Spring Fever

We have spring fever over here really bad.

I was surprised with some spring flowers a few weeks ago.

Don't they just make you want spring even more?!

Perkinstown Hill

Last weekend we went to Perkinstown Hill to go tubing! Jesse and I both use to come to this hill when we were little. When Jesse came here as a kid he had a bit of a run-in with the tube and ended up getting 2 stitches in his forehead and the scar to still prove it.

Here is the hill!!

The 4 single lanes on the right is where you go down by yourself.

On the left and the far right you can make chains

and go down with up to 6 people!!

The waiting line to go up. You can either take the stairs or take the

tow rope. The stairs had no waiting... but the tow rope did. I think

we only took the stairs about 3 times. Not fun!

Every time I would get to the top of the hill I would find

the rest of our group sitting down on their tubes taking a break.

Jesse, Adam, Kyle, Dave, Mary, Roger, and a hill worker.

I have a story about this hill worker (in the yellow.) Jesse's Mom (Mary), Jesse's cousin (Danielle) and myself were going to go down the hill in a chain. Mary wanted to be first, I was in the middle and Danielle was at the end. The hill worker grabs Mary's feet and starts to pull us down the hill but then stops and makes Danielle go down first... backwards!!! So now the three of us are going down the hill backwards! Mary lost her tube at the top of the hill and now she is sliding all the way down on her butt!!! Poor girl!! She was okay and we all started laughing so hard! We seen a few other people in our party and Mary would say, "You see me lose my tube?" And they would respond, "Oh that was you!!" It seems that everyone seen it happen, but did not know that it was us!! Probably because all three of us were screaming and laughing so hard! Too funny!!

The other night I was talking to a friend who currently lives in Reno. We were talking about the snow and she was telling me that it will snow but then in a few days it will all melt. HA! Melt! So, I took some pictures the other weekend as we were heading out to go back to our parents. Just to show you non-snow people just how much snow we actually have!

This is our apartment building.

The building on the right is our garage and this is the farm behind us.

This morning I flipped my calendar over to March and I noticed... We get to 'spring ahead' next weekend!!! Yay!! That has to mean that Spring is coming, right?!

Indiana!!

This past weekend we went to Indiana. Jesse was attending another trade show and we had friends there, the Robbins!

It was my first real time getting to see Chicago... or I should say the Chicago skyline. I looked real hard for Oprah, but never saw her. : )

The further away we got from Wisconsin the less snow and the warmer it got. By the time we reached the Robbins they hardly had any snow!! It was kind of exciting to walk outside and not have to walk in snow and slush!

By Sunday it was 50 degrees out!!!!! So nice!! I loved it! Got me real ready for spring/summer.

I got to play with Brandon & Natalie's little girl while I was there. She is just precious! She was just starting to crawl... actually I think she knows how she just cheats and goes back to her army crawl. She also started pulling herself up and standing next to things.

Thank you so much Robbins for letting us stay with you for the weekend! I had so much fun! Can't wait to see you again in April!

We got back to Wisconsin on Monday and we have more snow then when we left!! Ugh.

When I talk to my co-workers in Oregon they are telling me that the trees are just starting to bud. WHAT!? I haven't seen grass since November.