Lemonade stand

The other day Kourtney (my bosses youngest daughter) and her friend Meredith wanted to have a lemonade stand. So I helped them make the lemonade and get everything together. It was pretty sweet because we took the golf cart out as our mobile stand.

We drove around the neighborhood and sold to all the workers.
They ended up making $25 in an hour and a half. Here is a cute picture of them jamming out.....


Jumping ahead a few days (today) on the way to work I was listening to the Ticket. They were talking about lemonade stands and all their memories of them. Then they had people call in with stories. This one guy called in to say that he had let his kids set up a lemonade stand on their own in front of the house, no biggie. Well, when his wife got home she was like "what are the kids doing out there"? He says "Having a lemonade stand" She says "we don't have any lemonade".......

Come to find out the kids had taken wine coolers out there and were selling those!!! Hilarious!!!

Wisconsin!!

Bryan and I are heading out for Wisconsin tonight. I am so excited to see all of our family!! Everyone is going except Steph & Sean and the kiddos. They are working on selling their home so they can't make it.

The fourth in Wisconsin is amazing! The lakes, the parades and beautiful weather! The highs will be around 85 and the lows around 60, nothing like Texas! Here is the rundown for our trip:

1. Graduation party for my cousin Madelynn in Brookfield
2. Head to Madison to see Nana and Bapa.
3. Maybe a little sailing
4. Help Nana & Bapa do some stuff at the house/garage sale
5. Back to Milwaukee Saturday night to go to Grandma's
6. Lake on the 4th, fireworks, boats, great food, and lots of family!! (This will be the first time Bryan meets a lot of my Dad's side of the family, so I'm looking forward to it!)
7. Parade on the 5th- one of the best parades
8. Brewer game after that (tailgate included)
9. Head back to the sauna of Texas.

Everyone have a great 4th!!! Enjoy this beautiful country that we are all blessed to live in!

Life

I feel like our lives are so busy right now, but I have no clue what to blog about. Strange how that works.

Things have been great at the Baker household. Last week we had our first community group meeting. I'm so excited to be a part of a group and I think we have a great crew! Bryan played basketball in Garland in Junior High with one of the guys in our group, craziness! I feel like everywhere we go he knows someone.

Weekends have been pretty busy with birthdays, families, and friends. Last weekend we had Jackson's 1st birthday party! It was so much having all the kiddos together. Then we saw Gant compete in the Scottish Highland games in Arlington. He got 1st place in several areas and moved up from the C group to the B group. It was great spending time with him and Courtney.

This coming weekend we are running the Susan G. Komen 5K with Bryan's work. I'm really excited about that! The Kerns' are joining too so that makes it even more fun. Other than that life is great!

Siesta Key

We had a great time in Siesta Key with The Hausler's. Thursday night we arrived and went to the Daiquiri Deck.

Steph's cards were on sale in the gift shop and that was so neat to see:



Friday we laid out and got a little too burnt. We also went on a walk and saw these guys kite surfing, it looked like so much fun!






That night we grilled out on the beach. It was perfect. We danced to Van Morrison and had a wonderful time! It was the perfect evening.











Afterwards Bryan and I went up to a hole in the wall bar called Captain Kurt's and they had karaoke going on. There were some great singers there, even a girl who used to be on American Idol.

The next day was a little rough because Bryan got the flu. So while he rested Lori and I walked to see the sand castle competition. There were about 20 different creations. It was neat to see how creative they get!




Fish in a Barrel:



Shark eating a gator with a guy in the middle (this won 1st place):


That night Bryan was feeling better so we went to Phillipi Creek, one of our families favorite places!






Unfortunately Bryan was not all better and it carried over for a couple more days.
We still had a great time and I'm so thankful we were able to go!

Sarasota here we come!!

Bryan, Shane, Lori and myself leave for Sarasota today!! This will be our first time back since the big engagement. We are thrilled to share one of our favorite places with the Hausler's.

We'll have to show them where it all went down in front of the yellow lifeguard stand



I'm sure we'll make time for walks on the beach...


And lots more pictures...


I think we both have lost weight since this pic:) I'll post some pics after the trip too. I wish everyone could come down with us!! Maybe next year we can do a big group and all go together!!

Food & Weddings

Crystal told me about this really neat food website that her roomie Christy uses. They have such beautiful pictures and some pretty creative recipes.

I am trying to branch out and make some new stuff for the hubs. One night I made a spicy salmon pasta. I know it sounds random, but it was probably the best thing I have ever made! John and Josh came over and cleaned out about half the pan. I did substitute a soft white cheese instead of using cheddar though.

Here's a cool wedding website too from the same people as the food gawker. I love these different ideas, it makes me want to get married all over again. Maybe we'll just have re-new our vows or I can help out friends with their weddings instead.

Wedding videos

Here are some videos that Uncle Tim filmed of our wedding:

I love seeing Bryan walk down the aisle, since obviously I couldn't be there for that part



The kids are too funny:



This is great, the boys debating over our fantasy football league:



I wish we could go back and do it all over again. That was such a fun day!!