Mom and Dad go wild and crazy...in Milwaukee

On Friday night, we dropped off Joshua with Grandma and Grandpa Studee and headed up to have a parent's night on the town in Milwaukee. Why Milwaukee? We aren't sure, but here is the recap of our night.




We stayed at the Hilton Center City with Points. Gotta love the remnants of Andy's traveling days. It was a nice old hotel downtown, kinda like the Palmer House in Chicago. We had a fabulous dinner where we both ate too much at the Milwaukee Chop House, conveniently located on the first floor of our hotel. Then, we had our true adventure of the night, going to the Blues Festival. As an aside, the nice thing about Milwaukee is that is is so compact compared to Chicago, the concert was only 3 blocks from our hotel.



The concert was at US Cellular Arena, where the UW-Milwaukee basketball team plays. When I went in to get our tickets from Will Call, the agent said "Are you looking for the 'Lion King'? That is next door". It was then that I looked around and realized Andy and I were the ONLY white people in the lobby. This struck me as odd as in Chicago, you would see a more mixed crowd at a Blues Show. Don't white people like Blues Music?? Anyway, we had a great time at the concert. One nice, slightly stoned lady, told us that there is no color line in Blues Music to make us feel less odd, I guess. Another interesting thing was that as fabulous as Andy and I looked, we were underdressed by some people's standards. There were a lot of white three piece suits on the men complete with white fedoras and many of the women were dressed to the nines. Awesome! the other thing that struck us as funny that evening was after a song full of lyrics about sleeping around, etc, one of the singers got everyone all excited for Jesus!

After the concert we went back to the hotel and crashed and got to sleep in until 7am! Such crazy kids. All in all it was a nice night away doing adult things without constantly worrying about the little man :)

Don't I look smart

Last weekend I went to play at Grammy and Grandpa Bridges' house. (I go there a lot). I decided I would try on Grandpa's glasses to see what I would look like. I am pretty handsome, don't you think?

My first sledding experience

It is a sad thing that when the temperature gets above 20, Chicagoans cheer, “Yay! It is warm enough to play outside!” Since it finally warmed up ;) yesterday, Mom and Dad took me sledding for the first time. It was a lot of fun! I even went down the hill all by myself a few times (see video below). I was glad that they got me the super warm and way too big snowsuit to keep me from getting cold!

Video, try 2

Here is the video again!

New Year's Eve

 

I love this picture of Joshua, my mom and dad, and Andy all reading a story on the couch before bedtime. We are so blessed to have both of our parents (the Bridges and the Studees) live so close and excited to be involved in Joshua's life.