Day 3 to Wisconsin

This day we took a road trip up to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Needless to say I was not impressed. Our first stop was at the Jelly Belly factory where took a train tour around the factory and then of course ended up in the gift shop. Where Brayton and I managed to fill a $20 bag of jelly beans.

We then headed over to Miller Field where the Brewers play and took a tour of the stadium. Rob, Brayton and I went down onto the field, into the dugout, the bullpen, and the behind the scene stands. It was really neat to be that close to the field.

Then we headed off to the Miller Brewery. Again we did a tour around the brewery and then had our samples of Miller beer. We then headed off to a cheese store and ate some cheese curds and had some grilled cheeses and hot dogs for lunch. Had to be the slowest service possible! :-)

We hoped out of the car to grab the picture

At the Jelly Belly factory

On the train around the factory

Miller Park

Down in the dugout

Out on the field

In the bullpen

At the Miller brewery

Inside the cave at the brewery

Rob and I having fun with the hats.

Sampling the beer

At the cheese store

The first Milwaukee lighthouse

We were quite tired on the way home.

Chicago Day 2

Today was hot as hell with 95% humidity. It was awful. But, we still pushed foward and did some sightseeing. We first took a very long walk to try and find Buckingham fountains. Which we eventually found. Then Brayton and I headed over to see the Picasso statue and then we went on an architectural boat tour on the Chicago river. We learned about the history of all of the buildings around Chicago. Then we ended the night at the Navy Pier where we went to eat at Harry Caray's Tavern, with homemade baked potato chips. Then back to the hotel to chill out and soak up the AC.

Brayton and the Chicago skyline

Brayton and I with the skyline

Mom and the skyline

Us at the resteraunt

In the front of Navy Pier

The Picasso statue

Buckingham Fountain

The Whitmyer's

The Williams

Rob and I went to cool off here.

The Chicago river

Chicago Day 1

Today we arrived in Chicago and started exploring right away. I had my first real Chicago deep dish pizza for lunch, it was very yummy! Then we walked around Michigan Ave. and watched the World Cup Soccer game with Dave. Then we went to rest for awhile at the hotel until the fam came in. Once they arrived we headed off to Taste of Chicago, which was amazing. There was so much food, it was crazy. Lots of good food there also. Then we took a walk through Millennium Park and saw sculptures from China and the Bean. The bean was amazing. Lots of cool pictures there.

Us in front of the bean

My first Chicago deep dish pizza

Brayton's first Chicago pizza

The famous Chicago theatre

Love the skyline on the bean, Mom and Robert in front.

The other side of the bean with a different skyline.

Brayton and I in front of the bean with the skyline background.

So cute!!!

Me taking a picture of myself under the bean.

This was us in front of one of the China sculptures.

Us at Millennium Park

At the entrance of Taste of Chicago

San Diego Day

Brayton and I went down to San Diego for the day and met up with Brayton's Uncle Terry and Aunt Debbie. They took us to a Padres game and we had great seats, 14 rows from the field. Brayton was able to go onto the field before the game and watch batting practice and meet some of the players. We met Luke Scott of the Baltimore Orioles. He was very nice and fun to hang out with. We all went out to eat together after the game. It was great that I got to spend time with Terry and Debbie to get to know them better.

Brayton and I with Uncle Terry and Aunt Debbie

Luke Scott and me

Us with Luke Scott at dinner

Brayton down on the field with Luke's people

Brayton and Luke on the field at Petco Stadium

Brayton and his Uncle Terry on the field

Brayton and I in front of Petco Field

Scrapbook Weekend

Friday night I went to a crop night with my mom and Mary. I got 12 pages done. I was very excited. I got to use a lot of the pages I had made over the month's at Chris's house. Then on Saturday I managed to do 6 more pages. I am trying to get through 2008. I would really love to be caught up. Right now I am sitting and watching New Moon. I really should be cleaning my house and doing homework, but don't really feel like doing either. We'll see how the rest of the day pans out.

Graduation Party Weekend

While in AZ we went to multiple graduation parties. Christine Min also had her promotion party from 8th grade to high school. It was a weekend of running around, eating, and visiting. It was a long, fun, but tiring weekend.

Nicole's Graduation from High School

Nicole graduated from Desert Mountain High School on May 26, 2010. I still can't believe it. This is the same school I graduated from 11 years ago. We all went to the graduation on the school's football field. It was a great ceremony. We had her party 2 nights later and had it all decorated in maroon and silver for the DMHS colors. We had great Maggiano's Italian and had fun catching up with old friends.

The cousins at graduation.

Nicole and Ally, BFF's

The graduate

Do you see her????

Before heading off to the graduation.