It is June and Phil is finally done with school!!! We can be a normal couple for the next two months! We can now do things like go on walks together, make dinner together, go out together. I finally have my husband back!!!! We are looking forward to enjoying all of the things that the greater Chicagoland has to offer in the summer time. We just got bikes last weekend at a yard sale and we have already been on quite a few bike rides. I feel bad having to leave Meggie at home and I am trying to convince Phil that getting a baby Bjorn to hold her in on bike rides is a good idea. He thinks it is embarrassing, but if I end up getting one then he will just have to live with it:-)Phil will be spending the summer doing research at his school. He will be working with one of the professors trying to find out how methamphetamine effecst the brain. They will be using rats in order to do this. That is the basic idea anyway.
My mom was just in town for the past couple of weeks. It was perfect timing with Phil studying for finals. It was nice to have someone to hang out with. We had a ton of fun! We went down to the city one day and checked out the Art Museum. It was cool to see the originals of the famous paintings that we see all the time. We went up to Wisconsin one day and had lunch and went to the outlet malls. We also went to the Botanical Gardens with my friend Jodi. They were awesome! I wouldn't mind going again. It is constantly changing with what is in bloom. They must have a million gardeners to keep a place that size so perfect. Most of our time was just spent hanging out, walking around town and eating. We couldn't keep mom out of the kitchen! When I would work, she would be in the kitchen. I bet it takes me a month to work off the weight I put on when she was here!
During Phil's finals we missed a couple of important dates; Phil's birthday and our 2nd wedding anniversary. I guess we are going to have to do something to make up for them this month. Although we did celebrate with pizza and champagne when Phil's finals were over!Last month we got to go to our first sporting event in Chicago. When I saw that the Mariners were going to be in town to play the White Sox I had to jump at the chance. A friend at work got us some awesome seats! It was nice to see the familiar players out on the field, especially Griffey! I thought we had the game in the bag but we ended up losing on back to back home runs. It was a good game though with lots of scoring!
For right now we are both just working and hanging out and we are looking forward to coming home this summer. I am going back to Seattle for three weeks and Phil is going up to Alaska before he starts school again to see his family and get some fishing in!
