where do I live again?

I have not stayed in Madison for a whole weekend since the last weekend in February. A little ridiculous? Most definitely. We are busy peeps though, what can I say.

March 1-2: Green Bay for Todd's big 30th bday. Just 3 days later, I turned right back around and drove back to Green Bay when Cooper was born. I decorated that beautiful cake below. You want to know how I did it, right? I know you do. It looks so professional. Well, I'll tell you.

1. Buy a blank cake at Pick N Save the night before you go to Green Bay at 9pm.

2. Get home and realize don't have a tube of frosting to decorate it like you thought you did.

3. Decide you'll deal with it in the morning and watch an episode of Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee. Ironically, she is making cookies and made a semi-homemade frosting with powdered sugar, water and food coloring. You realize it is a little runny, but you are going to have it in the refrigerator overnight, so it should harden by the morning

4. Mix aforementioned ingredients and fashion a "30" on the cake

5. Place in refrigerator

6. Leave for Green Bay at approximately 9am the next morning. Hold the cake in your lap, to avoid any shifting that may occur had it been left unattended in the back seat.

7. Pick up Barney.

8. Place cake in the back seat now that there is an appropriate chaperone for the cake

9. Drive for about an hour and realize the cake has been on an angle with the sun beating down into the car and the design that was slaved over and carefully taken care of, now looks like this.

Oh, and here is Cooper, about 1 minute after I got the hospital and obviously needed a picture immediately.

March 8-9: In Milwaukee by myself for my cousin's baby shower.

March 14-16: In Milwaukee together to take a marriage test at St. Jude and for cake tasting with Aly. The test was seriously a scantron, #2 pencil style test that we took at the church rectory. I think we were supposed to take it in separate rooms, but our priest did not require that. So we pretty much compared answers on the entire test. We will be meeting with a couple from church to discuss the results in a couple weeks I guess. As for the cake tasting, we had a great flavors and designs to choose from. We haven't made any final decisions yet, but look how yummy! I couldn't stop eating the butter cream frosting. So delish.

March 22-23: Easter and we headed back up to Green Bay to celebrate with the fam.

Jon and I had to head back to Madison (the city) around the same time everyone else went to church, but were still getting our things together at the same time they all left, which left us alone in the house with Madison (the dog) for a little while. We were tidying up the basement where we were staying and Madison was sort of poking around down there with us, but then went upstairs. As I was packing up, I realized quite a while had passed and I didn't hear a peep from upstairs. I figured that probably wasn't a good thing and decided to check out what Madison had gotten herself into. What I found when I went upstairs was this:

That's right, just chillin on the couch, doing absolutely nothing. I took this opportunity to try and be artistic and had a little photo shoot with little Mad Dog

March 27th - My 27th Birthday. My golden birthday, if you will. Jon gets ready and is out the door before I even get out of bed most days...and when I went to the bathroom, I was greeted with this. So sweet :)

March 29-30: I was actually free and had a relaxing weekend planned until I decided to tag along to Chicago with Shari to visit Andrea. We went out for Mexican, drank margaritas and other cocktails and had a great time...of course. I expected nothing less, which is why I gave up my relaxing weekend.

April 4-6: Milwaukee again. Jon went to the Brewer game and we checked out the Body Worlds exhibit. Amazing. It is a must see. Todd went to the Brewer game with Jon, so we got to hang with Coop during the game which was great. It's hard only seeing him every couple weeks. You hear that, Gina? I want to see that little babe every day.

This weekend, Jon is out of town, so I am back in Milwaukee yet again. It has kind of felt like the old days before I moved to Madison. Last night, Meghan and I went to Pizzeria Piccola, which we used to do weekly 3 years ago. Afterward we went to Target, duh. Then we went back to her house where we talked and read magazines. Basically, it might as well have been 2005 because that is exactly what we have done on any given night back then.

Today, I had lunch at Chili's with some girls I used to work with at Betty Brinn. We had chips and salsa and margaritas (Yes, that's right, margs at lunch. We don't mess around). We frequented the Chili's happy hour back in '05 also. Afterward, did a little shopping with Mom. Tonight had dinner with Dizzy and Andy at Saz's and finished off with pie at Baker's Square. It was so random...and I am here to tell you that Baker's Square at 8:30 on a Saturday night is a little depressing. The french silk pie was yummy though.

The next 2 weekends we are actually staying home and our gas tanks will thank us.