I Hate Good Byes Part 1

Last week the Callisters threw us a BYU/Kohls going away party.  It was also a welcome party for 2 new couples that just started at Kohls.  It was so nice to hang out with everyone one last time before we move, and eat delicious food.  The BYU/Kohls parties always have amazing food! As I’ve said before all of these people have been like our family out here in Milwaukee.  We have loved all the get togethers we’ve had, and we’ll miss everyone so much. 

and a lot more pictures:

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Thank you so much to the Callisters for throwing us a party and being such great friends to us! 

I Hate Good Byes Part 2

Last night the Chausows threw us a ward going away party at their home.  We have loved the Lake Michigan Ward so much and when I think about what I’ll miss most about Wisconsin it’s our ward.  Everyone has been so kind to us and has blessed our lives so much.

The Chausows are the life of our ward, when we first moved into the ward Doug was the bishop and now he is the Young Men’s Pres and Jill is the Young Women’s Pres.  Casey has served with Doug in Young Men’s for the past 2 years as the Scoutmaster and we’ve been lucky to get to know their family. We love the Chausows so much, and we’re so grateful to them for throwing us an awesome party!

The McAffees

The Jacksons

The Stewarts

 

I love these girls, Whitney and Karen

The Callisters

The Beckers, Nick writes my favorite blog!

The Farrenkopfs (Carly absolutely loves the Farrenkopf family, Katie and Ann have watched Carly a lot for us!  We call Ann Carly’s Wisconsin grandma)

The Wehrhans (Jordan is is my Primary class and loves to help watch Carly during Sacrament Meeting)

The O’Neills

The Chausow family (minus Caitlyn)

I love the Chausow girls. Johanna, Cheyenne, and Caitlyn.

 

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Casey’s Facial Hair Transformation

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Things I love Fridays – Wisconsin Edition

This is my last Friday in Wisconsin.  Next Thursday is move-day.  On Wednesday I started packing; I started with our pictures in our living room.  I got teary-eyed as I took them down.  I started thinking about all that has happened during our stay in Milwaukee.  It’s sad to think I’m taking Carly away from her home and what she knows.  I know that we’ll be living by family, but still I feel like we’re leaving family in Wisconsin.  I decided to write down a few things that I love about Wisconsin, and some memories I have, for this post.  Here they are:

- Aldi.  I love Aldi.  I especially love their plain bagels, spaghetti sauce and cheap produce. 

- Being within 15 minutes of 3 Targets, and being less than 5 minutes away from one of those.

- Game nights with the Callisters

- Green Bay Packers mania

- Kringles

- Wisconsin accents.  “do you want a 'beg’ for your milk?” 

- The memory of Casey being hit on by a large black woman at the Quik Pantry on 99th and Brown Deer. 

- Working at Educator’s Credit Union.  That has hundreds of memories in itself.  Like this, this,  this, this, and this

- Beautiful Summers

- Lightning bugs

-My entire foot being pooped on by a cow at the WI State Fair.  And I didn’t get the ‘don’t wear flip-flops to the Fair’ memo.

- While visiting in Utah, people asking me how living in Minnesota is going. 

- Fleet Farm

- Sprecher Root Beer and Cream Soda

- Scrumptious milk and cheese.

- Butter in the shape of a lamb around Easter time.

- Being able to drive 15 minutes one way to go downtown, or 15 minutes the other way to be out in the country with cows and corn.

*And most of all, our Wisconsin Family:

Our BYU Kohl’s family at a going away party the Callister’s threw for us (more pics to come):

We will miss having the missionaries around, and being a part of the “missionary process.”  We love all the Elders we’ve gotten to know.  Here are Elders Wonnacott and Barker.  Elder Barker has been in our ward for about 6 months (or longer).  They would ask me to make them BBQ chicken pizza every time they would come over to eat, and I loved having them over because they would swoon over it.   They told me that my BBQ chicken pizza is famous in the Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission. I don’t mean to brag or anything but my pizza is kind of a big deal.

My Primary kids (minus 2)

The Young Men and Young Women.  Casey and I have both had a chance to get to know most of these kids.  They are awesome.

Thank you for the memories Wisconsin!

Things I love Fridays – Cotton Candy Ice Cream

When I was in high school a new ice cream store opened up at Riverwoods in Provo. I loved it. They had really fun flavors and the store was decorated really cute. The name of the store was Maggie Moos. I loved their cotton candy ice cream. It was so good and bright blue. Sadly, a year after it opened it closed. It was over-priced, but I fell in love with their cotton candy ice cream. I know there are Maggie Moos all over the US but I haven’t been to one since high school. Instead I just buy cotton candy ice cream at the grocery store (when I can find some). It’s not as good as Maggie Moos, but it still gives me my frozen, creamy, cotton candy fix!

Random girl with the cotton candy ice cream

Green Family Reunion!

Last week all the Greens got together in Nauvoo for a family reunion.  It was so much fun!  Carly had the time of her life playing with all the cousins.  She loved all the attention she got!  She was great on the 6 hour ride to and from Nauvoo too.  We were lucky that she slept a lot and read a lot of books!

Sporting our ‘G’ shirts

The pageant was awesome!  We were lucky that Carly let us stay the entire time!

The Edgmons, minus Emersyn and plus Carly. Carly loved being held by her aunts.  I rarely held her the entire time because she would always find one of the aunts and reach up to them to pick her up.

  

Carly’s favorite part was playing in the Mississippi River.

Lissy, Tally, and Brittyn helped out a lot with Carly.  They were great little mamas.

GG and Grandpa

We tried to get as many kids as we could on the bed. 

I’m sad the reunion went by so fast.  It was so much fun!

Last week and This week

Carly and I had a great 4th of July even though Casey was at Scout Camp. We went to the Menomonee Falls parade on Saturday night and a BBQ at a friend's on Sunday night.

Casey made it back from Scout Camp late last night wearing soaked through socks and shoes. I'm so glad he didn't need to stay up at camp the entire week like the last two years! Casey's parents and our nephew, Easton, came into town last night too. Tomorrow we're heading to the Green Family Reunion in Nauvoo! Casey and his sister Tearsa are in charge of the reunion this year and they have some AWESOME surprises for everyone thanks to a lot of help from Derrick!

I'm really excited for our first family (with Casey) vacation of the year!

Things I love Fridays – The 4th of July!

I know this weekly post is pretty random and includes intangible objects a lot, but I love thinking of things/people/places that I love.  Thanks to the 2 people that have told me they enjoy reading it!

I love the 4th of July.  I have so many fun memories of the 4th.  I love the parties, parades, warm weather, and fireworks.  Growing up we’d wake up early on the 4th to go eat pancakes in the park and watch all the hot air balloons. Then we’d go with the Hatch cousins to the Provo parade and then in the evening we’d go to the Stadium of Fire with Knudsen cousins.  I remember seeing The Beach Boys at the Stadium of Fire (when I was 7?) and falling in love with them.  The Summer that Casey and I were engaged and he was gone for 10 weeks on an internship (here in WI) my parents surprised me with a plane ticket for Casey to come back to Utah for my sister’s wedding and the 4th of July. That was my favorite 4th of July ever. 

Ever since we’ve been in Wisconsin I’ve really missed those 4th of July parties with family.  Casey and I both get homesick for Utah on the 4th of July.  It’s kind of like Christmas in July and not being able to be with family.  We are lucky THIS year though because Casey’s parents are coming to Milwaukee on the 5th, then later on in the week were meeting up with all the rest of the Greens in Nauvoo for a family reunion!  I’m really excited to be with family this year, even though it’s not right on the 4th it’s close enough!  I hope everyone has a fun weekend!