Happy Memorial Day!!

I hope everyone had a fun and safe Memorial Day weekend!! I would like to wish a special "Thank You" to all who have served and to all who continue to serve and fight for our FREEDOM!! Those two words may look small but they mean so MUCH more......like HUGE!!!  So Thank You......you are our brave HERO'S and we salute you!!!

This Memorial Day I enjoyed a wonderful three day weekend with some of my favorite people!!  It may have started out cold and rainy but by Monday it had progressed to a nice HOT beautiful day!!! Nooooo complaining here........Ill take all the nice weather I can get........just like Arnold "the governator".............will take any maid(s) he can get..........Oh snap!!

Here are the Highlights of our weekend:

We bleed RED....WHITE.....and BLUE:

sipping on a cocktail and enjoying each others company on the deck:

 always playing with fire........BOYS:

His name is Max......and he's an attention seeking dog who loves to crash all of our pictures:

Aren't I cute??!!??!!

We tried to take a picture, the two of us, but he always finds his way in:

so we posed together:

and here is his close up:

We soaked up the sun on Memorial Day (today!) and I enjoyed this view:

so did Max:

Mitz girl especially loved soaking in the sun:

 

 

I took in all of natures beauty:

and the men did a little bit of golfing and chipping in the back yard:

chip the golf ball in the bucket hunny:

Scotty did a lit bit of golf cart washing:

Hi there!! (see my shadow?)

 

So fresh and so clean CLEAN!

We also did a little bit of grilling:

a little bit of eating:

and this cutie patootie was doing a little bit whole lotta of:

SWIMMING

Yes he has his own pool...........What?!?!?.............isn't that normal?  Well this is the norm for Max during the summer! He's our water baby!

He dives right in:

splashes in the water:

gets splashed by water:

and looks curly and smells like a wet dog the rest of the day:

but its all worth it just to see this HAPPY face:

Wanna know my favorite part of the weekend?.....................spending it with my hubby........he still loves me even when my hair is looking like an Afro and I'm sweating like a sumo wrestler!!

 Happy Memorial Day everyone!

So tell me.......How was your Memorial Day weekend???   Do any of you have a kittie pool for your own dog(s)?!?!  He is our water baby..........and begs and begs to play in it every chance he gets!!!!!!  I'm so glad we were able to enjoy some decent weather on this special holiday............it truly put theicing on the cake for me............and I got a little color too!! I'm not sporting the "Casper the ghost" look anymore............woo to the hoo because my vanilla foundation color was even starting to look a bit dark on my face......HA!!!!

Proud to be an American,
xoxox Joanna D.

2011 Bucket List-Update

A quick update on how my bucket list items are going so far!  Do you remember this post I blogged about a while ago about all of the things my husband and I wanted to accomplish during the 2011 year......because we all know how much time just happens to flash before our very own eyes!!! Here is what we accomplished so far:

1. Start a blog!! (hey got one thing completed...woo hoo!) (blog still going strong.....so far!)
2. Go camping (like real "ruffin it" camping.......I know right, "Who am I?")
3. Take a road trip (Chicago: 5/11) (awesome.....awesome.....awesome.....NYC your next!!)
4. Chicago chocolate tour (5/11) (fun experience but wouldn't do it again!)
5. Spa Day (girl only and me & hubs)
6. Take a cooking class
7. Vacation (?!?!?!)
8. Concert (country??)
9. Dancing class (OK this might never be crossed off.....at least not with my husband)
10. Winery (especially when they do the stomping of the grapes.....do they even do that for real?)
11. Rollerblading along the beach
12. Bike trail (sometime in May!!)
13. L'Etiole Restaurant
14. Musical/Broadway
15. Farmers market
16. Skiing
17. Snow shoeing
18. Outdoor Ice skating
19. Sledding/Tubing
20. Olbrich Botanical Gardens
21. Madison's children's museum (with children of course!)
22. Build a snowman
23. Wilderness photos (with our new camera)
24. Ditka's Restaurant (5/11) (would love to go back with family/friends!)
25. Beer tour/brewery
26. Baseball game
27. Fishing
28. Door County
29. Devil's lake
30. Refurbish the dresser
31. Chazen Museum of Art
32. Weary traveler incorp-restaurant (5/11) (food Great.....will def. be going back!!)
33. ..............to be continued!!

Well 5 out of 32 ain't to shabby considering we have about 216 days left in the year to accomplish the rest!! Woo to the Hoo!! Hmmmm......what will we cross off next?!?!  Have any of you started your 2011 bucket list?  What are your plans for the year (maybe I can steal some ideas to add on to my never ending list.....haha!)?  Don't you just hate how time flies by........this whole getting old thing is well.......getting old!! HA!

Getting things accomplished,
xoxo Joanna D.

CHIcago Part 2

So our journey through the beautiful city of Chicago continues!! You can read about Part numero uno.......right HERE.......if you haven't already.......I added a few pictures to that post if you are interested (just click here and it will take you there....Ha!) So here are the details about our Friday in the windy city:

Before heading off to do some more exploring we woke up to weather and to a view looking like this:

just making sure our car was still there.....HA:

We started the day off by getting a small breakfast at Starbucks.....(have you tried there breakfast wraps?!?.....Yummy!!)......and then walked to the loop for the chocolate tasting tour we signed up for.  At first I had thought the tour would be by the Magnificent Mile (where we went shopping) but found out that they do that location only on the weekends! The tours on Friday are only held at the loop...........which was only a twenty minute walk for us! Oh well.....that only meant more to explore and see! 

We crossed a bridge to get there:

 

 

to see these beautiful buildings on the other side:

and these little guys:

snapped some more scenic pictures along the way:

and arrived at our destination (we were meeting at the original Marshal Fields for our tour):

 

to find out we actually had some time to waste.......so we headed on over to Millennium Park:

 we stopped to smell the flowers:

took these pictures by the bean (a must have when you visit)!!:

 picture I took of Scotty:

some fun sculptures:

we also stopped at the tower fountains to watch all the school kids play in the water:

To be continued..........................

 

(I guess I will post in 3 parts........stay tuned for CHIcago Part 3!!)

xoxo Joanna D.