summer time and the living is easy.

so it's been a while. sorry faithful blog readers. I've been indulging in reading lots of food and sports blogs at work, and have neglected writing my own posts.

Summer has blown by entirely too quickly! I managed to spend every weekend in June having some kind of Wisconsin adventure. A visiting high school friend of Matt's on leave from the Air Force for the weekend, a wedding, a bike ride, sand bagging flooded river banks (and visiting Adam's farm) kept me in Wisconsin almost every Saturday.

The weekend of July 4th Matt & I was a blast, and later deemed 'the best weekend ever!' Friday was a long bike ride, dinner with the Kings (it's a tradition now), followed by fireworks in the fancy North West Burbs. Saturday morning we visited the famed Evanston Farmers Market to load up on fresh bread, cheese, berries, and veggies for a picnic at Ravania (out door concert venue North of Chicago). Once we loaded up on our fill of picnic goods, we found a 50 Meter outdoor pool so we could get a swim workout in (and then play on their slides and high dive). That evening we joined forces with Matt's folks and good pal Stephanie for a live performance of Praire Home Companion. Jerry provided some fantastic wine, and Mother Nature provided a glorious evening to be outside- and some of the best strawberries I have ever eaten!

This weekend Matt & I are doing our first tri's of the season. Matt will be doing a sprint distance, and I'll be doing an Olympic at the Kenosha tri on Saturday. So far the weather is predicted to be stormy and humid- lets hope that it'll pass tonight, or it'll hold off until the afternoon.

Otherwise all is well. We've managed to only take on one home repair project so far- installing a ceiling fan to replace the gawd awful lighting fixture in our dinning room. It's been fantastic!

I'll post tri results Monday, and attempt to keep ya'all better updated on our happenings!