel like it's me leaving highschool and entering college for the first time - ALL OVER AGAIN! I have the pressure of going to Bradley because that is such a great school. But the negative - it is so expensive! Yes I know that is what student loans are for, but seriously, I am not going to be a doctor so I dont want like $60,000 of debt waiting for me when I graduate. A few other optionns that have crossed my mind are University of Illinois thru ICC... That would be very convenient because I could work more and have classes in the afternoonn and evenings. Eureka College has also entered my mind because that is where my fiance is going this fall. Not sure how that would work with travel and work and study time... but if it was meant to be, I think i'd figure it out.

Work full time? Perhaps I want to try to get a full time job and school part time? But then school would not be done for me for a looong time. So REALLY I DONT KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO!!! And believe me - it's killing me! I am an organized person with a plan and love sticking to the plan. I think that's the steve coming out in me. :-)

Personal Life:

Well I have been going on a few vacations this summer, and fully enjoying not taking any summer classes. Mat start football on Aug 16 and I won't be seeing him half as much as I get to now. So I am taking full advantage of seeing my baby whenever I can!!! :-) We are going to Six Flags this weekend because it is one of our last full weekends together until about December or January.

I have not been hanging out with my friends as much as I should be. But it's not because I don't want to! A bunch of them were working the fair that was in town last week, and Courtney has like a zillion jobs, plus babysitting. So between me and cat and the gym and my babysitting, it is hard to meet up with everyone. I know they get frustrated with me and think all I do is hang out with Mat, but that's not true. So anyways...

What else is new... Oh - I remember. I babysit for my sister a lot for free... almost whenever she needs me. Last night she told me that if anything ever happened to her kids, she could probably never forgive me. wow! curve ball! And I got that little statement because I wanted to take them 5 blocks up the road to dinner with their grandma. I was thinking - are you kidding me?? Do you think I would ever want anything to happen to Awesome Luke or Em??? I dunno - that just really hurt my feelings. Almost like - betraying me?? I just could not belive it. But guess what - I am going over there again tonight. So... anyways - forgive and forget right?? Not quite.

Ohhh Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift are coming here in concert in Sept! I am soo excited!!! I was going to wait in line with Jeff on Sat morning at 5:00am, but now Mat and I are going to St Louis. I will def be getting tickets to that asap! :-)

Well I think that is all for now. I am really going to try to use this thing more often... not sure if I want to vent my feelings on here, or just post some random thoughts - and maybe that is all I will use it for. Either way - I like it. So check back later!