Jeez Louise!  It's been a while since I've had a chance to touch base on here at all..  the past few weeks we've just been busy with yard work, wedding events, and simply living.

A few weeks ago we were at some good friend's wedding at the Van Dusen Mansion in Minneapolis.  It was BEAUTIFUL! It was such a fun night.

in love with this little boy!

Over labor day weekend, we went to Chase's dad's house for some family time.  I was able to finally spend some time with our new handsome little nephew, Brayden.  He is SO precious!  Not going to lie, a little part of me was a little baby crazy..  HOWEVER, let me vent a little bit about the scenario.  Chase's younger brother (who's my age) married a beautiful young girl who just graduated high school.  Because that's what you do..  you graduate High School, find a nice Christian boy to take care of you, get married, and have some babies.  Right??  No need for any life experiences, education, traveling..  who needs that when all you need is a nice boy to take care of you?!  This is the mindset of my sister in-law.  Now, I want to be clear that I mean no offense for anyone who desires this.  Or desires this for their children.  It simply isn't for me..  So meanwhile, Chase's parents won't STOP asking when we're going to have babies!!!  It's constant "You've been married for a year now, where are the babies!??  We want grandchildren!"  I finally looked at my father in-law and said "I'm not getting old!  I'm ONLY 27!  We've ONLY been married a year!  It's going to happen eventually!"  We're still enjoying ourselves!  My eggs aren't going to go bad..  people don't have kids these days until 35 or 40.. or even later in life!  We are in NO way off track, in my eyes.  We will have children.  Maybe sooner than later, maybe not.  But I really hate the pressure they're putting on us just because the younger sibs had a baby.

Whew.. that was so not the point of this blog!  Just a little side vent, I suppose!

Anyways..  last weekend we had bachelore/bachelorette parties!  And it was such a blast..  The girls did a Happy Hour boat cruise on the Mississippi through Minneapolis, then went back to a friends house for some games, then went out to the bars in Northeast Minneapolis.  It was a good time!

The boys did a Salmon Fishing excursion in Milwakee.  They caught SO MUCH FISH!

Check out these Gigantic Fillets!