Brewers - Giants Game

Yesterday Owen and I drove up to Milwaukee to see the Brewers play the Giants. We had a great time and experienced some fun things, although Barry Bonds (two homers away from Hank Aaron's all-time homerun record) had a disappointing game. Owen got cotton candy, a baseball card and some free time with Dad.
Either Owen had a really good time or he ate a little too much cotton candy.


The famous weiner race. The polish dog won (in case you were wondering).


The view from our seats - I'm glad we bought binoculars.



Owen and his binoculars.



Miller Park

Here are photos from our weekend trip to Nauvoo and Carthage, Illinois. We enjoyed learning the history of these places and the sacrifices of our ancestors that lived here at one time. We are very grateful to have been able to visit and spend time here - at least for a day.

The temple is incredibly beautiful and the rest of the LDS church sites are well restored and presented to visitors. We especially enjoyed seeing the pioneer blacksmith and brickmaking presentations.

Our visit to the Jelly Belly warehouse in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin (25 minutes from home) turned out to be much more fun and rewarding than we planned. After the tour of the factory and sampling different flavors of jelly beans in the company store, we found a safety fair outside the building hosted by the local police and fire departments.

The boys were invited to ride bikes on a small cone course and then given free bike helmets! It turned out to be a great afternoon. Owen initially wasn't too excited about riding a Barbie bike on the course, but when he realized he could get a helmet, he jumped right on and whizzed through the course. Corbin walked the course with Maddy and at the end threw his arms up in the air and shouted "Hooray! We did it!"

The boys insisted on wearing their new bike helmets the rest of the day. They wore them through the safety fair, inside the car, and playing inside the house. Needless to say, there were no traumatic head injuries that day - we were protected.

The past few weekends have been very exciting. We have had numerous adventures to places like Milwaukee, the Jelly Belly Warehouse in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, Wrigley Field. One weekend we met up with Ken & Cathy Duffy at Navy Pier and had a nice time catching up with them and seeing the boats coming in and out.

Overall, we have been surprised that we have been able to see everything we wanted without having to spend too much money or time to do so.

In early June, Nick's brother Randy flew out to spend a weekend with us and we had a blast. We visited the Chicago LDS temple and saw the city. The boys were especially sad to see Randy go. For a short time after Randy's visit, Corbin would include in his bedtime prayers Randy's name repeated over, and over, and over.