Oh....

...so we're suppose to be updating this?

Life seems to have gotten away from us a bit over the past few months, but I think it's starting to finally get back together! And since we've been so neglectful towards updating this, here's a recap of our past couple of months.

I survived another year of VBS, followed by a High School Girls Retreat. While I was on the retreat, Steve went with my grandpa, dad, brother and cousin for guys fishing weekend up in northern Wisconsin. They caught a few fish, but the memories they took away from it were priceless!

Once we both returned from our various weekend trips, we packed our bags and headed WAY south, to New Braunfels, TX. I did my DCE Internship in New Braunfels, but the reason for the trip was to visit Steve's sister, Robyn, who moved down there in December. We also went to help her move into her new place. But, while we were there, we got to catch up with some old friends I had worked with, drove a couple hours to visit with some good family friends, and FINALLY got to eat some good BBQ! Since I moved from New Braunfels 5 years ago, my mouth hasn't stopped watering for Rudy's BBQ, so needless to say, it was the first stop on our list!

While we were in Texas, we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary! It's hard to believe it's already been that long, but at the same time, it's hard to remember a time when we didn't know each other! We celebrated by driving 2 hours and having lunch with some really good family friends--their daughter was our flower girl!

This guy...

Became this guy....

and forever ruined our ability to watch a football game without having someone discussing it. And it also ruined our ability to watch the sports-cast on our local news channels. At some point and time people forgot that sometimes we just want to watch the Packers without having to talk about Favre.

We spent a weekend playing tourists with our friends from Springfield, IL-The Gauvins. We spent some time at the Children's Museum, playing around at the lakefront, and of course...a stop at the Bronze Fonz.

Also new since we last updated...Steve welcomed in a new decade! At the end of September, Steve turned the big 3-0, but we celebrated St. Louis style with his best friend, Paul. Paul and Steve have been friends since the 2nd grade, and since their 30th birthdays were only a month apart, we had a combined party for them at the end of August. We celebrated Steve's actual birthday in Wisconsin with my mom, brother, aunt and uncle. They loaded him up on all kinds of fishing supplies, so it looks like another Guys Weekend is in the works!

These guys clinched the Central Division, but first we got to see them play again in Milwaukee. Mike and Steve were the grill masters as we waited for traffic to clear out of Miller Park over Labor Day.

One of the local grade schools was in a bit of a bind for a 5th-8th grade coed soccer coach, and one of the parents (who belongs to our church) found out that Steve used to play soccer. Before long, this dad and Steve became the coaches for the Elm Grove Lutheran soccer team. As of today, they are 2-0 and Steve's having a blast coaching. And from the sound of a couple girls in my Confirmation class, they seem to like him too.It's officially fall in Southeastern Wisconsin! The leaves have started changing colors and covering up our green grass. The temperatures definitly are more fall like, and we are desperately trying to avoid turning on our heat!