We’ve been terribly lazy with the blog lately. We’ll have more to share in 2011. Here’s a recap of 2010:

Boone’s company was purchased by another company in California early in 2010. Luckily they kept everyone at the Madison office and in August, they closed the Madison location and had all the Madison staff work from home. Boone now works out of our office everyday. It was a little bit of an adjustment, but I think he’s used to working from home now.

The biggest adventure of the year was our trip to Europe. In July, we spent three weeks in Greece, Italy, and France. We visited Athens, Santorini, Venice, Florence, the Cinque Terre, and Paris. We saw the Parthenon, the canals of Venice, St. Mark’s square, Michelangelo’s “David” statue, the Eiffle Tower, the Louvre Museum, and many more beautiful places and people. It was an amazing experience and we have lots of great stories and memories. We’ll post some pictures on the blog soon.

We went to a couple weddings this year, but the biggest was definitely my brother’s wedding in Mexico in September. Ben married Andrea Labor Day weekend and a lot of our family got to be there. The resort was a different, more relaxing vacation from our Europe trip, and it was a lot of fun. I got another wonderful sister out of the deal and Ben got yet another sister as well. Ben will have to wait for everyone to get married for him to have more brothers.

We put our condo on the market in August and we had a few bites through out the fall. We love our condo, but we are ready for a house and something a little bigger. It’s a tough market so we expect a long hard fight. We are continuing to try to sell this coming Spring and reevaluate in March.

The most exciting news of the year is that in June 2011 we are going to have a baby! We are excited and so are our families. This will be the first grandchild and the first niece or nephew for both our families. For great-grandchildren, this will be the 5th great-grandchild on my mom’s side, the 22nd on my dad’s family, the 3rd on Boone’s mom’s side, and the 19th on Boone’s dad’s side. It’s been a good pregnancy so far; I’ve been really tired but not too sick and everything has been normal. I’m well into the second trimester (just starting month 5) and while I haven’t had any weird cravings yet, I mostly want cheese, ice cream, and fruit like apples. It’s definitely a Wisconsin baby. 🙂

2011 looks like a busy year for us – hopefully a new house, definitely a new baby, a few weddings, and lots of other day-to-day adventures. We’ll try to post more since we have more to talk about.