Wheelin'

So, the weekend before last 

Superman and I decided to head north for a day of wheelin' with the Olsen's.

We loaded up the truck and headed out.

One of the first things we saw on the trail was this big hole in the base of this tree.

Rocky refused to go stick his head in and a take a look around. Sheesh!

A little later we stopped and had our picture taken together.  :)

By this stream.

Rocky was looking for gold.

And I saw lots of flowers.

Pink ones.

And white ones.

We stopped and checked out this nice lake that we drove by.

Then we hit the trail and tried to outrun the mosquitos.

Then we stopped in here for a bite to eat.

They had REALLY good burgers. 

Or maybe we were just REALLY  hungry.

Then we saw this flash of brightness in the woods.

So we stopped and Superman went and got a piece for me.

He's so nice like that!

And here it is.

God has some nice contrast going on there!

Oh my! Do you think its deep?

Not too bad.

Then we went back to the Olsen's for dinner. 

And Rocky grilled......

This delicious bear.

Raquel rode her bike without training wheels.

Preston watched the fire.

And Hailey,  well.... She was just her cute self.

Before After

In our new house we have two bedrooms upstairs. They will both be guest bedrooms.

They both have hideous pink carpet and pink and purple walls. Right now I can't do much about the carpet because we are doing work in other parts of the house. But I was able to do some inexpensive work on one of the bedrooms this week. So, here are a few before and afters.

There ya go. Now on to the next room. :)

SURPRISE!!

SURPRISE!!

 So, here I am again. As most of you know, we have moved back to Wisconsin.  Not to "That One Place In Wisconsin".  To another place. But instead of starting a new blog called "That Other Place In Wisconsin"  I am just going to keep on using this one. I have to tell you all, I was less than excited about moving here.  When Superman and I came to the area looking for a place to live my 'Wisconsin is my dream place to live' bubble got popped!  Of course we came at the end of winter and everything here was so blah.  The best way to describe it would be to just imagine seeing everything in black and white. With a little brown here and there.  Yep very blah.  But Spring has Sprung in the area and it is B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L! Here are some photos that I have taken lately.

This is what our house looked like when we bought it.

And this was taken this evening.  See those two windows upstairs?

Aren't they screaming for window boxes?

I found this little nest right by our front porch.

And these were tucked back behind my house.

This was a big grapevine I found growing on the side yard.

These Lilly of the Valley's were on the side of my house and garage.

I was super excited to find them because my grandma has them at her house too.

I found this metal bucket in a pile of weeds 

and decided to put it to good use.

 This is my back yard.  Up that hill is our house.

I took a walk out in the back and I found one of these. :)

And some of these.  I know they are very common but

they are pretty.

Superman was most excited about this little find in the side yard.

And I have thousands of berry bushes.

And this is the front of our house.  It is minus the bush on the 

bottom of this picture.  

That is all for now.  More stuff later.

The Last Bit of Fun Before the Not So "Good" Bye

So, my year long adventure has come to and end.  That's right, Superman has decided we belong in misery Missouri. So sad since I had such an amazing time in Wisconsin. But time to look onward.  First, however, here are a few photos of the last couple of things we did.

One day we drove down to the Wisconsin Dells and met up with 

the Olsens who were staying there for the weekend.  The place was awesome! 

Here is a picture of just a small part of the place we stayed for the day.

There was a pottery store there where you could make stuff.

It was cool.  Lisa, Raquel and Preston were really getting at it.

While Hailey was being her sweet self.

A while later we all enjoyed the great outdoors at the Olsens' house.

Preston turned that seat into a merry go round and went

round and round and round.

And Rocky kept a safe distance 

While Lisa practiced up on her aim.

And Uncle Kelly taught Raquel how to shoot my pistol.

Then Lisa and I enjoyed one last bottle of wine together.

And I started packing stuff up.  :(

Blue eyed boy and his buddy came to help load stuff up.

We needed all the extra muscle!

 The first little disaster of the trip happened right in the front yard.

When Chris unhooked his truck from the trailer and pulled away,

it sunk all the way down into the mud.

But they managed to jack it up and get hooked on to 

Superman's truck.

Here is our fare well party. Not very chipper huh?

Ya, I know it is blurry. 

 ( I thought it might be from my tears but I guess I was really out of focus)

And one last shot of my beautiful sister in law. 

What a great time we had.  I miss her.

So we got everything loaded up and we headed south to Missouri.

We made it all the way to Iowa before our second little disaster.  

( I say little disaster but it was much bigger than other things that had happened.  

Things like pulling over to take a break and the pugs getting loose and taking off. 

Or When the keys to the truck got lost while we were stopped for the night.)

Yep, like usual, the tire on the trailer  started falling apart on the highway.

Sunday evening, a good 30 miles from a decent sized town with 2 very impatient dogs and 

one good ole blue heeler. Stranded.

Superman decided to creep on down a dirt road that ran along the highway to the next town.

I called mom and told her to look up a pet friendly hotels in the next town.

Luckily there was one pretty darn close and reasonable in price with a room available. 

So we slowly rolled on in and got a room.

Little bits of relief were starting to creep in to our frazzled brains 

as we got comfy in room with the dogs.

Our man/child, Austin had headed out the door to find a soda machine when just a minute later

he came bursting back through the door laughing.

He said a lady was walking down the hall with a black pug following her that looked just like Jack and part way down he just walked over and hiked up his leg and well, you know. 

He said she turned around and then just kept on walking like nothing happened.  

How embarrassed she must have been to have her dog behave like that.

By the end of our laughing I had to go to the car and get a few things and 

Austin was going out for soda again.

When we opened the door to leave, there stood Jack.  Our Jack! 

Waiting to get back in the room.  It was only seconds when we realized, 

there was not another pug in the place.  Just Jack

What a naughty boy!

So our "pet friendly" hotel was a pretty nice place and we were all exhausted.

I found this unusual little gift on the counter as I was getting ready to go to bed.  

How nice I thought but who really sleeps so lightly that they need earplugs.

No one in our family.

I crawled in under the covers and was just on the verge of sleep when I heard an extremely loud horn.

A train horn.  I could swear it was coming down the hallway! 

But it was actually across the street.

Now I know the true meaning of the complimentary earplugs and 

it was not because of the pets.

After a sleepless night we got a new tire and headed south once more.

When we got to the farm it was time to unload.

Mason was supervising.

(You think he was waiting for the four wheeler to be unloaded?)

The End.

Really.  It is the end.  

The end of 'That One Place in Wisconsin'.  

It was an amazing adventure. And such fun to blog about.

But this is good bye.  Thanks to all that followed me.