June Birthdays

Where did May go?? I just realized we never posted June's string of birthdays and it's already the 7th!! Just read through Joel's recent blog post and we agree with him -- we overloaded ourselves in May with Dave's new semester, my new job, and still trying to enjoy the early days of summer! From the minute we both finally get home (close to about 9pm most evenings), we hit the kitchen to cook a decadent meal, then pop in a RedBox $1 movie rental and cozy up with some wine while we eat. It's kind of our "thing" lately.. We're cutting back big time on spending in order to prepare for the business loans in the (near) future, so that means A.) no more eating out, and B.) no more cable TV. But if you know us, you know we love food! So we still induldge by trying new ideas in the kitchen every night, and lately we've been making fancier meals than usual. It's been a lot of fun the past couple weeks, but I think we've watched just about every movie in the RedBox machine!

On to business...We've already missed saying Happy Birthday to two special people in our families, who actually share the same birthday it turns out!:

Grandpa Vertin's birthday was Friday June 5th!! This is sort of an old picture from 2006. We love you Grandpa!

Scott H's Birthday was also June 5th. Here he is with baby Ella!

Hope you both had an extra joyful day! :)


Nick W. will celebrate his birthday on Monday, June 8th. Hope you have a great day (work free?), Nick! And looking forward to seeing you next weekend!

That's it for June birthdays..another light month. We are definitely looking forward to next weekend. The Wagner's will be coming down on Saturday for a short visit. Friday and Saturday, the Schwartz's will be in town. So we're planning to hit up the COMO Zoo, which is the free zoo in St. Paul that I mentioned in a past blog post. I like to bring kids there that I babysit. It's an easy way to kill time..and did I mention it's FREE? Besides all the animals, they also have a huge nature conservatory, which was pretty amazing to walk through. Next weekend should be a pretty fun time, especially for the younger kids!

Ant that's about it for an update on us. Nothing too exciting enough to write about as of late. We were supposed to go out to Grand Ole Days in downtown St. Paul today, which is an outdoor festival on Grand Ave with a parade, food, all sorts of activities, but it's pretty crummy weather with rain and 50 degree temps, so we're hanging inside all day. I babysit at 4pm in Burnsville and Dave has a huge exam to study for. So until then, I'm going to continue cycling through our DVD gallery, of which I've watched just about every movie twice in the past few weeks. It's going to be a boring day... :) But that's okay, it's good to have some down time for a change!

More later!


- Elise