See ya later, alligator!

We're off to see our fam-dittle-ly over the weekend and a few days into next week and I can NOT wait. We leave her at 5:00 a.m. (gag me) tomorrow morning and get back on Tuesday. We're gonna spend some quality time with my side of the family at Nathan and Lindsey's house. We'll be playing golf, swimming, going to the fake beach, playing intense board games, blessing the newest addition to the family, and just having fun. So long, suckers! Chicago, here I come!

Better late than Never

Happy a few-days-late 4th of July. David and I have a fabulous weekend free of work (well Sunday and Monday that is!) filled with fireworks, BBQs, swimming, another painting project, a mini-bazaar thing, and just relaxing together. Here's to 2 years together! haha

Our friend, Tausha, had her birthday on the 2nd so during dinner, on a whim, a few of us decided to drive down to Evanston to buy the good illegal fireworks. The worker lady told us if we spent $100 combined we could get a free $40 big firework. Of course, after we looked around it was easy to spend the $100 bucks. We got some Roman Candles, firecrackers, bottle rockets, giant exploding fireworks like at the shows, and other random fun stuff. It was a blast launching them off with people in the parking lot (don't tell Management!! haha). We had to take the huge free $40 one to the Costco parking lot though because it was WAY too big and we didn't want to get a $500 fine. We already had the fire marshall constantly circling the block because he say our fireworks driving by. I have to say that my favorite fireworks were the Roman Candles. We would shoot them while someone ran in front. Sounds dangerous but was so fun and FUNNY! I love the 4th and I'm already sad it's over.

Our illegal loot

David wanted to get this big box but it was a litte too much at $1,000!

The "group" at Iggy's for Tausha's bday