{Random pictures from the summer}

Here are some random pictures from the summer that didn't fit into a folder but need to be talked about....just because.

And of course we'll start off with food:

We ate a good amount of deep dish pizza in Chicago.....

 

Also, this is delicious spinach artichoke deep in the crust of a deep dish pizza. 

We went to a Famous Dave's Barbeque restaurant...oh my goodness it was heavenly....

One morning the husband woke up and made us a delicious breakfast quiche! What a talented husband I have! What I lucky wife I am!

we went to go see Circus Boy perform at the neighborhood library... that was an entertaining show!

Here are some pictures of the kids of the family that we were house sitting for all summer. We overlapped our stay with them for 1 week at the beginning of the summer and 2 weeks at the end. As you can note by my smaller belly, these pictures were taken during the first week of the summer.

Main street of our little town

It rains in Chicago like it rains in Texas... this is one of the big storms that we had.... it was crazy! Luckily our power only flickered for a minute as opposed to going off and staying off for the next 3 days like many neighborhoods close by....

Here is some of the debris that I cleaned up the next morning....crazy!

The family we were staying with had a pool table in their basement and during our last few weeks there we played a couple dozen games... it was awesome! Pool is fun even if you're bad....but we got to be pretty decent by the time we left! PS - check out this wonderful winning shot the husband set up for me :)

this is the pile of ironing that needed to get done once we got back to Provo... aughhhhh. I'm kind of OCD about ironing so no, I did not just throw them in the dryer and pull them out, but I [along with some help of some family in town :) ] ironed that whole blasted pile.

We reorganized our DVDs - mostly we were sick of all the room that they were taking up and wanted to do something about that. We thought about just putting them in a CD/DVD book and trashing the boxes, but we hated the idea of losing the cover art and we both agreed that it's quite difficult to find movies that you want to watch without the cover art....So we found this magical book on amazon that has a pocket for the cover art and allows for 2 dvds per cover art. Brilliant. So, now all of our DVDs are transferred to this big book and all those space-eating boxes are gone. [I was planning on just throwing them away, but the husband insisted we take them to the DI and to have someone else throw them away.... ha!] 

The husband's side of the family got us this wonderful desktop for my graduation present - it's beautiful! Plus, it has a massive screen....massive, friends. So, we sold our TV and use the desktop as a TV as well....the only TV we watch is on hulu and DVDs so....it's awesome!