A Month Gone By...

...much too quickly!!

July started out while I was still at Camp LuWiSoMo for a Servant Event with some of our high school girls, and it has just seemed to disappear since then! We did get to take a trip back to St. Louis to celebrate the wedding of one of Steve's friends.

Brett, and his bride, Christi

We lucked out on this trip to St. Louis, because the wedding fell on the weekend before the All-Star game! So we took some time to check out everything downtown had to offer! And we got to do it while spending time with my cutie of a godchild!

Jordan, and her godparents

Outside Busch Stadium

Following the trip to St. Louis, I headed off to New Orleans for the National Lutheran Youth Workers Conference, where I was able to catch up with some friends from school and was able to start scoping out the city for the 2010 National Youth Gathering.

Next on our list? Vacation Bible School and the High School Girls weekend retreat for me, and a boys fishing trip for Steve, followed by VACATION to see Steve's sister in Texas, and a trip to St. Louis (where else?!) to celebrate the 30th birthdays of Steve and his friend Paul.

We're hoping that your summer has been filled with all kinds of good memories!

Summerfest 2009

The largest music festival has officially come to a close here in Milwaukee. And sadly, we were only able to attend one night. :( Steve and my brother, Mike, went to a concert earlier in the week (Jason Aldean) while I was at Camp LuWiSoMo for a Servant Event with some of our high schoolers. After I got back from that, we headed down on the 4th to see Huey Lewis and the News. We anticipated being the only 20-somethings in the crowd, but we were pleasantly surprised to see how many of us there were! We did leave that concert a little early to head over to another stage to see Flogging Molly, an Irish rock band. We ended up REALLY enjoying that one!

This is Huey, thus proving we were at the concert. (Even though you're just going to have to take our word on it since even with my 16x zoom, we were still too far back to get a clear picture).

And of course, one of our favorite pasttimes at Summerfest is people watching and tshirt reading. On our official panel of judges, this shirt received runner-up. Apparently, some people in Wisconsin are still a little bitter about Brett Favre possibly/almost definitly playing for the Vikings next year.

And this shirt took home first prize...

You can't beat a Brewers fan (and yes, he is one! We asked!) who can still admit that the Cardinals have a manager who can outsmart theirs. We did not however, ask what he thinks of their new manager.